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Companies
in the News: Sedo, Moniker, Neustar, Pool.com and
eBusinessDomains.com Yesterday's
news about the shill bidding scandal
at
SnapNames.com
overshadowed everything else in the domain industry over
the past 24 hours but, while work begins on sorting out
that mess, life goes on other corners of the domain
industry. We have news from a variety of companies to
tell you about today.
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Let's start with Sedo's
release of their latest quarterly Domain
Market Study, this one covering 3Q-2009.
In some of the report's highlights Sedo reported
that domain sales at their online marketplace jumped
5.5% over the previous quarter with 9,928
domains changing hands for a total of just
under $23 million.
Sedo said the average sales price for a domain name soared 37% from
$1,691
to
$2,316. That average was helped by some
high profile sales that Sedo closed in the 3rd
quarter, including Call.com ($1.1 million),
Server.com ($770,000), Christian.com
($600,000) and Brazil.com ($500,000).
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.Com
remains the most popular extension on the Sedo
platform accounting for 80% of gTLD
sales and 45% of sales overall. ccTLD
sales also remained strong, led by Germany's
.de extension that accounted for 56%
of country code sales. Sedo said the .fr
(France), .es (Spain) and .eu
(European Union) extensions showed some of
the highest price increases.
COO and General
Counsel Jeremiah Johnston said "Sedo's impressive results this quarter demonstrate the strength and stability of the domain market, despite the slow
economy. We anticipate continued momentum in the fourth quarter and in 2010, as the demand for premium domains
continues to increase."
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Next up...Moniker's
extended online auction conducted in
association with the T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
New York conference closed Wednesday
with just over $278,000 in sales
led by OneOfAKind.com at $26,000,
LoanOfficer.com at $16,000
and FDA.net at $11,550. A
total of 139 domains were sold and Michael
Berkens listed all of the
results on his blog
today.
Coupled
with the approximately $412,000
Moniker took in at their live auction in
New York, total sales for their
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. live and online events
came in at about $690,000. |
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The .BIZ
registry, Neustar,
today announced they will team up with Pool.com
to auction off more than 1,000
two-character .BIZ domains in a
phased release that will start November
30th and continue through February
2010. Neustar previously teamed up
with Sedo and Moniker to
offer a limited number of one and
two character .BIZ domains, but this
will be the first time that a gTLD
registry has released such a large
number of two-character domains.
Tim
Switzer, Vice President, Registry
Services for Neustar, said “There are
many companies with long company names,
and others who have names that are
difficult to spell or remember. We are
very pleased to be working with Pool.com
to make a short, memorable alternative
available.”
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The complete list
of two-character .BIZ domain names that will be
available for auction at Pool.com, including the
auction date for each name, can be found at www.twodotbiz.biz.
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Finally
today, eBusinessDomains.com
announced that they have partnered with Dark
Blue Sea's Domain
Distribution Network (DDN)
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500,000
aftermarket domains available to
eBusinessDomains customers who conduct
searches on the company's site. If a
search turns up a DDN domain the client
would like to buy, they can simply click
a link that will take them to FabulousDomains.com
(Dark Blue Sea’s domain marketplace)
to complete a fully automated
transaction that
features instant transfer of the
domain name through the Fabulous.com
registrar. |
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