28
Dec

When I first saw tophosting.us for sale on 1 of the forums I am active on, I thought: What the hell, such a good domain name for only 8 dollars ?? So I posted “SOLD” in 5 seconds. And the domain name was mine.
I checked some sites searching for the term tophosting. And it seems [...]

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16
Dec

The billionaire Russian entrepreneur behind ’s biggest vodka maker has paid $3 million to acquire the vodka.com domain, part of a bid to expand into the market, a broker said Thursday.

Sedo.com, the Web domain brokering unit that is part of ’s United Internet AG, said it had acted as the sales agent in the deal.

Conglomerate [...]

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3
Dec

National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) and Afilias India annouced that the ‘.in’ domain has reached 2,000,000 registrations - nearly doubling its presence in the market since last year.
I own 2 ‘.in’ names, a NNN.in and a LLL.in. That’s why I’m following this progress. All NNN.in names are registered now, and I own a premium [...]

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22
Nov

Last week ( Mon. Nov. 13, 2006 - Sun. Nov. 19, 2006 ) was big in the domain market. A small list of the main sales:

Tractors.com - $ 153,000
Mortgage.net - $ 149,000
University.org - $ 100,000
Workshops.com - $ 48,000
W2.com - $ 31,000
Bluetec.com - $ 25,000
TravelZoo.jp - $ 24,000
Hoteles.mobi - $ 19,500 (not hotels but hoteles)
WhatsNext.com - $ [...]

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1
Nov

The following domains are sold in the Silent domain auction from Moniker.com.
The auction ended October 31.
There were 11 domains that went for $ 10,000 or more:

castle.com - $ 60,000
cage.com - $ 30,000
pax.com - $ 30,000
burglaralarms.com - $ 29,948
incometax.net - $ 25,880
jumboloan.com - $ 23,530
rica.com - $ 16,480
colossal.com - $ 12,000
autocollector - $ 11,530
idea.net - $ [...]

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