An auction for WirelessPhone.com sits at $52,500 with under a day to go.
Domain market Afternic has been marketing the domain in a special 30 day auction. The auction ends tomorrow afternoon. The domain scores a very nice 1,826 in Overture with its extension. With stats like these this domain should easily top $100k when it closes, but so far has garnered only 2 bids (it started at $50k). Anyone eyeing this domain will wait until the last minute so as not to bring attention to their intentions.
Compare WirelessPhone.com to a few domains that sold at the TRAFFIC auction a few weeks ago: FixedRate.com $50k, Bubbles.com $55k, Promote.com $70k, WaterfrontProperty.com $80k. All of these are good domains and WirelessPhone.com fits nicely in this bunch – especially with high bid values for cell phone keywords.
Afternic has seen a surge of high dollar domain sales recently. SearchTerms.com sold for $15,000, Global-Law.com for $20,000, and NeighorhoodWatch.com for $14,888 (the later seems to be the best deal of the bunch). An auction for DCQ.com sits at $6,615 with under 2 days to go. You can do a search on google to find out why the later is a good domain.
Update: Final price for WirelessPhone.com was $355,000!
rob says
Anyone spending that kind of money on overture results alone is foolish. It is easy to set up a bot to query overture for any term with or without the extension.
Then, wait a month for the new overture results to come out and BANG, you’ve got yourself another $50k domain name.
Editor says
In this case the Overture results make perfect sense. If the domain were lfasjdflsdjvs.com and the Overture results were that high then yes, you should question it.