DomainFest Sells Over $2,230,000 In Auction Finale!

texmexi · Jan 24, 2008

DomainFest Sells Over $2.3 million In Auction Finale!

My blog crashed several of times due to the large surge of visitors! Sorry guys! Working on getting it fixed so it never happens again.

DomainFest has just concluded the finale auction of the conference. They sold over $2,329,000 in domain sales on auction today. A grand total of over $3,148,000 for both days of the auction. (Final auction results will be released by DomainFest, this is a rough estimate, but fairly accurate

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The top names sold were; porn.net $400,000, bookmarks.com $300,000 photograph.com $195,000, females.com $90,000, intimate.com $80,000

You can check out the full details on http://simplygeo.com/2008/01/23/domainfest-auction-resultsupdates-part-2-live-on-simplygeocom/

The extended auction is still left and we will see how that goes.

Please leave comments here and on the blog for others to read and interact.

Thank you in advance for you interaction. This was exciting! Please feel free to subscribe to my RSS, thanks! :sold:

texmexi · Jan 24, 2008

yup someone used a bot on me with about 6 different IPS. Searched every one of my pages 2 seconds apart. That is fast, causing the denial of service.

A malicious attack. Why do we have people like this. Try and do something nice, and they do this.

ANyway, is there anyway to stop this kind of activity from occuring in the future?

Thank you for your assistance.

Giode · Jan 24, 2008

wot said:
Apparently it was Holland.net for $27500 - better!

Ah, makes sense! Holland.com wouldn't sell for under 7 digits I'm thinking.

wot · Jan 24, 2008

texmexi said:
Doing some research, on why my blog crashed.

Looks like someon deliberately crashed my site using the following domain puzzlespot.com as search term to crash my site and keep it from working properly.

I am going to see if I can't discover the ip address.

Doing further research. This is crazy, why would someone be a jerk and crash my site?

Sicko's I am afraid, world seems to be full of em. :td:

cache · Jan 24, 2008

use web proxy redirector to avoid the attack

texmexi said:
yup someone used a bot on me with about 6 different IPS. Searched every one of my pages 2 seconds apart. That is fast, causing the denial of service.

A malicious attack. Why do we have people like this. Try and do something nice, and they do this.

ANyway, is there anyway to stop this kind of activity from occuring in the future?

Thank you for your assistance.

tonyfloyd · Jan 24, 2008

Giode said:
Ah, makes sense! Holland.com wouldn't sell for under 7 digits I'm thinking.

yeah...lol...i thought there was something wrong there...i couldn't see yemen.com being sold for 3x the amount of holland.com....no wonder...it was .net...

exponent · Jan 24, 2008

Speaking of steals.... knee.com for $37,500. One orthopedic surgery can cost that much. My father just had a knee replacement. If I was an orthopedic surgeon, I would have jumped all over this.

I hope the after-hours auction goes well. I've got StomachBands.com in there..

creature · Jan 24, 2008

texmexi said:
yup someone used a bot on me with about 6 different IPS. Searched every one of my pages 2 seconds apart. That is fast, causing the denial of service.

A malicious attack. Why do we have people like this. Try and do something nice, and they do this.

ANyway, is there anyway to stop this kind of activity from occuring in the future?

Thank you for your assistance.

:tu: Thanks for posting a list on your blog. It's not easy to find a list of names sold if you own a mac. Snap software is only for the PC.

Oversee probably oversaw the fact that buyers are growing tried of huge lists of mostly average quality names.

sashas · Jan 24, 2008

I'm disappointed.
My No.org had received higher offers at Sedo (upto 45k). There weren't really any bidders at this auction. Sure, Porn.net sold for 400k. But that was also the minimum bid, so hardly any bidding took place.

Not a successful auction. Lesson learned: to get the best prices, stick to tried and tested auctions. These quality names would've fetched 15 million at Traffic.

Giode · Jan 24, 2008

sashas said:
I'm disappointed.
My No.org had received higher offers at Sedo (upto 45k). There weren't really any bidders at this auction. Sure, Porn.net sold for 400k. But that was also the minimum bid, so hardly any bidding took place.

Not a successful auction. Lesson learned: to get the best prices, stick to tried and tested auctions. These quality names would've fetched 15 million at Traffic.

Sashas:

Man, I feel for you! I remembered you saying you had requested a higher reserve than the one they gave you. Is that still the case? If so, I would imagine you could argue the legitimacy of this sale. This is one of the biggest steals of the auction in my opinion. Such a great name.

Either way, a sale is a sale! So congrats!

MadAboutDomains · Jan 24, 2008

I agree that some of the reserves were too high.

With that in mind, those who provided the domains to the auction probably provided a lot of good names and took a risk on some by having low reserves and took and took a risk of not selling others, but making loads of money if they did sell, by setting them high.

Carlton · Jan 24, 2008

exponent said:
Speaking of steals.... knee.com for $37,500. If I was an orthopedic surgeon, I would have jumped all over this.

Exactly. And in the whole country, not one orthopaedic surgeon knew the name was up for sale. Which will be the natural progression of future auctions --> active brokering, i.e. notifying prospective buyers.

texmexi · Jan 24, 2008

sorry for the typo on holland.net, my brain was doing multiple things

Just naturally type .com ...lol.... It was updated on the blog

Thanks again

-REECE- · Jan 24, 2008

Thanks mate.

Now I can sleep better at night for having skipped this auction

texmexi said:
sorry for the typo on holland.net, my brain was doing multiple things

Just naturally type .com ...lol.... It was updated on the blog

Thanks again

sashas · Jan 24, 2008

Giode said:
Sashas:

Man, I feel for you! I remembered you saying you had requested a higher reserve than the one they gave you. Is that still the case? If so, I would imagine you could argue the legitimacy of this sale. This is one of the biggest steals of the auction in my opinion. Such a great name.

Either way, a sale is a sale! So congrats!

I know Giode. I could argue for my case, but then, I'm still making a very nice profit here. I've being eying a couple of names for some time. I can at least buy them with this money now.

NameCharger · Jan 24, 2008

Carlton said:
active brokering, i.e. notifying prospective buyers.

Who in the industry (broker) actually does this?

DotUSDomains · Jan 24, 2008

I believe Publishing.net belonged to a fellow NP Member.

Nice sale

Diabro · Jan 24, 2008

sashas said:
I'm disappointed.
My No.org had received higher offers at Sedo (upto 45k). There weren't really any bidders at this auction. Sure, Porn.net sold for 400k. But that was also the minimum bid, so hardly any bidding took place.

Not a successful auction. Lesson learned: to get the best prices, stick to tried and tested auctions. These quality names would've fetched 15 million at Traffic.

Sashas, No.org was the name I was most interested in. I was surprised that it sold so low. This domain has so many uses for non-profit organizations and movements it is just crazy.

I feel bad for you and wish you better luck in the future.

AreYouSerious · Jan 25, 2008

punks!

IT'S all over-rated.... I hope some of the employees from SnapNames.com drop dead after this auction there all a bunch of crooks who need to be punished and punished hard for all the crookedness they have done.

Diabro · Jan 25, 2008

AreYouSerious said:
IT'S all over-rated.... I hope some of the employees from SnapNames.com drop dead after this auction there all a bunch of crooks who need to be punished and punished hard for all the crookedness they have done.

I think this auction actually set back domain pricing a year. :td:

sashas · Jan 25, 2008

Diabro said:
Sashas, No.org was the name I was most interested in. I was surprised that it sold so low. This domain has so many uses for non-profit organizations and movements it is just crazy.

I feel bad for you and wish you better luck in the future.

I know man. Its also the country code and ccTLD of Norway.

Oh hell, a profit is a profit, whether 30k or 20k.

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