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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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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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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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,

It’s not often that the domain name of a former major retailer comes up for auction. It looks like MattressGiant.com, once the website of Mattress Giant, is coming up for auction on NameJet. The domain name is registered at Network Solutions, and it looks like it recently expired, as it is in Pending Renewal or Deletion status.

Mattress Giant was once a thriving retailer of mattresses. The Wikipedia entry for Mattress Giant states that “Mattress Giant had a total of 360 stores in 14 states nationwide.” According to the Wikipedia article, “[I]n 2012 it was announced Mattress Firm would acquire all Mattress Giant locations in the U.S in a $47 million deal.” I am not sure what happened to the domain name for it to expire, but I presume it still receives some traffic.

The backorder deadline for this domain name is