Category Archives: 7-Day Auction

Widgets.com Bidding Peaks at $175,100 With No Sale

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The eBay auction for Widgets.com closed without meeting the reserved price. A total of 66 bids took place over the course of the 7-day auction, with the 66th bid coming in at $175,100. Since that wasn’t enough to surpass the reserve price the domain name went unsold. The auction drew an amazing 2,890 visits, so it was obvious the seller did a good job of pre-promoting his auction, as most domain auctions on Ebay attract less than 150 visitors.

In more news, my research project on determining the value of 4-letter domain names on Ebay versus Sedo and TDNAM.com is nearing an end. I’m choosing to keep great 4-letter domain names like PGAU.com and selling off 4-letter domains that contain an X, Y, Z, K, Q or V in them. Ten recent sales of these type of 4-letter dot com’s on TDNAM.com averaged only $60 each. Consistently, sales of similar 4-letter domain names on Ebay fetch $52 to $62 each, thus the market for these type of 4-letter domains in these two forum (i.e., Ebay and TDNAM), where domains get very little traffic exposure during a limited period of time, run in the $50 to $60 range. All of these domain names have a true value much greater than this, for there is only a limited number of 4-letter domain names.

An observation of sales on Sedo.com for similar domains reveals that the sellers are setting most of the domains that fall under this category (i.e., 4-letter dot coms with X, Y, Z, K, Q or V) create a reserve price of $60 (basically what the names go for on Ebay or TDNAM.com) and then once they get the $60 bid they decline the bid and push the domain name into a 7-day auction, whereby they gain much more exposure and end up going for a much higher selling price. It’s all about exposure and marketing baby, and this is one excellent way of doing it. For reference, and as a general footnote, you cannot put a domain name into a 7-day auction on Sedo until it receives a bid. An example of what I’m talking about can be seen in RZOR.com, which with 2 days remaining on its 7-day Sedo auction has 2 bids and is at $300. Examples of the $60 starting point can be found with NVMU.com and HXOE.com, which have 2 days remaining and are still at their single bid of $60 each. Both will likely go for more.

Anonymous.net Bids Hit $35,000

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With 4 hours to go on its Sedo auction, Anonymous.net has hit $35,000. Actually, the domain name seller was pretty wise. He was able to get his buyer up to $35,000 before going to auction. The original bidder remains the only bidder with just 4 hours to go in a 7-day auction. On the one hand the buyer is likely relieved. On the other he must be wondering if he has overpaid. On another auction of a dictionary word .net domain name, alimony.net is up to $3,600 with 2 bids and 4 days left on the auction.

Have you been wondering lately what the value of a 3-digit numerical domain might be? The owner of 657.com has placed his domain on a 7-day auction and already has 6 bids in its first day. With just a little over 6 days remaining, bidding is already up to $7,500. Just 2 years ago I could have registered 3-digit numerical domain names all day long and was too stupid to see the value. Even a 3-digit numerical .net name has value. With about 2 hours remaining on a 7-day auction, 367.net has 20 bids and is up to $865. Sorta crazy, huh?

I’m not sure what YW.com ended up selling for the other day. I haven’t been able to confirm it. But the last time I checked, about a day before the auction expiration, bids were up to $81,000. BCE.com, a sweet 3-letter dot com, is going to close in 2 days. The highest bid is currently $15,505.

YW.com Bids Hit $75,000 With 3 Days Remaining

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With 3 days and 13 hours remaining, bids for the 2-letter domain name YW.com hit $75,000. Both “Y” and “W” are considered difficult letters that normally taint the value of a 4-letter domain, but not so with this 2-letter domain name. It can mean many things to the successful winner of this auction. For example, it would stand for “Your Web,” “Young Women,” “Your Work,” “Yesterday’s Woman,” etc. I’m really pumped about this auction and looking forward to seeing just how high it will go. BCE.com, a sweet 3-letter domain with 6 days and 12 hours left on its 7-day auction, has already climbed to $9,800.

On a much smaller note I sold several 4-letter domain names today. One I was worried about on value that sold quickly with my EBay Buy it Now, or BIN, auction was IAQL.com. It went for $149. As noted yesterday, my Zoles.com sold for $1,250 on Sedo. A private sale of my TexasBreastImplants.com several months ago went for $2,250. All 3 of these domain names are fine examples of domains I picked up off a dropped, or expired domains, list and registered for $7.05 each. I also sold CUJT.com yesterday for $99 on a BIN auction. Bids for my InstantBidder.com have climbed to $100. A private offer for MillionaireAlliance.com, another domain name I own, was received yesterday for $500. I declined the sale and will hold out for a higher price.

ASERP.com and FromPC.com Go on Sale

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Aserp.com — a very valuable 5-letter domain name is put on firesale at Ebay.com. SERP, as every SEO guru on the Internet knows, is an acronym for “search engine results pages.” Google a search on SERP and you’ll find over 2.4 million pages on Google containing the phrase. I’ve launched the auction (click on our Ebay store link on the top right of our home page) with a starting price of only 99 cents. Auctions on Ebay are hit-or-miss. If SEO guru’s are surfing Ebay this domain name could easily top $1,000. Odds are high that they won’t and you’ll be able to pick up ASERP.com — a pronounceable investment grade domain name for a small fraction of this price. This is one of the best domains we’ve put up for sale in a long time.

Also up for auction on eBay (click our Ebay store link) is FromPC.com — a super domain name for PC builders, computer sales, computer rentals, computer hardware sales and auctions, etc. It’s very difficult to find any PC or computer domain name with only 6 letters, and this one’s a dot com. This is a 7-day auction and started at only 99 cents with free transfer.

Zoles.com Bids Jump to $1,200 on Sedo

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3 Days ago I launched a 7-day auction on Sedo.com for one of my 5-letter domains — Zoles.com. After receiving bids of $800, followed by $1,200, I decided to move the domain to a 7-day auction at Sedo. With 4 days and 13 hours left on the auction, 173 people have visited it thus far.

I’ve also started auctions on TDNam.com for several 4-letter domain names, including NSUY.com, RCUY.com, UAYN.com, VPEH.com and more. I’ve noted that 4-letter domain names on Sedo are starting at $60 each and selling for much higher, with many going over $1,000 each. Duju.com sold on Sedo yesterday for $2,000. I currently own 196 4-letter domains so I’m very curious about the value of these domains. I sold two on eBay today, Xipm.com (you may remember it from this blog) and BSYV.com for only $107 each. These two sales once again proved that Ebay is not the best place to sell your domain name.