On the 3rd day, of the 5 day Personal Name auction running on NameJet.com, one domain hit just short of $5K and the registry announced that they were adding 39 new domains to the auction. On today's front, here are results for the domains we were tracking: james.me $4,911 john.me $2,711 jack.me $2,200 madison.me $1,115 johnson.me $760 jose.me … [Read more...]
SnapNames “Geo Auction” Is Live With Lisbon.com, Raleigh.com, Bucharest.com, Crete.com All Up For Sale
SnapNames is holding an Online Auction in conjunction with the GeoDomain Expo®. The Auction began yesterday on April 13, 2010 and closes on May 4, 2010 at 3:15 p.m. EST. There are definitely some head turners in this auction including: Lisbon.com Raleigh.com Bucharest.com Crete.com We will of course be be posting our picks the week the auction closes. This is also not to be … [Read more...]
Latonas.com 2nd “Daily” Auction Starts Now
Latonas.com just announced that is just started its second "daily"auction today with 50 more owned domain names. The auction which started today at 4pm EST closes tomorrow April 14th at 4pm EST. According to its press release: """After our initial auction last week we have been working overtime getting rid of bugs and ramping our system up. We are doing another auction with our … [Read more...]
PondPumps.com Sells For $15K On Godaddy.com
In a Godaddy auction that just ended a hour ago, the domain name PondPumps.com sold for $15,671. I was in the auction until about $7K then dropped out. Its a nice product domain, but with less than 50 visitors a month (according to Godaddy) I think the domain sold closer to a retail price, rather wholesale, which is what we hope to buy at in a domain auction. We congratulate the buyer, … [Read more...]
The Big Sedo .TV Auction Ends Tomorrow & Every Domain Has A Bid
The Sedo .TV auction closes tomorrow, April 8th at noon EST and every one of the 114 domains has a bid. As of the time of publication, 81 domains have met reserve while 34 have not. In all there are just about $200K in bids. It will be interesting to see what amount this auction brings in. My guess is $800K. You can place your guess below for bragging rights. Here is the list of … [Read more...]
Our Picks From The “No Reserve” SnapNames Auction Ending Thursday April 8th
SnapNames.com Spring "No Reserve" auction ends Thursday April 8th at 3:15PM EST, in accordance with SnapNames.com normal closing rules. We have gone through the list and picked out what we believe are the best domains on the auction (except for the couple we may bid on). Just to let you know the "no reserve" title is a little misleading, as the minimum bid for any domain appears to be … [Read more...]
NY Post Rips Godaddy On Its Drop Auction & Its Backorder Program
The New York post today has a story ripping Godaddy.com process of charging customers $18.99 to "backorder" an expired domain and then placing the domain into auction once it "drops". First we have to note that absolutely nothing new is going on that the NY Post is complaining about. Godaddy for years has had a program were you can backorder any domain, for which is now $18.99 per domain. … [Read more...]