e.Biz Sells for $66,001
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
e.Biz steals the show at successful one character .biz auction.
It’s no surprise that e.Biz was the top selling domain name in Sedo’s one character .biz domain name auction.
But $66,001?
That will certainly turn a lot of heads. Especially since the winner could have picked the domain up for a few hundred dollars and a commitment to develop/market it had it gone through .biz registry Neustar’s RFP process.
About 20 bidders participated, but just two bidders fought it out after the bidding hit $25,750.
The sale will attract a lot of attention to the .biz top level domain name, and perhaps stoke a bit of fire into .biz domain values.
Although e.biz was the show-stopper, many other domains sold for respectable prices, too. 1.biz sold for $32,003. It will be interesting to see how this domain is used, as I’d think you would also want to one one.biz.
Please note that these are unofficial results that I collected.
1.biz $32,003
2.biz $5,801
4.biz $7,601
5.biz $6,100
6.biz $8,100
7.biz $7,877
8.biz $8,200
9.biz $7,901
a.biz $10,099
b.biz $10,005
c.biz $8,988
d.biz $26,110
e.biz $63,001
f.biz $8,250
g.biz $9,400
h.biz $5,300
j.biz $8,250
k.biz $6,900
l.biz $5,000
m.biz $15,611
n.biz $8,001
p.biz $7,878
r.biz $8,855
s.biz $8,211
t.biz $7,602
u.biz $10,009
v.biz $6,100
w.biz $13,500
x.biz $10,099
y.biz $8,988
z.biz $8,988
Nice names for business portals, or as a company’s online identity. The single letter names could be used to coincide with a company name first initial like g.biz for Google, etc.
what a waste of cash
@Jason
+1
[...] on 31 domains, or an average of roughly $11,000 per domain. Andrew at DNW pointed out that E.biz was the top contender with over 20 bids coming in and a whopping $66,001 price tag. Several domains were not included in the auction including 3.biz, i.biz, o.biz and q.biz . [...]
Were these names not previously available prior to this past auction?
[...] on 31 domains, or an average of roughly $11,000 per domain. Andrew at DNW pointed out that E.biz was the top contender with over 20 bids coming in and a whopping $66,001 price tag. Several domains were not included in the auction including 0.biz, 3.biz, i.biz, o.biz and [...]
This is a great lesson to those who want to create their own extension, if this auction was for .com the bidding would of started at a minimum of $250,000 and the sky is the limit. I can say .biz has 10 more year to catch up.
@ DNLingo – correct, they were just released after getting ICANN approval. Next, the registry will release all two character .biz domain names that aren’t the same two letters of a country code. That means no my.biz.
Then why does NeuStar get to operate http://www.MY.biz?
David – excellent question. Perhaps the rule is it can’t be registered to anyone? Not sure.
There is an explicit registration of this name.
http://domain-history.domaintools.com/?page=details&domain=my.biz&date=2009-08-19
I could not find a registration for say ‘us.biz’.
NeuStar should not be exempt from ICANN’s restriction. That’s discriminatory.
good… but how to use a so short domain? especially names like “b.biz”
@ 100 Domains – yes, numbers and letters that can be spelled out might be tough. If you market b.biz, you also need bee.biz and perhaps be.biz.
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O.biz is owns by overstock.com and they have their web site o.biz up and running.
i.Biz was sold through Moniker.com at auction for $17K.
D.biz is owns by german company(Ideen.com).
M.biz is coming soon(Mobile wireless)
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