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Great Domains Auction Ends Today at Noon Eastern, LLL.coms in the spotlight

By: Raymond Hackney

The Great Domains auction at Sedo for May ends in about 8 hours, the stars of the show are the LLL.com domains listed this month.

MPH.com is already at $30,000 and will sell. Sedo shows the Traffic for this domain as 1,355 uniques

The rest of the LLL.com are listed below that have met reserve, I have also included a L-L.com that met reserve.

d-y.com        5,655 EUR    20
kjq.com        8,600 EUR    38
chz.com        9,100 EUR    85
sbq.com        9,300 EUR    356
upv.com        9,600 EUR    2477

The following LLL.com have not met reserve:

emq.com is at just $500 with a $5,000 to $9,9999 reserve

ghr.com is at $13,000 but has not met reserve of $10,000 to $24,999

345.com has a high bid of $80,000 but that is nowhere near the reserve of $250,000 to $499,999.

There seems to be a big focus on .iT names with very high reserves that most likely will not be hit. Names like Sport.it with 100,000 to 249,999 Euros Reserve.

For fans of alt extensions there are some ok names most have not met reserve

storagecloud.me    Reserve not met!8h 15m        100  499 USD               
shower.us    Reserve not met!8h 15m        100  499 EUR        2       
easter.us    Reserve not met!8h 15m        500  999 EUR        2       
clip.us    Reserve not met!8h 15m        100  499 EUR        8       
nuclear.info    Reserve not met!8h 15m        100  499 USD               
opportunities.info    Reserve not met!8h 15m        100  499 USD               
teamwork.info    Reserve not met!8h 15m        100  499 USD               
recount.info    Reserve not met!8h 15m        1  99 USD               
cashews.info    Reserve not met!8h 15m        1  99 USD               
sunscreens.info    Reserve not met!8h 15m        1  99 USD               
romances.info    Reserve not met!8h 15m        1  99 USD               
runner.tv    Reserve not met!8h 15m        5,000  9,999 EUR               
warez.tv    Reserve not met!8h 15m        1  99 USD               
regards.us    Reserve not met!8h 15m        100  499 USD        2       
refund.us    Reserve not met!8h 15m        100  499 USD        4       
skills.us    Reserve not met!8h 15m        100  499 USD               
activity.tv    Reserve not met!8h 15m        1  99 USD               
breakthrough.us    Reserve not met!8h 15m        1  99 USD               
leatherwear.us    Reserve not met!8h 15m        1  99 USD               
vaqueros.co    Reserve not met!8h 15m        1,000  4,999 EUR        2       
öko.coIDN    Reserve not met!8h 15m        500  999 EUR               
casinò.tvIDN    Reserve not met!8h 15m    99 EUR    5,000  9,999 EUR    1           
times.us    Reserve met8h 15m    99 USD    1  99 USD    1           
phonesex.us    Reserve met8h 15m    250 USD    100  499 USD    1           
intelligent.co    Reserve met8h 15m    365 USD    1  99 USD    12    8       
good.info    Reserve met8h 15m    609 USD    100  499 USD    6    93       
sociedad.tv    Reserve not met!8h 15m    650 EUR    1,000  4,999 EUR    2           
georgia.tv    Reserve not met!8h 15m    750 USD    500  999 USD    2           
government.tv    Reserve not met!8h 15m    4,200 USD    1,000  4,999 USD    2
ut.tv    Reserve not met!8h 15m    4,200 USD    1,000  4,999 USD    2

Auction closes 12 Noon Eastern Time, 9 am Pacific

HILCO STREAMBANK ADDS NEW DOMAIN NAMES AND TRADEMARKS TO MAY 2013 AUCTION

By: Raymond Hackney

HILCO Streambank is an advisory firm that is running a pretty big auction this month from May 20 to May 22. Some of the names are standouts and certainly should bring in a nice price.

Bargain.com Registered in 1998

ETM.com Registered in 1995 and believe it or not dropped 2 times

They are adding Tweeter.com to the auction which was announced today in a press release. The domain was registered in 1999 long before the creation of Twitter.

Here is the press release:

 

HILCO STREAMBANK ADDS NEW DOMAIN NAMES AND TRADEMARKS TO

MAY 2013 AUCTION

 

PREMIUM DOMAINS -- TWEETER.COM and TWTR.COM – ARE ADDED TO EXISTING AUCTION LINE-UP OF BARGAIN.COM, ETM.COM, TJ MAXX® (AUSTRALIA- TJMAXX.COM.AU) AND LAMB & FLAG®

  

NORTHBROOK, IL – May 14, 2013 - Hilco Streambank, an advisory firm specializing in the valuation and marketing of brands, trademarks and other intangible assets, today announced the addition of several new domain names and trademarks to its upcoming online auction that will take place on May 20 through May 22, 2013.  Premium domains such as Tweeter.com and TWTR.com will be auctioned.

 

The new domain names and trademarks came out of the bankrupt estate of the former Tweeter home electronics retail chain.  Tweeter was a specialty consumer electronics retailer that operated as many as 153 stores in 22 states under the Tweeter brand, and other names.  Stores were located in New England, the Mid-Atlantic, the Southeast, Chicago, Texas, Southern California, Phoenix and Las Vegas.  These prominent domains and trademark will be added to the initial list of domains and trademarks up for auction, including TJ Maxx® (Australia), Lamb & Flag®, and Service Merchandise, as well as multiple premium domain names, including ETM.com,  Bargain.com, BrandEquity.com, VirtualMall.com and 1800myWebsite.com.

 

“We are excited to add the valuable Tweeter domain names to our auction,” said David Peress, EVP of Hilco Streambank.  “This online auction provides numerous opportunities to acquire highly desirable domain names.  We have already received a substantial level of interest and expect the new additions to bring more.”

                                                                           

The domain names and related intellectual property including trademarks, customer lists and vanity phone numbers will be sold in separate lots on Hilco Streambank’s proprietary online auction platform, HilcoIPAuctions.com, beginning on May 20^th and closing May 22^nd.  Interested parties should visit http://www.hilcostreambank.com/domainauction.asp or contact Hilco Streambank for more information. 

 

About Hilco Streambank

Hilco Streambank (www.hilcostreambank.com) is an advisory firm specializing in the marketing, sale and valuation of intangible assets for businesses at all stages.  HilcoStreambank is part of the Hilco Organization (www.hilcotrading.com), a financial services and operational advisory company based in Northbrook, Illinois.

 

Hilco Streambank identifies, preserves, and extracts value for clients through the application of experience, diligence and creativity.  Recent transactions include the sale of the DiVX patent portfolio for Circuit City, as well as brand names, Internet domain names, customer files and other IP for Borders, Goody’s, Mervyn’s, Robb & Stucky Furniture, Berkline/BenchCraft and Tavern on the Green.  Additionally, Hilco Streambank provides intangible asset valuation services to stakeholders in a variety of contexts including compliance and reporting, lending, and for the resolution of disputes.  Hilco Streambank also provides advisory services on intangible asset value maximization strategies and liquidity-generating options.  The firm’s clients have included stakeholders in both healthy and distressed situations, as well as other outside consulting firms, management teams, debtor's counsel, secured and unsecured creditors, plaintiffs and defense attorneys, lenders, liquidators, turnaround consultants, and others.  Hilco Streambank is headquartered in Needham, MA with offices in New York, NY and Chicago, IL.

 

Go Daddy Auctions Tip To Try To Get More Views

By: Raymond Hackney

If you are thinking about auctioning some names on Go Daddy using the 7 day public auction, first take a look at popular auctions that have around 7 days left, that already have some bids, the more the better. Maybe you own the plural of the singular that is expiring, maybe you own another extension, such as the .com and the .net is getting action. Owning the .net with the .com expiring does not work as the .net is the inferior extension.  Maybe it is a color/noun such as pinkcow.com and you own pinkbear.com. You can always use a reserve if you want to make sure you get a certain price, that will cost you $4.99 when setting up the auction. A few friends have had some success with this strategy, and to be fair you really need some things to align so that it makes sense, but I would say if you search the auctions and look at what is about seven days out and see a similar name you were thinking about auctioning anyway, this might provide a visibility boost. Do not use this strategy in a nefarious way using any fake bidders or traffic.

There is an interesting auction taking place right now that is employing this strategy although not sure the numbers match up. I can say I meant to write this article a month ago and then seeing this today got me to stop procratinating.

Nofec.org is expired, 12 year old domain that was a developed site. Nofec.net was registered on April 19 while the auction started for the .org. Somehow this name seems to have a lot of traffic already which seems like it cannot be real. Nofec.net has a reserve which has not been met that is really quite interesting for a two day old handreg.

	nofec.org	$605	$10	20	USD$ Enter Bid		2D 0H
	nofec.net	$670	$10	68	USD$ Enter Bid		4D 2H

Go Daddy Auction Picks 4-11-13

By: Raymond Hackney

Go Daddy Auction Picks

luxurycityhotels.com 12 year old domain Go Daddy shows Traffic of 537. Hotels related names do well especially Geo related with Dublinhotels.com selling last week for $38,000. This is not that kind of quality but will still see a decent price.

photomap.com 14 year old domain, with so many photo apps and websites this seems like a nice brand name.

4jv.com 14 year old domain, good liquidity for 3 character.coms just don't overpay in a bidding war.

virtualidentification.com 11 year old domain, as more people write about your identity online and how to both protect it and monetize it, this name could be the right name for a tech company or start up down the road.

techninja.com 13 year old domain. Doing a Google search shows you just how many companies out there are using something close to this name with a suffix or prefix added on.

anysocial.com 6 year old domain. A good name for a start up in the social media field.

beerwars.com 13 year old domain. There are so many shows on TV using this naming scheme. CupcakeWars, Storage Wars, Property Wars to name a few, I sold HostingWars.com last year for high xxx and currently own RegistrarWars.com which would make for a nice battle of the registrars website or pay per view. Bob Parsons vs Richard Kirkendall.

qualityinc.com 13 year old domain, I like this one as it is a positive name for a company, and promotes quality.

Disclosure: Links are affiliate links

Go Daddy Auction Picks 4-8-13

By: RH

Go Daddy Auction Picks 4-8-13

ztv.org 13 year old domain, big fan of 3 and 4 letter names ending in tv, I own 0tv.org and it gets offers every month, this name is better with it being a pure LLL.org. Should go for a nice price.  Auction ends 3:41pm Eastern Time.

cysa.com 16 year old domain, already at $500, Go Daddy showing traffic of 395. Auction ends 12:31 pm Eastern Time.

beginnerblogger.com 6 year old domain, Go Daddy showing traffic of 139. I like this name as a development name introducing new people to blogging, wordpress, premium themes, if you like teaching people something new and making money through affiliate programs and subscription this may be the right name if you are an expert when it comes to blogging. Auction ends 2:38pm Eastern Time.

summerknight.com 14 year old domain, sounds like the character name for a female in a movie or video game. I like the branding aspects and the play on night/knight. No its not a name you buy and turn around and flip for a huge ROI but it could be a cheap acquisition that the right buyer comes along and you do very well. Auction ends 12:28pm Eastern Time.

thetrain.org 11 year old domain, Go Daddy showing traffic of 191, I just like this one and if bought on the cheap can see it having plenty of room to make profit on a resale. Auction ends 3:57pm Eastern Time.

gameteaser.com 13 year old domain, not a bad brandable for a gaming site, think games that are a brain teaser like on Lumosity.com. Auction ends 1:03pm Eastern Time.

Woolston.com 14 year old domain. A suburb in both the UK and New Zealand. Auction ends 3:42pm Eastern Time.

Cheryl.net 15 year old domain, female first name, Cheryl Ladd or Cheryl Tiegs who was your favorite ? Auction ends 12:36pm Eastern Time.

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Go Daddy Auction Picks 4-6-13

By: RH

Go Daddy Auction Picks 4-6-13

automatedcomputers.com 13 year old domain

bluevirginia.com 7 year old domain

ukflowers.com 11 year old domain

sellmetal.com 3 year old domain Going to be expenisve, Go Daddy valuing at close to $5,000

fantastick.com  14 year old domain

marshallgas.com 13 year old domain  Go Daddy showing traffic of 500

Salonbusiness.net  7 year old domain Go Daddy showing traffic of 1440 value of $210. speculative play but if Go Daddy traffic is close worth the spec.

Wrestling-daily.com 4 year old domain Go Daddy showing traffic of 3587  backlink profile worth checking out. Link to Majestic Seo

quincyhotels.com 13 year old domain, worth a spec.

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GovenmentHomes.com valued at $99,654 ? Go Daddy Says So

By: RH

Go Daddy puts values on domains that generate ppc while parked and expired and these usually get a lot of attention. Today there are some of the biggest valuations seen on the site. The interesting part is that all 5 expired names are owned by the same company Relevad Corporation.

From the Relevad website:

Relevad Corporation is a global provider of rich real-time bidding (RTB) Solutions for Advertisers, Publishers and Agencies. Relevad is one of the world's largest semantic PPC ad networks processing over 1.2 Billion search queries and managing over 20 Billion display impressions a day. Relevad operates Google AdX certified demand-side platform (DSP) with integrated semantic, search, and dynamic retargeting capabilities, as well as publisher network generating 30M display impression per day.

Founded in 2005, Relevad is a privately funded company headquarted in San Mateo, CA with a sales and operations office in New Jersey.

So the questions to ask are the following:

So are they just watching these auctions and will renew ?

Are these traffic numbers remotely close ?

Should Go Daddy provide transparency and upload ppc stats when putting such large valuations ?

These valuations are sure to bring newbies out of the woodwork thinking they are getting one heck of a deal.

                                                     Traffic      GD Valuation  Current bid

govenmenthomes.com     13    55575     $99,654     $205   
cruuisesonly.com             12    55427     $50,823     $305   
crapskaters.com              12    54563     $39,864     $70
balloonagogo.com              5    54345     $26,490     $40   
cherrystonerv.com             5     55847     $20,472     $30

Go Daddy March 2013 Auction Report: Sales up almost 22 % led by DreamProducts.com

By: RH

Go Daddy March 2013 Auction Report

DreamProducts.com was the top sale for the month at $40,000. Dream Products is a leading direct-to-consumer catalog and ecommerce site specializing in providing unique items at affordable prices.

The domain currently redirects to DreamProductsCatalog.com. So its clear that seven characters shorter and the pure play domain for their name was worth $40,000.

Go Daddy had a strong March with sales volume up almost 22%. Go Daddy Auctions sold 42,660 domains in March vs 34,985 in February.

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Go Daddy Auctions Monthly Sales Report Led By Xe.co

By: RH

Go Daddy February 2013 Monthly Sales Report

Xe.co was the top sale for February 2013, selling for $37,500.

Overall sales volume was down month over month.

February sales were 34,132 vs January sales of 35,803

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Four Letter .coms continue to find a bid

By: RH

Four letter .coms continue to find a bid and a home even if they appear to have no known acronym or use. Below I listed the last week on Go Daddy Auctions for LLLL.com domains. Most only got one bid, and of course Bore.com is a word and is not the norm when talking about LLLL.com.

There still seems to be a fascination with the LLLL.com even if there is no obvious end user or use. I guess you can always try to make an acronym out of nothing but some letter combinations make that an arduous task.

You can click through and see what the other details about a name might have caused it to get more than the token bid from a domain collector. Some had a bid of traffic, or some pr.

The second number is the number of bids in the auction.

	clqo.com	$12		1
	iskq.com	$12		1
	ovcq.com	$12		1
	erxq.com	$12		1
	ucjy.com	$12		1
	ijxo.com	$12		1
	iyjt.com	$12		1
	ghvc.com	$65		9
	jwfm.com	$18		3
	dvbd.com	$50		6
	ufyv.com	$12		1
	zkzo.com	$22		4
	vkim.com	$176		24
	qieq.com	$56		6
	otyc.com	$390		48
	kbzc.com	$17		2
	gaom.com	$267		43
	pbzc.com	$17		2
	dbgx.com	$15		2
	hfdd.com	$171		23
	htlw.com	$50		9
	bore.com	$34,994		103
	piyh.com	$17		2
	pjyk.com	$12		1
	ezpp.com	$17		2
	pyfp.com	$50		10
	xnea.com	$17		2
	tewt.com	$115		18
	xzgo.com	$12		1
	wrsy.com	$82		15
	ytfi.com	$10		1
	lgup.com	$27		5
	dbkf.com	$115		21
	fkkj.com	$70		14
	fmua.com	$51		12
	ojuj.com	$25		4
	qwwt.com	$10		1
	lgjp.com	$21		4
	jucf.com	$12		1
	voyh.com	$10		1
	rrkh.com	$12		1
	qsba.com	$27		4
	ofku.com	$80		12
	woyh.com	$12		1
	gyrn.com	$52		8
	hlvd.com	$30		5
	uaft.com	$38		5
	ohhz.com	$12		1
	hoyy.com	$162		26
	olvd.com	$12		1
	hbmw.com	$106		21
	wdvp.com	$38		5
	jtow.com	$76		13
	oljd.com	$12		1
	gyud.com	$12		1
	wsdy.com	$101		11
	zemx.com	$15		2
	ozyu.com	$17		2
	mrfv.com	$65		10
	nkbk.com	$28		4
	fcmv.com	$15		2
	mruu.com	$101		19