Affilicon, Affiliate Marketing Conference & Exhibition in Israel, is taking place next week on Nov, 24-25. Around 1000 people are expected to visit the conference.
I’ll be there as well, so if you are attending drop me a message and we can meet up and chat, or just say hi. 
BankRate Inc made a few surprising purchases lately, paying millions of dollars for small one man sites.
First was CreditCardGuide.com, a site that provides credit-card comparisons. According to compete.com it receives close to 200K monthly visitors from US. Still hard to imagine the site revenues being able to justify the $32 million pricetag the company paid a month ago. read more »
Two top sales reported today on Dnforum
printer.com sells for $800,000
Today the Dutch webmag webwereld.nl published the sale of printer.com for $800,000.
(in Dutch) http://webwereld.nl/ref/rss/52452
Printer.com was purchased through Sedo by a Dutch startup that spent half of its funds on it. The company is not yet reveiling its exact plans with the domain name but the site will go live on September 2.
Bedandbath.com sold @ Sedo for $50,000!
“Bed and Bath” is a pretty common term, but really not worth nearly as much
Moniker also brokered the sale of Affiliate.com for $580k
In other exciting news .org registry crossed 7 million domains!
The summer break is over and sales are hitting up again?
iSearch.com was offered for sale several times before on ebay, but failed to reach near the reserve, the last ebay auction ended at $61000:
Now it finally sold for a nice $300K to Intelius [Nasdaq:INTL]
Arlo Gilbert, the previous owner, has the news on his blog read more »
According to this thread on dnf and this one in idnforums there might have been a $xxx,xxx sale for an idn domain.
The domain was not publicly disclosed, however it is a Russian term. Alexa is 0, so there is probably not much traffic.
Other posts indicate that there were other previous $xxx,xxx sales and the idn market is simply not transparent enough, however several investors are spending big bucks on names they think will be much more in the years to come.
From idnforums:
I recently bought 1 idn for xxx,xxx
Some may say it is way over priced if you are comparing it to the current ‘market’ that is practically isn’t born yet but i prefer to pay more now then getting to the point where it just wont be for sale.
The $xxx,xxx sale has been confirmed as a Russian IDN , the $x,xxx,xxx “sale” still waiting for further info.
Also confirmed a Chinese seller sold a .cn for a good $xx,xxx to a business in China.
IDN domains are a highly controversial market. Many domainers believe it’s a waste of money while others predict it to take off big time. What’s your take on that?
NyTimes has an interesting story on a guy who flipped a site for an awesome $173K, after buying it for $1800 and doing some changes. According to compete.com traffic estimates the site bird-cage.com only has 5-6k monthly visitors from US, so it’s strange that just 200 visits per day can provide such nice income. Besides the site only has 257 links in yahoo and doesn’t seem to have any decent google rankings for the top keywords.
So it really looks strange why would someone pay a healthy amount of money for a small site, without much traffic.
On the other hand it shows that development could bring nice profits and e-commerce sites are the money makers!
here is the article: read more »
Rick Shwartz, aka the domain king, recently announced his sale of Property.com to Foreclosure.com.
The sale is obviously marked as one of the highest in the domain industry, however the price wasn’t made public.. for all we know it could $500k.. or $1M, or $5M. Or $10M, as many domainers would expect.
Dnjournal has the full cover
All Other blogs reported the news: read more »
Namepros is having some technical difficulties and the forum is not working currently. This happens very frequently lately, which is getting quite annoying. They should get a new server, or something.
I got a bunch of pm notifications by email and I can’t view them.
Here is the recent registrations stats for End of June 2008, or the latest data available. Top 3 tlds, .com, .de and .cn make up over 100 million domains, .net pushed to the 4th place.
We can see an enormous growth in .cn registrations, but this is mostly due their extremely low price. Many sites offer Chinese domains for just $0.13, yes, 13 cents only!
.co.uk is now slightly above .org and with UK pound going strong unlike the US dollar, the recent week’s sale of Phones.co.uk for $345k and LegalJobs.co.uk for $40k in addition to the previously reported sale of Cruises.co.uk for $1.1. Million comes to show how big the .co.uk tld is.
Apotheke.eu (“pharmacy” in German) sold for $81K last week and as the EU expands and grows tighter we can expect the .eu names to grow as well.
.asia is the new kid on the block and while many consider this new extension completely useless, there was one good sale in dnjournal last week: LasVegas.asia for $30k.
| .com | .de | .cn | .net | .uk |
| 77,170,572 | 12,095,431 | 11,821,635 | 11,709,993 | 6,941,940 |
| .org | .info | .nl | .eu | .biz |
| 6,905,369 | 5,010,369 | 2,985,481 | 2,828,390 | 1,980,543 |
No it.s not WhiteCity.com, actually it’s the real city this time! As msnbc reports, also spotted on unplain
CARLSBAD, N.M. – White’s City, a tourist town at the entrance to Carlsbad Caverns National Park, has been sold at auction for $1.55 million.
Higgenbotham Auctioneers International says the community and the surrounding 366 acres were sold Monday. The company did not release the identity of the winning bidder.
White’s City includes two motels, a recreational vehicle park, a museum, retail shops, a gasoline station, an opera house and a water park. read more »