Moniker auction nets close to $20,000 in sales.

The Moniker Premium Spring Auction at SnapNames just concluded. Here are the (unofficial) results:

drivinggloves.com 6450 – this is a recently developed site. Auction included Facebook page (with 2,000+ likes) and Twitter handle.
florists.info 3050 – good keyword, but not a bad price given how marketplace for secondary TLDs like this will change in coming years.
loaninterestrates.com 2000
obese.net 1650 – 5 bidders duked it out for this one. It was the last auction to close due to extensions.
scubadivinglessons.com 1267
bearings.net 770
alumn.com 590 – not a very common spelling of the term
njlawfirms.com 575
grilled.net 500
32a.com 470
wyvn.com 300
upcbarcodes.com 300
overnightpriority.com 300 – not to be confused with Fedex’s Priority Overnight
joggingshorts.com 300 – definitely falls under the “niche” category
attempt.net 300

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Major League Baseball makes another big domain acquisition.

Just a couple days ago I was revisiting a post I wrote in 2010 about Major League Baseball’s domain names. The only change to the list since I posted was MLB picking up Angels.com.

But this week MLB picked up another one. Jamie Zoch of dotWeekly discovered that the league just bought Athletics.com.

That leaves just five teams that MLB doesn’t own the “exact” domain name for. Of the remaining domains, Rockies.com and Twins.com seem like they would be the most “available” given their current use and owner.

Now, let’s go back to something I tweeted about on Monday:

MLB has been paying a couple hundred grand per domain it acquires. It also got a late start with domain names. Itwasn’t the original owner of MLB.com. MLB.com was owned by one of the league’s law firms. (You can read the fascinating story of its transfer here.

All things considered, I bet Major League Baseball applies for .mlb. I don’t know if they’ll use it, but it’s relatively inexpensive and worth picking up just in case. And this just may be one of those cases where a brand needs to apply for a domain to keep someone else from getting it, since MLB could stand for multiple things. Like a law firm.

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Intuit picks up Apps.net domain name and other notable domain purchases.

The biggest name on this week’s end user domain sales report is Intuit. The company (of Quicken and Quickbooks fame) bought Apps.net for EUR 21,400 at Sedo. It already owns Apps.com. It offers Intuit Apps for many of its products.

Here are other domain name purchases by end users over the past week.

Sedo

Ad network Multi-View, Inc. made this week’s big $112,000 purchase of AHHA.com.

Travel Networks Europe Ltd, owner of rental car finder CarJet.com, paid 3,000 GPB for CarHirecover.com

Jasper Engines & Transmissions paid $2,000 for MyJapser.com.

The restaurant data company behind FoodServiceReport.com bought RestaurantData.com for $1,299.

Travel services company HOTELBEDS SPAIN, S.L.U. bought AttractionStore.com for $1,895 and ResortActivities.com for $1,295.

University of Toronto mathematician James Colliander bought CrowdMark.com for $995. It will be interesting to see what he does with it.

Afternic

Westport, Connecticut cycling/spin studio JoyRide Cycling Studio picked up JoyrideStudio.com for $1,495. It currently owns Joyride-Cycling.com and JoyrideWestport.com.

Embassy Loans bought the singular version of its domain name — EmbassyLoan.com — for $1,500.

Healthcare company Primary Care Partners in South Florida bought HealthyPartners.com for $3,788.

The Catamaran Company, seller of catamarans (a type of boat), paid $2,088 for LagoonCatamarans.com

Elite Estate Buyers Inc, which already owns EliteAuction.com, bought EliteConsignment.com for $2,088.

Business intelligence company Third Time dropped the hyphen in its domain name for $1,200 by picking up ThirdTime.com. Nice purchase.

Book publisher Health Communications, Inc, whose slogan is “The Life Issues Publisher”, bought LifeIssues.com for $8,800. Nice sale.

Godat Landscape Construction Company paid $1,388 for Godat.net.

ShortTermStays.com, an L.A. short term rental referral service, bought ShortTermStay.com for $2,100.

It appears that Lufthansa Technik has purchased LTCS.com for $2,500. The whois record for the domain doesn’t mention the company, but the registrant’s email address is LTCS.aero, which is owned by Lufthansa. The actual registrant is Gordon Weller, Sr. Director Customer Service & Account Management for the company.

Max New York Life bought MaxLifeInsurance.com for a whopping $21,000.

Affordable Power, L.P., which goes by the name APG&E, picked up APGE.com for $5,088.

The owner of Waverlyhomes.ca bought Waverlyhomes.com for $2,000.

Calgary Co-operative Association Ltd. bought YourCoop.com for $2,655.

A brand new company called Canada Carbon has purchased none other than CanadaCarbon.com for $1,995.

Instant Home Loans, Inc. d.b.a. Instant Capital, bought InstantCapital.com for a strong $14,500. Its web site is MyInstantCapital.com.

American Trash Management, a unique company whose mission is to “reduce the environmental impact, costs and problems of trash”, bought SmartTrash.com for $2,188.

Production company Flatland Pictures bought MusicProfessor.com for $1,888. Perhaps the title of an upcoming film?

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