A look back at last week’s top sales on Sedo and Snapnames .

Domain Name Wire will now publish newsworthy information about sales from SnapNames in addition to its coverage of Sedo sales.

But before discussing expired domain sales, there is a big .com sale to report from Sedo: Forums.com has sold for $399,990. The seller was DNForum owner and GoDaddy VP Adam Dicker.

Other noteworthy sales at Sedo from the past week include:

primus.com 33,000 USD
enterprisegroup.com 17,500 USD
delamaison.com 15,000 USD
tai.com 13,000 EUR
parisfrance.com 12,100 EUR
cheetahs.com (GreatDomains) 10,099 USD
afq.com 8,000 EUR
ofb.com 7,550 USD
veristat.com 5,000 USD
flylink.com 5,000 USD
statoil.ru 23,400 EUR
mama.es 15,000 USD
frey.fr 10,000 EUR
lastminutes.co.uk 5,770 GBP
automobile.cz 5,560 EUR
moviestelugu.tk 5,500 USD
hotelbarcelona.es 5,200 USD
convena.de 5,000 EUR
spot.in 4,600 EUR
onlinepokergames.us 4,500 EUR
play-blackjack.us 4,500 EUR
online-videopoker.us 4,500 EUR
roulettestrategy.us 4,500 EUR
rap.org 5,900 USD
cirruscasino.info 4,500 EUR
glucksspiel.net 4,500 EUR
sportsbookreview.net 4,500 EUR

The current Great Domains auction at Sedo ends tomorrow.

Here’s a look at last week’s top expired domain sales on the SnapNames platform:

cristina.com 25890
crafters.com 14120
minihotels.com 9420
photoclub.com 8240
verdi.com 5009
letteropener.com 2901
ferriswheel.com 2700
gudi.com 2600
bestcoloncleanser.com 2349
denverairport.com 2229
kaxin.com 2100
gardening.info 1770
rebeccasgarden.com 1659
mimi.net 1550
creditcardsnow.com 1450
penguingames.com 1450
vendingmachine.net 1400
dogdiarrhea.com 1399
maxuploader.com 1260
thismonth.com 1250
customizedbobbleheads.com 1250
lasllebank.com 1250
subprimeloan.com 1180
snowcrabs.com 1180
datemaker.com 1180
palmislands.com 1161
larochelle.net 1062
emedstoday.com 1050
iccidirect.com 1050
medivet.com 1000

Overall, I think FerrisWheel.com and SubprimeLoan.com look like the winners. It may seem hard to monetize FerrisWheel.com, but it could be used as a “branded” domain for a company.

In recent SnapNames auctions I’ve picked up WeeklyPlanner.com, MonthlyPlanner.com, and CelebrityProfile.com. I also picked up eCents.com, which has tons of potential, and YouthSummerCamp.com. I purchased SeattleHealthcare.com through the platform from a SnapNames seller (non-expired) too.

Please let me know if you find this sales information useful and if you have any suggestions.

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Famed domain name sells for $5,459.

The domain name that brought down Bido.com — FixedLoans.com — has helped the auction service get back on the radar. Just moments ago the domain name sold for $5,459.

FixedLoans.com attracted a lot of attention in August of last year, and the auction eventually caused Bido ’s servers to crash. The company decided to take some time off to make the platform more scalable. In previous auctions bidding topped $5,000 before crashing. The auction today wasn’t without a few glitches, as some visitors to Bido’s chat room stated auction information wasn’t refreshing in their browsers. (It worked fine in my FireFox browser).

Today’s auction looked like it might end for $3,629 before two bids were made in the final minute, pushing the price up to $4,078 and extending the auction for another five minutes. I suspect the final bidders didn’t realize the auction would be automatically extended, or they would have placed their bids with closer to five minutes remaining. The auction was extended several more times.

Upcoming auctions on the platform probably won’t top today’s prices, but should help Bido get back in a groove. Tomorrow DressOrganic.com goes on the block, followed by HipHopPhotography.com on Wednesday and MyAstrologist.com on Thursday. The week ends with an auction for BuyCheaply.com.

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My picks for the Aftermarket.com auction were right 82% of the time.

I used a stunningly complex methodology to pick the winners in yesterday’s Aftermarket.com auction at Domainer Mardi Gras: I made a gut call on whether or not someone would bid on the name. Yep, that’s it. No complex algorithms. No looking up advertiser or traffic counts. Just making a call.

I was right 82% of the time. I underestimated the number of domains that would sell. I predicted 57%; I calculate a 69% sell-through rate. Aftermarket.com is clearly setting the bar for sell-through rates in auctions. This feeds on itself; if a domain is in an Aftermarket.com auction then you can be fairly sure it’s a worthy domain at the price.

Here are the domains that sold that I missed:

CandyCane.com – $10,000 – I’m still shaking my head on this one. The plural makes absolute sense, but the singular doesn’t mean much to me. Oh well.

Jobless.com – $14,000 – not only did it sell, but it had 4 bids. I’ve always thought of it as unemployed, not jobless, but clearly this domain is counter cyclical

AirlineRewards.com – I’ve very happy this one sold. I bought it at auction a couple years ago, sold it to Craig Rowe of WhyPark last year, and then he turned around and sold it. Both of us sold it for more than we bought it, which just goes to show the market is still strong for lower priced domains.

Voodoo.com – OK, I just didn’t think someone would pull out 300 Gs at the auction. Well done. Kudos to DomainConsultant for having the guts to put this one in the auction.

ExerciseGuide.com
Suntanning.com
Dreamy.com

Here are the domains I thought would sell that didn’t:

RentalVillas.com
CashforSites.com

I’m sure Aftermarket.com is patting itself on the back for this auction. Between another solid sell-through rate and the Voodoo.com sale, it surely met expectations. Keep in mind that this auction had only 51 domains, compared to 200 or more at most domain auctions.

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