This week’s video is sponsored by Parked.com. Parked.com offers over 15,000 templates, dedicated account managers and payouts twice a month. Serving over 4 million domain names.

The winner of our DomainerBlog.org contest is… (gotta watch to find out)

Links:

• RickLatona.com Live TRAFFIC Auction Nets $1.295 Million by TheDomains.com
• Moniker Live Auction at TRAFFIC nets $412,150 by DomainNameNews.com
• Oversee.net Goes Back to the Playboy mansion for DFG 2010 by DNW.com
• Minds and Machines Settles Food Fight with Wolfgang Puck by DNW.com
• Photon Group Submits Formal Takeover Offer for Dark Blue Sea by DNW.com

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*Sedo is back up. Total down time was about 100 minutes.

.de domain registry will be issuing 1 and 2 character names on a first come, first served basis beginning Friday, October 23rd and 12am PST.

Sedo.com is offering a pre-auction on the domain names that have not even been released. Remember though, as I mentioned it is “first come, first served registration”, Sedo does not have any rights to the domain names before opening to the public. What they do have are deals with several registrars to try and secure the domain names as soon as they become available. Interesting twist, as reported by DomainNameWire.com, “If Sedo’s partner registrars are unsuccessful during the “drop”, Sedo will attempt to acquire the domain name in the secondary market on the high bidder’s behalf.”

The new news here is with the popularity of their pre-auction, Sedo’s website is down! I just visited the site and received this message, “Due to the extremely high participation in the .De Pre-Auction Sedo?s website was temporarily down. We have decided to extend the auction until 8:00 PM CET. If necessary we will extend the auction later than this time to accommodate additional bids”.

This is the first time I have seen Sedo.com down. I’ll be sure to update this post when Sedo.com is back up.

Twitter message from approximately 1:35 PM EST.

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This week’s video is sponsored by GigaDomains.com. Thousands of premium domain names available for sale.

News Links:

• TRAFFIC Auction List – RickLatona.com
• Epik.com Buys JustDropped.com – DomainNameNews.com
• Bido Wants Your Feedback – Conceptualist.com
• NBA Player Chris Bosh Gets Domain Back Plus 800 More – ElliotsBlog.com
• GoDaddy Geo Domain Tool, Copy Of… – DomainSuperstar.com
• Top Domain Name Sales Of The Week – DNJournal.com

*UPDATE – GigaDomains has been removed from this blog for non responsiveness to customer inquiries and my attempts to resolve this issue.

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No video this week. Instead, a short podcast with a few of the headlines from this week’s domain name industry news.


News Links:

• Domainer Mardi Gras early bird special ends Thursday. Get your pass now!
• Advise From The Most Successful Domain Owners of All Time – ElliotsBlog.com
• Dark Blue Sea and GoDaddy Get Back Together – DomainNameWire.com
• 15%-25% of Domains are Privately Registered – DomainNameWire.com

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Ticket.com sells for $1,525,000, promoted through AfternicDLS global distribution network. The domain name is currently being redirected using an affiliate link to StubHub.com. Whois information is still under the seller, Rare Domains, Inc., whom also owns BuyDomains/AfternicDLS.

Ticket.com $1,525,000
Google Results: 120,000,000 (Ticket.com does not show on the first page)
Google Page Rank: 3
Compete.com Traffic: 989 Unique and Total Visits
Alexa Rank: 627,323

My post Top Domain Sales Of All Time has been updated with this sale.

Congratulations to the buyer and seller.

Source: AfternicDLS

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