eNom's popular expired domain service can be a headache when participating registrars leave the program. Frequent users of Club Drop know that domains caught by the service are rarely actually registered by eNom. Instead, they are a registered by ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Pool.com: I’ll eat my words
· Domain Sales, Expired DomainsPool.com has auctioned off expired domain Vegans.com for $73,000. This news comes courtesy of DNJournal, and just a day after I wrote about how Pool's independent drop service was becoming irrelevant. I stand behind my statements, but Pool deserves a ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Enom to auction of its expiring domains
· Domain Registrars, Expired DomainsJoining the likes of most major registrars, Enom is now auctioning off expired domains previously owned by its customers. Network Solutions kicked off this "exclusive drop" idea when it signed an exclusive deal with SnapNames. Others quickly followed. ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Jew.us sells for $29,500
· Domain Sales, Expired DomainsJew.us sold for $29,500, the highest "New TLD" sale ever publicly disclosed to DNJournal. Jew.us topped the previous high of $28,086 set by NewYork.info. This sale was big enough to compete with .com domains in the DNJournal sales charts this week. ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
SnapNames DNS Hacked
· Expired DomainsThe nameserver where expired domain heavyweight SnapNames resides was temporarily hijacked Wednesday night. Depending on how the nameserver was cached at your ISP, you may have seen a page like this. The page showed an Iranian flag with the sentence ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
FlashGames.com sells for $226,950
· Domain Sales, Expired DomainsAnyone looking for a sign that 2006 will be a good year for domain investors need look no further than this week's DNJournal sales chart. The year started off with a bang as a two word domain FlashGames.com pocketed $226,950 at Moniker. Moniker also ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Enom adds “premium names” to auctions
· Expired DomainseNom has joined a number of domain backordering services that now highlight high quality expiring domains. When users of eNom's Club Drop system login, they can now view a list of "Premium Domains" as designated by eNom. eNom uses "proprietary tools" ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Earth.com sells for $800,000
· Domain Sales, Expired DomainsDNJournal's final sales chart of 2005 includes the sale of Earth.com for $800,000. Combined with the previously announced Annuity.com sale at $600,000, 2005 went out with a bang. This year saw 9 announced domain name sales of $500,000 or ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
ASB.com sells for $50,000
· Domain Sales, Expired DomainsDomain buyers didn't let the holidays slow them down, according to the latest sales figures from DNJournal. The biggest sale of the week was consummated at Sedo, which sold ASB.com for $50,000. That's a solid number for a three character .com. ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Someone lost a $250,000 lottery ticket
· Domain Sales, Expired DomainsIf you had a lottery ticket worth $250,000, would you just toss it in the trash? If you had a nice car worth $250k, would you abandon it on the side of the road? That's basically what the previous owner of A1.com did. The domain expired and was ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
