October Great Domains Auction Results

Elliot Silver
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Well, it looks like the 71% majority of voters who thought EZ.com would sell in Sedo’s  Great Domains auction were incorrect. I was pretty surprised that so many votes were cast thinking that EZ.com would sell in the auction. In the end, the high bid for EZ.com was $430,000. I presume Dave Evanson from Sedo will be working the phones and email trying to get a post-auction deal done.

In total, the auction grossed somewhere around $150,000 in total sales. The results are mixed with USD and EUR, so I am not sure the exact amount of closed sales. The largest sale of this month’s auction was DCR.com which sold for $42,000. ICT.com was the next highest sale at 38,000 EUR. ArtDirector.com sold for $9,999.

As I mention every month after the Great Domains auction sales report, the auctions ended today and most of these deals are likely not yet closed. Sedo will publicly report the sales as payments are made, so keep that in mind when you have a look at these auction results.

Here are this month’s

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Watch Out for Typos!

Elliot Silver
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The other day, I was doing some domain auction research, and I placed a backorder for a domain name I saw had many bids at NameJet. The name looked great, although I was a bit surprised there weren’t more backorders. I figured it may have been a passe term, but I didn’t give it much thought.

When it went into auction, I was on my iPhone. I almost immediately placed a higher bid and was the leading bidder for this domain name. I still didn’t know it was a typo.

A few hours later,

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.Club to Run 1 and 2 Character Auctions

Elliot Silver
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The .Club registry will be running a series of auction for 1 and 2 character .Club domain names, it was announced this afternoon at THE Domain Conference. Coming up for bid are domain names such as C.Club, HJ.Club, JD.Club, and others – 25 domain names in total.

The registry set up a page on its website to share details of the auctions, which will run from October 29 – November 5th. Judging by the auction venue and non-industry standard auction timing, it appears that the registry is trying to tap into the Chinese domain investment market with this auction.

Here are some of the details about the auction that can be found on the auction page within the registry website:

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September’s GreatDomains Auction Results

Elliot Silver
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Sedo’s Great Domains monthly auction concluded yesterday. I wrote about the $25,000 sale of Hips.com in the afternoon, but that domain name was not the largest sale in the auction. That honor went to PDZ.com, which sold for 37,010 EUR (approximately $41,283).

Following these two sales, j.de was sold for 22000 EUR, which is a bit less than $25,000 at today’s exchange rate. The auction totaled a bit less than $125,000. Perhaps interestingly, more than half of the winning auctions were for .de domain names (German ccTLD), and more than half of the auctions were in Euros instead of US dollars.

The entire list of auction sales is below. Keep in mind that

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143.com Up for Auction at NameJet

Elliot Silver
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143.com is pending auction at NameJet, and it will enter the auction phase in a couple of hours. The current high bid is $60,000, but the reserve price has not yet been met. There are 239 bids placed as of the time of publication.

The 143.com domain name is owned by Finlead, a domain investment firm based in Switzerland. The company also owns other liquid domain name assets such as EG.com, EO.com, Soft.com, Season.com, and Leading.com.

I checked NameBio, and I do not see any public sales records for 143.com. Based on historical Whois records from DomainTools, it looks like Finlead acquired the domain name in May of this year for an undisclosed price.

As you likely know, numeric domain names have been hot for the last couple of years. Michael Berkens’ company sold 345.com for $800,000 earlier this year, and Rick Schwartz reportedly just sold a NNN.com domain name “for an amount which will land him as the 2nd highest reported sale of 2015.” Many other NNN.com domain name have changed hands privately for large sums of money.

Finlead  CEO

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GJ.com Sells for $694,095 on NameJet

Elliot Silver
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The two letter GJ.com domain name was up for auction on NameJet this week, and the auction concluded today. The domain name  sold for  $694,095. This is the largest  sale at NameJet in 2015, and it may be the largest sale of all time on the auction platform.

Once the GJ.com sale is closed, it should rank as the fourth largest public sale of the year on DNJournal,  following the sales of Porno.com, 345.com, and the 7 figure sale of PX.com  (which should be added in the next report).

There were

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