 | Moniker Traffic Auction Nets Almost $3 Million
The Moniker.com domain auction at the TRAFFIC New York Show just concluded and the sale grossed a total of just under $3 Million.
.me was the darling of the show, with all 11 .me domains selling for between $6,000 and $70,000.
FinancialAid.com was the highest selling domain at $800K, followed by floor.com for $275,000.
Combined with ...
 | The Domains - Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 19:14 |
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 | MCC.com The state of our industry
When Rick Latonna first indicated in his newsletter that MCC.com will be amongst the domains auctioned off at the just concluded auction. I was real curious to know what this gem will fetch. I was way off the mark.
MCC.com was registered in November of 1985. That is 23 years ago!
| | Sky Domains - Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 12:24 |
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 | I've Got Domain Renewal Fatigue; 5 Days to Go
Looming price hike means it’s time to renew your domain names.
Over the past few days I’ve renewed thousands of dollars worth of domain names. The price of renewing most domain names will shoot up on October 1 as many of the registries increase prices. That includes VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN), which runs .com and
| | Domain Name Wire - Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 10:50 |
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 | What you're missing by not being at TRAFFIC
Conference attendees at the Targeted T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference received one of 250 Rick Schwartz DomainKing bobbleheads. The other 250 bobbleheads of the batch are available for sale at bobbleheads.com, which is operated by domainer Warren Royal.
| | Domain Name News - Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 15:11 |
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 | FinancialAid.com - SOLD for $800,000
FinancialAid.com just sold at the Moniker TRAFFIC auction for $800,000. The auction is showing strength in my opinion, although some great names have passed at over $1mm - including a pair that sold for $3,000,000 at the last auction in New York.
It’s interesting to note (as someone pointed out to me), FinancialAid.com appears ...
| | Elliot Silver - Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 16:13 |
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| Thoughts on the Auctions - Strength in Tough Times
While the financial markets are in the midst of turmoil, and much of this country is facing difficult times, I think the results of the opening day Moniker auction, Rick Latona’s auction and Aftermarket.com’s auction show the strength of the domain industry. I don’t think the final tally for each auction was remark...
| | Elliot Silver - Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 11:15 |
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| Observations From The Auctions
Yesterday was an historic day at the TRAFFIC conference. For the first time an auction was held not run by moniker.com.
Actually there were 2.
The first held by Rick Latona was a fast moving auction lead by an auctioneer and floor men which were cowboys. The auctioneer and his team are used to selling horse,
| | The Domains - Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 10:12 |
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 | Traffic Sells $2.5 Million So Far and Still 50 Names Left To Sell
The live auction today is doing lower than expected. So far the Moniker.com auction at the Traffic Show has sold over $2.5 Million of domain sales. The highest domains sold so far are:
FinancialAid.com and FinancialAide.com $800,000
Floor.com $275,000
Cleaning.com $100,00
LT.com $100,000
Searching.com $85,000
BirthdayPresents.com $80...
| | Simply Geo - Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 18:21 |
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 | How To Research A Keyword Geodomain Before You Buy It
To start, this post isn’t about pure geo domains. Those are no-brainers. This post is intended to help you decide if a geo+keyword.com is worth picking up.
Since I found the new Name.com tools I have been doing a lot of mining for geodomains using my trusty Domain Research Tool. There are so many geo+keyword.coms deleting
| | Trend Domaining - Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 22:53 |
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| Unofficial Targeted TRAFFIC total live auction tally
34 live auctions have concluded at the Targeted T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference so far - and here is the unofficial total tally:
Auction
Total
Domains Sold
Total Domains Listed
Average Per Domain
Lowest Sale
Highest Sale
Moniker Opening Night
$96,750
46
66
$2,103.26
$150
$12,500
RickLatona.com
$681,850
38
78
$17,943.42
$300
$195,000...
| | Domain Name News - Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 23:53 |
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 | International Domain Brokerage
Breaking News: New International Domain Brokerage firm on the horizon. A big announcement will be made tomorrow. A new startup company will be bringing together a domain broker team with over 6 years of full time domaining experience combined with a track record of over 20 years of investment brokerage expertise. This new premium do...
| | Inside Domaining - Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 16:24 |
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| Moniker Premium Live Auction Results (Targeted T.R.A.F.F.I.C.)
Once more we will were be live blogging the auction results of the auctions at the Targeted T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference in New York, this time for the Moniker Premium Auction. Names not sold in this live auction will be sold in the silent auction.
Out of 228 domains in the live auction, 102 were sold for a
| | Domain Name News - Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 19:54 |
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| Backdrop for this Week's Domain Auctions is Shaky
This week’s onslaught of domain auctions couldn’t have come at a more unstable time.
Call it the week of domain name auctions: two from Moniker , plus auctions from Rick Latona Auctions, Aftermarket.com, and Sedo .
Also call it the week of economic uncertainty.
Yesterday afternoon the backdrop for the Aftermarket.com auc...
| | Domain Name Wire - Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 10:15 |
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 | Auction Started: PropertyRates.com, Displace.com, Skull.net
Bidding on our premium domain names have started in the Moniker Online Extended Auctions.
You can click here to learn how you can sign up and start bidding on these exciting domain names:
TRAFFIC New York Extended Online Domain Auction
Here are our top domains in the auction:
AirBalloonTours.com
Causal.co.uk
Displace.com
HouseDemoli...
| | eBusinessDomains - Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 21:11 |
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 | RickLatona.com Live Auction Results - $681,850 Total Sales
Not much to say on this one except absolutely fabulous. There were a lot of great names let go of during this auction, and some that I wish I would have placed a bid on had I had the extra money. There was a combined total of $681,850 worth of sales.
Favorites:
SanJuan.com - $120,000
Nap.com - $47,500
GolfClubs.com
| | fka200 - Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 14:30 |
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 | Moniker.com's auction starts soon! Tons of Gems in the auction.
Here is a little more information if you need some helpful links for the Moniker.com/SnapNames.com auction. If you plan on bidding online, you need to Download the software to do so. If you are not registered, you need to do that as well. Moniker has many of the best available domain names in this auction,
| | DotWeekly - Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 13:59 |
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| Kentucky Hearing Postponed Until Tomorrow
News just in from Kentucky that the hearing scheduled for today has been postponed until tomorrow Friday and will be held at 3:30pm.
The court released the following:
“”"Please be advised that the Commonwealth of Kentucky we will be conducting settlement conferences tomorrow with a number of defendants in the above capti...
| | The Domains - Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 10:54 |
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| Stars May Align for Moniker Domain Name Auction at 3PM Today
Outlook getting rosier by the minute for Moniker Auction.
[Update: FinancialAid.com sells for $800,000.] Earlier today I wrote about how financial uncertainty is peaking and this has weighed down on the live domain name auctions this week. I also said that Moniker’s timeslot — 3 PM EDT today — may end up being
| | Domain Name Wire - Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 13:52 |
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| Domain auction overload ends today
With TRAFFIC wrapping up, Moniker.com/SnapNames.com will be holding their live auction today at 3PM ET. Sedo’s GreatDomains.com auction ends today as well with most starting to end around 1PM ET at Sedo.com .
Yesterday was the RickLatona.com and Aftermarket.com Live Auctions. Don’t forget the "other" normal auctio...
| | DotWeekly - Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 9:51 |
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| Aftermarket.com Live Auction Results - $150,000 In Sales!
Another day, another auction. This time it’s the Aftermarket.com live auction results. Some decent sales totaling $150,100 combined domain name sales. The highest sale? Illinois.org for only $31,000. The lowest? SpywareTracker.com for $650.
My favorites:
MadisonAve.com - $17,000
Regiment.com - $11,000
Illinois.org - $31,000
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| | fka200 - Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 5:49 |
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| DomainConferences.com
This week, and perhaps for weeks to come, the hottest topic amongst domainers and throughout the domain industry will be the TRAFFIC domain conference.
TRAFFIC will be held September 23-26 in New York City at the at Marriott Hotel at the Brooklyn Bridge. Not only does this TRAFFIC conference have record attendees, but also a record
| | eBusinessDomains - Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 15:25 |
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| How to advertise your Domains at a live Auction
Domainer Mike Ambrose continued to draw attention to his name cleaning.com with the help of his lovely assistant.
The names listed by him and his partner at no reserve in the Moniker Premium Live Auction, which is scheduled to start in 30 minutes at no reserve are: Cleaning.com (website), Trumpet.com, Clarinet.com, Sax.com, and Music...
| | Domain Name News - Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 14:46 |
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 | How To Register Domain Names Through Cell Phone Text Messages
Michael from DomainRaiders has an interesting tutorial to share with us today. Yes, it is possible to register a domain name virtually instantly with a simple text messaging service! He wanted me to share it with DotSauce readers and I am happy to oblige. Enjoy…
Have you ever been away from your computer (eek!) and thought
| | Dot Sauce - Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 5:48 |
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| ICA Responds to Kentucky Seizure of Gambling Domains
Jeremiah Johnston, the president of the Internet Commerce Association has responded to Kentucky’s seizure of 141 gambling domain names.
“The Internet Commerce Association is aware of the extreme concern of ICA members regarding the action of the Kentucky Attorney General ordering the seizure of 141 gaming related domain n...
| | Domain Name News - Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 15:0 |
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| Yahoo Introduces Digital Advertising Platform
Yahoo introduced its digital advertising platform for publishers, called APT.
The new Apt from Yahoo platform will initially involve newspapers in a 2-year-old consortium led by Yahoo.
| | The Domains - Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 2:37 |
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| Targeted T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Moniker Opening Night Auction sells 46 domains for $96,750
Once more we were will be live blogging the auction results of the auctions at the Targeted T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference in New York. Tonight the Moniker/Snapnames Opening Night auction takes place, featuring selected domains from Rick Schwartz’s domain portfolio.
The auction yielded a total of $96,750 in sales with 46 domains out...
| | Domain Name News - Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 8:18 |
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| Keyword Domain Names & Mobile Coupon Offers on Billboards?
We're not quite there yet here in the U.S., category killer domains and mobile coupon codes on billboards are a rare find. I guess its too much forward divergent thinking for advertisers. However, Yahoo's Times Square digital billboard in NYC wants your keyword bids for a search marketing campaign. High quality domains and/or mobile...
| | Inside Domaining - Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 6:32 |
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 | Afternic Auction Picks 9/25/08
Domain
Auction Begins
HandyManVentures.com
1-Oct
BMAV.net
1-Oct
BostonHousing.net
1-Oct
CelebrityPromotion.com
1-Oct
GolfMassachusetts.com
1-Oct
PropertyLocators.net
1-Oct
Sk8Guard.com
1-Oct
TipCalculator.com
2-Oct
MKTManager.com
2-Oct
OnlineSportClub.com
2-Oct
PersonalizedPortrait.com
2-Oct
BobsLandscape.c...
| Afternic DLS - Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 18:19 |
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| While we Attend TRAFFIC in NY, CADNA Meet's in Atlanta
CADNA issued a press release today. The release appears below and our comments follow:
The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) held its eighth educational forum on online Brand Abuses and Internet Governance on Tuesday, September 23. Hosted by CADNA, Turner Broadcasting System, and Alston & Bird at the CNN Center inAtlan...
| | The Domains - Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 9:56 |
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| Yahoo Going After AOL?
According to numerous reports Yahoo maybe looking to acquire AOL.
Yahoo’s board, according to reports are in negotiations for a combination Yahoo and AOL.
A deal between Yahoo and AOL might derail a deal between Yahoo and Google
| | The Domains - Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 2:41 |
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 | A Review Of JustDropped.com
JustDropped.com has been around since 2002. It is a free expired domain service that boasts the “most comprehensive search panel in the industry”.
JustDropped features various domaining services including comprehensive domain information reports (backlinks, page rank, estimated traffic etc), expired domain searching, and...
| | DnExpert - Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 18:2 |
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 | Expired IDN.cn domain sales
Chinese market definetely seems to heating up with alot of healthy sales for expired .cn IDN domain names. Sales are taking place at ebname.cn and 66.cn, who are operating under contract from CNNIC for dropping .cn IDNs.
Sales from the last month include:
??.cn (plane tickets) - US$7,159
?.cn (net/network) - US$7034
???.cn (second-ha...
| | IDN Focus - Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 6:27 |
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| Domaining Quote of the Day
"The right domain name is a persuasive advertisement offline and online."- Inside Domaining We know that a high quality, memorable generic domain name will get you natural type-in traffic! Spend some of your advertising budget on an offline and online domain marketing strategy. Most just bid on keywords for paid search through Goog...
| | Inside Domaining - Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 5:20 |
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| Sedo Great Domains Auction Ends Today 2 PM EDT
Domain auction has many domains that have hit reserve.
Domain name aftermarket and parking company Sedo ’s monthly Great Domains auction ends today at 2 PM Eastern. Auctions receiving bids in the final minutes will be extended.
Two domains in the auction have hits six figures but neither are close to meeting the reserve price....
| | Domain Name Wire - Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 13:24 |
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 | NameSmash Interview
Kelly Hardy from NameSmash interviewed me about new TLDs.
| | NamesAtWork - Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 13:43 |
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| Moniker Live Auction - Today at 3pm
Moniker’s Live TRAFFIC auction will take place this afternoon at 3pm. As I said earlier today, I think the auction results will be strong - especially in light of today’s economic conditions. As always, the auction will be simulcast live on webmasterradio.fm, and bidding can be done online if you sign up and download the...
| | Elliot Silver - Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 14:47 |
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 | Nervous, But I Kept Raising the Paddle
Auctions do something interesting to your brain. If everyone is buying, you want in. But, if few are buying and you’re bidding, you have to ask yourself if you’re the smartest, or the dumbest guy in the room.
Yesterday I kept right on bidding for the name I came to buy - CountryClubs.com.
I bought the name
| | SellingMy.com - Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 10:23 |
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 | CitySmart.US
Cisco Systems recently acquired CitySmart.us , not sure what their plans are but more then likely it will have to do with their Connected Urban Development project and undertaking for around the world.
| | Mister US - Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 9:17 |
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| Targeted TRAFFIC live auction tally to date
3 auctions have concluded at the Targeted T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference so far - and here is the unofficial total tally:
Auction
Total
Domains Sold
Total Domains Listed
Average Per Domain
Lowest Sale
Highest Sale
Moniker Opening Night
$96,750.00
46
66
$2,103.26
$150
$12,500
RickLatona.com
$681,850.00
38
78
$17,943.42
$300
$195,000...
| | Domain Name News - Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 8:52 |
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| TRAFFIC Live Auction features Premium Domains at no reserve
The Moniker Live Auction at TRAFFIC New York is starting tomorrow, Thursday, September 25, at 3:00pm E.T. (noon Pacific). If you want to participate in the live event you can either bid in person, over the phone, or online by downloading a bidding software.
Some of the premium .com domain names for sale include Cleaning.com (website)...
| | Domain Name News - Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 14:42 |
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