Sedo’s Great Domains auction for March is ending in about an hour and a half. There are 121 domain names up for auction this month, including a number of short domain names like OAL.com, MHJ.com, and VOF.com. At the moment, well over half of the domain names have bids, although many don’t seem to have met reserve yet.
Here are the 5 domain names I like best in the auction, with the reserve price range taken into consideration:
I was reading the Boston Globe today, and I read an article discussing a new trend called “milk smashing” (also known as gallon smashing). Apparently, it involves people going into a grocery store, smashing a gallon of milk on the floor and jumping in the milk while someone films the entire thing to post online.
I don’t really get why this has become the cool thing to do, but who am I to judge. I did see that SmashingMilk.com is currently listed for sale on Sedo for the bargain basement price of $249. I don’t buy trendy domain names, so it’s not a name I’d want to buy, but if this really is a big thing, someone could probably make money on that investment.
This “milk smashing” trend seems to be happening all over the country. There are articles in publications in Denver, Buffalo, Philadelphia, and I am sure it’s happening elsewhere.
As with every trend, this one likely (hopefully) won’t last too long, so it’s a limited opportunity. Sort of like Tebowing and Planking.
The domain name was registered just this month by someone in California and it’s listed for sale on Sedo. I neither have any financial stake in a sale nor was I asked to promote this listing.
I want to share an interview about gTLD domain names that was recently posted on the Small Business Digest radio show on Blog Talk Radio, “the world’s largest social radio network.” The hour-long interview features a discussion with Kathy Nielsen, Director of Strategic Alliances (and Business Development for gTLDs) at Sedo. In the interview, Nielsen discussed the launch of gTLD domain names and how small to medium sized businesses can buy relevant domain names.
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Sedo’s Great Domains monthly auction closed this afternoon, and the auction netted around $85,000 in sales. Withdraw.com sold for a bit over $10,000 while Shopping.me sold for just under $10,000 (the sale was in EUR).
The auctions that met their reserve prices and sold are listed below. Since the auction just closed today, most of these are still in escrow.
withdraw.com 10050 $US
shopping.me 7600 EUR
yrn.com 6600 $US
hausfinanzierung.de 6300 EUR
anniversaire.com 6150 EUR
Chocolate.com sent @film_girl edible business cards to advertise sale of their domain name vine.co/v/bJjLFunMw9q
— Seth Fiegerman ✠(@sfiegerman) January 29, 2013
People often ask what domain brokers and brokerages do to help sell domain names to end users. I wanted to share this tweet and Vine video that shows one step Sedo took to get the word out about their exclusive sales listing for the Chocolate.com domain name.
According to the tweet embedded above, Sedo sent a chocolate business card to Christina Warren, Senior Tech Analyst at Mashable to advertise that the domain name is now for sale. As of this posting, I haven’t found an article on Mashable announcing this opportunity, but perhaps something will be posted later. Mashable’s sizable reach could help sell this domain name.
It’s nice to see a company step out of the box when it comes to spreading the word about a domain name that is now on the market.
Earlier today, Sedo announced that it secured the exclusive brokerage listing for Chocolate.com,unarguably one of the best food-related domain names. Domain Holdings announced that it had secured the listing for a great financial domain name, Capital.com.
If you had the funds to purchase one of these domain names at fair market value, which would you prefer to own and operate?
