September’s GreatDomains Auction Results

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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

143.com Up for Auction at NameJet

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.

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GJ.com Sells for $694,095 on NameJet

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).

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GJ.com on Auction at NameJet

The two letter GJ.com is now up for public auction on NameJet. At present, the high bid is $425,000 and the reserve price has not yet been met. There are 209 bidders involved in the auction, but since it is a public auction, other bidders may jump in and participate.

This is the third 2 letter .com domain name that has come up for auction at NameJet in the last couple of months. In early July, SX.com sold on NameJet for $555,050. In early August, XR.com went up for auction on NameJet, but the highest bid of $554,000 did not hit the (unknown) reserve price.

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August Great Domains Auction Results

Sedo just shared the Great Domains auction results, and I have published them below. The auction totaled a little more than $75,000 in domain sales.

Two 3 letter com domain names were the largest sales of the month. SGJ.com sold for $31,500 an UTT.com sold for $21,500. BB.org was the third largest sale of the month, closing at 15,500 EUR.

Since the auction ended today, none of these domain name sales are closed yet. Once they close, the results will be reported officially by the company and listed on DNJournal and Namebio.

August Great Domains results:

Iomega.com: Pending Delete and Ready for Auction

Iomega.com Domain Name

I remember many years ago when Iomega was one of the most well known Internet companies. Iomega.com was the domain name the company used for its website, and Iomega.com was originally registered on July 8, 1991. Iomega.com is certainly one of the first domain names ever registered. According to Wikipedia, Iomega is now known as LenovoEMC, and it previously traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the IOM ticker symbol.

I was looking at NameJet this afternoon, and I saw that Iomega.com is listed for sale under “The Drop” heading. I did a double take when I saw it, and sure enough, it looks like Iomega.com is in pendingDelete delete status. This status likely means the domain name will be caught and auctioned at a domain name auction house like NameJet, SnapNames, or DropCatch, depending on who catches it. The domain name is not currently resolving for me.

As a result of the domain name expiring,