Domain Magnate

Update: March 5, 2009 - I have just use this codeto renew and bunch of domains and it still works. If .com is what you’re after you don’t need any other godaddy codes!

I was just renewing some domains at godaddy and as usually had to do a little research to find the best coupon codes. People like to post large lists of codes, where most are expired, or simply don’t work and you have to check each of them to see which saves you the most money. Especially now with the recession in full speed domainers try to save every penny on the costly renewals.

So to make it simple, I’ll just list one code I used:

yhkw105a  - dot com  renewals and new registrations at $6.99 (+ $0.20 ICANN fee) - the cheapest price currently available at godaddy.

In related news, Godaddy’s market share in domain registrations is 26.7%, compared to eNom’s 8.3%, Moniker 2.6% and Fabulous only 1.2%. A Godaddy monopoly, when it comes, will definitely not be a good thing for domainers here..

T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York - Moniker to Produce Special Opening Night Live Auction! See Featured Inventory in Live Auctions

» New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge, New York City, NY

Moniker to Produce Additional Opening Night Auction at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. NY! read more »

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 »

Webmasters.org Bidding on sitepoint auction Reaches $38K.

It gets up to 10k pageviews per month, but only $25 monthly revenue. This is definitely a nice domain, with great potential as a webmaster community portal, but even with that it’s a very high price for a .org.

What helps is that it’s a pr7 and the site has many links. 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 »