Today is your last chance to put in bids on the DomainNameWire and SnapNames.com auction. The auction, put together by Andrew Alleman of DomainNameWire, features names from his portfolio, other bloggers, as well as some larger portfolio holders. The event winds down today at 3:15 EDT at SnapNames. As of our writing this morning 9 of [...]
Here are the unofficial live auction results of the Targted TRAFFIC Auction held in Milan, Italy today with a late start. Please see the results after the jump. Please reload this table as it is being updated. Lot Number Lot Title Lot Description Status Price 10 Louis.com Reserve Range: 5001 – 20.000 Euro – Alexa [...]
Doug Brent, Picture From ICANN's website As just announced on the ICANN blog, ICANN COO Doug Brent will be stepping down from his job at the end of July 2010. He has been with ICANN the beginning of 2007. The non profit has started the recruiting process for a successor. He explains his decision as [...]
The Targeted TRAFFIC .EU Low Reserve Opening Auction by Rick Latona was off to a low start. Only 10 of the listed 50 .EU domains sold and the majority sold at their reserve bid of 500 €. The domains that sold were: Apples.eu 500 € BuyGold.eu 500 € EasyLoans.eu 500 € GolfResort.eu 500 € Interpreters.eu [...]
With a press release published this morning DNS service provider Comwired rebrands itself as DNS.com. The company is known in the domain industry mostly through Dan Kimball (CEO) and Sean Stafford (COO) who both have extensive experience in the domain & hosting industry through their work at ModernBill and other companies. Comwired was launched by [...]
Just in time for today’s drop, Jason Cupp and Patrick Ruddell have just relaunched the GoDrops.com website. After some beta-testing, the site introduces a premium membership today for the monthly rate of $19.97 per month. A free membership remains available as well, but limits access to lists of .com & .net domains, whereas the paid [...]
Domain investor Michael Bahlitzanakis, aka Mike B, has launched the beta of his newest venture, City.com. The local search site lets local consumers search, review and rate the businesses in their local market. The site already includes 16 million local businesses in their search index. According to the company they have also developed partnerships with [...]
Here are the unofficial results of the Latonas/Edwin Hayward $1 reserve auction. 80 domains were sold for a total of $27,625 USD. leggings.net $2,209.00 wirelessaccesspoint.com $1,850.00 ddr3memory.com $1,742.00 cupheatsink.com $1,434.00 notebookharddrive.com $1,433.00 hardwarefirewalls.com $1,175.00 chinese-zodiacs.com $1,111.00 voltagetransformer.com $988.00 plasticsheeting.com $775.00 universal-remote-control.com $758.00 raidcard.com $742.00 regionfreedvdplayer.com $658.00 tourismindustry.com $638.00 teachingenglishinjapan.com $563.00 pop3email.com $542.00 graphicdesigncompany.com $525.00 cargoplanes.com [...]
Now with a few “daily” auctions under their belts, Latonas seems to have worked out the minor bugs and is progressing forward with more sales. Today’s most recent auction raised the prices from $1 reserves to $1000 reserves and netted $100,731 on 51 domain sales (according to our unofficial tally). 33 domains on the list [...]
Sedo’s sales chart for this week is headed by gifted.com, which sold for $94,000 USD. The brokerage company and domain sales website also reports the results of their .TV auction in today’s chart, lead by wine.tv for $17,002. Other sales of note are domains.co.za at $15,000 USD, species.com for $37,500 and many German language domains. [...]