Tag Archives: domain auction

September, 2009

• 3 September

  Allaboutbooks.com sells for $12,500 at auction

  Nothing as good as call.com has sold since yesterday, but avid readers will appreciate the sale for allaboutbooks.com for £7679, or $12,500 USD. I’m honestly surprised this name sold for so much. Allaboutbooks.com simply is not a premium domain but it sold for a premiun price. It has three words, …
• 2 September

  Premium .cm names sell at auction for big bucks

  It hasn’t even been two months since Cameroon made its .cm domain available for public registration, but premium versions of the extension are selling like wildfire. The biggest sales so far have been Hotels.cm and Sex.cm for £50,097 ($81,000 USD) and £31,542 ($51,000 USD) respectively. Other notable sales include: taobao.cm- …
• 1 September

  Live Current Media sells two domains for $1 million each

  Live Current Media, a Canadian web commerce company, sold two domains recently for $1 million each. The first, Call.com, was purchased for £675,364 ($1.1 million USD) at auction. In addition, the firm sold the rights to and domain of its Indian cricket site, Cricket.com, for £1.07 million, or $1.75 million …

August, 2009

• 31 August

  CorporateLawyer.com nets $20,766 at auction

  Law-related domains are some of the most valuable out there, so it’s no surprise that CorporateLawyer.com just sold for $20,766 USD, or £12,797. No information about the buyer has been released, though the domain would be very useful to an end user. Other recent sales include: supervisors.com- $7100 appreciate.com- $5,044 …
• 28 August

  WoodPellets.com sells for $115,000

  Alternative fossil fuels are a big business. This market trend no doubt influenced the sale of woodpellets.com yesterday, which sold at auction for $115,000 USD, or £70,676. Because of their burning efficiency, wood pellets have become a popular biomass fuel for green furnaces and other applications. Another recent large sale …
• 27 August

  800.com sells for $250,000

  As part of bankrupt technology retailer Circuit City’s liquidation auction, the domain 800.com was sold for £154,254 ($250,000 USD). The auction was held on August 18 and attended not by domainers, but by end users interesting in developing the name. 800.com was formerly a failed web start-up before it was …
• 25 August

  Brax.com sells for $80,000

  Do you know what brax is? Neither do I, but apparently it’s important because brax.com sold recently for $80,000 USD, or £48,789. Those in the know will quickly tell you that brax is in fact a 19th century board game. It is also the name of several communes in France. …
• 24 August

  Frisky.com sells for $20,000 USD, Yahoo to upgrade data center for the cloud

  Frisky for a bit of domain auction action? Then you’ll want to know that frisky.com just sold for £12,124 ($20,000 USD)– a solid price for a solid adult domain. The buyer has yet to be revealed. SatinSeduction.com also sold for $3,250. The sale of most interest to me, however, is …
• 20 August

  BookHotels.com sells for €50,000

  It’s been a busy week on the domain auction block. One of the higher sales of this week is BookHotels.com, which sold for €50,000, or £43,039 ($71,205 USD). This price makes BookHotels.com the most expensive hotel domain on record. The previous record holder is ResortHotels.com, which sold for $58,830 in …
• 18 August

  Zeal.com sells for $50,000

  Zeal.com sold to a developer last week for right around £30,597, or $50,000 USD. Zeal refers to a “passionate devotion to or interest in a cause or subject,” so the name has a lot of potential applications. In addition, NewYorkMortgage.com went for £7,955 ($12,877 USD) at auction. New York is …