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Domain Roundtable Extended Auction Brings in $81,774

The Domain Roundtable extended auction ended Tuesday night with little fanfare.   An additional 54 domain names sold with a total take of $81,774.   From our observations of the auction proceedings, all but one of the domain names that sold went for the proxy bid prices that were entered before the finale of the auction began.  [...]

Domain Roundtable 2009 Live Auction Results

The live auction sold 39 out of 76 names (51%) for a total of $499,200 USD, which makes an average price of $12,771.79 per domain. Highest price was contests.com with $380,000. Even though there were some technical difficulties with the video & audio feed at the beginning of the auction all but one of the [...]

AfternicDLS sells domains for $496,780.78

In the week up to June 22nd, 2009, AfternicDLS sold 334 domains for a total of $496,780.78 USD with an average price of $1,487.37 per domain. The .COM chart was lead by AuctionCalender.com ($10,000.00), haunthunter.com ($8,800.00) and carbonresearch.com ($6,488.00).  The top three sales in other TLDs were MassageOil.org for $5,288.00, bordeaux.co.uk for $5,000.00 and thekey.org [...]

GetARoom.com sells for $30,000 USD (and others)

The Sedo sales for the week of June 22nd are highlighted by the sale of a slogan domain for $30,000 USD: GetARoom.com. While the name just redirects to RoomValues.com, I wouldn’t be too surprised to see it used more prominently in the future. Sedo also sold two .co.uk Domains (HorseRacing.co.uk and OnlineCasino.co.uk) at 100,000 British [...]

.CO ccTLD management open for tender

The Colombian Ministry of Telecommunications has just published their final tender for bids for the operation of the .CO ccTLD yesterday. There will also be a session for comments and questions held today at 2:30pm in Bogota. Applications are due by June 16th 2009.
[via ccTLDs Forum]

Nicholas Bolton and auDA Battle Over .AU Registry Accreditation

Nicholas Bolton, an IT entrepreneur who was recently awarded $4.5 million because of a “secret deal“, will now be taking the .AU Domain Administration (auDA) to court after it stripped one of his company’s accreditation rights to register domain names.
The auDA banned Australian Style, owned by Bolton, from acting as a registrar in February 2009 [...]

Seereise.de Leads the Way in Sedo’s Weekly Sales Up To May 18

Seereise.de (”Cruise” in German) sold for more than $80,000 USD (€59,500) and .ME grabbed the spotlight as Sedo closed more than $500,000 worth of domain sales in the past week.
Seereise.de was the top sale of the week and appears to have been purchased by AllTours Reisecenter, a German travel company. The .ME sales included Rock.me [...]

.TRAVEL registry proposes to auction some one and two character domain names

In a proposal just published on the ICANN site, Tralliance, the operator of the .TRAVEL registry has proposed a plan to release single and two character domain names under the .TRAVEL TLD, partially via auction. Details of the proposed groups of domains and their release after the jump.

The registry itself can pick up to 10 [...]

Snapnames Makes Searching For Domain Names Easier

Snapnames has announced a number of improvements to its website, improving the overall search experience so domainers can have an easier time finding valuable soon-to-be-available domain names.
The full list of improvements are published after the jump…
New Search Criteria

Limit your search by numbers of dictionary words a domain name contains
Exclude IDNs

Improved Saved Search Functionality

Save up to [...]

Strata Services Buys Domain Portfolio and Monetization Company

Strata Services, a leading domain management and optimization organization, has purchased PPX for an undisclosed sum. PPX is a domain development and monetization company that has recently developed a technology platform which allows its partners to access premium cost-per-action (CPA) advertisements in combination with other forms of monetization on the same platform.
“The PPX acquisition is [...]

Website or domain sales agreement (example)

Sometimes the website or domain you are purchasing has significant value and may require more documentation then a simple e-mail.
Here is a sample website sales agreement or can also be used as a domain name sales or purchase agreement.
Download free sample website purchase agreement in Microsoft word:
lou-for-acquisition-of-website

LETTER OF UNDERSTANDING for acquisition of www.domainprotege.com

June 22, 2007

(name)
(street [...]

Domains for Sale

Sometimes you just have too many domain names or websites…these are some names we do not have time to develop or sites we are selling. LLLL.com for sale and L-L.ca … To make an offer please do so using the contact us page.

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Description
PR
Price
Host
Expiry

www.JQTR.com
4 letter lots of options
0
$offers
GoDaddy
30-Oct-2010

Template letter for selling a domain name

Greetings,
Sub: Very Rare and Special Domain name WWW.—–.COM is for sale.
We have this registered domain www.—–.com for sale. We believe it is most suitable for your company since —- [the name] can be applied to your company and its business activities.
It is one of a kind rare and special domain with many applications. It has [...]