UPDATE – THIS AUCTION HAS ENDED – TOP 5 SALES LISTED AT THE BOTTOM

LiveDomainAuctioneers.com is holding their second live online auction today at 3pm PST, 6pm EST. Their first auction held on August 16th ended with 75 domain names selling for a total of $1,113.

Some of the domain names in the NO RESERVE auction will be:

HotDotComs.com
CookingReviews.com
RimsPlus.com
Sygns.com
GermWar.com
SweetNTasty.com
InstallServices.com
WorldMusicTour.com

Make sure to check out the live auction for yourself. I’ll post any significant sales here after the auction.

Top 5 domain name sales of the auction were…
FitnessShows.com $322.50
KingZero.com $150
CupCollection.com $100
Identicals.com $85
ReelandRod.com $80

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SexTV.com sells for $97,500 through Sedo.

Breakdown of the stats.

Google results: 4,100,000 (not listed on the first five pages)
Google page rank: 2
Compete.com traffic: unique 4,945 – total visits 5,258
Alexa rank: 198,501

Now before we assume this was sold just for the domain name I don’t think it was. The site itself advertises “The Ultimate Network for Sex!” There are two membership sites that are linked with this name, MyFreeCams.com and MyFreePaysite.com. It seems that the same person owns all three names. This could mean a couple things. Either the domain names have not been delivered to the new owner or the new owner has updated SexTV.com with the two networked sites. The whois information on SexTV.com was last changed on August 25th. It also appears that SexTV.com was a membership driven site at one point. Posted on the site is this message “Dear SexTV.com members,  as of August 18, 2009 the SexTV.com site has been sold.  As a result, we have given all paid members a credit for their most recent credit card charge.  The refund to your credit card usually takes a few days to show, therefore please wait until Tuesday August 25th to inquire about your refund with your credit card company”.

I have called and left a message for the owner on record of the three sites. I will update this post if I get a return phone call.

***Update: It seems that the sale did include the domain name, website, members and the registered trademark for SexTV.

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UPDATE – THIS AUCTION HAS ENDED – TOP 5 SALES LISTED AT THE BOTTOM

Towards the end of July I announced an upcoming domain auction brought to you by LiveDomainAuctioneers.com. The day has come, today they are holding their very first live online auction at 3pm PST, 6pm EST.

Some of the domain names in the NO RESERVE auction will be:

EmailSurf.com
ImageBytes.com
TestSurvey.com
ContractNurses.com
Jerud.com
TextSpy.com
AntiScams.com
MissionAlaska.com
MarketHomes.com
HotOrders.com

Make sure to check out the live auction for yourself. I’ll post any significant sales here after the auction.

Top 5 domain name sales of the auction were…
InsureFleet.com $750
MySignals.com $75
MarketHomes.com $65
RoadDoctor.com $20
MotelValues.com $20

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LDA, also known as Live Domain Auctioneers, is a new auction site selling domain names via live online auctions.  Even though they are new to auctioning in the domain industry, they are far from new to the auction business.  The founding partners, Troy Hill and Tory Miran, have over 20 years of experience and education between them as auctioneers.

As mentioned, they sell their names during live online auctions.  If you’re interested in a name, but won’t be available for the auction at its scheduled time, then you can submit a proxy bid.  With the proxy bid you are just giving what the highest price you’re willing to pay is and the system will automatically bid for you up to the maximum you indicated.

They use a “no reserve” strategy in their auctions so there are no reserve prices to contend with.  They believe that letting the name sell to the highest bidder, no matter what the price and without a reserve, is using the auctioneering process in its purest and truest form, which is simply people out bidding each other.

Their upcoming auction is their first domain auction ever and is scheduled for 8/16/09 at 3:00pm Pacific standard time.  The names will be sold by a professional auctioneer whom you’ll be able to listen to as the selling unfolds through their streaming live audio.  Those auctioneers talk super fast, but are pretty cool to listen to.  I’ve seen a few auctions myself and they are always amazing to watch and hear.

On their homepage you’ll find a list of “Highlighted Domains” for this particular auction.  Some of the names listed are ContractNurses.com, TextSpy.com, Jerud.com, AntiScams.com, MarketHomes.com and many more.  You can also see a complete catalog of all the domains that will be for sale in that auction and for the following auction after that.  They’ll be holding auctions roughly twice a month and there will be 75 to 125 domains for sale per auction.  Their site is completely user friendly, so head over to LiveDomainAuctioneers.com and can check out the domains they have for sale for yourself and see what peaks your interest.

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Rick Latona Auctions has announced its upcoming Themed CPA – Lead Gen – Affiliate Marketing Auction and we are currently seeking submissions, which can be made at: ricklatona.com/auctions/submission-form/.

The online only auction will take place August 21st through August 28th, 2009. The CPA – Lead Gen – Affiliate Marketing sector is currently experiencing unprecedented growth and this is the auction where buyers and sellers for domains suited to this business will come together.

According to Partner David Clements, “Domain investors are currently seeing unprecedented revenue numbers in the CPA vertical.” He went on to say “Some of the top categories are: banking, insurance, weight loss, credit cards, herbals and nutritional supplements. For this reason, we are asking for domain name submissions in these categories as well as other categories that do well in the CPA space.”

With its large client base, Rick Latona Auctions is the place to submit your names now for consideration. If you are a potential buyer, please keep an eye on RickLatona.com/auctions for up to date information and posted inventory for the auction.

Registration and bidding will be at proxibid.com/ricklatona starting August 21.

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