While Andy Purdy called the auctions of the 4-letter .tv domains that use the call letters of U.S. TV stations “highly-prized”, it seems that his speculation was a bit of hype.
On Friday of last week, Purdy posted a report on his website explaining that a Florida resident had let 285 4-letter .tv domain names [...]

The launch and creation of Bido.com was announced back in February at a launch party in Las Vegas.  The site was launched, but according to company officials the auction service was later postponed as the company worked on streamlining the Bido.com system to integrate with the DNZoom platform.  In the interim one of the founders, [...]

This morning Domain Name News started the week with the hot news coming from Haaretz.com that Israel.com was sold for $5.8 million. We were able to reach Monte Cahn at Moniker who reported that the information was incorrect.
“It did not sell - they saw the opening bid price and thought it closed
at this price [...]

I wasn’t going to attend the 2008 TRAFFIC East show. I’m totally burned out on “Domain Show Overload”. Really, how many freaking shows can we pack in to a calendar year ? While making my plans, I had only heard from a handful of colleagues that they would be attending, but I had some [...]

In an email today, Sedo introduced a new member certification program designed to help protect and legitimize the auctions and bidding. There are 3 levels of Sedo pro membership now : Standard, Premium and Premium Plus. The memberships vary based on amount of money that members plan to spend on domain names for sale on [...]

The Sedo.com auction for the domain name Pizza.com ends in roughly 2 hours from this writing. The bid price has already eclipsed $2.5 million 24 participating bidders. The reserve has already been met on this domain so it will be sold.  How much higher will it go ?  Why aren’t you buying it ?
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I received an email, right after I posted about the TRAFFIC auction results. “Don’t sound the alarm ! The ship is not sinking.” Seriously though. No. It wasn’t that dramatic but it did remind me of the scene from the Titanic movie, where the band keeps playing. The email referred me immediately to Michael [...]