Join me online during today’s Moniker auction.

Coming off the heels of yesterday’s successful Rick Latona Auctions event at TRAFFIC in New York, Moniker gets the bill this afternoon starting at 4pm Eastern.

You can join Adam Strong and me in a live chat during the auction. We’ll get started around 3:50 ET. To join, go to tinychat.com/domains, pick a nickname, and enter password domains123. Or just go here.

Here are some of my thoughts on the auction:

.biz – All one and two character .biz domains have no reserve. They will all sell.

SwineFlu.net – $5k-$10k – I think SwineFlu.com sold for about this much, so the .net doesn’t make much sense to me.

eScripts.com – $5k-$10k – Used to be owned by Allscripts before they let it drop. In fact, I think I may have sold it to them, but it may have been another similar domain I’m thinking of.

NewYorkers.com – No reserve, no brainer

HonorRole.com NR – Given that this is a misspelling of HonorRoll.com, I’ve got to think the visitors to this domain aren’t on the honor roll.

NoseJobs.com – $25k-$50k – I helped a previous owner of this domain sell it several years ago. I don’t think it’s worth this much.

TrademarkLawyers.com – $5k-$10k – put up a simple directory site here and get trademark lawyers to advertise…earn your money back quickly.

Zimbabwe.com – $100k-$250k – I’ve given commentary on this one before. Now that Sudan sold for $120k, we have another decent comp on this one. Zimbabwe.com itself sold for $130k at Sedo in 2007. The likely buyer is someone who wants to shed light on the peril in Zimbabwe.

TermLifeRates.com – $2500-$5000 – it’s not “quotes”, but I still like this one

Raspberry.com $25k-$50k – good, brandable name.

Introduction.com $100k-$250k – another domain that has been listed before. Based on permutations of “Introduce”, I think this is priced high.

WoolSuits.com -$1k-$2500 – a great deal

If you have any domains in the auction (or not), feel free to add your commentary.

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Join me online during today’s Moniker auction.

Coming off the heels of yesterday’s successful Rick Latona Auctions event at TRAFFIC in New York, Moniker gets the bill this afternoon starting at 4pm Eastern.

You can join Adam Strong and me in a live chat during the auction. We’ll get started around 3:50 ET. To join, go to tinychat.com/domains, pick a nickname, and enter password domains123. Or just go here.

Here are some of my thoughts on the auction:

.biz – All one and two character .biz domains have no reserve. They will all sell.

SwineFlu.net – $5k-$10k – I think SwineFlu.com sold for about this much, so the .net doesn’t make much sense to me.

eScripts.com – $5k-$10k – Used to be owned by Allscripts before they let it drop. In fact, I think I may have sold it to them, but it may have been another similar domain I’m thinking of.

NewYorkers.com – No reserve, no brainer

HonorRole.com NR – Given that this is a misspelling of HonorRoll.com, I’ve got to think the visitors to this domain aren’t on the honor roll.

NoseJobs.com – $25k-$50k – I helped a previous owner of this domain sell it several years ago. I don’t think it’s worth this much.

TrademarkLawyers.com – $5k-$10k – put up a simple directory site here and get trademark lawyers to advertise…earn your money back quickly.

Zimbabwe.com – $100k-$250k – I’ve given commentary on this one before. Now that Sudan sold for $120k, we have another decent comp on this one. Zimbabwe.com itself sold for $130k at Sedo in 2007. The likely buyer is someone who wants to shed light on the peril in Zimbabwe.

TermLifeRates.com – $2500-$5000 – it’s not “quotes”, but I still like this one

Raspberry.com $25k-$50k – good, brandable name.

Introduction.com $100k-$250k – another domain that has been listed before. Based on permutations of “Introduce”, I think this is priced high.

WoolSuits.com -$1k-$2500 – a great deal

If you have any domains in the auction (or not), feel free to add your commentary.

© DomainNameWire.com 2009.

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Auction results are impressive.

With Rick Latona Auctions taking over as exclusive auctioneer at TRAFFIC conferences next year, a lot of people questioned if it would be up to the challenge. Many of those questions were answered this evening in New York.

The final tally appears to be about $1.25 million or so in sales. That’s a respectable number. But it’s what’s behind the numbers that should be applauded.

Exhibit 1: PinkDiamond.com. This domain sold for $18,000, a decent sale. What’s impressive is that the domain sold for just shy of $8,000 at Sedo over the summer. Within a few months, Rick Latona Auctions was able to more than double the buyer’s money.

I wasn’t personally at the auction and wasn’t able to tune in for long online, so I can’t speak to how well it flowed. I caught the first ten minutes and am happy to report that it started basically on time. That may be the first time in domain auction history across all auctioneers that a live auction has started on time.

Here are the top sales from the auction, according to Proxibid:

Rio.com $450,000
Whiskey.com $185,000 (hopefully this will shut up everyone with liquor domains who think their domains should sell for $3 million like Vodka.com did)
SchoolLoans.com $137,500 (includes web site)
iAuction.com $50,000
Porn.co.za $45,000
Boy.com $45,000

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