Moniker has released the full auction lists for the Targeted TRAFFIC East low reserve and premier auctions.

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The top-tier one word domain name Pizza.com is up for sale on Sedo.com and attracting a lot of attention in early bidding. In just 2 days of bidding, the domain has already attracted bids in excess of $2 million . Twenty bidders have already placed bids on the auction which has 5 more days left. This is a stellar domain but at these price levels, Domain Name News would expect there to be “end user” (rather than speculator) bidding on this domain name.

Typically with online auctions, bids slowly come in over the first few days only to quickly elevate during the last few minutes as bidders wait to “snipe” the auction. If this trend holds true, the Pizza.com auction could push over $3 million becoming one of the top sales ever for Sedo.com and putting the domain in the upper bracket of  highest reported domain sales.  Sedo.com brokered the sale of Vodka.com in late 2006 for $3 million to Russian Standard Vodka.

Frank Schilling talks with attorney Damien Allen on Traverse Legal. Allen asks Frank some very direct questions about the domain name space and the legal issues surrounding domains.  This is a great lesson about domains and their relationship with intellectual property stakeholders from one of the leading domain investors. Traverse Legal is a Michigan based law firm.

The auction is over and by our count produced 85 sales from roughly 170 domains and a total sales volume of $371,000.

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Making comparisons to past results and using the data we gathered, the results of this auction aren’t very impressive. Total sales volume from this auction appears to be $4.2 million. 82 domains sold out of the roughly 230 names at the live event.
Top 3 domains by price were : skiresorts.com at $850,000 , meds.com at $470,000 and dvds.com at $300,000. Nine names broke the six figure mark but no names were sold for seven figures.

The auction ended today, Feb 20th, at around 10:45 EST. Results were blogged as best we could in real time.

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73 names sold out of 83 Total was $191,550
cabinets.net $20,000
stereotypes.com $19,000
SNOWMOBILES.NET $17,000
grandcayman.net $13,000
centralamerica.net $12,000

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An eBay auction for the domain name Montana.com ended Monday afternoon with a bid of $310,000, but there was no sale yet. The high profile domain gained a lot of attention and speculation from domainers on whether or not the auction was legit.

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Eat your heart out domainers, CNN reports on license plate auctions in Abu Dhabi where 300 plates sold for $56 million. The current world record for the most expensive license plate is $6.8 million for plate #5. The price is 10x more expensive than the car it was put on. The owner, Talal Khouri, is now gunning for plate #1 which will be auctioned next month. He claims to be willing to pay $15-20 million. Sounds to me like the domain name auction companies need to do some heavy-duty marketing in the UAE.

SnapNames.com has released the final list of all domains sold at the live and silent auctions. The live auction was held during the Domain Fest Global conference and the silent auction followed the event and ended on January 31st. In total the auction sold over 400 domains with a total sales volume topping $4 million dollars. The full list of sold names following the jump. . .

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The auction started off slow as the first no reserve domain was passed. .. . but sold when it was brought back on the second attempt

FreeSocialNetworkingSoftware.com $300
SocialNetworkingBlogs.com $400
OrlandoSingles.com pass
CelebrityShow.com pass
SoftKiss.com $3,500
MilitaryDates.com pass
SocialNetworkingCanada.com $250

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