Premium Domain Name Secondary MarketLive Domain Auctions - The New Gold Rush is on Many auctions for domain names are now held in a live, invitation only format at domain meetings around the world... these are events sponsored by and for groups of web entrepreneurs known as domainers. One highly successful example is the now famous T.R.A.F.F.I.C conferences hosted by Moniker.com. Super Star Domains In a T.R.A.F.F.I.C event sponsored by Moniker, held on May 2007 at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, the domain name porn.com sold for 9,500,000. And this comes after a domain auction just a few months before, when it failed to sell for a reserve bid of 7,500,000! But it's not just the naughty names that sell... A few months earlier, moniker sold computer.com for 2,200,000. And the list goes on... Scores.com sold by Moniker in a casino related domain name sale in Amsterdam on May 07 for 1,180,000. A Moniker auction in New York city last June netted 3,000,000 for CreditCheck.com and 1,800,000 for Seniors.com. Yet for each auction with headline grabbing domain names, there are plenty of domains that aren't as talked up that sell for many thousands of dollars as well. Even .net and .info are heating up with names like ringtones.net fetching $175,000 (moniker) and NewYork.info selling for $70,000 (private sale). And hundreds of domains routinely sell on afternic, sedo and tdnam everyday for hundreds or thousands of dollars. But perhaps the most mind boggling sale to date of a premium domain name in a secondary market auction has to be Business.com. This domain was purchased for 7.5 million in 1999 from an individual owner who had paid $150,000 it. The company that bought it, eCompanies, was ridiculed for that deal. But hang on... it looks like they got the last laugh. They just sold Business.com in July 2007 for the record price of 345 million dollars. Other reported bidders interested in the name were the Dow Jones and the NY Times. Who's laughing now? In short, Premium Domain Names are on fire! But why? ...what's going on here? << Back (1 of 7) Next page (3 of 7) >> Browse our Portfolio of: Premium Domains for Sale | 
