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Sedo has just conducted a small auction for prime .me domains. The closing prices for the top domain name sales were as follows
$26,500 like.me
$15,600 contacts.me
$13,100 game.me
$12,099 poker.me
$10,099 friend.me
$10,000 art.me
$10,000 note.me
$ 8,600 keep.me
$ 8,200 shop.me
$ 7,600 movie.me
$ 7,350 send.me
$ 7,100 try.me
$ 6,700 health.me
$ 6,250 indentify.me
$ 6,206 hotels.me
$ 6,105 refer.me
$ 6,099 employ.me
$ 5,600 look.me
$ 5,500 finance.me
$ 5,350 fund.me
$ 5,300 browse.me
$ 5,300 smile.me
$ 5,100 shopping.me
$ 5,100 track.me
$ 5,005 list.me
$ 5,000 law.me
The like.me domain auction attracted 78 individual bids.
Added: MHB @ The Domains has just posted a full list of 110 .me domain sales at the auction = $400,000 in sales.
Rick Latona’s Live TRAFFIC South Beach Auction has just sold ~$500,000 of domain names
$ 13,000.00 …. DUL.com
$ 1,400.00 …. VirusRemoval.net
$ 1,000.00 …. UsedCars.cm
$ 5,000.00 …. NR1.com
$ 700.00 …. DataReader.com
$ 1,800.00 …. MoneyInvestor.com
$200,000.00 …. Shock.com
$ 6,500.00 …. Flowers.mobi
$ 1,200.00 …. AuthorizedReseller.com
$ 8,000.00 …. FloridaOranges.com and Florida-Oranges.com
$ 400.00 …. OnlineHedgeFund.com
$ 9,000.00 …. WebsiteDesigners.com
$ 11,000.00 …. Taxidermist.com
$ 700.00 …. Dogs.cm
$ 800.00 …. Cats.cm
$ 5,000.00 …. FloridaStoneCrabs.com
$ 800.00 …. ConcealedGunPermit.com
$ 3,300.00 …. BZK.com
$ 1,300.00 …. FortWaltonBeach.org
$ 20,000.00 …. Idle.com
$ 600.00 …. iCallCenter.com
$ 15,000.00 …. Coches.co
$ 500.00 …. iExports.com
$ 13,000.00 …. OxygenTanks.com
$110,000.00 …. BVI.com & BVI.co
$ 1,300.00 …. CharterJetRental.com
$ 15,000.00 …. MZH.com and MZH.co
$ 7,000.00 …. WeddingCoordinator.com
$ 500.00 …. Free.cm
$ 800.00 …. iProgramming.com
$ 400.00 …. FamilyStress.com
$ 3,000.00 …. Depressants.com
$ 10,000.00 …. LuckyStar.com
$ 5,000.00 …. CelebrityWeddings.com
$ 1,000.00 …. DayTrading.co
$ 1,300.00 …. iPlanning.com
$ 1,500.00 …. HugeDeal.com
$ 900.00 …. LowAirfare.net
$ 1,400.00 …. 10 LLL.mobi
$ 500.00 …. GameRooms.net
$ 400.00 …. iMover.com
$ 500.00 …. videoGames.cm
$ 2,100.00 …. CigarBlog.com
$ 8,200.00 …. KingBeds.com
$ 1,100.00 …. Hypnotize.net
$ 500.00 …. FreeStuff.cm
$ 400.00 …. Cat.cm
$ 1,200.00 …. Alquiler.co
$ 1,900.00 …. GolfSets.net
E. & O.E.
These names are from the live auction list so many of these domains will not have been paid for yet.
Afilias, the registry for all .INFO domain names, is holding its 4th annual INFO Awards program, where .INFO domain name owners can submit their great sites for the chance to be named the Best .INFO website of 2010!
There are also good cash prizes to be won
!st place $7,500 - 2nd place $5,000 and 3rd place $3,000
http://www.info-award.info/ (Submission deadline Sept 10, 2010)
Sedo has just released its Second Quarter Domain Market Survey (.pdf) for 2010. The report provides a great insight into the domain name market with a number of interesting tables and statistical measures.
The most popular domain name categories for Q2 2010
1 Software
2 Regions, Country, Cities
3 Employment
4 Tobacco
5 Religion and Spirituality
6 Domain Industry
7 Humor
8 Hardware
9 Insurance
10 Jewelry
And sedo’s top sales for the Q2 2010 were Cgm.com $365,000, Software.de €235,025, Kredit.com €220,000 and Monalisa.com $200,000.
Sedo has just sold the domain name e.co for $81,000. This comes only a couple of days after twitter.com has announced its intention to use t.co as its official link shortener
Sometimes it’s good to try and visualise the domain industry. Here is a list showing the relative size (by numbers of domains registered) of the worlds largest registrars.
1 - 33,662,000 Go Daddy
2 - 9,305,000 eNom
3 - 7,514,000 Tucows
4 - 6,439,000 Network Solutions
5 - 4,818,000 Schlund + Partner AG
6 - 4,439,000 Melbourne IT
7 - 3,209,000 Wild West Domains
8 - 2,810,000 Moniker
9 - 2,497,000 Register.com
10 - 2,451,000 ResellerClub
11 - 1,687,000 Xin Net Corp.
12 - 1,525,000 Key-Systems
13 - 1,179,000 Dotster
14 - 1,057,000 Fastdomain.com
15 - 1,031,000 Onlinenic
16 - 1,005,000 Strato AG
17 - 966,000 Fabulous.com Pty Ltd
18 - 955,000 OVH
19 - 919,000 Domain Discover
20 - 903,000 Onamae.com
21 - 849,000 directNIC
22 - 832,000 HiChina
23 - 765,000 PSI-USA,Inc.
24 - 673,000 Ascio
25 - 657,000 Gandi
26 - 651,000 Name.com
27 - 519,000 Namesdirect.com
28 - 518,000 DreamHost
29 - 516,000 NameKing
30 - 504,000 Joker.com
For those who prefer charts and pictures Chart.info has a nice chart showing the relative domain registrar sizes
By way of comparison the 2007 30 largest regsitrars
Sedo has just announced a premium .tv domain name auction
115 premium names including…
beach.tv
black.tv
british.tv
business.tv
Auction starts April, 01 through April, 08.
Full domain name auction list
Press release
One note of caution many premium .tv’s have very high renewal rates – The press release states “For the first time ever, Verisign and Sedo are auctioning 115 premium .tv domains with greatly reduced renewal rates.”
Hosterstats has just posted an interesting domain analysis of the relationship and frequency of the same domain name being registered/unregistered for the .com .net .org .biz .info .mobi .asia .tel gTLDs.
The .info namespace is particularly interesting because over 25% of the names registered are unique to .info (i.e. not registered in any of the other gTLDs.
The .dot tel news letter .telegraph has details of the new look for .tel pages to be rolled out in March 2010
In March 1985, the first .com domain was registered, igniting the birth of the consumer Internet that, 25 years later, continues to transform communications, commerce and our society as a whole
Beginning in March 2010, VeriSign, the long-time operator of the .com domain, will lead an industry-wide initiative to recognize the innovators and leaders that have shaped the first 25 years of .com and in doing so transformed our economy and society.
