Moniker.com is holding the Idate convention auction today at 5:30PM EST Here is the list of domains to be aucitoned, with reserve price ranges: lovestories.com $100,001 - $250,000 freesocialnetworkingsoftware.com No Reserve socialnetworkingblogs.com No Reserve orlandosingles.com $10,001 - $25,000 celebrityshow.com $1 - $5,000 softkiss.com $1 - … [Read more...]

The New York Times published an article today  covering the domain industry and the DomainFest show and auction last week. Overall a very positive article, highlighting the maturing of the industry, the influx of venture capital money and investment potential of domains. The only negative brought up in the story was basically domain tasting a practice that has already, as we have written … [Read more...]

Well as promissed now that the snapnames.com silent auction is completed we can now tell you what domains we bidded on. These are the domains we acquired: testtubes.com organicchocolate.com autographcollectors.com shocktherapy.com endurancetests.com dailybackups.com These are the names we bid on but were … [Read more...]

The silent auction part of the snapnames.com, DomainFest show, auction is underway and closes within the hour. There is bidding going on. We told you that we had interest in 12 names, 7 of them are getting mulitple bids. We will keep you updated. … [Read more...]

As promissed we have analyzed the domainfest, snapnames.com silent auction names and here is what we find to be most interesting, not including the live domains that are left in the silent. The one's we like for the live, we still like for the silent auction. We have held back the 12 names we are going to bid on but will release those once the auction is over. We also expect many of the 4 … [Read more...]

The domain name buzz.org is currently at auction on ebay, and it's living up to its name, creating a lot of bidders. With just over 6 1/2 hours to go the domain is already over $39K. If interested you can bid or track the auction here: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270206092503&ssPageName=ADME:B:DBS:US:1123 … [Read more...]

So much for the recession. Interesting to note that helponline.com went for just $5,70 last week at NameJet. Seems like quite a bargain now. A typo of xxxvideos, xxvideos.com sold for $12,500 Seems like a ton for a name such as this. Here are some other notable sales the last few days: movie-trailers.com $8,200 (re-auction) erotictalk.com $6,000 dreamcenter.com … [Read more...]