Sedo Great Domains March 2014 Auction Results

Sedo’s March Great Domains auction concluded yesterday, and the results are listed below. The largest sale was for the Gab.com domain name, which sold for over $200,000. In total, the auction closed at a little under $250,000 USD. I noticed a couple of other domain names that had decent bids, but they did not meet the auction reserve price.

Great Domains March 2014 auction results:

Domain Currency Max Bid
gab.com $US 200002
rmx.com $US 10000
faho.com $US 4800
horizontal.net EUR 3602
goia.com $US 3533

Media Options Running Private Auction at NameJet

NameJet is hosting another notable domain auction on behalf of a domain investment company. Andrew Rosner’s Media Options, best known for its domain brokerage services, has listed quite a few valuable domain names up for auction at NameJet. The auctions will begin closing between two weeks and a little over a month from now.

I saw the banner on NameJet’s website, and I asked Andrew if he could share some details about the auction. According to him, about 30% of the inventory is listed at no reserve, and “all are priced VERY aggressively,  many at below what we paid” in order to induce competitive bidding.

I looked through the list of names that are currently loaded on NameJet, and it appears that some of the better inventory has

GoDaddy Hosting BuyDomains Auction

According to a large banner on the GoDaddy Auctions homepage, GoDaddy will be hosting a private auction featuring domain names owned by BuyDomains. There are 150 domain names up for auction, and the starting price for each auction is $500. It appears that many of these auctions have reserve prices, but it is unclear what the reserve ranges are for individual domain names. A wide variety of domain names are included in the auction.

This marks GoDaddy’s first venture into private “theme” auctions in over a little over a year. As you may recall, GoDaddy ran private auctions on behalf of the .Info and .Org registries in  late 2012, early 2013.

In the past, BuyDomains partnered with SnapNames to run auctions with domain names from the company’s portfolio. I am not sure if the GoDaddy acquisition

Heritage Auctions Second Domain Auction is Live

HA.com LogoAfter selling over $1.5 million worth of domain names in its inaugural domain auction held at the end of 2013, Heritage Auctions has opened up bidding for its second domain auction. HA sought domain name submissions for this domain auction in December and January.

There are just over 100 domain names listed for sale in this auction. According to Aron Meystedt, the Founder and Director of the Intellectual Property Division  of Heritage Auctions, the list of domain names was chosen with a specific goal in mind. Aron commented, “the ultimate goal is to build this division to where our client base of over 850,000 affluent buyers is excited about domain names.” As a result,  many of the domain name categories are related to departments on the HA.com website, including coins, currency, art, wine, comics, metals, and other categories with affluent buyers who bid on HA auctions.

Two of the more interesting auction lots are DEC.com and Digital.com. DEC.com was one of the first registered domain names. Both of these assets are now owned by Hewlett Packard, but they had been owned by Digital Equipment Corporation, which was acquired by Compaq, which then merged with HP in 2002.

The live auction will take place on  

PR: Sedo Running Winter Sports .Club Auction

Sedo and the .Club domain registry have announced a special auction of winter sports .Club domain names. In total, there will be 25 winter sports .Club domain names up for auction, including Snowboarding.club, Skiing.club, IceHockey.club, and others.

The full details about this auction are contained in the joint press release below. If you have any questions about the auction, you can either post them here or direct them to Sedo or the .Club registry, which are running the auction jointly.

Press release follows:

AnimalRescue.com Sells for $20,400 at NameJet

AnimalRescue.com was sold in a private auction on NameJet today, and the sale price was $20,400. There were 282 bids from 247 bidders in the auction. The auction was one of the FindYourDomain.com private auctions.

Interestingly, according to the September 28, 2009 – October 11, 2009 DNJournal sales report, AnimalRescue.com had previously sold on NameJet for $6,899 in April of 2009. I looked back in my NameJet bidding history, and unfortunately, I do not have that auction listed. Based on the September 26, 2009 Whois record that lists