Sedo starts new year off with big sale.

Domain name broker Sedo has sold the domain name Credit.fr for 587,500 EUR, or about $850,000 USD at today’s exchange rates. .Fr is the country code domain name for France. The big sale is a great way to kick off 2010, but I’m sure it will be surpassed by an even bigger deal soon.

Sedo brokered another six figure sale with assistance from Moniker, selling Migraine.com for $125,000. Migraine.com has shown Sedo as the registrant for many years, so it will be interesting to hear the background story on this domain.

Here are other top sales for the week.

.COM
mysports.com 60,000 USD
items.com 50,000 USD
cityhotels.com 40,000 USD
mys.com 20,000 USD
nghenhac.com 15,100 USD
8l.com 14,000 USD
460.com 11,501 USD
9l.com 10,099 USD
silkroadonline.com 7,610 EUR
withyou.com 7,500 USD
branchen.com 7,500 EUR
supermortgages.com 7,500 USD
psusa.com 7,140 USD
handytarife.com 7,000 EUR
wazeefa.com 6,500 EUR
rolly.com 6,000 USD
workincustomerservice.com 5,000 USD

ccTLDs
sdtirol.eu 9,900 EUR
möbel.eu 9,100 EUR
home.ch 8,000 EUR
casinoitalia.it 8,000 EUR
safety.sg 6,900 USD
mller.eu 6,600 EUR
testbilder.de 5,000 EUR
elove.co.uk 4,750 USD
galileo.es 4,000 EUR
ehling.de 4,000 EUR
booking.fm 3,500 EUR

Other
qe.org 20,000 USD
nursingscholarships.org 5,900 USD
are.net 4,099 USD
m2.org 4,000 USD
consulting.pro 3,500 EUR
jointhemovementnow.org 3,000 USD
massagetherapy.net 3,000 USD

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Two character .biz auction site has sold hundreds of domains.

Neustar has auctioned off some of its one and two character .biz domain names through Sedo and Moniker, but last month it started online auctions in conjunction with Pool at TwoDotBiz.biz.

Hundreds of domain names have sold on the auction site, and more sell each day. So far the highest sale is On.biz, which took home $8,100. Here are the top ten sales:

on.biz $8,100
qc.biz $3,300
88.biz 3,200
dr.biz $2,160
bc.biz $2,150
fi.biz $1,752
69.biz $1,650
nb.biz $1,550
un.biz $1,550
ri.biz $1,450

Auctions continue through the end of February. Right now a couple domains closing tomorrow are attracting lots of attention: UI.biz at $1,170 and 3D.biz at $1,010. With all of the focus on 3D media right now, you can expect 3D.biz to close higher.

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New domain purchase inquiry “form letter” making the rounds.

I got a suspicious domain name inquiry yesterday. It was suspicious for two reasons:

1. Whenever someone vaguely explains their reason for buying generic domain names, that’s a red flag.

2. I received an email from another domainer at the same time, who had received the same email.

It purports to be from some students/”small time entrepreneurs” in the UK looking to buy domain names. I’m not sure if it’s just someone mass mailing to try to buy domain names on the cheap because they’re supposedly students or if there’s something more at play. Here’s the email:

from Jonty Williams
date Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 2:11 AM
subject Purchase Interest – indirectobject.com

hide details Jan 7 (1 day ago)

Hello !

The purpose of this email is to outline our interest in purchasing the domain name indirectobject.com.

We are a group of students/small-time entrepeneuers studying within the UK educational system.
I, Jonty Williams am representing this group in reaching out to you.

We have an interest in investigating the potential associated with online business. At this current moment in time we have been testing the viability of making money from the development of in depth, information based, interactive websites.
It is seeming like an extremely viable market, with (in principle) easy access for anyone.

From our research, we have been made aware of the significant benefits of owning a good domain name. Specifically the benefits of owning a domain name related to developmental subject matter, such that a visitor is getting what they want, and expect.
This is the reason for our contact, and interest.

Of course, indirectobject.com is owned by you, and you have every right to do with it as you please. We do however hope that you will consider an offer of 1000 USD as sufficient compensation for exchange of ownership of said domain name.

We would be more than happy to discuss this proposition further, and welcome any questions/concerns.

Yours,

Jonty

Given that I have now received a couple of these myself and am getting reports of other people receiving them, I’d say these “students” have a large budget to buy domains.

In an effort to figure out the angle on this, I emailed them back yesterday to say I was interested. I haven’t received a response yet.

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