Impressive results from .Global domain name auction

.Global auction sells 35 domain names for a total of $63,780.

.Global held a live domain name auction in London yesterday afternoon, and the results were quite impressive.

The $63,780 in sales across 35 of 82 domain names far surpassed those I asked in a “straw poll” prior to the auction. It certainly exceeded my expectations.

I think a key moment was the 12th lot for flights.global. The preceding nine lots failed to sell, and a $5,000 bid on flights.global was apparently well below the reserve. But the registry accepted the price. Once it did that, people felt more comfortable paying $1,000+ for .global domain names.

Some domainers were in attendance and bid, yet many in the crowd were ICANN types. Although the typical ICANN goer isn’t a big domain investor, many of them want to see new TLDs succeed.

Prices on some domains were quite shocking to me, such as sports.global for $8,000 and banking.global for $12,000.

Monte Cahn of Right of the Dot, which helped put on the conference with just a couple weeks notice, told me they plan to run a multi-newTLD auction during October’s ICANN meeting in L.A.

Here is the complete list of sold domains furnished by Right of the Dot:

CLIMATECHANGE.GLOBAL $300
MODERNART.GLOBAL $250
FLIGHTS.GLOBAL $5,000
CRICKET.GLOBAL $800
TRANSPORT.GLOBAL $1,200
IDW.GLOBAL $5,200
TRAVELING.GLOBAL $800
POLITICS.GLOBAL $680
SOLARENERGY.GLOBAL $350
OMG.GLOBAL $300
FINEART.GLOBAL $550
MOBILE.GLOBAL $2,200
ADULT.GLOBAL $3,500
MONEYTRANSFER.GLOBAL $800
IPO.GLOBAL $1,500
BANKING.GLOBAL $12,000
FINDAJOB.GLOBAL $300
PROPERTY.GLOBAL $1,900
VIRUS.GLOBAL $250
SPORTS.GLOBAL $8,000
ADS.GLOBAL $1,500
BUY.GLOBAL $4,600
TRANSLATE.GLOBAL $500
AUDITOR.GLOBAL $300
WEBSERVER.GLOBAL $250
HEALTHCARE.GLOBAL $2,000
CONCERT.GLOBAL $700
CLASSROOM.GLOBAL $500
CALL.GLOBAL $2,000
VIDEO.GLOBAL $2,400
MEDICINE.GLOBAL $500
ITS.GLOBAL $600
CINEMA.GLOBAL $950
WIKI.GLOBAL $500
CLUBS.GLOBAL $600