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An update on yesterday’s post about career theme domain names . . . MyCareer.com has bounced to $10,001 with 6 bids over at Sedo.com, with only 3 hours left on a 7-day auction.  Resumes.com is still sitting at $50,000 with 3 hours left on its auction.  Chances are high that neither one of these domains will touch their reserve price before the close of the auction, but it will be interesting to see what happens.

WorkatHomeJobs.org sold for $1,575, not bad for a .org domain, but then again this is a highly searched phrase and is worth far more to the lucky buyer that landed this domain. 

I own about 175 or so 4-letter domains and plan to begin selling them soon.  If you have an interest, use my feedback form to send an inquiry and I’ll send you a list.

1. Dollars.com is back on the market again and has a bid of 302,500 on Sedo.com’s 7-day auction.

2. Thailand.org is currently at $6,500 and has 9 bids with over 6 days to go on Sedo.com’s 7-day auction.

3. Courier.net recently sold for $25,000 on Sedo.

4. Transfers.com sold on Sedo for $7,500 recently.

5. HotelBarcelona.es has a bid of $5,200 with several days left on the auction.

6. TPE.org has a bid of $7,500 with several days to go on a 7-day auction.

7. TapShoes.com sold for $12,000 on RickLatona.com

8. Another RickLatona.com sale, PapuaNewGuinea.com, went for $25,000.

9. BoutiqueHotels.com sold for $40,000.

10. Slots.eu sold for $31,200.

However, other than the 1-bid auction of Dollars.com, no truly big ticket domain sales were made in the high 5-digit to 6-digit range, signaling the economy is having some impact. One area that still looks good is the low to mid-range domain name sales. I’m talking low 4-digits to low 5-digits. These still appear to be moving a nice clip.

3-digit number domains are still holding value. 360.org sold for $25,000 on Sedo and Sedo also scored big on the $30,000 sale of CaptchaCreator.com and the $25,000 sale of PokerPals.com

The Dollars.com auction set at 300,000 Euros for several hours, but by yesterday evening had risen back to 500,000 Euros. It was a huge jump, yet the number of bids had only risen by 1, to 14 total. Help me here folks, why would anyone place a bid 200,000 Euros higher than the last bid price? Hard to figure that strategy, but so far it is working, as the price still sits at 500,000 Euros with only 13 hourrs to go.

If the price doesn’t move higher for Dollars.com, the owner/seller of this domain must feel very deflated. After seeing his domain jump to 750,000 Euros so quickly, and on the heels of the recent sell of Pizza.com for $2.6 million greenbacks, I’m sure he or she has got to be disappointed in the way this auction has gone the past couple of days.

What is your take on this? I welcome your comments. If you owned Dollars.com you would more than likely also want to own Dollar.com. But wait, Dollar.com is the home of Dollar Rent a Car. Would you want Dollar Rent a Car getting some of your traffic if you owned Dollars.com? I don’t think so.

Give me a good ole one-word domain name like pizza.com anyday. Oh wait, maybe not, what if someone was searching for pizzas, should I have also tired to purchase pizzas.com when pizza.com went for $2.6 million. Crazy, huh?

Of interest to 3-letter dot com collectors is two 7-day auctions currently at Sedo.com with over 5 days left.  MNO.com is another single-bid auction with the bid price currently at $13,500.  SEU.com has 8 bids and currently sitting at $12,500.

2 years ago I could have registered all the 3-number numerical names I wanted for $6 to $7 each, depending on the registrar.  They were easy to find.  Not any more, as the value of 2 and 3 letter numerical domains are running at record high levels these days.  Need some examples?  Try 736.com, which is being sold on Sedo.com and with 3 days and 10 hours left on the auction has 13 bids with the high bid price currently at $6,300.  Also on Sedo is a couple of 2-number dot net domains, 30.net and 79.net.  Both currently have 1 bid each of 7,000 Euros.  It’s going to be interesting to see how these domain names settle or close out.

I was also ticked at myself because I had received a $15,000 offer for NetHopper.com and had totally botched the sale by making a very unwise decision to hire a third party to negotiate for a higher price. The third party mediator had an aggressive personality totally bent my buyer out of shape, leading them to get ticced and registering net-hopper.com and telling me to go fly a kite. Sometimes life comes with some difficult lessons, often caused by mistakes we make on our own. That was one big mistake for me.

Getting back to the subject at hand, dot net domain names, we are only 2 hours away from the close of a 7-day auction of banks.net at eBay. And guess what, the bidding for this good (noticed I didn’t say great) domain name, is already up to $23,000. There are 22 bids thus far, and guess what, the reserve price has not been met yet! Who would have thunk? It’s a crazy world we live in folks, and I think the Lord every day for it.

Clark had been operating pizza.com as a pizza restaurant directory for the past few years, selling advertising that was sufficient to pay the $5,000 annual cost of programming and maintaining the domain once he took it live. He finally decided to sell the domain after reading of Vodka.com selling for $3 million. He had read that Sedo.com had handled the Vodka.com sale and decided to use them as well.

What I find amazing is that he placed it on Sedo, got a $100 bid, elected to go with a 7-day auction, and the rest is history. Imagine the exhilaration of seeing your domain name sale run from $100 to $2.6 million. I’ve learned that Clark had his reserve price set at $2 million. He was actually vacationing with his children in Orlando, Florida while the auction was going on. Clarks 3 kids were glued to their laptops watching the selling price skyrocket.

Once the auction hit $2 million on March 29, Clark became glued to the auction as well. It eventually closed around 2 pm on April 3 with a new millionaire added to the U.S. population. Not a bad investment for a guy who originally purchased the domain to sway a pizzeria to do business with his young web-consulting firm. Funny thing is, the pizzeria declined to take him up on his offer, and Clark is all the better off for it.

The total number of bids have leapfrogged to 63 bids in all.  The reserve price has now been met, so its clear the domain name will sell.  I predict the staggering rate it has skyrocketed will now slow down, as the number of players that can afford over $2.5 million has to have narrowed.  Nonetheless, this has been a fun ride and the buzz over this domain name auction is surely to last for a long period of time.

Just to prove how value a great single word domain name might be, whether it is a dot com or not, the domain name autos.net is also on a 7-day auction at Sedo.com and also has 5 days and 12 hours remaining.  Autos.net currently has 6 bids with a high bid of $49,999 and lots of time to spare.  It’s going to be interesting to see just how high a dot net domain can sell. 

It’s time now for my readers to wake up and post a comment.  To the lucky commentor that guesses the closet to the actual selling price of pizza.com I will give you free, the 4-letter dot com domain name IBXZ.com.  So click the blue button below and file your comment and final bid estimate for Pizza.com now.

In other news, there have been several premium domain name sales on Sedo the past couple of days that have raised more than few eyebrows. MyBuilder.com sold for $25,000 (a shocker), Autograph.com sold for $55,000 (probably could have gone for more) and GreenPackaging.com sold for (are you ready?) — an unbelievable $25,000. Where are all you people willing to throw away dollars when I’m selling? In reality, the real surpise here is not what the buyer paid for GreenPackaging.com, its the fact that the seller was willing to hold on to it for that long. What’s going on here is obviously the “green is good” fad with renewables, recycling, etc. in developing countries. But whoever thought anyone in the packaging business would be willing to pay this much, unless of course the family name is Green, the company already exists, etc. You never know, and I’ve already spent far too much time talking about GreenPackaging.com.

Guess Closest to the Selling Price of Pizza.com and Win IBXZ.com

Don’t forget the contest I’m running. Submit a comment to any article I write about Pizza.com before the auction closes, guess what you think the final price will be. The closest estimate to the actual closing price (whether it hits the reserve price or not) will win a free 4-letter.com from me — IBXZ.com. Add you comment by clicking on the blue button below.