Domainers (Still) Bullish on Domain Values - Domain investors predict rising values in 2011. Domainers are nothing if not an optimistic lot. 55% of people who took Domain Name Wire’s 2011 survey think domain values will increase in 2011 compared to 2010. Only 14% predict a drop. This should come as no surprise based on the answer to this question over the past six years. Take a look: In only one year since I started this survey have domainers shown any pessimism. Only 32% of survey takers predicted an ... read more ...

Sedo Adds Three ccTLDs to Instant-Transfer Program - Instant transfer and listing syndication service adds three more TLDs. Sedo has added three additional top level domain names to its instant-transfer MLS program: .co, .it, and .nl. SedoMLS is similar to Afternic Premium and GoDaddy Premium Listings. They allow you to sell your domain names in the registration path at domain registrars. Buyers can add the domain to their shopping cart and purchase it immediately, getting the domain in their control within minutes. Sedo ... read more ...

Is There a Buying Opportunity for Mid-Tier Domains? - There seem to be some good buying opportunities for mid-range domain names. In early 2005 I looked around a domain name aftermarket that was quickly heating up. I saw high prices paid for category killers and lots of people snapping up less expensive domains. But there seemed to be a sweet spot in the $2,000-$20,000 range in which values were still available. Looking over some recent auction sales I think that sweet spot may have returned. There have been lots of ... read more ...

Pre-Bidding Opens for Aftermarket.com Live Domain Auction - Live auction kicks off with pre-bidding. Aftermarket.com is back in the live domain name auction game this week. The company will host a live domain name auction in The Bahamas and will simulcast it through its new Aftermarket.com site. The actual auction will be Thursday, March 3 at 2PM EST. But pre-bidding has already open at Aftermarket.com and will run until 15 minutes before the live auction starts. You must register for a Premium account into order to bid. ... read more ...

Sedo Heats Up As They Sell 100K Of Domains In A Day But Just Misses On $125k More - The domain name Service.net just sold for $19,000 on Sedo tonight. In a few other auctions that just closed, the domain Oxi.com sold for 8,000 Euro’s or around 12K The domain Allspice.com sold for $7,657, yes its trademarked but just since 2006. Watchlive.com sold on one bid for $15,670. Rh.net sold for an even $10K. With about 3 hours to go (as of time of publication) the domain OnlinePay.com has a bid of $32K and has met reserve. Pms.com got up to a bid of $40K but did not reach reserve. COLOUR.com ... read more ...

Afternic Changes Up Its Reporting Rules & Proves Sales are Sometimes Just a Numbers Game - I hear a lot of domainers asking why they don’t get the sales volume that others so publicly do. Frankly sometimes its just a numbers game. If you own 1,000 quality domain names your not going to get the sales volume of those with 100,000 quality domains or those with 1,000,000 domains. At some point total sales does become a numbers game reflecting the amount of domains owned and/or submitted to a sales platform. After I reviewed this weeks Afternic.com sales list, well that just proves the point. Up ... read more ...

Whisper.me Sells for $17,500 - Another .me domain name sells for big bucks. Go Daddy Auctions has handled the sale of Whisper.me for $17,5000. I must admit that I continue to be taken aback by sales of .me domain names. Sure, some of them are catchy. But whisper.me doesn’t have the same ring as love.me or call.me. And even if with the cuteness factor, some of the prices paid for these has just caught me by surprise. Surely the ones that don’t take advantage of the play on ‘.me’ will see ... read more ...

Bidding Picks Up during Moniker Extended Auction - Moniker auction picks up steam and other domain name auction updates. Bidding has started to pick up at Moniker’s extended auction. The auction is a continuation of the company’s DOMAINfest Global auction held in Santa Monica earlier this month. Lots will begin closing at 12:15 PM PST today. At the time of writing 20 domain names have received bids ranging from $300 to $9,060. The top bid is for ePower.com. Only one auction is seeing competition at this point ... read more ...

Afternic.com Post $450K In Sales Lead By Funo.com during $20K - Another LLLL.com domain name lead the sales chart at Afternic for the week ending February 13th. Funo.com lead the pack at $20K, floridaautoinsurance.com seemed like a bargain at $15K, and as usually there are plenty of sales in that $3K-$5K range that none of us would pay $100 for. Here is a complete list of all reportable sales of $2K or more for .com and $1K or more for other than .com’s. The other observation I have is that it seemed the non-com sales were very few in number compared to most ... read more ...

Sedo and Afternic Combine for Well Over $1M in Sales This Week - Two large domain name brokers have strong week. Sedo and Afternic have both turned in sales reports this week combining for well over $1 million in reportable sales. Sedo’s top reportable sale was Award.com for $56,005 and Afternic’s top reportable sale was Funo.com for $20,000. Here are other top sales for the week from Afternic: passings.com $15,000 floridaautoinsurance.com $15,000 nextstar.com $15,000 Fabo.com $15,000 prescreen.com $13,000 OnlinePcSupport.com ... read more ...

Afternic Sells $450K in Domain Names Lead By One Of Our’s DoubleYourBusiness.com For $22,500 - Afternic.com just released its list of domain name sales for the week ending Feburary 6th 2011, and one of our domains, DoubleYourBusiness.com lead the way selling for $22,500. The report includes all reportable sales $2K and over for a .com and $1K and over for non-com’s There were a few “strange” sales on the list IMHO including vistausa for $14k, RunGirlRun.com for $5K, and Sappeople.com for $3,500 (unless it was bought by SAP Technology). Congrats to all Sellers and Buyers Google+Michael ... read more ...

WebSiteHosting.com Sells For $190,000 - According to a Press Release just issued the domain name WebSiteHosting.com sold for $190,000. A company called Terran Marketing announced that they purchased websitehosting.com from a private seller for $190,000. Michael Jackness also made a post on his personal blog vowing to document the progress of Website Hosting “every step of the way”. It’s his way of giving back to the affiliate community that made him so successful today. The initial post outlines his thought process for buying ... read more ...

Sedo Tops $100M in Sales in 2010 - Domain broker announces record year for domain name sales. Sedo announced today that it helped sell over $100 million worth of domain names last year. It’s the first time the company has hit 9 figures in a year. The total was no doubt helped by the $13 million sale of Sex.com. Without the Sex.com sale Sedo’s numbers would actually be down compared to 2009 as 2010 numbers are up $2.5 million from the prior year. .De continues to be Sedo’s most sold country ... read more ...

Stockbrokers.com Sells for $185,000 - Premium domain name changes hands and springs into developed web site. Domain name monetization company Dotzup has sold Stockbrokers.com for $185,000 in cash to Reink Media Group. The deal was closed last week via Escrow.com. Reink Media Group owns a handful of other investing sites including StockTradingToGo.com, tradeWISER.com, and TraderMike.net. But Stockbrokers.com is certainly a crown jewel for the company. In fact, much of tradeWISER.com has already moved ... read more ...

Moniker Live Domain Name Auction Today in Santa Monica - Live domain name auction starts this afternoon in Santa Monica and online. A live domain name auction hosted by Moniker will take place Thursday afternoon at 4:30 PM PST at the Santa Monica Fairmont. Live bidding will also be available online. The auction will have close to 100 premium domain names including the recently added Rates.com. A handful of domains have already received “pre-bids” including Kiss.me and Love.me. The two domains have already hit their ... read more ...

Afternic Sells Almost $600K in Domains With Inversion.com At $37K Leading The Way - Afternic.com announced sales for the week ending January 30, 2011 totaling almost $600K. As always this reflects only reportable .com sales $2,000 or more and reportable non-com’s over $1K The domain name inversion.com lead the way selling for $36,685. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

Frank Schilling Announces He Sold $7 Million Dollars In Domains Since Jul “Without Trying To Hard” - While moderating the opening session at DomainFest this morning Frank Schilling mentioned in passing that since July 2010 his company Name Administration sold just about $7 Million dollars in domain names “without trying too hard”. The $7 Million dollars was generated from the sale of approximately 250 domains. Frank further explained that these were not the “greatest of domains” certainly not category killers or what domainers would consider to be great domains. However they were domain ... read more ...