XP.com nearly cracks six figures at GreatDomains auction.

Bidding for this month’s GreatDomains auction at Sedo concluded today. Although none of the domains have changed hands yet, it looks like XP.com will be the top sale at $99,000. The domain was originally registered back in 1995.

BestPrices.com came in second at $81,000. BestPrices.com is an active web site with significant traffic. Sued.com came back this month with a lower reserve price that resulted in a much higher sale at $25,003.

None of these results are official yet, but here are other top bids:

bfc.com $18,400
khz.net $452
ahh.net 826 EUR
vgx.comnet $510
982.net 1,052 GBP
xhn.net $440
collectable.net $436
jiny.com $1,280
ambience.net $510
consumercontent.com $80
declined.net $121
desires.net $724
floorwax.net $70
bellyrings.com $8,899
dxb.com $22,500
nxm.com $4,100
zwm.com $3,600
2t.net $6,600
0a.net $2,450
object.net $1,160
sieve.net $559
selfproduced.com $100
usercontent.com $110
userpublished.com $70
musicbase.com $5,600
sneakpeek.com $3,500
travelguide.net $10,100
irishriverdance.com $70
lining.net $859
15.net $9,999

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Google Adsense shows off its platform.

Google Adsense is not an ad network. It’s an advertising platform, and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is taking steps to open it up.

Adsense is taking its next step to opening up the platform by allowing other display advertising companies to place ads on Adsense Publishers’ sites.

For example, Google may be able to offer you a $1 CPM on display ads on your site, while another ad network can offer $2. The other ad network’s ad would show on your site, resulting in more money in your pocket.

I foresee Google becoming an ad optimization system, similar to the parking systems that used automate which parking company to send your traffic to.

So isn’t this great news? It seems so on the surface. It should mean more money and convenience for publishers in the short term. Small publishers will win the most, as they don’t have the clout or time to shop around to different display advertising networks.

In the long run, competing ad networks may become more reliant on Google. Google will provide easy ad inventory to them, which will result in ad networks taking their eye off the ball on acquiring more ad inventory. You may even see ad networks pop up that have no inventory and focus solely on getting high-paying advertisers.

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Google Adsense shows off its platform.

Google Adsense is not an ad network. It’s an advertising platform, and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is taking steps to open it up.

Adsense is taking its next step to opening up the platform by allowing other display advertising companies to place ads on Adsense Publishers’ sites.

For example, Google may be able to offer you a $1 CPM on display ads on your site, while another ad network can offer $2. The other ad network’s ad would show on your site, resulting in more money in your pocket.

I foresee Google becoming an ad optimization system, similar to the parking systems that used automate which parking company to send your traffic to.

So isn’t this great news? It seems so on the surface. It should mean more money and convenience for publishers in the short term. Small publishers will win the most, as they don’t have the clout or time to shop around to different display advertising networks.

In the long run, competing ad networks may become more reliant on Google. Google will provide easy ad inventory to them, which will result in ad networks taking their eye off the ball on acquiring more ad inventory. You may even see ad networks pop up that have no inventory and focus solely on getting high-paying advertisers.

© DomainNameWire.com 2009.

Review and rate domain name parking companies at Parking Judge.

Related posts:

1. Yahoo launches “Adsense”-like program
2. Click Forensics, Publishers, Ad Networks Facing Traffic Quality Challenge
3. Yahoo to challenge Google Adsense