The domain name HSBCbank.com sold yesterday on NameJet.com for $18,954. HSBC is one of the largest bank in the world and its official site is at HSBC.com. The domain sold on NameJet.com has some traffic according to Alexa.com and Compete.com. Unlike a more generic domain Peoplesbank.com which recently sold on Namejet.com for $44K this domain that can easily be taken in a UDRP. … [Read more...]
.Co Land Rush Auctions Ring Up Another $500K In Sales
The .Co registry just released another round of results from the Land Rush domain name auctions totaling $480K in sales. The top sale as we reported yesterday was mesothelioma.co which set a Land Rush Auction record of $76,000. Despite most domainers believing that Slots.co would easily sell for more money than Denver.co (see the poll results on the right), Denver.co in fact fetched $50K … [Read more...]
Buyer Beware: If You Buy A Zuccarini Domain At Latonas Expect To Be Sued
Buyer Beware That's the only advice I can give anyone planning on buying one of Zuccarini's domains now held by a receiver if they are auctioned off at Latonas. If you buy one of these domains at Latonas auction expect to be sued. I confirmed with John Zuccarini today that he is planning on suing anyone who buys one of the domains at auction. John also states that he will file motions … [Read more...]
DomainFest Prague Catalog Released, Auction Opens For Prebids & Mx.Com Gets A $250K Bid
Pre-bidding has just opened for the Live auction which will be held at DomainFest Prague on October 6th at 10am EST. There is already a pre-bid placed for $250,000 on MX.com. MX is of course among other things, the country code for Mexico. The domain has a reserve range of $250K-$500K and appearently has a reserve higher than the $250K bid. Only 40 domain are currently listed for … [Read more...]
PeoplesBank.com Sells For $44K On NameJet: Fair or Fowl?
Peoplesbank.com sold for $44K today on NameJet.com The domain has a good amount of traffic according to Compete and Alexa and why not, its the name of a major publicly traded bank. There is a trademark dated 2002 belonging to Peoples Bank, National Association Peoples Bancorp, Inc. of Ohio, on the term Peoples Bank, yet there are other banks in the US that incorporate the terms people and … [Read more...]
Bedding .Com’s Rock On NameJet.com Producing Over $70K in Sales
A couple of "bedding" .com domain names sold over at NameJet.com producing the highest sales on that auction platform in quite a while. (I know with all the discussion on .Co domains it may come as a shock that people are also still buying .com domains). BedSheets.com sold for a whopping $48K. Honestly I was in that auction up through around $25K. I was going to use the traffic from … [Read more...]
Are .Co Domains Worth More Than .Org Domains?
I couldn't help but notice (especially when one of the readers pointed it out to me) that DuiAttorney.co sold for $44,500 in the Land Rush Auctions, which is more than I sold duiattorney.org for earlier this year. Several months ago I sold DuiAttorney.org through Sedo.com for $35,000 which at the time most thought was a fair price. However in the latest .Co Land Rush Auction report I posted … [Read more...]