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Update: domain was sold

Civa.com

GODADDY.COM
Expiration Date: 2009-02-20
Creation Date: 1996-02-19

Made 4.53 € = $7.04 in 32 days on sedo. Average 34 visitors per day. Screenshot here
Rather high ctr, but very low clicks, so with some optimization and maybe at another parking service it can do much more.

Over 1,5 Million results in google and many potential end users. Many sites: civa.org, civa.org, civa.org.uk, civa.com.pe, covacom.com, civaglobal.com, civa.be, civatools.com – all are used for various businesses.
Also a last name, like veronicaciva.com.

All these are active sites and there are a lot more. This is a top 4 letter name with excellent opportunities and steady type in traffic, don’t miss out.

Should sell quick at this price. Also for sale on dnf
Post sold to claim, winner will be decided by timestamp.

payment within 2 days by paypal masspay, or escrow, buyer pays all fees

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 »

Israel is being sold off to the highest bidder. The Internet domain name israel.com is expected to fetch at least $5.5 million when it is sold at auction, said Monte Cahn, CEO of Moniker.com, which is running the sale.

Jean-Noel Frydman, 46, registered the domain name in 1994 and never imagined at the time it would be worth millions.

“Mainly, I didn’t want anyone to misuse it. That’s why I registered it,” he said, noting he retains final approval on the sale at the May 23 auction.

Frydman chose to part with his domain this year because of the 60th anniversary of Israeli independence, which is today.

Many top names are being auctioned through various venues this time.

Sedo leads the way, with such gems as:
xp.com
xu.com
zr.com
bond.com
directories.com
resorts.net
nicole.com

Also, as usually, a few names with super high reserves that don’t have much chance (although we’ll likely see them shill bidded to the reserve by the end of the auction):

vino.com 200,000 – 499,999 $US
housewares.com 1,000,000 $US +
vinos.com 50,000 – 199,999 $US read more »

Interesting registry statistics published on domainnews.com

There were almost 33 million new domain names registered in 2007 according to the fourth quarter 2007 Domain Name Industry Brief published by VeriSign. This brings the total of domain names registered to more than 153 million domain name registrations worldwide across all of the Top Level Domain Names (TLDs). This represents a 27 percent increase over the same quarter last year, and 5 percent growth over the third quarter of 2007.

Of these registrations, the .com and .net adjusted base surpassed 80.4 million domain name registrations at the end of 2007. This represents a 24 percent increase year over year and a four percent increase quarter over quarter. The adjusted base grew by 3.5 million domain names in the fourth quarter and 15.4 million over the entire year. New .com and .net domain name registrations were added at an average of 2.5 million per month in the fourth quarter 2007 for a total of 7.5 million new registrations. read more »

Moniker.com Brokers Sale of Bored.com for US $4.5 Million

Moniker, an Oversee.net company and the leading provider of Domain Asset Management(TM) services, today announced that it has successfully brokered the sale of Bored.com for US $4 million and an associated portfolio of 170 websites for US $500,000.

Bored.com was established in 1997 and today provides more than two million visitors a month with solutions to the age-old question of what to do when you are bored. The site serves as a portal linking to leading sites in music, humor, gaming, quizzes & trivia, and more.

The sales agreement includes several assets associated with continuing the current business model. The site will remain operational under its new owner, JW Media. Other online properties currently being developed by JW Media include BuyShoes.com and Campout.com. read more »