Domaining Europe has provided an update with regards to their online auction. Already, more than $100,000 in bids have been submitted. ABC.net is getting a lot of attention and is currently at $27,000. Domaining Europe takes place in Berlin from May 14 – May 16.
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“Domaining Europe” Auction has Something for Everyone
Amsterdam, the Netherlands— [May 11, 2017] — Even before Berlin opens its doors to the 2017 “Domaining Europe” conference next week, the event’s official online auction is off to a fast start at Undeveloped.com. Already, more than $100,000 in bids have been submitted apart from Whiskey.com, which is itself is valued in the millions. Further buyer interest is anticipated over the coming weeks.
Inventory spans all price points, with bids starting at just $1; so everybody can afford to participate. In all, 10 languages and 25 suffixes are represented by nearly 150 auction lots. Let’s look at some highlights.
Competition for ABC.net is fierce, with bids up to $27,000. This may be a tossup between 2 large corporations: TV titan, ABC, which owns the .COM, versus Google’s parent company, Alphabet, which has aggressively assembled a portfolio of virtually every other “ABC” domain imaginable – from ABC.xyz and ABC.biz to ABC.buzz and ABC.bingo.
SearchEngine.com gives Google yet another reason to pay attention – as does Buscador.com, which is Spanish for “search engine”, “seeker”, “prospector”.
Strong English dictionary words include Stereo.com, Aeroplane.com, Enticing.com, Gastronomy.com, and Journalists.com. It’s easy to imagine a food magazine entitled “Gastronomy” or a music brand called “Stereo”. And who doesn’t want good journalists these days?
Unclaimed 3-letter .COM domains are in short supply, making this a liquid and investable asset class. Not just acronyms but – rarer still – short words like OAR.com (English) and ZUT.com (French).
Visitors from the UK will appreciate Monday.co.uk, Imports.co.uk, Bankers.co.uk, Hobbies.co.uk, YA.co.uk, FlatInsurance.co.uk, UK.Events, and more. In the context of Brexit, everyone in Berlin has some perspective on the Europe.Club and England.Club.
Money can be made through Business.Loans or by selling backup HardDrives.com. Any travel booking site ought to jump at the chance to own Hoteles.es – Spanish for “hotels”. Equally fascinating is the city of Sevilla.com, home to 1.5 million residents … plus tourists. VC firms and stock-market investors should be smitten by Inversores.es (investors). And what real estate agent with Spanish-speaking clientele wouldn’t benefit from owning Tu.Casa (your house)? That’s a huge population throughout Latin America, Spain, and the United States.
German domains may catch the eye of conference attendees in Berlin: Angestellter.com (employee) is destined for recruiting or job search; Opern.com (operas) can sell expensive tickets to music fans and theater lovers throughout Europe; AktienIndex.com (stock index) is tied directly to money; Boulevardblatt.com (tabloid) deserves to be a gossip website; and Lebens.versicherung (life insurance) is surely a critical term for a massive industry.
Furthermore, we have Geschenken.nl (gifts), Calcinhas.com (lingerie), Stad.nl (city), Virtualrealitaet.ch (virtual reality), Skriva.com (write), Educacao.pt (education), SolarnaEnergija.com (solar power) – even a fashionable Parisian neighborhood, StGermain.Paris.
Short domains are sought after by collectors all over the world – notably in China. Few categories are as rare, and none so compact, as meaningful 1-letter domains like F.at and B.ag. Another domain “hack” for a lucrative industry, Insu.re, could function as a handy shortcut (like Taco Bell’s Ta.co). Many more domains in this auction are quite short: 5.at and 6.at, rare single digits for Austria, 4D.at (the 4th dimension?), Med.pt (medicine), and numerous 2-letter items.
This barely scratches the surface. Check out the full auction inventory! Last-minute tickets remain available for the 2017 “Domaining Europe” conference. Meanwhile, everyone is welcome to bid online. Even after the Berlin event, this online auction continues. Stay tuned!
Brought to you by Undeveloped.com, an Epik company
For further information, please contact Reza Sardeha, CEO of Undeveloped.com at reza@undeveloped.com.
Are you announcing google is bidding for ABC.net?
No. It wouldn’t be fair to bidders to announce their identity. And the text does not identify any bidders. Rather, it speculates regarding some of the bigger potential buyers with a history of similar purchases and a natural motivation to buy.
thank you for replying on his behalf:)
On the writer’s? Don’t mind if I do.
I would ask a Real Lawyer if that public statement… is a good idea?
Go ahead!
sorry I meant, the owner or writer, I don’t need a lawyer to know that by referring to a Trademark/Brand (not once but twice) you ‘could’ be risking be seen as acting in ‘Bad Faith’.
A tossup
“This may be a tossup between 2 large corporations: TV titan, ABC, which owns the .COM, versus Google’s parent company, “
By your standard, nobody can guess who might buy any domain. Person X wonders aloud about 2 potential buyers, and that proves bad faith on the part of Person Y – as if this unrelated person (who has said nothing) were targeting 1 specific brand owner? You also presume that identifying an interested buyer is itself a sign of bad faith or illegitimacy, which would invalidate 99.9999% of domain investing.
Sorry, not convinced.