The Domainfest auction running on SnapNames.com ends today at 3:15PM EST in according with its normal closing rules. With about 5 hours to go as of time of publication there was $235,000 in bids however many of the bids are still below reserve. We will be closing our poll on the right hand side of the blog, later this afternoon or as soon as one the $100K + domains reach reserve. So far … [Read more...]
Despite Facebook File Massive Cybersqautting Lawsuit People Are Bidding On Typos As Facebopok.com Sells For $2K
It was just a few weeks ago that Facebook filed a massive Cybersquatting lawsuit against 25 named companies and individuals & over 100 "john Doe's" for $100K for each domain name and damages and all the money generated by the typo's. So yesterday I was pretty surprised to see another typo Facebopok.com sell on SnapNames.com on an expired domain name auction for $1,999. There were … [Read more...]
gFLip.net Enters Website/Domain Marketplace As The “World’s First Completely Free Marketplace”
According to a press release, A new website marketplace launched yesterday called gFlip.net. gFlip promises to allow their users to list and sell there websites completely free of charge. "Marketplaces like Flippa charge sellers listing fees and success fees, gFlip has eliminated all these fees making there services completely free of charge." "gFlip is the worlds first completely free … [Read more...]
Quick Poll: Which Domains With A Reserve Price of $100K+ Will Sell At The Domainfest/SnapNames Auction?
The Domainfest NY meetup auction ends on September 20th at 3:15pm EST so on this labor day weekend we thought we would put up a poll asking you which domain(s) with a reserve of 100K or more will sell at the auction. There are 45 domain names with a reserve price of $100K or more, so we are giving you 5 picks but you must make all 5 at one time. Of course you can also vote that "none will … [Read more...]
No Online Bidding From Live Domain Auction At The TRAFFIC Conference
The organizers of the TRAFFIC conference just announced there will NOT be any online bidding at the live domain name auction held at the conference. Of course for many of the first domain TRAFFIC conferences there was no online bidding, but later shows had online bidding through either SnapNames.com or Proxybid. It seems phone and even some sort of text bidding will be allowed, but it … [Read more...]
TRAFFIC Chats About Its Live Domain Name Auction & Changing The Game Up
The organizers of the TRAFFIC conference just sent out A notice regarding the live domain auction that will be held at the October Conference. They are definitely trying to change things up including: "The only domains that we will accept directly are the ones that have a flat fee paid in advance for the listing or prime domains with a $25,000 minimum value...We expect more than 50% of the … [Read more...]
PhonePlans.com Dial Up A $27K Sale On NameJet.com & MoneyMarketAccount.com Gets A $35K Bid
The auction for the domain name PhonePlans.com just ended on NameJet.com with a winning bid of $26,600 There were 3 bidders at $25K or over so pretty surprised it only went that high. Another domain name MoneyMarketAccount.com got as high as a $35,100 bid but failed to make reserve. As a singular domain and with money markets paying fractions of a percent I think $35K would have been a … [Read more...]