Godaddy Shows Its Auction Color to $350K

Color.com has been sold by Godaddy for $350,000 via account Executive Brad Parsons. This marks yet another resonant gong for the big ticket domain auction heard in every sector of this business. Sedo and other big auction house sites have been rolling domains in flour and frying them up large in tombstones all this season, and it looks like Big Daddy  isn’t going to be left out in the cold.

To generate fees and pay for the electric bill ($4 million party this week) , Godaddy.com has been succeeding in the domain name arena lately selling single name two party domains via auction in the five to six figures. Flexing its muscles in the domain auction slice of the industry, Godaddy also recently strong-armed Homeownersinsurance.com for $570,000.

Domains Posting Big Numbers for Q4

Moving into the fourth quarter for 2010, domains are picking up velocity in the auction sector. Typing-test challenger url ipo-installment4.com collected a stunning $100,000 in recent bidding frenzy,  reports greatdomains.com. Outdoorliving.com bagged $68K and also shorty name cscm.com collected $20K and passed go. Environmental shocker blackocean.com swirled at $6K, that’s a bookmark to remember.

Even more action in the four figure rodeo kept wannabe domainers ogling the sales tally. Curiosity buy www.cocomama.com vended for 12,000 £ , that’s one to tell your kids about. Huge niche topper rawdiet.com collected a raw $10,000, tapping the green foods traffic happening  now online. Social possibilities abound with the big ticket name allhere.com sold for $9,999. And the positively MLB name buysteroids.org batted one outta the park for a cool hotdogging $10,000.

Pool Skim for Saturday Sept. 25th

The Pool waters are swimming with opportunities to be picked off by wary netters.

Backorders still possible on these names. Antbp.com could be the environmental hotsite of all BP haters for all time. Apple-faq.com and Apple-faqs.com could be very good but a copyright fight could also be in store. The domain name appzweb.com could be a very good link directory name. And 2014 green.com could be an outstanding blog portal with pre-programming to beat the band.

Numerical names as always have some special domain names coming up for the bid. 1-888-quoteline is a possible url. 1-800vote.com could be the pax populus of the Web. (or a survey site). The name 1800got2010.com could be cryptic but relevant through this year or for 2010 dated products ongoing. The domain 2010 laptop.com practically begs a bid just for the hybrid keywords alone. 21links.com could be an economic but interesting paid links portal.

More at Pool.com.

Epik Auctions Nets $47K in Name Auction

The Epik.com Developer’s Conference Auction was held today, and for a first event showing the Epik.com event is off to a respectable start.The auction sum was almost $48K in total for eleven domain names. The big tipoff moneychanger was $17,500 for ComputerTips.com. Pillows.net had a soft landing at $16,000. TacticalKnife.net cut up at $3,000. Next up was Beachbags.net. for a respectable chunk of change for a dot-net, bagged at $2500.

Then Camcorder-Microphones, long but useful, was picked up by a $2,000 bid. BeerCoolers.net iced out at $1500. Exercise mat.net was rolled up at $1,200. KidsChairs.net sat down for $1250. CottonThread.com was strung up at $1100. ClothingRack.net racked up about $1,000, followed by DVDStand.com which stood for a thrifty $700.

The Epik Developer’s Conference in Seattle continues, flavored by strategic speakers marketing their domain and site development profit models. While some domain market watchers speculated this was a poor showing, some industry veterans commented that “for an initial event auction to turn close to $48K is more than a modest success”. Epik.com’s 1st conference continues through today.

Pool Skim for Wednesday, Sept. 15th

The list starts out with two very adult swimmers, 0(zero)costsex.com and 100freeadultsites.com. And then there is 100greenproducts.com. Financial portfolio collectors will love 100kloan.com. 100powerscripts and 10percentprofits.com make great enterprises too. The name 1012consulting.com has some real future appeal. Does 3gq8.com mean 3-g Kuwait?

123sellyourcar.com could be a nice traffic vehicle. And as always when swimming through numericals, the 1800 numbers. 1800contracts.com, 1800autism.com, and 1800airtime.com make for amazing name potentials. And 2010fresh.com is happening right now. The name 2010cellphone could get a few phone calls. 2010tvupdates.com and 2011tvupdates.com could tune in the television fan market with blurb summaries.

The pool is aflutter with churning numericals. The names 411places.com and 400web.com make cryptic but unique urls. 411reobuyer.com has some real real-estate web possibilities. The names 4democrat.com and 4dozen.com might too in the forefront. The auctioning domains 4videotalk.com and 4webfile.com also work to some extent. The name 5dvds.com could spin.

The domain 888grocery.com could pay the bills. The url aboutpurse.com could be built out of a sow’s ear budget.

And more at the Pool.com deletion list of dropping domains.

Pool Skim for Sunday September 12, 2010

With the date on the calendar moving on, the pool waters are frenzying with domain name currents. For the brave domainer there is a (survey said) page: 1000womenday.com. For the bargain shopper, the name 100peso.com might be right. 101thingsyoudontknow might be a very good site unless it’s personalized…

The name 1-800-refund.com is a mighty appealing name. 10rep.com might be a zen-minimal workout website. 10tvhd.com brings things more clearly into focus for the right tech buyer. A slew of 123inkjets typos are available, count em up! And the nom 12stems.com will make some florist happy somewhere. And in the 800 news, 1800bike.com, 1800besity..com, 1800chicken.com, 1800greenclean.com and 1800supply.com make some telephony tempting.

the domains 1biglead.com and 1border.com could be very political website names. The name 1stcreditcard could be good for a freshman domainer and the freshman traffic he draws. The domain name 1smallfarm.com could be an organic or agricultural inspiration. The travel domainer will to snap up 2010worldcruise.com. Rio fans will like the name 2016olympicstuff.com and worldwide gun fan domainers can grab 22colt.com.

The names 2fat2go.com and 2fat2run.com might be curiosity sites with swelling potential. Whatever website gets launched at 30dollargascard.com could be a gas. The name 360vpn.com could be a global hosting brand. And 3DpHp.com could be an animated scripting tutorial portal. And the url 4cheapticket.com could be the student travel site of the year. And 4dXd sounds like a luxury entertainment portal of the future.

For the organic crowd the name 4greentips.com could go swimmingly. And form fronters might like 4legalform.com as their calling card. Fore! Names like 4mygeo.com, 4nhl.com, 4mywin.com and more await at Pool.com in the numericals chum. The name 4singleparents.com could have an elastic traffic rate after 11 p.m. 4tarotreading.com and 4u2digg.com also vend at Pool.

Many church- names at Pool this round. The names cigarpick.com and cighub.com could be rolled into a profit. Cinemacrafts.com and cinemaobserver.com go on the auction block. The Halloween crowd might like the nom 666horror.com. Grocery retailers might like the name 777-food.com. The names 7figurethinking.com and 7figuretraining.com might get 7figure bids. 8-bet.com makes the casino crowd remember.

Finally, the name 95games.com might be a good portal for Win 95 time travelers. Alphas and more names dropping at Pool.com.

Chinese Firm to Buy Godaddy.com?

China and its leading Google competitors may soon be shopping down Godaddy’s lane. Bob Parsons may need to be raising some extra cash because Godaddy.com is up on the auction block. Reliable news or rumor? Domainers were stunned today when the Wall Street Journal announced the celebrated blog-era registrar and massive hosting company Godaddy.com is for sale.

Priced at about 9or over) $1 billion, Godaddy owns a significant share of both all internet domain name business and beginner-to-intermediate web hosting enterprises online. Domainers mourned that the days of the dollar discount and Godaddy coupon codes may sadly be over. Whomever buys Godaddy will have 43 million domain name contracts with ICANN intact, and the owners reading their new partner’s email at rapt attention.

Godaddy is in decent shape for an auction. The company posted revenue (after a few choppy years in a row) between $750 million and $800 million in 2009, and has a whopping 50% of web hosting market share hands down. This is one of the healthiest industries in America today.

Godaddy enjoys a reputation among online customers a reliable warhorse with flexible hosting plans for every level of computer user. Domain names and bundled third party applications canted at the beginner webmaster through the career website administrator regularly accompany domain sales.

The Scottsdale, Arizona company offers tiered web hosting services and discount-code name promotions that have kept Godaddy hopping with the general public and industry regulars.Internet pricing wars between web hosting companies led Godaddy to scale its offerings in every shape and size, including online carts, forums, security, and traffic building.

After several hard years shaking off many smaller hosting competitors,  and promotional representation by Danica Patrick (et.al) Godaddy is archly the common friend/enemy of most domainers.  Yet almost every domain name owner has a Godaddy account and/or hosting plan. Godaddy antics have been chewed over in the blogosphere by domainer cognoscienti daily.

Why sell Godaddy.com now? Speculators wonder if Parsons is low on cash or simply looking to take a profit in the best domainer tradition. Google has been suggested as a buyer, but more interesting acquisitions of Godaddy.com might be by Oracle, a company long rumored to try and match its hardware industry presence with online services and interactive client sales potential.

Certainly Oracle (or Sun, for that matter) could power their Sparcstations with self telephony and owned packets for a lower price that leased VPS or whatever redundancy they have now. If Hewlett Packard somehow assembled a leadership squad, then they might arise anew as the Internet business phoenix of all time.

Could Conde Nast or Trump be thinking of expanding online?

Or could China, newly emerging as the era’s leading moneymaker, pick off Godaddy and suddenly own 50% of the Western world’s hosting files? If a China firm marshals one of the private equity bidders to acquire the webhost monolith, China could grasp a tenterhook on Western media and global consumer eyeballs in a one-check power play. (And become Paypal’s new best friend).

Godaddy.com goes on sale shopped by Qatalyst Partners of London and San Francisco. (Danica Patrick not included).

Pool Skim for Thursday September 9th

There’s big apps hiding in the name chum at pool.com The sharklike domain name bidders are already circling…Names like kindview.com and kingnaif.com compete for buyers.  The name kidscolorit.com is made for a children’s coloring images site or directory of same. The domain kidsecoshop.com is vital with good re-use energy. The url kidsnotepad.com vends as well.

Real lingual opportunities in the auction today. Kiqbox.com should have a major kickoff. Kiteaviation.com and kit-junkie.com go different ways according to different drummers. The domain name beerdough.com could be the recipe for traffic success! And some thrifty domainer will bid on BeingScottish.com. Beingftnotfat.com bellies up to the bar as well.

More at Pool.com…

Pool Skim for August 31, 2010

The Pool lists continues to pump new domains to the surface of the auction waters. Swimming through the numericals, 12fruits.com and 12islands.com have dozens of possibilities. 16july.com could be a wedding date, birthday event or historical resarch website page. 1dayrefund.com could be the most popular consumer site of all time. 1clickcard.com is a credit card ad portal just drying to happen. 2010tees.com is a shirt company with an immediate future.

The domain name 1click2you.com could be an online  access portal or dating page. 1freemp3.com could have harmonious traffic. Phone numbers as domain names are as follows:  18002invest.com 2010-08-30, 1800guycard.com,  1800guycardonline.com,1800guycardstore.com,1800petsoap.com, 1800sailyes.com, 1800skindoc.com, 1800whisker.com, and 1800wrappers.com.

More at Pool.com.

Pool Skim for Thursday August 26th

The Pool.com list is full of active swimmers. 1000cuts.com could be the haircut and hairstyling website of all time. As usual the numerical domain names have a charm all their own. 1040 temps could be a tax form download site, one for every tax year going back decades. Talk about sticky traffic…and the site for 100K execs.com could be a whistleblowing site or a member’s only club listing.

00downlaod.com has a curious flavor and some serious torrent potential. And tendollardate.com is a name that could have make the grade for the 14-44 site visitor traffic demographic tied up worldwide. Many 1-800 names are in the Pool domain mix, such as 1800chad.com. The domain gestalt like the one 1800museum.com and 1800iowa.com complete this intriguing concept.

The deleting domain 1verseaday.com could be a Sunday school teachers dream site. Traffic would be faithful. Many 24hrs and 24hours beginner names and forex ones to boot,  e.g. 24fxtrading.com. 3dayfix.com and 3D-crm.com are curiosities for sure. 3Gtwitter.com is a hoot. Many names beginning with 411 vending this group. 4adinfo.com is self explanatory and short.

The names 4retired.com and 4satan.com visit the silver and black demographics respectively. 5forums.com is a keeper. 72bit.com could have hacker savvy all over it. 9-poker.com is a domain that lays its cards the table.

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