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The .BIZ One-Character Auction on SEDO

Saturday, September 5th, 2009

There will be .BIZ One-Character Auction on SEDO.com begins September 23rd at 12 PM EST and ends September 30th at approximately 12 PM EST. 

Available .BIZ One-character domains
1.biz
2.biz
4.biz
5.biz
6.biz
7.biz
8.biz
9.biz
A.biz
B.biz
C.biz
D.biz
E.biz
F.biz
G.biz
H.biz
J.biz
K.biz
L.biz
M.biz
N.biz
P.biz
R.biz
S.biz
T.biz
U.biz
V.biz
W.biz
X.biz
Y.biz
Z.biz

Hamburg.mobi sold at $1,450 on SEDO

Monday, August 24th, 2009

This morning Hamburg.mobi’s auction ended at 1,450 USD.

Biding history:

 hamburg.mobi   | Bidding History
Winning Bid:     1,450 USD
Reserve met!
Winning Bidder: Bidder 2
Auction ended: Aug/24/09 09:46 AM EST
 
       

Bidding History
Bidder     Date           Amount           Info
Bidder 2     Aug/24/09 09:36 AM EST           1,450 USD
1.012 EUR
876 GBP
     
         
Winning Bid!
This offer caused the auction to get extended.
Bidder 3     Aug/24/09 09:31 AM EST           1,400 USD
977 EUR
846 GBP
     
         
This offer caused the auction to get extended.
Bidder 1     Aug/24/09 09:30 AM EST           1,350 USD
942 EUR
816 GBP
     
         
Bid automatically placed by Sedo.
This offer caused the auction to get extended.
Bidder 3     Aug/24/09 09:30 AM EST           1,350 USD
942 EUR
816 GBP
     
         
This offer caused the auction to get extended.
Bidder 1     Aug/24/09 09:30 AM EST           1,250 USD
872 EUR
755 GBP
     
         
Bid automatically placed by Sedo.
This offer caused the auction to get extended.
Bidder 2     Aug/24/09 09:30 AM EST           1,200 USD
837 EUR
725 GBP
     
         
This offer caused the auction to get extended.
Bidder 1     Aug/24/09 09:25 AM EST           1,101 USD
768 EUR
665 GBP
     
         
Bid automatically placed by Sedo.
This offer caused the auction to get extended.
Bidder 3     Aug/24/09 09:25 AM EST           1,051 USD
733 EUR
635 GBP
     
         
This offer caused the auction to get extended.
Bidder 1     Aug/24/09 09:25 AM EST           1,001 USD
699 EUR
605 GBP
     
         
Bid automatically placed by Sedo.
This offer caused the auction to get extended.
Bidder 3     Aug/24/09 09:25 AM EST           1,001 USD
699 EUR
605 GBP
     
         
This offer caused the auction to get extended.
Bidder 1     Aug/24/09 09:25 AM EST           910 USD
635 EUR
550 GBP
     
         
Bid automatically placed by Sedo.
Bidder 3     Aug/24/09 09:25 AM EST           860 USD
600 EUR
520 GBP
     
         
 
Bidder 1     Aug/24/09 09:24 AM EST           810 USD
565 EUR
489 GBP
     
         
Bid automatically placed by Sedo.
Bidder 3     Aug/24/09 09:24 AM EST           760 USD
530 EUR
459 GBP
     
         
 
Bidder 1     Aug/24/09 09:24 AM EST           660 USD
461 EUR
399 GBP
     
         
 
Bidder 2     Aug/24/09 09:23 AM EST           610 USD
426 EUR
369 GBP
     
         
 
Bidder 1     Aug/17/09 12:01 PM EST           560 USD
391 EUR
338 GBP
     
         
 

SEDO’s Chinese-Themed Domains event is coming

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

The source for the best Chinese top level domains – SEDO’s Chinese-Themed Domains event is coming:

August 17th 2009. There will be up to 200 the best Chinese top level domains on SEDO.com/China to be shown. You can choose very good Chinese-Themed Domains:

Sedo Official the best Chinese-themed domain names

The NNNN.mobi countdown again ?

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

Dot Mobi domain name’s market is terrible. So I think nobody want too many .mobi domains now. In the last year, there have been the frist time of NNNN .mobi’s dropped, and then there were more and more , There are thousands of NNNN .mobi’s available currently.

However, I don’t know wether there is other people is watching the NNNN .mobi’s name’s dropping. I did some records occasionally, until yesterday, I found something is interesting. Please read my record below:

September 28, 2008: 1,073 NNNN.mobi’s available.

November 25, 2008:  1,086 NNNN.mobi’s available.

December 06, 2008:  1,131 NNNN.mobi’s available.

December 25, 2008:  1,258 NNNN.mobi’s available.

January 22, 2009:  1,744 NNNN.mobi’s available.

March 05, 2009:  1,786 NNNN.mobi’s available.

March 30, 2009:  2,475 NNNN.mobi’s available.

April 24, 2009:  2,478 NNNN.mobi’s available.

May 17, 2009:  6,756 NNNN.mobi’s available.

June 13, 2009:  6,737 NNNN.mobi’s available.

July 21, 2009:  6,700 NNNN.mobi’s available.

August 09, 2009:  6,156 NNNN.mobi’s available.

Due to above data, Seems there are people are taking NNNN .mobi’s recently. I can not get the trend actually, because September is a hard month for most of .mobi players – renew domains.

So let me continue collect the record after some days or in the next month. then maybe we can see something.

Below I copied the MJnels’s NNNN .mobi’s countdown data in 2007:

The NNNN .mobi countdown

January 9, 2007: 6,796 NNNN.mobi’s available.

January 11, 2007: 6,653 NNNN.mobi’s available..

January 18, 2007: 6,632 NNNN.mobi’s available…

January 25, 2007: 6,561 NNNN.mobi’s available….

February 8, 2007: 6,145 NNNN.mobi’s available…..

February 9, 2007: 5,706 NNNN.mobi’s available……

February 12, 2007: 5,090 NNNN.mobi’s available…….

February 13, 2007: 5,089 NNNN.mobi’s available……..

February 14, 2007: 4,666 NNNN.mobi’s available……….

February 15, 2007: 3,296 NNNN.mobi’s available………..

February 17, 2007: 2,511 NNNN.mobi’s available…………

February 18, 2007: 2,348 NNNN.mobi’s available………….

February 19 (2:00 P.M. EST), 2007: 1,409 NNNN.mobi’s available…………..

February 19 (6:00 P.M. EST), 2007: 0 NNNN.mobi’s available.

THE END.

CVCV Domains

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

Here I copy an short but good article from sdnForum

By Julian – SDNForum Founder

What is CVCV?

C = consonant (a consonant is “a basic speech sound in which the breath is at least partly obstructed”)
V = vowel (a vowel is “a speech sound which is produced by comparatively open configuration of the vocal tract, with vibration of the vocal cords but without audible friction”"
Note: definitions from the New Oxford Dictionary of English, 1998

In the Latin alphabet, the Vowel letters are A, E, I, O, U.
The letter Y can be used to represent different sounds in different words, and can therefore fit either definition (Consonant or Vowel) The letter Y is probably more often used as a vowel, but in this role is often interchangeable with the letter I

By general concensus, there are 13 letters from the 21 Consonant are called Premium Consonant Letters, they are:B, C, D, F, G, H, L, M, N, P, R, S, T.
The 8 left (J, K, Q, V, W, X, Y, Z) are called non-premium letters

A CVCV Domain is a Domain consisted by 4 letters in CVCV sequence, for example, bade, beco….

Why CVCV Domains?

There are Lots of investors seek words that can be pronounced, CVCV domains often have a catchy sound to them and are quite brandable. They are short, easy to spell, easy to pronounce, and rhymes with itself.

There available CVCV Domains are limitted.
All CVCV.COM are gone, and more than 90% CVCV.NET taken already. Even for the latesr released .MOBI, 40% CVCV.Mobis are registed already (Most still available CVCV.Mobis are with non-premium letters)

Note:
There are total 15,000 CVCV domains only
(21 consonants, and 6 vowels . Letter Y acts as both consonant and vowel = 21×6x21×6 =15876, then remove the combinations with “YY” included, final number is 15,000)
If look the CVCV Domains with Premiun Consonants only, there are 6084 (= 13*6*13*6) Premium CVCV Domains only for each TLD!!

If you can’t afford to invest in generic dictionary dot coms, then invest in CVCV Domains

Paypal’s X.com

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

Paypal have owned the domain X.com since 1993 (or earlier) but few people knew it because seems Paypal never gotten good idea to use it.
Recently PayPal announced Paypal “will become the first and only global payments platform open to third-party developers”. their “new set of APIs will offer unlimited possibilities for (developer) to easily monetize (developer’s) ideas, by providing security and connectivity to the world’s financial systems.”

Paypal will move towards the public launch this fall. The team is currently using X.com as their blog to note somethings regularly.

Related links:
x.com
news about paypal’s platform
techCrunch

Estimate value for your domain or website

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

There is a tool website which provides the free services for estimating value for an established website or a domain name by using factors  such as:

    * Links pointing to the domain
    * Popularity of the domain
    * Age of the domain
    * Pagerank of the domain
    * Traffic to the domain
    * and more…

The site is dnScoop

Candy.com sold for $3 million

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

The domain Candy.com was recently sold for $3 million to a company called G&J Holdings.

The sale was handled by Rick Schwartz, who’s well known in the domaining industry and has only spent $100,000 a few years back. The reason why Candy.com was sold for that high? Simple, It’s the best marketing tool for the company. These are some probable reasons why I believe they did it: