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NintendoMag.com ScreenSpecialists.com WikiWorldTravel.com and more for auction!

Jerry — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:35:37 +0000

This is a batch of 10 auction. They’re all going out the door at a firesale starting bid of $24.99. That’s less than $2.50 per domain name! They’re all registered at godaddy and have many months to go before they are due for renewal. Some of these are almost 4 years old!

1. NINTENDOMAG.COM
2. ADSENSECLICKING.COM
3. AIRROCKERS.COM
4. AMERICANBUMS.COM
5. SCREENSPECIALISTS.COM
6. WIKIWORLDTRAVEL.COM
7. MILLIONDOLLARWIKIPEDIA.COM
8. MILLIONDOLLARWIKIPROJECT.COM
9. THEBEAR.INFO
10. RINGTONESFORFREE.ORG

External Link: auction at eBay

TOP 12 .COM DOMAIN NAMES 4 SALE!!!! LOOK!!! LOOK!!!

Jerry — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:57:44 +0000

Roulettex has a sale going on at eBay. There’s 12 of them of varying quality.

2FUC.COM
EUIW.COM
BETQUICKLY.COM
CARPLAYERS.COM
BOOMTOON.COM
BUNSI.COM
EASYCARBID.COM
LARDSON.COM
ONLINEBETTINGSTORE.COM
XRATEDCARS.COM
MUKRA.COM
GUPSY.COM

I wouldn’t have put this at more than $500 but to my surprise, there’s a day to go and there’s already 19 bids pushing the sale at $1000..! My guess is that either 5 letter domains are picking up steam or someone named Lardson or Gupsy has caught wind of this auction and wants to buy their own name! :)

External: auction at eBay

Adsense Clicking

Jerry — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:14:18 +0000

Adsense clicking is the core revenue engine of google and I’ve put it on auction for anyone who has an idea in mind to build a site around this…

Registrar: Godaddy.com
Registered Since: 2/3/2006
Expires: 2/3/2009

External Link: AdsenseClicking.com auction on eBay

Shoppers.com expires and gets pooled for $161,000

Jerry — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:09:14 +0000

It no bull. Check the whois. It’s just been created on 2nd Feb and now parked at fabulous. It’s registered to Xedoc Holding from Luxembourg. At $161k, I thought the buyer would have been CNET who owns shopper.com. Either Xedoc Holding has a good value add for this domain or they’re intending to hold CNET for high ransom…

There are a few oddities about this latest breaking news though..

Why on earth does someone let a ripper domain like shoppers.com … expire?!! Did he get hit by a bus and he didn’t put this on his will?
Why this was auctioned off on Pool.com when the domain was registered at Network Solutions so it should have gone to NameJet.com? What a costly glitch in their system! Someone’s about to get fired.

I’m also not the only one who thinks $161k was too high.

The Great NNNNN dot com Countdown COMPLETE!

Jerry — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:40:50 +0000

All 99999 NNNNN dot coms were completely registered this month ( ~16th Feb). This marks a significant milestone in the domain name industry as it signifies a growing demand and valuation of domain names. As the world comes online, there is more and more money to be made from the growing number of web users, there are more and more webtreneurs being made, more and more brick and mortar shops wanting a web presence, and as a result, more and more demand for domain names (!).

Up to as late as a week before they were fully bought out, you could still of gotten some good value nnnnn’s. Check out these two that were bought on the 10th Feb!

Most people think that NNNNN are junk or that they are only valuable as a postcode. The reality though, is that these numbered domains are being snapped up by entrepreneurial Chinese webmasters and used as a portal for Chinese content. The reason why they are popular with the Chinese is because of the huge boom they are experiencing there. All of a sudden, a lot of people have a lot of money and a lot of people can suddenly afford a computer to get online. The problem though is that nearly all of them can’t read English. Thus, they have a huge problem remembering domain names, even if they are as easy as abc.com. In this case, 123.com is infinitely more valuable than abc.com. This is why you’ll see that NNNNN.com’s are actually turned into websites rather than just being parked like 80% of the LLLL.com’s.

Those who were smart enough to snap up the NNNNN’s recently have already seen their investment triple in value - NNNNN.com’s are now trading at more than $30 a piece!

The Fiera re-auction

Jerry — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:34:47 +0000

It’s a week of re-auctions this week. First it was xshare.com which still hasn’t reached its reserve yet despite being $15,100. Fiera.com is back in the market and yet again, I’ve pushed it up to over $1000 but the reserve still hasn’t been reached. The guy wants $3,000+ judging by his statement on his website but seeing that it maxed out at $1250 last time, I doubt with 6 hours to go that it’s going to fetch that much.

If you missed it last time, fiera means ‘fair’ in Italian (as in a trade fair) and it’s been registered since 1996 - one of the oldest domains on the market. The oldest I have is one from 1999 so it’d be a ripper to get one even earlier than that!

External Link: Fiera.com auction at eBay

Official Dealers since 1999

Jerry — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:54:07 +0000

I can’t believe what I’m seeing with this ripper auction. It’s for a domain that according to my whois has been registered since 1999 and the opening bid was $1.49 with NO RESERVE. The domain in question… no it’s not ajdsjhgi2.com, but a keyword rich…

OFFICIALDEALERS.COM !!!

wow! kaching!

Harry Fiorentinos of Cabrini Enterprises is the owner. He doesn’t look like he knows the value of this domain cos he didn’t even market it right. The auction says online since 2001 but he really should have said it’s been registered since 1999!

I want this!

External Link: OfficialDealers.com auction at eBay

U Find Stuff

Jerry — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:53:41 +0000

Dynadot is a popular registrar for international domains, especially chinese ones. There expired marketplace, however, can also be a good untapped haven for unloved domains or failed business ideas:

and of course, where there’s an expired domain sale, there’s a littering of adult domains…

xshare.com back on auction

Jerry — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:11:07 +0000

you may remember that xshare.com was passed in last week for a little over a grand. It’s back on this week and currently at $15,000 but it’s still not met the reserve. I previously guessed his reserve at $10,000 but looks like I’m completely wrong. Maybe he read my post and rethought his price :) At $15,000 that’s getting on the expensive side for me so I’m going to pass this one up.

Something tells me his new reserve is probably $50,000 and he figures that even if he doesn’t sell, he gets great exposure for his site.

External Link: New xshare.com auction

Domainholics custom php whois script

Jerry — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 05:27:00 +0000

I’ve grown tired of using other people’s whois scripts and having to type in captcha codes or waiting minutes for whois.sc to load up all their other overloaded stuffing that I don’t need. Introducing my very own whois script that spits out the exact whois result…

It’s not pretty yet but it can be easily accessed by

http://www.domainholics.com/whois/anydomainname.com

or from

http://www.domainholics.com/tools/whois.php

Feel free to use it as you please. Next up, a domain name scanner!

For those who are also interested in their own whois script, there’s plenty of resources around. The main part of the code is simply to do a whois call to port 43 of the whois server you nominate

$sock = fsockopen($server, 43) or die('Error Connecting To Server:' . $server); fputs($sock, "$domain\r\n");

I cheated and started off with Matthew Jewell’s code here: php bulk domain availability check