New York City event will educate about Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs).

Few topics have received greater attention this year than IDNs. So it’s fitting that the first ever “IDN Event and Auction” will take place October 30, 2010 at the Haru Restaurant in New York City at 7 pm. The event is organized by IDNTools and will be sponsored by Register.com, Moniker and SnapNames.

The goal of the event is to educate domain registrants about IDNs, their value proposition, how to register them, the value of developing IDNs, the importance of connecting with local audiences, and we will also hold an IDN auction.

Although the agenda is not yet set, speakers include DotAsia CEO Edmon Chung, Elliot Silver, and Associated Cities Executive Director Patrick Carleton.

Early bird registration through October 1 is $99. After October 1 registration prices increase to $275.

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Trade-in your domains for a ticket to TRAFFIC South Beach.

This month’s Epik conference had a unique twist — you could pay for conference admission by trading in domain names.

I was a bit surprised, yet excited, to learn this morning that you’ll be able to do the same thing for October’s TRAFFIC conference. Rob Monster has worked out a deal with TRAFFIC organizers to let you pay for admission with Epik bucks.

To take advantage of the offer you need to send a list of domains to Epik quickly because the deal ends September 30. Epik will respond with an offer to buy your domains with Epik bucks. I suspect this offer will bring in a number of additional attendees to the conference.

Epik is also bringing SwapFest to TRAFFIC. The event premiered at Epik’s conference earlier this month. It was the first domain swapping event with a common currency and it worked — $100,000 in domains changed hands.

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Four character domain name appears to go from end user to end user.

NameMedia, which operates Afternic and BuyDomains, has brokered the sale of VSAT.com for $61,600. Historical whois records show the seller is Metro Communications Company, Inc of Illinois. The buyer is using whois privacy, but VSAT.com is now forwarding to VSAT.eu, the site of Elektrikom Satellite Services.

Other notable .com sales include:

lakegeorgehotels.com $18,000.00
collectionsagency.com $10,000.00
impure.com $8,800.00
modernbath.com $7,500.00
wholesaletile.com $7,500.00
glaven.com $7,088.00
amei.com $7,000.00
connecthealth.com $7,000.00
columbiamd.com $5,839.00
MagneticCalendars.com $5,600.00
visionize.com $5,400.00
smartteam.com $5,188.00
internationalmobile.com $5,140.00
secdata.com $4,888.00
sierrawest.com $4,788.00
kaese.com $4,750.00
taxfast.com $4,000.00
stylingstudio.com $3,988.00
utrackit.com $3,807.00
teleshow.com $3,670.00
alphabit.com $3,500.00
embryodonation.com $3,500.00
SolarSkimmer.com $3,500.00
ltue.com $3,404.00
globalreports.com $3,300.00
recoverygroup.com $3,190.00
theconflict.com $3,188.00
intaxi.com $3,000.00

The company also brokered diaspora.net along with Tucows’ YummyNames for $11,000. Other .net/.org sales include:

heaters.net $4,900.00
medilink.net $4,188.00
theconflict.net $3,988.00
nbha.org $2,889.00
airmattress.net $2,188.00
handblender.net $2,160.00
karisma.net $2,088.00
tandf.net $2,088.00
menergy.net $2,088.00
gazo.net $2,027.00

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