Francois, owner of Domaining.com, has organized a special domain name sales newsletter that will benefit sellers and bloggers. The idea is for the blogging community to promote January 9th’s Domaining.com newsletter, giving it more eyes for sellers and increase newsletter reach. In addition to the blogger circuit the newsletter will be broadcast on two popular domaining forums, DNForum.com and DomainState.com for even more exposure.

What’s in it for the bloggers?
We will get paid a share of any sales commissions generated from Monday, January 9th’s newsletter. I decided to have any of my individual profits donated to Elliot Silver’s Ronald McDonald House fundraising efforts. On a side note, I have to say Elliot Silver, John Ferber and Craig Rowe have been big influences on my own personal charity work in the last couple of years.

What’s in it for the sellers?
Monday’s newsletter is getting a lot of extra exposure because of this promotion. Bottom line, more people looking at it means a higher chance you have to sell something.

So go ahead, submit your domain name for the newsletter before tomorrow’s deadline. Visit cax.com/submit/newsletter/ and submit one domain name, only one. Good luck!

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Although the .ME registry completed their premium .me domain name auction last week, I haven’t seen any posted sales, so I figured I would share some information about it.

In short, of the 178 domain names listed for sale about 41% (73) met reserve. Total sales ended with $167,708, which is an average of $2,297 per name.

Of those that met reserve the top five sales were:

vip.me - $11,600
lifeinsurance.me - $10,600
flowers.me - $9,000
realestate.me – $8050
golf.me - $7,000

Sorry, I only have the top five sales available. If you know some of the other sales in auction please share them in comments below.

Not to discount $167k in sales, but I’m a little disappointed. I was shocked not to see cam.me or deals.me in the top five sales. .COM is king, yes yes we know, but I like the .ME extension, they’re very catchy and affordable when compared to .COM sales. This auction really should have done better!

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Can’t afford to buy that premium .com domain name? .ME might be the perfect alternative for you. As an avid reader of TechCrunch.com, usually there is not a week that goes by where a new project is funded involving a catchy .ME domain name. Startups love value and .ME domain names offer just that.

.ME is about to wrap up a premium .ME auction being held at Sedo.com as we speak. So hurry up and get your bids in, the auction ends November 3rd at 1pm EST.

Right now there are 18 domain names with bids of $999 or more. And of the 178 domain names in auction, 122 of them have a bid of at least $100. The highest .me domains with bids are Detox.me $2,500, VIP.me $2,450, London.me $2,150, RealEstate.me $2,050 and Top.me $1,550.

Sorry, but I’m not going to share my favorites because I am bidding on several of the domain names.

And stay tuned for some news about my own personal developments. I recently acquired two of the biggest internet keywords with .ME domain names and will be developing them into a new business.

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As reported on ElliotsBlog.com, .XXX Sunrise period which originally was to end today, has been extended until Monday, October 31st, 4pm EST. Also reported is they have received over 70,000 pre-registration requests. At roughly $200 each that is $14 million, WOW!

For those of you that don’t know if the Sunrise period is for you, watch this short 2:46 minute video for a better understanding. Then head over to Domain.xxx for more information on where and how to register.

And instead of repeating what others have written about on the .XXX Sunrise, here are some interesting articles to check out.

With 5 Days Left In Sunrise, .XXX Reports Over 42,000 Applications Taken
.XXX Has Grossed $10 Million Already [Updated]
Final Chance to Protect Against .XXX Domain Names
Inside Frank Schilling’s $1.65M .XXX Purchase
ICM Registry, In A Record Setting Sale Sells Gay.XXX For $500K
SheMales.XXX Sells For $200,000; 3 1/2 Times More Than The .Net Sold For

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Ok no, Netflix.com did not forget to renew its domain name, but this is funny. Still, within the humor are several important messages.

1. Don’t forget to renew (auto renew) your valuable domain names.
2. Buy easy to spell and pronounce domain names, nothing too tricky.
3. Secure your developed brand by purchasing available typos.

Watch the entire clip, it’s funny. If you just want to see the part about Netflix.com forgetting to renew it’s domain name, skip to the 1:01 minute mark.

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