According to the Domain Tools blog, Thought Convergence, parent company to DomainTools, Domain Roundtable and TrafficZ, has officially launched the first phase of their new domain sales site, Aftermarket.com . The company is launching the site to take submissions for the upcoming TRAFFIC conference in Brooklyn. Aftermarket.com plans to run a 90 minute auction at the [...]

Bido.com, a website launched earlier this year by Sahar Sarid focused on selling 1 domain per day, has announced the creation of a new service called Portfolio Help. Details of the service are fairly vague and emails to company officials by Domain Name News have gone unanswered. However, based on the loose information [...]

Imagine the following scenario: A registrant owns a .NET version of your .COM domain and decides to list it with SnapNames. However he mistypes the domain by entering the .COM version in the spreadsheet he sends to his account manager. The account manager then proceeds to move the .COM version of the domain, which is [...]

According to some insider sources the two remaining auction providers for the Targeted T.R.A.F.F.I.C. auction in New York are is Bido.com and Sedo. The full list of the live auction providers is: Moniker Aftermarket.com / DomainTools Rick Latona Bido.com Sedo [Update:] Sedo will not be organizing a live auction at the TRAFFIC conference.

The Domains has got the results of the Silent Auction for the Geodomain Expo. The total sales add up to $25,000.00 USD for 30 domains.

The Targeted T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference auction in New York will feature three different live auction providers, two in addition to Moniker. As announced on DNJournal, Thought Convergence’s new aquisition, DomainTools, will be one of the new auction providers. The third provider is expect to be announced shortly. [Update]: Thought Convergence was the recent buyer of the Domain [...]

Once again we were live blogging the Domain Auction at the Geodomain Expo in Chicago. The table below has now been verified to match the official results. Unsold and additional names will be listed in the Extended Online Auction, which ends Thursday, July 17th, 2008. The highest sale was SantaClara.com $82,500, 40 of 191 names sold [...]

The following are the official DomainMeeting Paris Live auction results, as provided by Moniker. The extended online auction ends on June 26th, 2008. Aftermarket.com $125,000.00 Rainbows.com $45,000.00 Domain.pl $45,000.00 PhoneAccessories.com $25,000.00 Loans.dk $15,000.00 MotorBikes.net $10,000.00 OUX.com $9,500.00 Bavarian.com $9,000.00 Next.org $9,000.00 ComputerNotebooks.com $7,500.00 AuPair.fr $6,250.00 Hoe.net $6,000.00 Indemnity.com $5,500.00 Propriedade.com $5,000.00 PetSupplies.info $5,000.00 Appeler.fr $3,500.00 AssurancesVoiture.fr $3,500.00 CareerAdvisors.com $3,500.00 BabyMedications.com $2,000.00 DVDs.us $1,800.00 DomainerMeetings.com $1,750.00 ParisCams.com $1,500.00 Meeting.eu $1,500.00 Domain.sc $1,500.00 FreeVideos.jp $1,500.00 AutomobilePolicy.com $1,250.00 Keep.info $1,150.00 Business.vg $1,050.00 Disease.es $1,000.00 LouGehrigsDisease.org $1,000.00 Vacations.org.uk $600.00 LawFirm.es $600.00 Foreclosing.co.uk [...]

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 [...]

As already reported in our Up To The Minute column, this sale did not take place, the domain is still for sale. According to Haaretz, the domain name “israel.com” that was up for sale in the Moniker auction at the recent Targeted TRAFFIC show in Orlando has been sold for $5.88 million USD over the weekend. [...]