XR.com Auction Surpasses $500k

The bidding in the NameJet auction for XR.com just surpassed $500,000, although the reserve price has not yet been met. The high bid currently stands at $501,000. Because the XR.com auction is a public auction, all of the auction participant  information is publicly available for anyone to see (even for people who don’t have NameJet accounts).

At the time of publication, there are 701 bid from 259 bidders. There are 8 bidders whose bids were for at least $380,000. The auction will conclude on Wednesday afternoon. As a public auction, bidders who did not backorder the domain name are still eligible to bid. Because of the current high bid, bidders who wish to participate must be verified by NameJet in advance. I am not sure how long that process takes, so prospective bidders should ensure this verification takes place prior to bidding.

In early July, SX.com sold on NameJet for just over $550,000. There haven’t been many

Sedo’s Great Domains July Auction Results

Sedo’s Great Domains auction for the month of July ended yesterday afternoon, and I published the list of sales below. The largest sale was for rechtsanwälte.de, which sold for 14999 EUR, which is about $16,436.43 USD at today’s exchange rate. I did a Google search, and it looks like the German word “rechtsanwälte” means attorney or lawyer in English, which helps to explain the value of the domain name.

Interestingly, of the 13 domain names that sold in the auction, 6 of them are .DE ccTLD domain names. Also interestingly, only 5 of the 13 domain names that sold were .com domain names. I don’t recall seeing an auction like this with fewer than half of the sales being .com.

Keep in mind that

Will XR.com Sell for More Than SX.com?

A couple of weeks ago, SX.com sold on NameJet for $555,050. This afternoon, NameJet put out a press release to announce that another two letter .com domain name is hitting the auction block in less than two weeks.

XR.com is up for auction with a reserve price that is not yet known. The auction for XR.com will be a 3 day public auction that is set to begin on Sunday, August 2, and it will conclude on Wednesday, August 5 in the afternoon. At the time of publication, there are 76 bidders who have placed backorders for XR.com, and the high bid is $21,000. The reserve has not been met yet.

I am curious if you think the sale price of XR.com will surpass the $555,050 sale price of SX.com. Please vote in the poll below to cast your vote. You are also welcome to share your thoughts about this if you would like.


SX.com Up for Auction on NameJet

One of the most valuable domain names to hit the auction block on NameJet is coming up for sale. SX.com is listed as the top NameJet “Hot Pick,” and it currently has a bid of $20,000 with 115 bidders already participating. There is a reserve price on the auction, although the reserve is not known.

I asked NameJet GM Jonathan Tenenbaum about the auction, and he commented, “We are always working to bring high-quality inventory on to our platform and this is a prime example of that. SX.COM is an incredible 2-character domain with a very reasonable reserve, and this represents a great opportunity. We are hoping to bring even more of these kinds of domains to the market in the coming months and we are very excited for our customers.”

SX.com is privately registered, so I am

Follow All Sedo Auctions via RSS

Sedo recently instituted “Direct Auctions,” allowing domain owners to start auctions at any time. This tool can help domain owners sell domain names, but it can also be good for domain investors looking for deals.

One way for a domain investor to take advantage of these auctions is to track the current auctions on Sedo via RSS feed. The feed can be plugged into your favorite RSS feed reader, and you’ll have access to all of the ongoing auctions at Sedo at any given time.

I think it is important for domain owners to

NYPost Covers Private .NYC Domain Auction

I receive emails practically daily asking me to publicize a domain name sale listing or a private domain auction. Unless there is something I find compelling about the auction, I don’t generally write about it.

A couple of days ago, someone I don’t know asked me if I could write about his .NYC domain name auction. I passed on writing an article about it. It looks like this person found a captive audience in the NY Post though, and the publication published an article about his 112 (now 111) .NYC domain name auction that is running on Flippa.

The NY Post wrote, “A Brooklyn accountant is hoping to spark a gold rush in Big Apple cyber real estate.
Recep Ozdincer dropped about $3,500 last year to buy 112 “.nyc” domain names — like billiard.nyc, halfmarathon.nyc, highfrequencytrading.nyc and rodents.nyc — and on Thursday kicked off an online auction for all of them
…” The article included more information about the domain names in the auction as well as some quotes from the domain owner.

I think reaching out to