A newbie asks some good questions. I received an e-mail from a new domainer yesterday. He asked good questions so I'm going to respond through the blog. >I'm new to the domain game, and must say that I enjoy your site. There's >a few things I ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Domain auction nets $200,000
· Domain SalesA silent domain name auction at the 2006 Domain Roundtable netted $200k in domain sales. The big winner was Jail.com, which Moniker successfully auctioned for $110,000. A late runup on AutomotiveLoans.com, which started at only $1,000, resulted in an ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Domain Roundtable silent auction names released
· Domain SalesDomains available at the Domain Roundtable silent auction have been released for viewing. The list includes domains from Afternic and Moniker. Starting bids range from $500 to $250,000 with various bid increments. At the high end of the scale are ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Music-Videos.com sells for $25k
· Domain SalesAfternic has sold Music-Videos.com for $25k, a high price for a hyphenated domain name. Hyphenated domains can be great for search engine optimization. Search engines have difficulty parsing keywords and it's possible to get higher rankings with a ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Afternic closing soon
· Domain SalesAfter a long holiday weekend, domain exchange Afternic has a dozen domains closing this week. All of these domains have met their reserve price and will be sold to the highest bidder. Resales.com is the highest value domain on the closing list at ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Typo domain sells for $240k
· Domain SalesMortage.com, a typo of Mortgage.com, has sold for $242,400. The sale of Mortage.com tops this week's sales chart at DNJournal. Although the typo is of a generic word, the buyer might still find legal challenges to ownership of the domain. ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Domain appraisal company releases sales analysis
· Domain SalesDomain appraisal company Zetetic has released analysis of the 2005 domain sales market. According to Zetetic the median selling price in 2005 was $900, a 24% increase over 2004. Zetetic collects its sales data from a number of resale sources. In ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Blue.com was just a start…
· Domain SalesThe Blue.com sale I reported yesterday was only a small part of a busy week for domain name sales. DNJournal is reporting a slew of big domain sales, including a hypenated .info domain name for €19,000! New-York.info takes the cake as the highest ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Blue.com sells for $500,000
· Domain SalesSedo is reporting that Blue.com has sold for $500,000. Apparently the color blue is better than the color brown. Just six weeks after Brown.com sold for $300,000, Blue.com has sold for $500,000 according to Sedo. In a sign of the rising domain ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Poker domains closing soon at Afternic
· Domain SalesThree poker domains are closing soon at Afternic, along with a few other quality domains. Both Poker.sh and Poker.vc will close in about a week and have bids of $1,500 so far. .Sh is the country code domain for Saint Helena. .Vc is the country code ... Continue Reading2 Comments