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July, 2009

  • 8 July

    Rosary.com sells for £48,388

    Sex sells, but apparently religion does, too. In a stark constrast to all the gambling and adult domain auctions that make the news, rosary.com sold for £48,388 ($78,088 USD yesterday). The seller is thought to be Adam Dicker, who owns a number of high-profile domains, including download.net. sm.com, and planets.com. …

  • 7 July

    Horseracing.co.uk sells for £100,000

    A number of domain auctions took place this week. While no records were set, two names- horseracing.co.uk and onlinecasino.co.uk- sold for £100,000. Gambling-related names are always big hits on the auction block. Other sales include: GetARoom.com- £18,442 ($30,000 USD) black-jack.com- £15,369 ($25,000 USD) headboards.co.uk- £5,865 ($9,541 USD) tax.eu- £7,702 ($12,530 …

  • 1 July

    Talk.com sells for £303,943

    You can mutter all you want about it, but that won’t change the fact that talk.com has just sold for £303,943 ($500,000 USD). The buyer, National A-1, is the same company that bought contests.com for £231,870 ($380,000 USD) earlier this month. The £300,000 price tag was a bargain as far …

June, 2009

  • 26 June

    InMemoryOfMichaelJackson.com sells for £6,103,329

    With the death of American pop-star Michael Jackson, the Internet is ablaze with news and domain speculators are rushing in droves to register any name bearing his likeness. In an eBay auction today, InMemoryOfMichaelJackson.com sold for £6,103,329 ($9,999,999 USD) via the site’s Buy it Now feature. The seller says this …

  • 12 June

    Real Estate Domain Auction a Washout

    The 2,600 real estate domain auction that was supposed to happen today didn’t happen. A few buyers did show up to the San Francisco event, but none of them felt comfortable buying the domain portfolio. Instead, they wished to negotiate a sale behind closed doors. “Had we had premium names, …

  • 10 June

    Wealth.com to Hit the Auction Block

    In recent years, it has been the trend for companies to register generic domains rather than product-specific names. Bank of America, for example, owns Loans.com. CNN has Money.com, while Monster.com bought Jobs.com some time ago. Generic domains are worth so much because they are easy to remember and easily marketed. …

  • 9 June

    Buyer Beware: Harrison's Domains Are Worthless

    Earlier today, I wrote about an upcoming domain auction where Craig Harrison, a Colorado real estate agent, plans to sell 2,600 geographic domains. The names all contain a city name followed by a term like “RealEstateListings.com.” The seller claims the names are valuable for their SEO merit. He and his …

  • 9 June

    Man to Sell 2,600 Real Estate Domains

    In what is probably the biggest real estate domain auction in history, a bloke from Colorado, Craig Harrison, is going to sell 2,600 geographic domains. Most of the names feature the name of a U.S. city with a population of over 35,000 followed by “RealEstateListings.com,” though there are international cities, …

  • 5 June

    ccTLDs Sell for Big Bucks at TRAFFIC Amsterdam

    TRAFFIC Amsterdam is coming to a close and the auction results are now in. While many domains didn’t sell at the event intended mainly for ccTLDs, some brought in big bucks for their owners: DiamondRings.com- £141,589 Rugs.co.uk- £13,844 Vegas.cm- £13,547 Job.us-£ 22,025 Tel.fr- £4,370 Houses.co.uk- £44,574 Blog.eu- £12,585 Obviously the …

May, 2009

  • 27 May

    How Good Are Free Domain Appraisal Tools?

    There are a number of free online tools out there that provide domain appraisals. These tools use a software algorithm to estimate the value of a name, but are they any good? Some of the factors these services take into consideration are domain age, length, number of words, inbound links, …

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