2 Big Domain Name Auctions To Close Tomorrow: DomainFest & Sedo .Co & Neither Have Much Bidding (that has met reserve)

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2 big auctions are set to close tomorrow and neither have many winning bids as of time of publication.

SnapNames.com is holding the extended auction from Domainfest which ends tomorrow Feburary 17th at 3:15pm EST

There are around 500 domains including all of the domain names that were in the Live Domainfest auction.

As of time of publication these are the only bids and all have meet reserve:

uzy.com $7,310

ipharmacy.org $3,050

miss.me $2,050

internetmarkets.com $1,050

whoyou.com $1,050

gnome.net $525

mermaids.org $325

Sedo.com Auction of Premium .Co Domain Names, many of which are owned by Mike Mann closes tomorrow February 17th at Noon EST

As of time of publication there are about 125 domain names out of the 200 in auction which have bids.

Casino.co has the highest bid of $12,345 but has a reserve range of $100K+

Bank.co has the second highest bid of $9K but the reserve range is $50k-$100K.

News.co currently has the third highest bid of $6,500 and its reserve range is $25K- $50K

Mp3.Co is currently the most active domain with 24 bids.  The domain is currently at 1,000 Euro and has met reserve.
At the time of Publication there are 8 domains that have meet reserve including:

Touchscreen.co $900

minijuegos.co $725

Fotos.co 260 Euros

Sexvideo.co $110

Slip.co $110

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

Comments

  2. Aniol says

    It seems like 9 domains have reached the reserve, but they are rather low value (with exception of mp3.co). The highest of them are:
    mp3.co 1.000EUR
    touchscreen.co 800USD
    minijuegos.co 725 EUR

  3. Alan says

    While Sedo has another day to go, I am still very surprised with the low number of bids.
    I guess its too early to flip .co’s

  4. Insurance.io says

    I predict 5 or more $250K .Co sales from this auction – smart, big money never comes into the action until the last half-hour.

    I was on Bido today – they’re starting to pick up alot of decent bids on the ccTLD’s…its nice to see some life over there.

  6. em says

    I’m sure there will be a few nice sales in the Sedo Auction. There are names with some pretty low reserves as well like universities.co and pizza.co. There are also a few in the $500-1000 and $1000-5000 ranges that haven’t met reserve but I look for most of those to sell.

  7. Brad says

    To be honest I think some of the keywords in the $10K – $24,999 reserve range are higher quality than many in the $50K – $100K+ range.

    Brad

  9. Aniol says

    “Btw., anybody knows of a non-Columbian website running on a .co domain?”

    Yeah, here some examples:
    lnk.co
    mybux.co
    challenge.co
    flvtubesearch.co
    angel.co
    baidu.co
    enladis.co
    joobi.co
    joomlathemes.co
    kenny.co
    challengeplus.co
    godaddy.co
    xrumer.co
    col3negmovies.co
    yakala.co
    blogspot.co
    metafizzy.co
    1199.co
    sexycora.co
    x.co
    onweb.co
    eddale.co
    blogcash.co
    zff.co
    twittervenezuela.co
    200.co
    shane.co
    freebookspot.co
    designersdigest.co
    sosyalmedya.co
    microjob.co
    gotit.co
    proxylist.co
    akan.co
    hamkari.co
    9movie.co
    tinylinks.co
    y10.co
    sovereignman.co
    crashproofprosperity.co
    0rz.co
    songz.co
    internetopportunities.co
    imtips.co
    iws.co
    internetprofessionals.co

  10. rkb says

    “I guess its too early to flip .co’s ”

    Or perhaps it is too late 🙂

    Will find out in a day…………

  11. James says

    @Good Domain Names – retouch.co for one. They will be using that as their main URL soon. I should know – I sold it to them 🙂

  17. Aniol says

    I am pretty sure LasVegas.Co and Casino.Co will sell for low-middle $XXX.XXX price, and I am quite sure these domains will sell as well:

    pizza.co
    solar.co
    hipoteca.co
    shop.co
    creditcard.co
    downloads.co
    movie.co
    billetes.co
    bed.co

  21. Brad says

    This statement came out of SEDO regarding their .CO auction –

    “All the good names are taken,” said Jeremiah Johnston, chief operating officer of Sedo. “For small businesses, this is a chance for them to upgrade their domain names.”

    Sedo has launched radio ads in a new pitch to promote their auction, which aims to outshine woebegone extensions like .net and .biz.

    “Those never caught on,” Johnston said.

    I am all for hyping your .CO auction, but a little reality check here.

    1.) There are 13.5M .NET regs
    2.) .NET is the second most popular gTLD in the world
    3.) There are 300,000+ new .NET registered every month with a net gain of 75,00+ per month

    I don’t think SEDO trying to throw a well known, credible extension under the bus is great for marketing. It looks pathetic IMO.

    Brad

  22. Aniol says

    @Brad:
    “I don’t think SEDO trying to throw a well known, credible extension under the bus is great for marketing. It looks pathetic IMO.”

    Well, Mr. Calle did exactly this. Was it “pathetic” of him in your opinion?

  24. Brad says

    @coCasino.co

    Fine with me. I own LasVegas.us

    I would prefer to own that city it its native ccTLD instead of the Colombian ccTLD anyway.

    Brad

  25. Burbank.CC says

    @Brad,

    I don’t rank .net in the top 5 extensions…times have changed, my friend.

    TOP 5 Extensions:

    1. .com
    2. .tv
    3. .co
    4. .org
    5. .me

    .net is either #6 or #7…fighting for that #6 spot with .cc. I see .cc being top 3 within 5 years, for obvious reasons and with a little help from the search engines.

  29. David J Castello says

    Burbank.CC
    You would seriously put dotCC above dotNet? DotTV and dotCO above dotOrg? The highest selling dotOrg is Poker.org for $1,000,000 (last year). It will be a long time before any TLD besides dotCom touches that. How soon people forget dotMobi. During its heyday, dotMobi had people crawling all over it (and this was when the economy was cranking). If anyone dared to criticize it you had the dotMobi Nazis swarming on you in a NYC heartbeat. No one seems to remember that now.

  30. Landon White says

    @ David J Castello

    I believe the era of domain auctions is over. We just negotiated a 20K deal for a small dotCom name to an enduser. In an auction, I doubt if it would have pulled 2K.
    ——–

    THATS …
    cause Billy Bob and his Ucle are hiding in the Auctions shadows
    and are keping artificaly the reserve LOW,
    so THEY can have it and Turn it around and secretly flip it later.

    Think about it, the nerve of any Auction/Broker to tell YOU
    to keep the RESERVE LOW … cause
    if its cherry, that’s the price it will be stolen for.

    To Auction House, Broker Bullshiters , Corporate Shills

    Domainers Are Suckers!

  32. Ludwig Boren says

    Very very strange auction, I think many last-second bidders are out there. It will be a great deal if someone buys a bunch of these domains at that prices. One could be the .co king :P, not that it is such an honor, but it’s all about marketing and developing the right way.

    Nice pick about touchscreen.co I think the owner has done a great work about reporting past sales, probably that’s why it has already met the reserve!

  33. domo sapiens says

    the question is :
    how many of those bids “under reserve price” are from other .co players?
    Knowing darn well there is no obligation, in additon it appears to me there is but 3 o 4 palyes on each of the names…
    the interest of rather lack of is Not a suprise at all, all of those names will become soon “hot potatoes” a la .mobi

  34. Karl Jackson says

    I one who firmly believes that the real “gold” are the .COMs. Just think back in the past when “first” toll-free numbers came out. What toll-free numbers are as rare as hens teeth? The 800 numbers of course. When people think “toll-free”.. 800 always come to mind. When people think of a domain name what TLD comes to mind?

  35. cm says

    I always expect 866 or 888 for any new stuff that comes out.
    Will be interesting if one day .com is viewed as old or an antique

  36. Dean says

    “If anyone dared to criticize it you had the dotMobi Nazis swarming on you in a NYC heartbeat”

    Now days it’s the .Co Cartel you have to worry about, Lol.

    Cartel definition from Wikipedia: It is a formal organization of producers and manufacturers that agree to fix prices, marketing, and production.

  37. Karl Jackson says

    Today is what counts. I have offers for up to $100K on .COMs. Companys like that would never invest that much in anything but a .COM. For a lot a domainers and investors this is a serious business not to be taken lightly. There are life changing domaining opportunities today that I think will be harder to tap into as much in the future. 🙂

    And yes, as soon a the “big” ones go they will be listed.

  38. cm says

    I couldn’t find anything about the .co auction on the cointernet.co site.
    They will not get any money, but would indirectly benefit if some of the
    best names were bought and developed/start receiving high traffic.

  41. Landon White says

    EXPECT PHONY SEDO RESULTS:

    Sedo Results will be stuffed with phony .Co punks
    shill bidding when they cant even afford a six pack…

    THE RESULT tomorrow will just be the wannabes griping
    to the raft so they don’t drown in there own BS.

    “The No Pays” at SEDO will be a record breaker HA.HA,

    SUCKERS YOU LOST! … GAME OVER!
    Wannabes that will NEVER be)

    Assume the position… LOL,LOL,LOL

  43. Karl Jackson says

    Hello gang, wow seems like I got my quota in today contributing. Yeap I believe in giving, winning and truth.

    To Landon yes you are correct in what “some” people do that actually is a minority. However here is a last sale I did on Sedo for a domain that was ALL dashes! Im in the us and the buyer is in UK. The domain? R-I-D-E.COM

    The “real” lossers are the nay sayers. Off to the poor house they go. Ya gotta be positive and deal with ONLY positive people and you will have success, love, happiness, etc. et. etc.

    Just wanted to show even dash domain buyers are out there! 🙂

  45. Landon White says

    @ Karl Jackson
    To Landon yes you are correct in what “some” people do that actually the majority.
    ——-

    Yes! I Agree, it is pathetic.

  47. Alan says

    If I was in charge of marketing the .co’s at GoDaddy or any other registry, I would price
    all of the .co’s and .com’s at the same price, that way if you can’t find a .com you would be
    more likely to take the .co rather then gamble 30 bucks when they return to their original price. It would then add millions of .co’s to the internet and become more widely accepted.

  48. Karl Jackson says

    Yes, but competing against the .Coms with a .CO in the “serps” would be major to consider too in as much as all you see is .coms rankingfor the most part.

  49. Robert Cline says

    @Alan

    You are absolutely correct.

    .CO must price them the same price as the .COM

    Otherwise registration is going to slow down.

    It is better to skin many sheep over and over again than to kill it.

  50. Robert Cline says

    One think SEDO does need to do is prefill the login fields.

    I would be bidding 5 x times more if i didn’t have to god damn login everytime I had to bid.

    SEDO prefill the login fields like ATT does it and like Godaddy does it and you will get 5 x times more bid.

  51. Karl Jackson says

    I think Sedo and Internic sold 1 Mil+ in domains last week. You would think Sedo had enough webmasters on payroll to make logging in a little more effiecient. Maybe soon hopefully.

  52. Landon White says

    @ Robert Cline

    I would be bidding 5 x times more if i didn’t have to god damn login everytime I had to bid.
    ———————–

    So there is one of the SHILL’S bidders confessing right here and now …
    James Kim is your real name …
    So SHILL lets see how many you end up owning, (winning) NONE!

  53. Karl Jackson says

    Karl here before I go to get rest. One of the reasons I sale a steady amount of domains as I said before in a previous post is because I own my own site that is Not an auction. And yes I am on Sedo too, but most of my sales come from my own site.

    I believe 2 trends are beginning to shape up. Number one, a lot more domain buyers rather hit a “buy Now” button and purchase out-right and number two they definitely don’t want shills inflating prices on domains they want so they are choosing normal domain websites where they can make offers, negotiate or buy now.

  54. Brad says

    @ Robert

    Being such a .CO fan, and with this once in a lifetime opportunity to bid on so many premium generic .CO names, it will be interesting to see which ones you end up winning.

    Keep up updated…

    Brad

  55. Aniol says

    Sedo Update:
    Interesting enough spanish keywords get most bids:
    mp3.co 25 (well, abbreviation)
    fotos.co 24
    minijuegos.co 22
    horoscopo.co 16
    videojuegos.co 15

    Best spanish keywords in the auction:
    hipoteca.co @ 1100EUR
    fotos.co @ 650EUR
    billetes.co @ 320EUR

  56. Joe says

    Currently on (standard) auction at Sedo:

    mens.co, 2 bids, $650
    consumersearch.co, 1 bid, $1000
    rofl.co, 1 bid, $200
    smartoffice.co, 1 bid, $300
    solarheater.co, 1 bid, $350
    hbb.co, 1 bid, $100
    modena.co, 1 bid, $100
    kualalumpur.co, 1 bid, $300
    dublin.co, 1 bid, 1000 GBP
    jointhearmy.co, 1 bid, $75

  58. cm says

    when i search for
    “Sedo auctions” (without the quotes) in Google

    Zoop.co is 9th in my list

    nice job Chris

  61. Brad says

    @coCasino.co

    “Shop.Co will sell for $300K+ in this auction…at a minimum.
    I expect LasVegas.Co to sell for $500K+ and Casino.Co for $650K+”

    Great predictions there Nostradamus.

    Brad

  63. domo sapiens says

    more kool-aid…
    so much for the .com is a typo.
    Really and truly poor results , low bids very few bidders (most had 2 guys) , not a suprise I say even much lower results all around then .mobi in it’s best days.
    The casino bids seem shill-y …

    In additon they are not sold till they are paid and change hands.
    down the hill now…

  65. domo sapiens says

    I got to see a 60,000 bid on casino.co that was immediately canceled by Sedo (closing the auction) , whatever the reason (most likely fake or shill)
    Good for them .! to do the right thng.

  73. Karl Jackson says

    As anyone may see from all my previous post it is the .COMs that sell, sell sell.

    Quite possibly many people did not realize GoDaddys Super Bowl commercial regarding the .COs did not fair very well.

    Anyway I agree with Aniol’s post that is was interesting to see that most bids were on the Spanish domains. With a little luck maybe I will sell VisasNorthAmericanas.com “It translates to American Visas.

  74. domo sapiens says

    no It doesn’t…
    get a better dictionary…
    (north doesn’t exist in spanish)

    I don’t understand people posting their names in desperation…

  75. Karl Jackson says

    Not desperation by no means my friend. I just sold one Today for $25,000.

    My Spanish is not the best and translation was from Google. However I
    appreciate the heads up. I will ask my amigo what he thinks.

    The reason I added the domain in my post is because I felt like it. 🙂