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Another Moniker Auction just eneded:  Search Engine Strategies

Most SEO guys can easily pay thousands of $$ for links, but they aren’t willing to spend the money on domains. It’s a shame they still don’t get it: better domain will help the SEO campaign as well, in many ways.

Even though the domains weren’t high quality here, some clear bargains emerged, like  SeoProduct.com for  $300.00

The results aren’t very reassuring this time as well: read more »

bj.com - $200,000; anal.net - $90,000, shemales.net- $60,000, sluts.net - $58,000 and more names sell at the moniker adult expo auction. Which brings close to $600K of sales. A total of 53 domains were sold out of 8700.

Also one cvcv.com sale: debi.com - $5,000

Not too many sales, but still a decent performance for moniker auction.

in Other news some .me auctions reached crazy prices for a new extension..

toyota.me     101     20H 43M     $70,005
oglasi.me     80     13H 51M     $40,014
insure.me     190     14H 21M     $40,006
only.me     63     21H 8M     $33,405

Moniker.com released the list of new domains for Internext Show to be held on Friday at 2pm EST, Aug 8, 2008

BJ.com, Cock.com, Penis.com  and Porn.ca are sure winners here.  Other top names would be: GayGuys.com, GangBang.com, TopModel.com, BigDick.com, AnalSex.com, Pornography.com.

However the reserves seem quite high on many names, so I expect most high priced ones not to sell.

There is also a nice pack of tld names:

Amateur.ca, Legs.ca, Fetish.ca;

SexPictures.co.uk, ExoticWomen.co.uk, PornStars.co.uk; Pussy.sc

The full list: read more »

Nice to see the industry leaders working together, TRAFFIC in NY will have domains from all the major players:

1. Moniker
2. Aftermarket.com / DomainTools
3. Rick Latona
4. Bido.com
5. Sedo

thedomains reports these sales, totaling $25k:

eastorange.com                         $5,890.00
northolmstead.com                   $2,950.00
norridge.com                             $2,950.00
southeuclid.com                        $2,950.00
aaan.com                                   $920.00
carinsurancewashington.co       $890.00
StateOfNewMexico.org              $850.00
lakehavasu.tv                            $590.00
eastleon.com                            $590.00
japanonline.net                         $590.00 read more »

The moniker.com auction from the Geo show in Chicago just concluded with a total of $284K of domains sold.

While there were some good sales, in general I’d say it didn’t do that well. Many people got bargains on city domains

Here is a list of all the domains that sold:

SantaClara.com                         $82,500
Afghan.com                             $30,000
Asia.org                                  $30,000
OysterBay.com                          $24,500
Guatemala.net                          $16,000
Cuban.com                              $15,000
Secaucus.com                           $11,000
SaintKittsAndNevis.com                 $10,500 read more »

The silent auction which ended recently netted $99k, according to the domains reports:

The silent auction from the Paris Domainers show just concluded and a total of 64 domains were sold for $99K

sprints.com                                $35,300.00
asj.com                                    $15,300.00
jpv.com                                     $8,240.00
WorkFromHome.info                           $5,000.00
travelplus.com                              $3,530.00
MKF.NET                   $1,770.00 read more »

Moniker confirmed that the sale didn’t occur! The haaretz article about the sale was based on false info,

With America.com in the low reaching only $1.7M, Israel.com sold for $5.88MM today through moniker, hitting it’s $5.5 MM reserve. While it will top the annually sales chart the domain is priceless to any Jewish person and holds a high sentimental value. With Israel’s 60 years of independence celebrations two weeks ago now was a good time to sell the name.

The internet domain name “Israel.com” was sold over the weekend for $5.88 million. The buyer’s identity has not been revealed.

At the beginning of May, the internet domain registrar Moniker announced that the domain name “Israel.com” will be auctioned at a starting price of $5.5 million. The auction began on May 23 and ended six days later.

Today, the domain holds a generic Website providing general and tourist information about Israel and its heritage. It is yet unclear what the new content will be following the sale of the domain. read more »

The Silent Auction of the TRAFFIC show just ended and the total sales was just over $737,000, with DomainRegistration.com selling for $376K.  I would assume at that price it was picked up by a registrar rather than a domainer.

In all 195 domains sold

Here are the sales:

Title Bid

domainregistration.com $376,480.00

undies.com $70,590.00

lonelywives.com $35,300.00

grammas.com $28,481.00

kitchenette.com $17,650.00

Q1.com $17,500.00

553.com $14,242.00

vpr.com $11,399.00

refrigerated.com $10,360.00

ringtone.mobi $10,000.00

loseweight.info $5,890.00

saxophonist.com $5,890.00 read more »