Other domains selling at notable prices include Posse.com – a single dictionary word domain which sold for $24,500 on Sedo.com. GotDirt.com sold for $4,600, Hightop.com sold for $2,500 and MyLifeID.com sold for $2,700.

Of note on Afternic.com was the sale off YourChat.com for $35,200. Bravo for the seller of that domain name. I would have never thought it woiuld have gone for that high of a price, but when you consider the value of social networking giant MySpace.com, a name like YourChat.com has tremendous upside potential.

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.

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.

Now I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, “Big deal, it’s a .info domain name, not a dot com.”  Well, that’s true.  But a one-word domain name is worth a lot of money, regardless its extension.  Oh, don’t get me wrong, the dot com and dot net versions of this domain name are worth much more, but mark my word — this baby is worth some bucks.  Currently, the 7-day domain name auction of printer.info is up to $21,500, parier.info is currently sitting at 1,100 Euros, and connect.info has a high bid of $2,500.  So any way you cut it, I stumbled across a good deal picking resells.info up for only $5 plus renewal fee.

Although I’m not a big advocate of selling domains via TDNAM, as I noted in yesterday’s post, I do screen their auction occassionally for good deals. My most recent acquisition at TDNAM.com was tonight. I purchased GreenCoup.com for $5. With the large push for everyone to “go green, think green and live green,” I think a short 2-word dot com like GreenCoup.com will prove to be a great name for a blog, magazine, club, alliance, forum or portal covering green issues.

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’ve decided to run another contest.  If you will simply submit a comment to this article and guess what you think the final bid will be for this great domain name, I’m giving away a 4-letter domain name to the person who submits the closest estimate to the final bid price.  I’m purposely saying “final bid price” because we don’t yet know what the reserve price is and whether or not it will be reached.

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.