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Auction of registry owned Premium .ME Domains!

by mediawizard in Domain Names

Sedo is having an auction of registry owned premium .me domain names.

The reserves are low ($1-499 each) and the keywords mostly good ones!

And we all know how some .me sales are doing.

Here’s the complete More >

Premium Availables – .PRO Short Single Dictionary Word Domains

by Premium Availables in Availables

Like the title says:

achy .pro afar .pro aged .pro amid .pro amok .pro anew .pro arid .pro aunt .pro avow .pro awry .pro bade .pro bale .pro balk .pro balm .pro bane .pro barf .pro bark .pro bawl .pro beak .pro been .pro beet .pro bent .pro bile .pro blab .pro bled .pro blob .pro bloc .pro blot .pro blvd .pro boar .pro boil .pro boor .pro both .pro bout .pro brag .pro bray .pro bred .pro brim .pro brow .pro bury .pro calf .pro cant .pro cape .pro cede .pro chug .pro clap .pro claw .pro clod .pro clot .pro coup .pro cove .pro crud More >

Pet Peeves of Domaining

by mediawizard in Domain Names

In no particular order:

- Please justify your asking price!

- Lowballers Galore ($100 for 50-200 domains, tyvm)

- Self professed ‘top domainers’ selling spades to noobs.

- Insider deals / not a level playing field.

- People charging you to aggregate your content!

- People quoting automated appraisals.

- Domains that don’t make sense selling for $xx,xxx or more!

- Domain drop monetization via auctions by registrars.

- Domain warehousing by registrars.

- Shill bidding in general, of crappy IDNs in particular.

- Parking paying pennies on More >

Best sales platforms for brandable 5 letter .coms

by mediawizard in Domain Names

Short made up terms with a .com attached at the end are a popular segment of domain names, commonly known as five letter .coms or 5L.coms. We analysed reported public sales for the first quarter 2012 and the results were really not that surprising. Listing your domain for sale at Sedo, GoDaddy Auctions & Afternic would maximise the chance for a sale to almost 99% of the market.

Here are the results of the analysis:

% Sales by Venue 42% GoDaddy 32% Sedo 19% NameJet 4% Afternic 3% Others GoDaddy Auctions and Sedo account for almost 3 out More >