Our Picks From The Moniker.com Domain Name Auction From The Epik Development Conference

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Moniker.com will be holding a live domain name auction from the Epik Development Conference tomorrow September 16, Thursday at 4:30pm ET / 1:30pm PT.

Remote bidding will be available on SnapNames.com and actually pre-bidding on the auction is still opened.

The conference starts today and tuns through the 17th.

First of all, here are some of the more interesting, higher priced domains:

etf.com                      $5M+

patents.com             $1MM – $5MM

poster.com               $1MM – $5MM

slideshow.com        $1MM – $5MM

wifi.com                   $1MM – $5MM

co2.com                   $500,001 – $750,000

collision.com           $250,001 – $500,000

haircare.com           $250,001 – $500,000

harddrives.com       $250,001 – $500,000

hobbies.com            $250,001 – $500,000

Out of these my pick is Patents.com of course depending on where it falls in that very broad range of $1M-$5M.

Here are the other domains I like in this auction:

complain.com $50,001 – $100,000

spoons.com $50,001 – $100,000

downline.com $10,001 – $25,000

drapes.net $10,001 – $25,000

brakes.net $5,001 – $10,000

hearing-aids.com $5,001 – $10,000

whoworeitbest.com       $2,501 – $5,000

pillows.net                       $ 201 – $500

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

Comments

  3. Meyer says

    With the domain auctions, there are 2 different groups.

    1. attendees. However, I don’t believe the heavy hitters will
    be attending epik.

    2. online. Unknown who will participate.
    It seems most of the prices are targeting endusers.
    Do the endusers know about the auction?

    As to which ones sell?
    If it depends on just attendees and domainers, I don’t believe
    any of the first tier listed above will sell.

    A few in the second group will sell.
    pillows. Maybe, brakes.

  4. Louise says

    BeachBags.net is newly developed – I’ve been watching. submit at only $750 reserve; it seems worth many times more! It’s been crawling up the Google results so that today it is #8 on page 1. The nice thing about the lists and Epik stores is the ability to access the stats by typing, “/stats” on the end of the domain.

    Last week, BeachBags.net reported $17 and change, this past week, $25.28! This at a time when summer is over in North America – I say, it’s a winner!

    Interesting offerings in Epik’s Swapbook as well.

  5. dcmike77 says

    I agree with Meyer,

    For Epik, I see this as a lower-revenue audience. They likely aren’t full time and are just looking for ways to maximize the revenue from the portfolio they have.

    A good niche event, but wouldn’t expect anything over $50k to sell.

  6. Meyer says

    “ability to access the stats by typing, “/stats” ”

    I didn’t know that. But, I’m not really following the auction.

    The epik results will make the old Domain Roundtable auctions
    look good.

  10. LS Morgan says

    If I recall correctly (and I may not be) the domain ETF.com was on the market for a long while- perhaps even by the original registrant- for nowhere near that price.

    The only reason I know this is a trader I know overheard me talking about domains and pointed me to it, having curiosity-navigated there once before and noticing the domain for sale. IIRC, he wanted either 500k or 750k at that time which was 2008/2009 timeframe.

    If I’m mistaken this for another name, someone will step up to correct me, but I’m fairly sure it was ETF.com.

  11. Louise says

    @ Roddy, Thank you. BeachBags.net is a steal!

    How about pillows.net at $200.00 reserve? @MHB picked that one! It can’t have been developed long, but there is so much to do with that one! How about, left-of-the-dot development: throw.pillows.net ? Wow! 🙂
    There were a couple stunnders in the Swap list as well. My taste isn’t other people’s taste, tho.

  12. Adam says

    Lots of good high priced stuff. Those are hard to sell but I’d bet money that moniker has a (stalking) horse in this race.

    @meyer nice dig on drt. clearly though you havent paid attention to all auction results.

  14. Meyer says

    I believe there are 100 domains in the live auction.
    It looks like they are 60% of the way thru and sold approx. $ 50K.

    Hopefully, they will sell some more expensive ones just to cover
    overhead.

  16. Meyer says

    Quote from DNN (Adam)
    “Out of the 100 names listed in the auction 11 domain names
    were sold for a total of $47,750.”

    Maybe, more will sell in extended auction.
    Otherwise, Moniker lost money on the auction.