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
Were these names not previously available prior to this past auction?
@ 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.
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.
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.
No whois change 😉
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)