A comment posted by one of our readers, Koz to another post, got me thinking about today’s announcement of up to 5 live domain auctions at the TRAFFIC.
The question is where are all these names going to come from?
Buyers we got.
As we saw this past weekend in Chicago there are buyers for good, well priced […]

[Read more →]

The moniker.com auction from the Geo show in Chicago just concluded with a total of $284K of domains sold.
Here is a list of all the domains that sold:
SantaClara.com                         $82,500
Afghan.com                             $30,000
Asia.org                                  $30,000
OysterBay.com                          $24,500
Guatemala.net                          $16,000
Cuban.com                              $15,000
Secaucus.com                           $11,000
SaintKittsAndNevis.com                 $10,500
Strongsville.com                        $8,000
SaintClairShores.com                    $6,000
Cayman.info                             $5,500
GarfieldHeights.com                     $5,000
PalmHarborFlorida.com                   $4,000
Brazilians.com                          $4,000
BrookPark.com                           $3,750
HazelPark.com                           $3,500
Fridley.com                             $3,500
Hawaiians.com                           $3,250
RosellePark.com                         $3,100
AmeliaIslandFL.com                      $2,500
ChicagoHotelReservations.com            $2,500
NorthernIsrael.com                      $2,000
ChileanSeaBassRecipes.com               $1,250
GrandCanary.com                         $1,200
LuxuryCruiseship.com                    $1,200
DrexelHeights.com                       […]

[Read more →]

Moniker.com will hold a live domain auction from the Geo conference in Chicago today at 4:30pm CST, 5:30pm EST, 2:30 PST.
Live bidding is available at SnapNames.com.
Here are our top picks for today
NewYorkCityLoft.com
PalmHarborFlorida.com
CaliforniaHomeAppraisal.com
PalmSpringsOnline.com
Secaucus.com
Cuban.com
Brazilians.com
NorthernIsrael.com
SaintKittsAndNevis.com
TheTriStateArea.com
Afghanistan.net
Asia.org
SanJuan.com
LargoFlorida.com
WestVirginiaInsurance.com
NewYorkCityMedicalMalPractice.com
NewYorkCityVisitorInformation.com
Carlstadt.com
SantaClara.com

Murrieta.com
Holland.net
ChicagoHotelReservations.com (donated by the Castello Brothers proceeds to the ICA).

Here is the full list of domains with reserve ranges, in order that […]

[Read more →]

According to a post in Dot Weekly Tucows is still pulling domains from the Afternic Platform.
I will not relay our dealings with Tucows in their in-house auctions again (you can read all the posts herein) but basically they took back 260 domains they sold at auction, after they sold, saying that it was a mistake […]

[Read more →]

With the announcement by the TRAFFIC show organizers yesterday that there would be up to three live domain auction at TRAFFIC the question is will this result in an overall higher amount of sales?
Here’s our take.
This is pretty much a zero sum game.
Lets say there are 500 people attending the conference in New York.
Each person […]

[Read more →]

Here is the list for the GeoDomain Expo live auction taking place this Saturday, July 12:

Domain
Reserve

afghan.com
$10,001 - $25,000

afghanistan.net
$10,001 - $25,000

algiers.org
$5,001 - $10,000

alleghenyriver.com
$1 - $5,000

almadencalifornia.com
$5,001 - $10,000

ameliaislandfl.com
$1 - $5,000

americans.com
$1MM - $5MM

americans.org
$10,001 - $25,000

annetteisland.com
No Reserve

asia.org
$25,001 - $50,000

atlanticcityhotel.net
$1 - $5,000

australiangoldmining.com
$1 - $5,000

balboaisland.com
$50,001 - $100,000

bestincalifornia.com
$1 - $5,000

brazil.tv
$10,001 - $25,000

bronxnewyork.info
$1 - $5,000

brookpark.com
$1 - $5,000

burbank.net
$25,001 - $50,000

burien.com
$50,001 - $100,000

californiagasoline.com
$1 - $5,000

californiavisitorsguide.com
$1 […]

[Read more →]

In case you haven’t noticed SnapNames.com has been down for several days now.
I assume all ongoing auctions will be extended once the site is back up they have missed several days of “catching” deleting domains.
This longest I can remember for Snap or any drop auction site to have been “down”.

[Read more →]

Moniker.com released a partial list of premium domains that will ge auctioned at the Geo Domain Conference in Chicago, on July 12th at 4:30pm CDT/5:30 EST
auction will include the following premium domains:

· Fargo.net
· Yemen.com
· MauiHawaii.net
· LargoFlorida.com
· Brazil.tv
· MalibuCalifornia.com
· Murrieta.com
· SimiValley.com
· PortOfLongBeach.com
· Burien.com
· SonomaCalifornia.com
· Afghan.com
· EastRockaway.com
· ChicagoHotelReservations.com
· CityofCleveland.com
· Victorville.com
· PeoplesRepublicofChina.com
· SantaClara.com
· Latinos.org
· Burbank.net
· […]

[Read more →]

Today as reported by DomainNameWire.com the General Counsel of GoDaddy, Christine Jones announced that
“”””To ensure customer confidence and to avoid any possible future questions of impropriety all GD employees are now and in the future prohibited from participating in TDNAM auctions, purchasing, sales & back orders.””””
We applaud GoDaddy in reversing their policy and taking this […]

[Read more →]

Slashdot.org, a non-domain blog has picked up the story about Adam Dicker the VP of Godaddy in charge of  their aftermarket auctions bidding on such auctions.
Good to see.
We need to get the word out about this story and Tucows who has taken domains, right from registrants and kept them for themselves.
Image if Network Solutions did […]

[Read more →]