Now that the Super Bowl game’s “Brand Bowl” is finished, the polls and opinions are popping up everywhere. This year there seems to be a lot more  reactions and buzz bubbling on the internet, more so than in year’s past, thanks in part to social media sites.

Who had the cleverest ads? Who was the funniest?  Facebook, Youtube and Twitter (and maybe even a few old-school water coolers) will be buzzing the rest of today with chatter about both an amazing game and some good and some not so good ads.  Youtube’s voting is still going on and you can catch all the ads that you missed. There were some good ones that got a little chuckle from me, but generally speaking the creative wasn’t outstanding. The companies that advertised on the game and matter most in this little “domain world” were Google and Godaddy. . .

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Buydomains and AfterNIC have once again shared their recent sales over the last two weeks with DNN. The top sale in the fortnight was boating.com with $250,000. In total the company sold and brokered sales of 810 domains for a total of $1,480,207.98 making the average sales price $1,827.42.

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Disappointing Results, Despite $370,000 Sale

Even though the interest in the Silent Domain Auction after the Targeted TRAFFIC conference by Rick Latona could not generate much interest, it appears it produced at least one noteworthy sale, with LongIsland.com selling for $370,000 USD. However only 9 out of the 600 listed domains sold according to the results currently posted on Proxibid.

The sales were:

LongIsland.com $370,000
Imply.com $4,000
JusticeDepartment.com $1,800
CuteTops.com $1,100
OCNN.com $1,000
DefensiveBack.com $400
php.mx $300
eTaxReturn.com $300
CoverBet.com $300

Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the .COM gTLD with a Policy Forum and Gala and has also set up a website with a timeline of the development of .COM. The first domain name, symbolics.com, was registered on March 15th, 1985 and is today owned by domain investor Aron Meystedt.

In order to celebrate the anniversary the main sponsor and registry operator Verisign, will be hosting  a Policy Forum in Washington DC on March 16th and will end with gala in San Francisco on May 26th. The company will also announce the creation of four $75,000 research grants that will be awarded to those who show the most promise to shape the next 25 years of .com.

“In the past 25 years, the Internet has altered history and transformed lives around the globe. It has forever changed our relationships with the world around us by providing unprecedented access to people, places and information. The .com celebration is about honoring the innovators who have gotten us to where we are today and recognizing those who will help shape the next 25 years,” said Mark McLaughlin, CEO, VeriSign. “Billions of times each day, VeriSign connects web sites and users, while helping to ensure the Internet revolution continues to unfold at its characteristically fast pace. We’re proud of the role that VeriSign plays in enabling the .com infrastructure and in the role that our registrars play in providing the crucial platform and access to .com every day.”

Read the full press release after the jump.

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This weeks Sedo domains sales report is lead by the sale of designer.co.uk for 76,300 GBP (appx. $121,500 USD) followed by lundi.fr (Monday in French) for $50,000 EUR (appx. $69,000 USD) Also worth noting is the highest gTLD sale of ComTech.com for $60,000 to a German electronics retailer. The domain name now redirects to their ComTech.de domain.

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