The Co-founder of YouTube Chad Hurley just announced announced on Twitter that he was launching his new Video site, MixBit.com which he purchased on Afternic.com less than a month ago for just $2,088. "The future of video is launching soon!" Says Mixbit.com Interestingly the same week MixBit.com sold for $2,088 on Afternic.com another version of the domain, mixedbits.com also sold for … [Read more...]
Snapname/Afternic Auction Ends Today & Has Over $50K In Bids
The Afternic.com spring auction closes today on Snapnames.com today at 3:15pm EST As of publication with 6 hours to go there are over $50,000 in bids. There are some nice domains in the auction including the three letter domains of gfa.com, vgv.com as well as a lot of nice one word .com's including Sweat.com, Proprietary.com, Fascinating.com, Actors.com, Acquittal.com, complimentary.com and … [Read more...]
Afternic.com Sells $1.2 Million in Domains
Afternic just issued its weekly reportable domain sales for the week of 3/11/13 – 3/17/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $ 1,200,994. Here are the reportable sales: Non-.com … [Read more...]
Afternic.com Sells $1.2 Million In Domains Led By B88.com For $20K
Afternic.com just released its weekly report for the week of March 4th-10th 2013. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $ 1,182,278. 11000.com which sold for $3K, follows my story the other day about 5 numbered .com domain names. Here are the reportable sales: .com … [Read more...]
.Menu One Of The First New gTLD That Should Launch Goes With Namejet/Afternic
WhatBox? LLC, the applicant for the new top level domain .MENU, has selected NameJet and Afternic to operate the sunrise and landrush auctions, and offer premium name distribution for the .MENU top level domain (TLD). According to a press release we received today, .Menu "is targeting restaurants and food enthusiasts in its efforts to contribute to the evolving online culinary … [Read more...]
Afternic Sells $1,050,000 In Domain Names Led By ChillerSystems.com For $18K
Afternic.com just released its weekly reportable domain sales report for the week of 2/18/13 – 2/24/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $1,043,176 All domain sales were led by ChillerSystems.com at $18K and we must mention the domain comingtoamerica.com a very funny Movie back in the day and a great call to action type of domain … [Read more...]
Afternic Sells $1.1 Million In Domains Led by DiscountLoans.com At $39,000
Afternic.com just published it reportable weekly domain sales for the week of 2/11/13 – 2/17/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $1,083,230 Sales were led by DiscountLoans.com at $39,000 and Clearwireless.com which sold for $12,000 probably to clearwire.com although the whois hasn't updated yet. Non-.com's were led by Hey.co … [Read more...]