Domains Arena

SEDO's travel and tourism auction is now underway and it will be running for seven days, ending on Thursday, March 31st, 2011. The auction contains some high profile names, other decent names and, as ever happens in SEDO auctions, some mediocre domains.

Among the best domains in the list are Bosnia.com, Drive.co.uk, Arabia.com, Irlanda.com (Ireland in Spanish) or Africa.info. You can see a bigger list below.

Arabia.com, Bosnia.com and Touring.com seem to be the most coveted domains at this moment, with more than 5 bids each.

Other notable domains in SEDO's auction are the following:

• HotelZimmer.de
• Irlanda.com
• Trip.co.uk
• Africa.info
• Florida.biz
• Dubai.biz
• AgenceDeVoyages.com
• Hoteles.biz
• Journey.info
• Arabia.com
• Brasile.com
• Hotelbewertung.net
• Jet.biz
• SeeAmerica.com
• Venise.net
• Hotelzimmer.de
• Minsk.com

Number domains are hitting hard lately, although I don't know if this should be considered a number domain (although it is). I am talking about the the auction for the domain name 2.de, which is currently active on Sedo marketplace.

The single number domain 2.de has received only two bids at the moment, the highest one of 29.000 euro, but the auction will be running for two days more.

Another auction of a high priced domain is the one for Femiweb.com. Femiweb.com has only received one bid, a pretty nice one of 15.000 euro, but the action will be active for another five days.

Although there are some other good domains in action right now. You will see the full list by visiting SEDO.com:

Truly.me

• TweetJob.com
• RightPlace.com
• BuyFirst.com
• Rooms.info
• Beem.tv
• GolfWeekend.com
• Goole.in
• Nav.al
• GoldCan.com
• Heritage.eu
• TruckHardware.com
• ExtensiondeGarantie.fr
• Filmtiere.de
• ooee.com
• CloudChat.com
  

Three-character domains never lose its value, even if they are numbers or mixed strings. The proof of this is the recent sale of 363.com (dificult to get one of these these days though), which was sold on SEDO this week thru SEDO for a total of 41.000 $.

But this is not the only sale of the week. Recently SEDO reported the following transactions vía their site:

completecommerce.com       14,000 USD
leadership-excellence.com          800 EUR
123sex.com                         2,000 USD
stackit.com                         15,000 USD
youjoy.com                         1,888 USD
medicalsupplysuperstore.com        1,200 USD
eboca.com                          2,000 EUR
kräutershop.de                    1,500 EUR
online-rabatt.de                   1,000 EUR
vanityunits.com                    6,300 USD
doorman.us                         950 USD
localeads.com                      2,000 USD
realestateparty.com             2,500 EUR
tvzine.com                         2,100 USD

SEDO has just announced the celebration of a Gambling specific auction where names as FireRoulette.com.com, GettingLucky.com, BingoGames.be or Bluffen.com will be auctioned. The Gambling/Gaming market stills growing every day and there have been reported some good recent sales, the best one being poker.org at one million dollars.

Some interesting names in action include:

bingoanima.com
bluffen.com
casinoinindiana.com
fireroulette.com
gamblingonlinefree.com
lottowindow.com
playstation2roms.com
bingocompany.co.uk
pokerexperts.co.uk
einzelwette.de
casinosinternet.es
casino€opeo.es
worldofpoker.org
buylotto.net
winload.net
yourbet.net
bingogames.be
rätsel.tv
apostar.tv
pokergames.tv
bettings.us

The auction is now open and you can place you bids at http://sedo.com/us/sedo/sedocomwager/

SEDO has just released their report for first quarter of 2010 where we can read they experienced an increase of 18,6% in their sales in comparison to the last quarter of the past year. A total of 11.942 were sold for a total of $23,177,253.

Is not strange that the king, dot COM, stays at the top with more than 42 % of all sales on SEDO, and it features also the 76% of all gTLD sales. Also, people has bought more domains than the past quarter.

And even more, dot DE sales have also increased comparing to the last report. The exact numbers: 1802 compared with 1775 during Sep-Dec 2009. The number of .CO.UK domain names sold also have increased by 46%. It seems the stronger ccTLD get even stronger.

You can find more details in the full report, which has been published by SEDO in this page .

This week's highest sale has been achieved by Software.de that went for 235.025 EUR at Sedo. Another dot DE domain that sells for a such price, demonstrating the excelent health of the german domain afermarket. The second highest sale of the week corresponds to business.tv, sold for $100,999 also at SEDO. It seems that finally dot TV is starting to have the consideration it deserves, despite some will say that this is a ridiculous amount for such a keyword.

Anyway, all other high-priced sales this week at Sedo are dot com and include :

gr8.com $16,000
iwant2.com 15,000 GBP
kleding.com 14,362 EUR
clickandgo.com $14,000
conjugasion.com 11,001 EUR
carpictures1.com $10,500
goalbet.com 10,000 EUR
reson8.com $10,000
creditimmobilier.com 9,750 EUR
hxjq.com $8,900
urbanjunkies.com 7,700 GBP
simplyjobs.com $6,750
festgeldkonto.com 6,100 EUR

Here we come with more successful sales reported by SEDO this week. Today we have another ccTLD sold for a good amount. As you could expect is another sale of a German domain, one of the most active ccTLDs in the afermarket. The name is Tracker.de, and it was sold for a total of 11,500 EUR at SEDO.

Another ccTLD domain sale that we can remark is ipad.in, on the Indian ccTLD. This domain went for 899 $. I dunno (although I doubt it) if Apple bought this one, but in any other case it is a clear Trademark Infringement.

And finally, here you have a list of some recent domain names sales with interesting numbers:

tracker.de 11,500 EUR
sarrafi.com 800 USD
tradesmancompare.com 2,000 GBP
blinds.pro 3,200 USD
promocentre.com 690 USD
wordpressdesigners.com 400 USD
outdoorfurniture.net 3,500 USD
mediasports.net 888 USD
faxservices.org 988 USD
horex.com 4,000 USD
ipad.in 899 USD
klab.com 3,000 EUR
swearbox.com 700 USD
wordpressdesigners.com 400 USD
interrogate.com 1,000 USD
mydms.com 1,000 USD

All these were also sold at SEDO.

We can find some interesting sales at this week's SEDO sales list. The domain name at the top of the chart is without any doubt Metal.com, a great domain name that changes of hands for an interesting amount: 65.000 $. According to the whois records, the name of the seller is Wayne Lazarus of JZJ, LLC.

Other interesting sales this week include a .co.uk name, isp.co.uk, that went for 7.500 GBP and another generic, crosswords.net, that sold for 15.000 $.

You can find other interesting sales at the list below:

crosswords.net 15,000 USD
horex.com 4,000 USD
thesongproject.com 1,050 USD
ipad.in 899 USD
klab.com 3,000 EUR
swearbox.com 700 USD
wordpressdesigners.com 400 USD
interrogate.com 1,000 USD
mydms.com 1,000 USD
diamondservices.com 4,000 USD
swearbox.com 700 USD
cowcow.co.uk 1,199 GBP
questioncity.com 3,000 USD
isp.co.uk 7,500 GBP
mydms.com 1,000 USD
skyview.org 2,200 USD

The first week of February hasn't been so generous with domain sales, being DownloadTube.com the highest sale on Sedo for 33.000 $. The second highest sale of the week was for a two letter ccTLD domain, wo.de, that sold at 20.000 EUR and finally the top three is completed by kulu.com at 25.000 $.

You can find the rest of destacable sales in the following list:

Dot COM Sales

downloadtube.com 33000 USD
kulu.com 25000 USD
3p.com 19500 USD
gitana.com 15000 USD
optivo.com 15000 EUR
freecomputers.com 13500 USD
screenprinter.com 12000 USD
gmh.com 10099 USD
energyadvice.com 8500 USD
directfurniture.com 8000 GBP
lacrossesticks.com 7500 USD
designliving.com 7371 EUR
joyus.com 7250 USD
casinospiele.com 5500 EUR

ccTLD Domain Sales

wo.de 20000 EUR
hybrids.de 7950 EUR
better.fr 7500 EUR
site.co.uk 7051 GBP
tuh.co.uk 6500 USD
accelerate.eu 6000 EUR
en.de 6000 EUR
73.de 5000 EUR
wandtatoos.de 5000 EUR
finden.at 4500 EUR
highheels.co.uk 4500 GBP
sixx.de 4500 EUR
87.de 4500 EUR