Domain Guagua.com sold at auction yesterday for $100,000 USD. While not nearly as much as the $800,000 guns.com fetched, I don’t think I would pass up the chance to earn six figures from a domain.

“Guagua” is a Spanish nickname for a type of small bus common in urban areas. Often called dollar or commuter vans, these vehicles are privately owned and provide transportation in areas not well-served by public transit.

Other sales of note include pepe.com for €45,000 and gastronomie.com for €35,000. The ccTLDs risultati.it (results) and energieagentur.de (energy agency) each sold for €32,000 and €21,500 respectively. It’s been an active week for the domain market indeed.

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Leading the domain sales pack this week is metal.com, which has sold for $165,000 USD. The name would be perfect for a heavy metal music website or perhaps a firm in the metal market.

Another sale of note is stockprices.com for $60,000. If developed into a decent stock quote site, I think this domain would be worth quite a bit more. It has a huge potential market of investors, but any developer will need to build something better than competing services from Google and Yahoo.

Here are some other recent sales:

furniture.co.za- $33,000
bigdaddy.com- $20,000
lookup.com- $17,500
netbingo.com- $15,000
isp.co.uk- £7,500
manilla.com- $10,000

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Domain CompanyBook.com sold last week to an undisclosed buyer for €15,000. Of course, that’s not anywhere close to the $1 million Poker.org was bought for, but six-figures is still a good chunk of change.

Also of note are the sales of supermechanics.com, superelectricians.com,superpainters.com and superplumbing.com– all for $10,000 USD each. In all honestly, I don’t think these names are super enough to spend $40,000.

Other recent sales:

bingocity.com- $12,000 USD
jag.de- €5,950
salonworld.com- $5,000
spongy.com- $3,100
ico.mx- $1,000

Source | Domain News
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Sex.com, which became the most expensive domain ever after allegedly selling for $14 million in 2006, is slated to be put up for sale again as an asset in its owner’s foreclosure auction.

According to ElliotsBlog.com, the auction will be held at Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf, LLP, 156 West 56th Street, New York, New York on March 18, 2010 at 11 am. But if you plan on showing up, you’d better have some money to back yourself up. Bidders in the auction will be required to present a $1 million certified bank check payable to “Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf, LLP, as escrow agent.”

It will be very interesting to see what happens with this. I wouldn’t be surprised to see the domain surpass the $20 million mark. I guess we’ll see.

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Biking.com has sold for $250,000 USD. As it turns out, the buyer of this name, a company by the name of Stein Holdings, was also the buyer of Boating.com earlier this week. How about that?

In addition, South African ccTLD fly.co.za fetched $65,000 while toys.co.za brought in $20,000. Two-letter name WO.de sold for $27,600 (€20,000). Finally, lightswitch.com fetched $33,000 and FitnessTrainer.com $20,888.

All in all, I would say all the domains in this batch were very good buys. Generic names are always the best investments.

Source | DN Journal

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Domain boating.com has sold at auction for $250,000 USD. Now is the perfect time to buy such a name. Soon spring will arrive and boaters everywhere will want to get out on the water.

In my opinion, the price paid is a fair one. Boating.com is a stellar name that will bring profit to its owner for decades to come. The only other big .com sale so far this month is Macaroni.com, which fetched $74,607.

Country-code domains have trailed behind generic extensions so far this week. Lundi.fr (French for “Monday”) sold for €50,000, beat by Designer.co.uk’s £76,300 sale price.

Source | DN Journal

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At one point or another, you will inevitably want to sell a domain you have registered. You may be doing so to collect on an investment, simply not need the name, or have been approached by a third party. Either way, here are some tips to follow when selling a domain:

1. Watch out for scams.
If it’s too good to be true, it probably is. There are all sorts of con artists out there looking to snatch domains from unsuspecting people. Always research the buyer and avoid payment methods like Western Union or wire transfer. If necessary, use a safe escrow service.

2. Contact potential buyers directly.
Believe it or not, but your largest market of buyers probably won’t know about your name unless you contact them. Domain auction sites are a good second-resort, but first, contact potential buyers in your industry. Find relevant sites and companies and tell them your name is for sale. You could very well end up getting a higher price and avoid auction site fees this way.

3. Wait for the right moment.
Let time be on your side. Don’t try to sell christmascards.com in January, for instance. Rather than give in to the first offer made, don’t be afraid to wait until the right buyer comes along. At the same time, make sure you sell before the market for your name goes sour.

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Comtech.com sold at auction this week for $60,000 USD. A number of telecommunications and IT companies worldwide are named Comtech. Perhaps one of them bought the name?

Other recent sales of note include cashed.com for $11,000, IDN diät.eu (”diet” in German) for €3,050, and supergreen.com for $2,550. On the lower end of the spectrum, cloudscope.com fetched $750 and mp3mediaworld.net garnered a paltry $250.

Are cloudscope.com and mp3mediaworld.net really worth anything? If I were starting a new site, I would either go all-out and buy a very expensive premium name or register a new name. With a bit of creative thinking, I’m sure you could come up with something better than these names.

Source | Domain News
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Domain website.de has sold at auction for $143,000 USD– the first six-figure sale of the week. Though originally an English word, the term “website” is now widely used in many languages, including German. The identity of the buyer has not been made public, but whoever bought the name made a great investment.

Other sales include bookkeepers.com for $34,000, juegos-gratis.com (Spanish for “free games”) for €18,500, and ddm.com for $12,501. Single-letter domain x.biz also fetched $10,600.

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Two-character domain ch.org sold at auction this weekend for $21,925 USD. While names this short are valuable, good luck finding much of a use for a name like this one. Perhaps a non-profit that has a “CH” acronym could find a use for it, but besides that, who else would want it? Last time I checked, “chorg” isn’t a word in the dictionary, either. Some two and three letter domains are highly overvalued.

Some other recent sales include bookee.com for $8,000, loveswept.com for $3,400, and boldcasino.com for €2,500. IDN zájezdy.eu (Czech for “tours”) also fetched € 1,463. Out of this group, loveswept.com has great potential. Dating sites are always popular. Assuming that Czech tourism picks up, zájezdy.eu isn’t too bad of a name, either.

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Yesterday, we covered the sale of free-sms.de for €115,000. However, there were many more smaller domain transactions this week that have gone unmentioned. While they may not have been six-figure sales, these domain auctions make up the bulk of sales.

First and foremost, a number of rare three-letter domains have sold. These include czr.com for $22,250, coa.com for $17,500, bgm.com for $12,000, and amz.com for $9,750.

Betin.com has sold for €10,000. Implant.eu also garnered €5,010. Finally, petnames.net sold for $3,500 and dealpal.com $2,500.

Out of all these sales, I think the buyers of the three-letter names made out best. Some of them could make good abbreviations or acronyms, such as “amz” for “amazing” or “coa” for “cash on arrival.”

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Topping all other domain sales so far this week is free-sms.de, which sold at auction for €115,000. Considering the name contains a hyphen, this is a very good price for the seller. With text messaging continuing to rise in popularity, however, it was also a good deal for the buyer.

Other recent ccTLD sales include toys.co.za for $20,000 USD and jordanien.de (German for “Jordan”) for €17,850. Both are first-class names.

On the gTLD side of things, connectionexpress.com garnered $30,000 USD and glitch.com $19,000. In addition, coocoo.com sold for $16,000.

Source | Domain News

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