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 [...]

Moniker held another No Reserve/Low Reserve domain auction tonight at the TRAFFIC show in Florida. Sixteen of thirty domains sold bringing in a total of $62,750. The highest sale went to Daycare.org at $16,500. No other names broke the 5 figure barrier. This is a fairly new format that Moniker started about a [...]

G. is Domain Name News “Senior Domain Entertainment Correspondent”, covering all matters relating to the notoriously wild party scene, growing event calendar and domainer lifestyle including party reviews, news, editorials, experiences and more. G’s identity is kept confidential as his 5th Amendment right not to incriminate himself…and others. Ah, Las Vegas. T.R.A.F.F.I.C. West. Sin City. Trouble. Again. Sharevar [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]