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And now you can do it on Sitepoint premium marketplace there is one for sale.

PR6 sites are seen for sale very rarely and PR7 even less than that. But here is a real PR9 site! With this SEO weight you can rank in google for pretty much anything with limited amount of content and work put into it.

The sales thread also reports some $4,5K monthly revenues, but you can probably get more by just selling a few links on it.

This little quote at the start of the sales thread reveals a bit about the buyer interest: read more »

DomainMagnate brings you an exclusive interview with “trendicator” from namepros, who Had YXL.COM Stolen and Recovered It. Read through for first hand tips on how to keep your names secure and what you should do in case your domains get stolen.

- details about yourself, occupation, age, location.
my friends call me Max. I am a Chinese man in his handsome early 20′s
my username at namepros is trendicator

– How long have you been into domaining and how did you get into it?
i’ve been domaining for 2 years now. When first started, i was still at university, and tried to get a website for myself to impress girls, so i thought. One thing led to another, i began to stock up domains. read more »

Namejet had some good time lately auctioning off top generic names for high amounts.

One of these was GoPlay.com, which ended today at $17,300 – decent price for any “obscure” 2 word domain, however it was in fact auctioned a month ago on July, 21 – then the auctioned fetched $26,300.

Probably the winner didn’t pay so it was rerun. As usually second auctions end up lower than previously, however an over 1/3 decrease is quite significant. According to other reports

Auction over at $17,300. Winner this time round only bid $69 in first auction while underbidder in 1st auction ($26,200) only bid to $17,200 today.

GoPlay.com is an excellent domain for any gambling, or gaming site. It’s also a popular brand and many other sites in different extensions use it, hopefully we’ll see this one developed into a top gambling portal.

CogNews.com just Sold for $2755 on TDNam.

The domain is not something, but it used to be a popular site and it has a pr6 and over 20K links in yahoo.

Also alexa below a million, which indicates it has some decent traffic. I was in the auction, but decided to give it up eventually.

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

How do I make money domaining?

Well by most part it comes to:

1. know the market well
2. buy low
3. sell high

Domaining is a strange market. There are the end user prices and the market/reseller prices for any domain – both can vary a lot and there is a lot of money to be made on these differences.

However the risks are high, so you have to know the market very well. Being able to appraise a domain as close as possible for any specific marketplace is among the most valuable skills for a domainer. 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 »

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 »

Sedo is notorious for making sellers pick low reserves to “encourage more bidders” and while it sometimes work, frequently there aren’t enough bidders in the first place, so names end up with low prices. This mostly refers to GreatDomains auctions.

Next GreatDomains event has these names in the list, among others:

Attended.com no reserve
Calcium.net $1-$499
Debbie.net no reserve
Doctor.net $5,000-$9,999
Illicit.com $1,000-$4,999
Doorway.com $1,000-$4,999

Now some of these reserves are just ridiculously low, someone will get bargains!
I think low reserves only hurt the sale, there should be either no reserve at all, like on snapnames and bido, or a fair reserve like there is usually in TRAFFIC auctions and good sedo auctions. Low reserves will just reduce the domain’s value in the eyes of the buyer. A quick example is when I recently sold my coriander.com for just $5100 on greatdomains auction with reserve $5k, after it went up to $9k on a sedo auction previously, shy of reaching its reserve. There are simply not enough bidders to create a bidding war to get the price up, especially now due to summer, recession, election, global warming..