The RickLatona.com live auction just closed at the TRAFFIC show in New York with a total of $1,295,000 in sales with Rio.com, as expected leading the way at $450,000. Here is the complete, unofficial list of the domains that sold: Rio.com $450,000 Whiskey.com $185,000 SchoolLoans.com $137,500 iAuction.com $50,000 Boy.com … [Read more...]

The re-auction for ProteinBar.com and ProteinBars.com closed today at NameJet.com ProteinBars.com sold for $42,000 and ProteinBar.com sold for $16,042 Both to the same bidder, with the NameJet ID is "juggernaut" Back On September 5th, both domains sold on NameJet.com with the plural having a high bid of $57K and the singular getting a high bid of $20K. We were active in the … [Read more...]

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, was interviewed by Tech Crunch and was asked the question if he had it all to do over again what  "What would you do now different?" To which Mr. Zuckerberg answered: """A: I’d get the right domain name." ""The moral is that we could get the domain.  We ended up “tens of thousands” for the domain. I think we used Register.com which was also a … [Read more...]

Yesterday the Kentucky's Supreme Court heard oral arguments concerning the seizure of 141 domain names by the Commonwealth of Kentucky last year. According to reports the oral arguments lasted for about for 90 minutes from each side. The ruling from the court is expected in sometime within the next 4 months. During the hearing one of the justices Lisabeth Abramson questioned whether … [Read more...]

WhyPark.com is organizing a 5-day charity domain auction to begin December 7th and end December 11th. Approximately 50 domains will be chosen for the charity auction, and all domains will start with no reserve. At the close of the auction, the single highest bid from all auctions will be able to choose the charity to receive all net proceeds. However WhyPark will ensure the charity is a … [Read more...]

We asked which Live auction you though would sell more at the TRAFFIC show next week and 63% of you voted for RickLatona.com over Moniker.com auction. So the big question is what will the two live auctions generate in combined sales? We are opening the polls until Tuesday morning. Just to be clear your pick is for the total amount you think will be sold at the two Live TRAFFIC auctions … [Read more...]

My Good friend Elliot Silver on his blog last week a great 5 part Series last week entitled "Advice from The Most Successful Domain Owners of all time". Although Elliot kindly asked me to give my tip, I passed for a several reasons, one of which was that I had no one great piece of advice for success. The truth is you can achieve success in this business from many different angles and … [Read more...]