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.

Paypal Policies Change: MicroPayments

Paypal business fees and conditions will change starting November 1, 2010. Sifting through the cyclical update from the most recent Paypal policies changes, the micropayments option draws interest from domainers. The international fees Paypal deems “micropayments” for digital goods between countries not originating in Canada with a destination to the United States has some stiff underlying payment requirements and charges.

Ongoing changes to the Paypal agreement starting will include additional agreement that all billing for Paypal digital goods be consistent with Paypal terms and conditions. Paypal draws a 5-6% fee on incoming payment chargebacks under schedules in their policies. These are billed to the recipient as well as a one time additional micropayment.

Paypal has sketched a new picture for Digital Goods online, with separates rules for chargebacks. Application for digital goods status must occur with conditions set forth by Paypal. Distinctions for chargeback policies for digital, nontangible goods and “normal” tangible (nondigital) goods are defined.In some cases this may reduce total fees charged by Paypal from previously performed.

Paypal also authorizes third party profiles for your account in its newest set or revised policies. Mobile telephone numbers used for home numbers can be changed as Paypal sees fit. Online check payments have additional restrictions. Paypal will begin reporting in 2011 accounts with over 200 transaction payments received and income of $20,000 or more.

Pool Skim for Monday Sept. 27th

Deleting from the list today is a smattering of numericals and other domains. The name salad starts off with 1carrot.com and then progresses from there. This and 1dollarclick.com could bring some lettuce. The name 1nightnparis.com could be a bed and breakfast portal. 1stcollect.com could be a royalty site. 2010posters.com could be walled up.

The series 2012nflmockdraft.com through 1016nflmockdraft.com are dropping at Pool.com. A huge series of 24-7 names also drop. The domain 2minutecall.com could have staying power. The nom 3amtexts.com could have digital appeal. A series of 411- names also drop at Pool.com today. More at Pool.com.

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.

OnlineCollegeDegrees.com Sells Big for $22K

Get your wallets out, domainers are buying. The indications are good for developing education market and niche domain names again. The SEDO hot nom de jour was Online CollegeDegrees.com, sold for $22,800. This long but focal domain name will be successful capturing a huge and active traffic segment of both online services and education click and SEO eyeballs.

Also from the SEDO list, SwissTV.ch also headed the top European list of continental domains abroad. A domain movieshowtimes.com rang in $16K in change, and  visitnyc.com sold for just over $10K. Domain names such as modernspa.com sold for $5,5K and RussianTube.com vended at $5000. Sportsads.com sold for $3,000.

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 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 Saturday August 27th

The Pool.com auction channel features ongoing deletion and drop lists values in premium and first-drop tiers of selective bidding. The domain 0salestax.com makes a fabulous shopping portal or store directory. Any Ebay vendor would kill to be on that list. The dropping nom aprcreditoffers.com answers its own question.

The domain obucks.com could be a green re-use listing portal or a (gag!) appraisal site. That would be a site people would pay to get their wares off of.

Variants of 1-800 lazer eyes are vending in a herd. 1040-extension.com does not seem too taxing. 14th snap.com and 1800gymnastics.com could tumble to big domain sale flips. 1800webuild.com could be edifying. The name 1st2bid.com is a likely auction favorite.. 1websiteaday.com could be a domain fliing destination. Lots of 247 names moving through the list, like 247apps.com.

2coolforwork.com is a site that may or may not make the grade. 2fixcredit.com might be a good one for short paying short spellers. More at Pool.com….

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