Also doing quite well in recent domain name sales was the domain namke LIK.com, which sold for a reported $65,000 on Sedo.  Sedo also racked up another high end sale with the selling of Reconnect.com for $45,000.

To demonstrate the value of .co domain sales one only has to look as far as the recent sale of commodity.co for a reported $20,000.

Financial aid?  We all need it, especially the 4 million who’s houses have been foreclosed on this year.  But these two domain name auctions where not the only ones to score big last week.

Sedo made news on 3 domain names.  Riva.com sold for $200,000.  Help me out on that one.  I think this one had to have swept up by Riva Motorsports.  Casas.net (Spanish for house), sold for 87,000 Euros, or almost $121,000 and the third domain Sedo auction was 25.com (a 2-number dot com) that sold for $124, 555.55.  An odd number indeed.

While Hunted.com caught everyone by surprise on the low side, ebuddy.mobi went for $5,000.  Go figure?  Think that’s crazy, how about 3min.com selling for 4,500 Euros.  They one really has me buffaloed.  Can’t wait to see how they plan to use the domain name. 

What’s next on the horizon?  Well, you can look forward to seeing what Transfers.com goes for on Sedo.  Currently its at $16,000 (1 bid only) and has 1 day and 10 hours left on a 7-day auction. 

On the 3-letter front, KQP.com is currently at $4,600 with 7 bids and only 10 hours left to before closing.  SVI.com is standing at $2,050 with 2 bids and 3 days, 16 hours to go.  The most popular auction on Sedo.com is iMissed.com with 15 bidders.  However, top bid is sitting at $510 dollars.  Bidding on iMissed.com closes in 25 hours. 

Affiliate.com could either be used by an affiliate software or affiliate program management company, competing against the likes of a Commission Junction, for example. Or, Affliliate.com could be used as a giant web portal that matches potential affiliates with companies having their own affliate program. If they go this route they will more than likely end up pushing work from home Internet entrepreneurs that have ruled this segment of the affiliate business for a long time.

In a time-sensitive sale of a domain related to the upcoming presidential election, the domain name Electoral.com sold for $8,700 on Sedo. It seems like a rather disappointing sales price for a single dictionary word domain name, but when you think of how infrequent the subject comes into play and how difficult it would be to monetize this domain name, perhaps not.

Lastly, the 2-letter domain name OD.com sold on Sedo.com for $220,000, while Weddings.org was sold in a private sale for $34,500.

Another .de (German) domain name, Nepal.de, sold for €38,000 Euros, or approximately $59,000 U.S. dollars.  Interesting sales of one-word domains with other extensions included Baseball.us, which sold for $25,000 on Sedo, Income.ca (a Canadian domain name), which sold for $26.242 at MyID.ca. 

Other at Moniker.com we saw Closings.com sell for $25,000.  But the real winners at Moniket was the sale of Track.com mentioned heretofore for $92,000, and our favorite, ComputerParts.com, which sold for $80,000. 

In the area of 2 and 3-letter domains we saw CV.ca sell at MyID.ca for $54,977 and NWN.com sell at Sedo.com for $22,500.  One that puzzled us until we looked up the name, was the sale of Alpari.com for $65,000 on Sedo.com.  We did did some research and found a very popular Forex Trading software program that went by the same name and heretofore did not own the dot com version.  We can only assume that they were the lucky buyer of this domain name.

Every now and then a domain name sells for a pretty good price and you say to yourself, “Say what?” or “I don’t get it.” Such is the case with the sale of BankTunes.com for $2,550.  Okay, this domain name does have a ring to it, I give you that much, but TunesBank.com would be a much better domain name if this was purchased for a music sales and distribution website.  On the other hand, if the idea is to create on online venture where you pay for Internet storage of your digital music file (i.e. tunes), then I can see where this domain name could really catch on. 

Three new one-word domains have started 7-day auctions witin the last 10 to 11 hours, and equally surprising, they are sitting at very low bid levels as I write this post.  Wrongful.com is currently at $500, Workable.com is resting at $150 and Watery.com is at $107.  Obviously, there’s lots of time left on these auctions and we surely expect all three of these domains to go very high.  We’ll try to keep you in touch with these auctions in the coming days.

Speaking of one-word domain names, I found one in my inventory yesterday I had totally forgotten I owned.  The domain is Qualifyings.com   — maybe not the best one-word domain name, but it would be a great domain name for a website about sports, whether it be a listing of athletes who qualified for various sports, athletes that qualified to make the Olympics team, etc.   If you’re interested in it, make me great offer.

I received a $300 offer for my domain GoPeddle.com, but chose not to sell it.  I think its a great name for a bike shop or anyone wishing to sell products you peddler, whether it be bicycles, exercise bikes, paddle boats, etc.  Make me a high 3-figure offer and the domain name can be yours.

Of the social networking domain names I personally own, I consider my eCliques.com to be the most valuable.  It has great potential for the right buyer with social networking and multiple community portal plans.  If anyone is interested in buying eCliques.com, I’ll consider offers provided they’re in the 5-figure range.  My InternetHighSchool.com has the potential to be a great social networking domain name with lots of montetization potential.  I visualize it being able to sell just about anything teenagers would be interested in, plus all the supplies and apparel associated with high school students, plus GED degrees, cheerleader supplies, etc.  I’m the original owner of InternetHighSchool.com and its got a clean history.

BathSafety.com sold for $33,725 on Moniker during the week of April 21, 2008, along with Go.org for $25,350 and OnlineFinancing.com for $17,500.  In a blindfold test no one would have ever guess that BathSafety would have sold for more than either Go.org or OnlineFinancing.com.  Of the three, I feel OnlineFinancing.com has the bigger and more profitable audience, but its up against stiff competition in the online financing arena, whereas BathSafety.com is a great domain name that accurately describes a very narrow but lucrative market niche.

The top domain name sold on Moniker/TRAFFIC during the week of April 21 was actually SearchEngines.com, which sold for $92,500.  I would have thought it would have gone for higher.  A great one-word d0main name that sold was Winnings.com — which sold for $27,000 on Moniker/CAC.  Okay, I give up — why didn’t Winnings.com sell for a higher price?  I think that domain was worth so much more than $27,000.  This is living proof that you need to develop your domain names if you want to get maximum value.  You can’t always hold out for name alone.

On the 3-letter domain name front, MNO.com (a super 3-letter domain) sold on Sedo.com for $18,250, while HD2.com sold for $15,000 on Afternic.  Would someone please give me an education via comment.  I must be getting old or else I’m asleep at the wheel.  For the life of me I’m not sure I know what and HD2 is — do you? 

Currently, the highest bid on Sedo’s 7-day auction is at $29,000 for the domain name, Derek.com. If you’re wealthy and your name is Derek, I guess you can say its worth paying $29K for Derek.com. But if you just bidding on this domain name because its a one-word dot come, maybe you better develop a good business plan for a domain name before you place a firm bid on it.

So what’s the word and domain name. Quite simply, Wikifying.com — an Internet buzzword that is repeated on 25,800 web pages indexed by Google. The word itself may be less than 5 years old, but certainly less than 10 years old. Still, it is growing in popularity and will only be used more and more in the future. For example, a recent article at Popsci.com announced that Google was in the process of “wikifying” its Google Maps program. An August 2007 article at Columbuser.com about Ohio elections ran under the headline “Wikifying Ohio’s Elections.”

For anyone familiar with the widespread popularity of Wikipedia.org and Wiki’s in general, you’ll know that my discovery and registration of Wikifying.com is worth many thousands of dollars. Given how I just stumbled across the domain doing one of my manual screens of a 90-day dropped domains list, the lucky find reminds me of those diamond discoveries we read about once every few years when a tourist visits the Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro, Arkansas and just happens to discovers a valuable diamond, in the same spot where thousands of other tourist have trampled beforehand.