Our Picks From The RickLatona.com TRAFFIC Auction

2010 January 21
by Michael H. Berkens

Well its that time again.

We went through the 250+ domain in the Live RickLatona.com TRAFFIC auction and selected what we think are the most interesting and potentially best buys from the auction.

We notice there are quite a few ccTLD’s in this auction, which as my readers know is not my thing, so I haven’t selected any of these.  Having said that XXX.us is certainly an interesting domain.

There are several .ca domains and investors should be aware that Canada still has a presence requirement for ownership of these domains so make sure you can meet this requirement before buying one of these.

The auction will be held on Friday starting at 4pm PST and you can bid remotely online at Latonas.com

Here are our picks, good luck to all sellers and bidders:

Domain                                       Reserve Range

EngineeringDegrees.com        $300-$400  (education)

PostalCodes.com                       $300-$400 (I have record of this selling for $42K at TRAFFIC 2008)

TrainingBra.com                       $300-$400 (Product)

ConcreteBlocks.com                 $300-$400 (product)

Sunburns.com                            $1,000-$2,000  (Great for sun screen, lotion, aloe,  and prevention products)

JusticeDepartment.com           $1,000-$2,000  (good domain for lawyer or law firm)

PrisonJobs.com                           $2,000-$3,000  (employment)

GolfClothing.com                       $2,000-$3,000   (huge category)

Motivating.com                          $3,000-$4,000   (motivation seminars, self help books)

LGY.com                                      $4,000-$5,000  (low price for 3 letter .com)

YGA.com                                      $4,000-$5,000 (same)

ItsComplicated.com                   $5,000-$10,000  (besides the movie its a very common term people use on dating sites to describe their relationship status)

Layaways.com                              $5,000-$10,000  (with the recession this is becoming popular again)

UFT.com                                        $10,000-$20,000  (UFT.org is one of the largest labor unions in the US)

Kathryn.com                                 $10,000-$20,000  (over 22,000,000 Google results)

StampCollectors.com                  $10,000-$20,000  (second best name next to stamps.com and stampcollecting.com for the subject it covers)

TheAmazon.com                           $10,000-$20,000 (huge travel topic)

CoolShirts.com                              $10,000-$20,000 (good domain for retail site)

SecondLanguage.com                   $20,000-$30,000  (good domain for translation services or selling language courses)

Lemons.com                                   $30,000-$40,000  (nice web 2.0 domain)

CatFood.com                                   $50,000-$75,000  (huge category)

MotorcycleHelmets.com               $50,000-$75,000 (another huge category and bang on)

LongIsland.com                              $250,000-$300,000 (this is a operating site with over 90,000 visitors a month according to Compete.com)

Avatars.com                                     $400,000-$500,000

13 Responses leave one →
  1. 2010 January 21

    I agree with Golf Clothing and YGA.com, Training Bra not bad although not a stand alone site and plural better IMO.

    Mike you did not like Portland.org, I think for development priced with a fair reserve.

  2. 2010 January 21

    Sorry I missed, Someone is selling a name for $300 that sold for $42,000 ?

  3. 2010 January 21
    Cartoonz permalink

    catfood.com is a Sector Nine name…. (movie)

  4. 2010 January 21
    Ms Domainer permalink

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    I’m with everything.tv–why is a 42k domain set at $300 –$400 reserve?

    Could it be that the U.S. post office is circling near by?

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  5. 2010 January 21
    MHB permalink

    everything

    I think portland.org has been on auction at one of the recent shows around this price and did not sell, but I’m just going from memory.

  6. 2010 January 21
    MHB permalink

    Ms. Domainer

    I don’t think the US post office would have a claim to this domain, for one in the states they are really called zip codes.

    Europe they are referred to as postal codes.

    In the auction I referred to the domain the started with a reserve of just $1K or $2K and ran all the way up to 42K. Maybe the winner of the auction didn’t pay and the same guy owns the domain and is using the same strategy.

  7. 2010 January 21

    I think plural names are better just because of the search volume for plurals is greater than singular forms. I just wish I could go back in time and buy some good domain names to sell for ridiculous amounts of money in the future.

  8. 2010 January 22

    These guys are only into promoting their own and friends domain name inventory

    quite a few crap names on this list and i would not recommend anyone to waste there time submitting domain names.

    Peace

  9. 2010 January 22

    avatars.com may have trademark issues

  10. 2010 January 22
    Junior permalink

    What is better? CatFood.com for $50k or DogFood.net for $5k?

  11. 2010 January 22
    mike permalink

    im sick of hearing comments about ‘trademark issues’
    crap is getting old. i got rich off it.

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