As DomainNameWire.com reported today, Godaddy has changed their minimum bidding policies on TDNAM expired domain auctions after a few posts ran criticizing Godaddy.com for the practice both on Andrew's site and on this blog. Godaddy now has reduced all minimum prices on TDNAM auctions to $10. Last week DomainNameWire.com pointed out that the practice of having variable starting pricing for … [Read more...]
Lets.com Back Up For Auction on NameJet.com
Lets.com which "sold" on NameJet.com on October 21st, is back on the auction block due to a non-paying bidder at NameJet.com The high current bid is $25,700 with 1 days and 21 hours to go. The auction is now a public auction, so its is NOT limited to just those 151 bidders who backordered it. … [Read more...]
Moniker.com Silent TRAFFIC Auction Scores Big: $960K
The silent auction from the TRAFFIC show held last week in New York just completed and the results are a whopper. In a week where the stock market has tanked, commodities sank and the everyone in the world is worried about their money, domains, once again proved to be a shinning light. The preliminary total is $960,000 highlighted by the sale of loto.com for $91,000 and wholesale.net at … [Read more...]
Final Thoughts From TRAFFIC: Don’t Believe the Hype
When Rick Schwartz announced that there would be a multiple auction format for the first time at TRAFFIC and that Rick Latona and Aftermarket would be holding competing auctions, a funny thing happened in the domain community. Well actually not funny. Actually really sad. I read on numerous board and blogs that Moniker was going to get their "ass kicked". I read how the auction game … [Read more...]
Rick Latona Auction Nets $750K
The auction held by Rick Latona at the New York TRAFFIC show grossed $750K. The highest selling domains were: MCC.com $195,000 Countryclubs.com $85,000 DayTraders.com $80,000 EFS.com $55,000 NAP.com $45,000 Lisbon.net $32,000 Spreadsheets.com $25,000 Per.com $20,000 Lotterynumbers.com $20,000 Many of the domains sold under the advertised reserve and was only … [Read more...]
Aftermarket Releases It’s Final Domain Auction List
Aftermarket.com released it's final list of domains to be auctioned off on Wednesday as part of the TRAFFIC show in New York on the Domain Tools Blog. The final list bears little resemblance to the preliminary list release several days ago and all conflicting domains with Moniker.com auction have been removed. According to the blog the domain's chosen were done on the basis of finding … [Read more...]
Next Hot Domain Auction: LightSpeed.com
Currently at auction over at TDNAM is LightSpeed.com currently at $10,000 with over 3 days to go. The site currently is owned by lightspeed logic a ""pioneer of mask reconfigurable intellectual property to the semiconductor market"", according to their site. The site has a compete ranking of 70,000 with over 23,000 visitors a month. It has an alexa ranking of 899,000. There are many … [Read more...]