T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East Auctions Book Over $5 Million in Domain Sales While 6-Figure Deals Elsewhere Produce Over $1 Million More!   

by Ron Jackson
  

Much of the sales news was produced in the live and silent auctions conducted by Moniker.com as part of the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference. 115 domains were sold in the live auction Friday (Oct. 27), generating more than $4.7 million in sales. That more than doubled the previous live auction record set at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. West conference in Las Vegas last May. The silent auction, which ran for several days, concluded today (October 31), adding another $607,000 to the pot from 288 sales. That brought the total auction proceeds to $5.3 million. 

Cameras.com was the marquee name in the live auction, taken for $1.5 million by Sig Solares of Parked.com. That blockbuster sale helped pull the average price for domains sold in the live auction up to $42,000. Flowers.mobi also had a big impact after attracting a stunning high bid of $200,000 from T.R.A.F.F.I.C. co-founder Rick Schwartz. We'll have his comments on that purchase in our upcoming show wrap up article. Another .mobi also cracked the 6-figure mark with Anything.com purchasing Fun.mobi for $100,000. 

You can see the complete list of live auction results here. As you probably know by now, we do not place domains on our charts until they have been paid for and transferred to the new owners, so you will see the domains that were auctioned off at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. entering our charts over the next several weeks. The highest price paid in the silent online auction was $60,000 for Castle.com, followed by the $30,000 each fetched by Cage.com and  PAX.com. The average sales price in the silent auction was $2,100. The complete list of silent auction winning bids can be seen here.

You might have thought that the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. auctions would siphon nearly all of the available money out of the market last week but that was not the case. A quartet of 6-figure sales at other venues produced more than $1 million in additional sales. Sedo.com accounted for two of those blockbuster deals including this week's #1 domain, Gays.com at $500,000. That sale also ranks among the ten biggest transactions reported so far in 2006. Sedo struck again with #4 SPN.com going for a tremendous price for a 3-letter domain, €95,000 ($121,266).

#2 Cafe.com also made a huge splash this week, serving up a tasty $300,000 sale at GreatDomains. The home page for that domain indicates it will be used for a new free gaming site.

Two .orgs and a pair of .nets also bucked .com's dominance of the Big Board, as did a .mobi and a .info. The latter two were represented on the all extension top seller's list by #27 MP3s.mobi, sold for $13,500 at Pool.com and #28 Nevada.info, a state name that attracted £6,900 ($13,162) at Sedo. SnapNames placed the most domains on the expanded leader board with 13 while Sedo piled up 10 chart entries. Here's a look at our complete list for the two weeks ending Sunday, October 29:

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SnapNames enjoyed an incredible fortnight, piling up over 120 solid four-figure sales in addition to their 13 domains on the Big Board. Limp.com hobbled in with $9,299, SupraKey.com commanded $8,800 and NJCareers.com contributed $8,222. HealthEase.com helped out with $7,100, BuildingMovers.com hoisted $6,868 and SexTrailer.com tacked on $6,789.

Other SnapNames winners included ReduceCholesterol.com ($6,746), SusanaSpears.com ($6,600) and Moores.com ($6,300). WhiterTeeth.com brushed up $6,113, Zllow.com kicked in $6,100 and MahjongOnline.com eked out $6,060. Over18.com ended right at $6,000, PaydayAmerica.com earned $5,855 and $5,700 flowed from MidStream.com.

StreetFurniture.com fetched $5,600, IdahoFishing.com caught $5,539 and ImagineMastercard.com rang up $5,400. PandaAntivirus.com posted $5,111 while Zillw.com and LeftEye.com each landed $5,100 and USHistoryBooks.com recorded $5,050. SnapNames had another 102 sales ranging from $2,000 to $5,000 that you can check out in the table below:

Back at Sedo, MidCap.com returned $8,800, DailyGames.com scored $8,000 and SmartCharter.com cornered $7,500. Residentes.com ($7,000), CheapMexico.com ($6,500) and Unibill.com ($6,000) helped keep the ball rolling. ScoreSoccer.com and LoansKey.com clicked for $5,500 each while Cuprum.com cracked $5,000, TakeALook.com saw $4,000 and MInvestment.com paid a $2,000 dividend.

In addition to the four domains they put on the Big Board, Afternic.com tuned in $8,900 with TVSpot.com and added $7,250 for 9Out.com. ABCF.com ($5,500), InternetSafety.com ($5,000) and HotPad.com ($3,550) also helped heat things up. GovCentral.com claimed $3,200, EveryFriday.com drummed up $2,589 and FlipTrack.com found $2,500.

BeverlyHillsPlasticSurgeons.com snipped off $2,500, YouUpload.com and LongJump.com each landed $2,100 and three others, PumpAction.com, LandShop.com and Acceptant.com rounded out the Afternic roster at $2,000 each. 

BuyDomains.com also showed lots of muscle as their popularity with small to medium size businesses helped them generate more than 100 four-figure sales, including Acap.com ($8,000), ChampionsClub.com ($7,000) and Internet101.com ($5,500). GotWireless.com, Fijian.com and Nehemiah.com notched $5,000 each while eReminders.com recalled $4,800 and PCLive.com dialed in $4,488.

StudentSolutions.com ($4,250), KeylessLocks.com ($4,200) and Donum.com ($4,088) were followed by a trio at $4,000 each that included SiteWorld.com, HomeLease.com and DigitalAsylum.com. HealthyHospital.com admitted $3,910 and GreenPlace.com grew $3,900. Four others; PureInvestments.com, MediaTrust.com, GrandVista.com and BeachBox.com brought $3,888 each while SpaceAliens.com disintegrated $3,815. 

BuyDomains had 90 more .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $3,800. Those are listed in the table below:

Elsewhere, Meteors.com made a $9,000 impact at GreatDomains where WebcamBabes.com attracted another $5,000. At Pool, a quartet of typos; Dwnload.com ($7,150), YouTuve.com ($4,222), Freewbs.com ($3,500) and Downnloand.com ($2,162) all found new homes. TicketBoss.com changed hands for $4,000 in a private sale and Vuonnhac.com captured $2,200 at Enom's Club Drop.

In the Pipeline: Paraguay's Chris Chena has reached an agreement to sell Juegos.com ("games" in Spanish) for a large, but undisclosed sum believed to be in seven or eight figures. Chena told us the deal, which is currently subject to a non-disclosure agreement, should be wrapped up by the end of the year. An auction for Tractors.com has ended at Sedo at $153,500 but is not yet out of escrow and in an auction at TDNAM.com, Mandarin.com received a high bid of $80,813. That one is also still in escrow.

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