e.co auction a big success.
I just finished watching a live simulcast party at TRAFFIC Vancouver of the e.co domain name auction. It ended at $81,000, and from the video it appears that the winning bidder was domain name investor Lonnie Borck.
Bidding had already reached around $39,000 by the time the simulcast started, and quickly took from from there. My initial prediction of the final auction price was $50,000, but that was before a couple things occurred:
1. .Co Internet marketed the heck out of the auction.
2. I heard that 70-100 people had registered to bid. Each person had to fill out an application and make a $1,000 deposit.
I then cheated and thought the domain might hit six figures.
I suspect that a lot of bidders were priced out of the auction quickly. The auction was extended by ten minutes from the end of each bid, which made for somewhat of an anti-climatic finish, but it was still exciting.
I have video of the simulcast event in Vancouver that I’m currently uploading. Check back to this post to see it later.
Domain Report says
It’s a nice one letter domain, but I am a bit surprised at the price. It probably has no natural traffic, so what is the appeal for this name? If Twitter uses t.co as a url shortener, the awareness could help e.co. Or, if e.com was ever bought and used by a big company, e.co would get typo traffic. I have a hard time seeing the buy as an investment, but I could see a large company buying it for a brand or environmental site. This is big question mark domain like the flowers.mobi sale was, only time will tell if it’s a good buy or not.
Anunt says
e.co not even worth $1,000…looks like another scam like flowers.mobi sale!
oil spill stop says
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an incredibly low price for a so unique domain
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ryan says
its all for charity
Brad says
I don’t see what is so special about it for $81,000
Brad
Bob says
If this is true that the domain name e.co was sold for $81,000, for a non-established cctld .co, we have a sucker on our hands. Someone is selling t.bz, an extension that has been around for many years, and the asking price is $1300 and it will never sell for that. I am sure the buyer is not using his own money to buy this worthless domain name.
Kev says
dumb investment, if it was insurance.co or flowers.co I could understand but e.co??
.co can be used for Colorado by the way like florists.co
e.co observer says
It appears that the e.CO buyer, Lonnie Borck of B-52 Media, backed out of the $81,000 e.CO purchase.
The whois still shows COinternet and it is my understanding that COinternet is now asking Sedo to auction it.
Am I mistaken?
Andrew Allemann says
@ e.co observer – he didn’t back out. The deal is done, it just took awhile to get the transfer through.