Moniker Geo-Domain Auction Ends Today
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Silent auction ends starting at 3PM EST today.
The silent auction portion of Moniker’s first-ever geo domains auction ends today. Auctions will start concluding at approximately 3PM EST, but many will last into the evening.
A quick review shows limited bidding thus far, which may mean great buying opportunities. Anyone who has ever bid or registered in a previous auction can participate at no charge at silentauction.moniker.com. Prices start at $240.
Also mixed into the silent auction are domains from the Casino Affiliate Convention Macau.
Most of the geo domains include a city or state name and topic, such as:
SeattleEmployers.com $1,200
BoiseBailBonds.com $360
VirginiaShops.com $2,360
MissouriTuxedos.com $360
SacramentoBlog.com $1,180
VermontAttractions.com $3,760
Domains that didn’t sell in the live auction are also up for grabs. Bidding starts at the reseve. Two of my domains, SanFrancisco.us and KansasCity.us are available for bidding. After looking at the reserves for Memphis.us ($500k) and Denver.us ($1M), I’m wondering if my reserve on SanFrancisco.us is a bit low 
[Update: As of 4:20 PM CST, the following domains have received bids:
PasadenaNews.com $3,530
VisitCapecod.net $360
BerkeleyNews.com $360
BritishColumbiaNews.com $1,180
MexicoCityBlog.com $1,180
NewJerseyCabs.com $360
NewYorkBoxOffice.com $530
WorcesterNews.com $1,180
AlaskaTravelGuide.net $360
AlaskaTravelGuide.org $360
AmazonPreserve.com $360
HamptonNews.com $1,180
UKCondos.com $240]
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hello Andrew,
As you said, there´s great names at the auction, the weird thing is kind of lazy with the bids, perharps not enough advertising for the auction but I still see incredible names with no bids on,
Best regards,
mariano
I’d love to get in there and bid, but you need an “access phrase” to register?
You don’t need an access code if you have a login to Moniker’s silent auctions.
As for advertising, I think it was marketed about the same as past auctions, just not without the big “TRAFFIC push”.
The auction ended with virtually no bids no matter the names cost $300 or $3 millons, I guess investors do not realize the real value of having the name. We have bought dozens of name and we are making money ( off course not with parking but we a real business based on the names ),
The good names, ( pure generic cities dot com ), such as the hapmtoms were, from my point of view were over priced,
keep up your good work Andrew !,
Mariano