Domainers Gone Blind: The Trouble With Bogus IDN Auctions
It's no secret that domain prices are on the way up. But what happened this weekend caught even the hardened domainers among us by surprise:
The domain auction for xn--fx-kja.com attracted 102 bids from 26 bidders - and closed with a final bid of $46,001!
These domain investors must know something that we don't:
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shemale.com sold for $520,000, bdsm.com for $295,000 on Las Vegas domain auction
Moniker's live domain auction at the Internext adult entertainment conference in Las Vegas sold 88 domains for a total of $1,936,400. Top domains sold include shemale.com ($520,000), bdsm.com ($295,000), interracialsex.com ($150,000) and opportunity.com ($150,000). We list all sales of more than $10,000 below. For the complete list go here.
Sedo Auction: Spanish domains didn't reach reserve price
According to the Spanish domain blog Domisfera, the Sedo domain auctions for busca.com (”search” n., “search!” or “he/she searches”), empresas.com (”companies”) and economia.com (”economy”) ended without a winner today. Additional bids came in since we last reported on these auctions, but the reserve prices were not reached. More details and commentary here.
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Spanish Domain Auction Mania on Sedo
The three Spanish-language domains busca.com ("search" n., "search!" or "he/she searches"), empresas.com ("companies") and economia.com ("economy") have attracted bids of €101,000, €61,000 and €35,000 respectively on Sedo's domain auction service. The reserve price hasn't been met for any of these domains, and there are 7 days to go until the auctions' conclusion.
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