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Sedo’s GreatDomains is scheduled to hold on an online auction May 21 at 12:00 PM EST. But are the domains really that great? Dubbing itself the “marketplace for the world’s finest domain names,” GreatDomains was founded in 1994. The company was sold to Verisign in 2000, barely made it through …
May, 2009
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19 May
NameJet Responds to Criticism
After domain blog The Domains criticized NameJet for letting buyers walk out of high-price domain auctions, NameJet has responded: We’ve been taking a harder stance against non-paying customers excluding those with non-payment issues from participating in new auctions and from winning auctions where they were already participants. We are in …
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18 May
NameJet Bidders Refuse to Pay Up
A number of domains recently sold on NameJet.com have gone back on the auction block. Apparently their buyers refused to pay up. Toxic.com, which sold earlier this month for £37,389, is now back up for sale after the winning bidder backed out. The new auction is currently at £22,750 with …
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15 May
Latham.com Sells for £7,209
Domain latham.com sold for £7,209 ($11,000 USD) at NameJet a few minutes ago. The winning bidder was “apres.” In all, 72 bids were placed. Latham is not only a surname, but also the name of several towns and cities across the world. There is also a large law firm by …
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14 May
Determining Domain Name Value: Part II
In Determining Domain Name Value: Part I, two important aspects of domain name value were discussed. Not only is it necessary to take a name’s extension into consideration when doing an evaluation, but keyword popularity is very important, too. These two factors are just the tip of the iceberg. There …
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13 May
Determining Domain Name Value: Part I
After registering a domain, some may ask the question, “How much is my name worth?” Most see a domain as just an address for their website, a mile marker of sorts. The right name can help drive traffic to a website, but like a piece of land or stock, can …
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12 May
Domain etang.com Nets £22,967
Bidder “kevenkou” won the domain etang.com for £22,967 ($35,000 USD) at a NameJet auction yesterday. Quite a few bids were placed- 129, in fact. In French, “étang” refers to a shallow body of water, such as a pond or marsh, but is also sometimes used to refer to lakes. On …
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8 May
TRAFFIC ccTLDs Coming to Europe
TRAFFIC may have ended yesterday, but June 1- June 5, it will be starting back up again, this time in Amsterdam. The event’s official name is TRAFFIC ccTLDs 2009. As the name implies, the focus of the expo will be ccTLDs, or country code top-level domains. Silent domain auctions will …
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8 May
TRAFFIC Silent Auction Ends
A ten-day silent auction at Moniker ended yesterday afternoon at SnapNames.com. The online event, which started in late April at TRAFFIC 2009, saw the sale of 1718 domains, bringing in £1.7 million ($2.6 million USD) worth of revenue to the owners. This is the same silent auction where Ad.com sold …
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6 May
.Me Auction Approaching- But Are the Names Worth Anything?
The Dot-me registry will be holding an auction May 14-21 online. Today, it issued a press release reminding domainers that the deadline to register is May 11. A good many domains will be up for sale. Some appear to be quite valuable, while others, or should I say nearly all, …