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One of the questions I am often asked is how does someone register a single letter domain name. They are not owned by anyone, those domains are mostly registered to ICANN as “reserved”. The predecessor to ICANN was one man, Jon Postel. He reserved them for future growth. The idea was that if a zonefile got too big, it could be broken into chunks. Domains would look like this… www.domaintools.d.com. ICANN reserves the right to use these single character domain names. However, it is very clear at this point they will never need to be used the way they were intended. So the question is, why is ICANN still reserving these domains?

Jon Postel made 6 exceptions for the single letter domain names. He allowed trademark holders to claim a few of the single character domain names. Qwest Communications (NYSE: Q) got Q.com, X Bank got X.com (now PayPal/eBay), Nissan’s “Z Car” got Z.com, Inet Corp. got I.net (not currently resolving), The Open Group got x.org (now X.Org foundation).

I know several companies that have personally told me they would pay over a million dollars for the a single letter domain name. They are not all big companies that everyone knows, they are silent stealth companies that know the value of generic domain names. There is a huge demand for these domains and there is such a limited supply. I would like to propose an auction for these domains. The money raised goes towards improving and running ICANN, so the idea is to raise as much as possible from the auction. I personally think the best way to raise the most is to hold one auction slot a month. DomainTools would auction off the ability for the winner of a month auction slot to pick any letter from the available pool they want. We would auction off one letter a month from each TLD.

Every month there would be one less letter to pick from and the press about the auctions would continue to grow as we approached the last letter. The companies that secure a spot to pick first would pay a premium for it. And the companies that pick last would be fighting not to be left out. The guys in the middle might get the best deal, but would have to choose their letter from what is left.

The DomainTools auction system is very flexible and allows for bidders around the world to bid on domain names. We would want to insure that everyone has the ability to bid,  but to keep shill bids out, a pre-registration would be required for all bidders. The bidders would be able to watch a live feed of the auction process and see the other bids coming in as they happen, like we have done for our previous auction where we sold over $3 Million dollars in domains in one day. I would expect the first letter to be sold for 2 Million dollars.

We will be running an auction like this very soon and it should prove the model.  The winner gets the pick from any name available in the auction. We have seen that there are a limited number of high ticket bidders. So if we get multiple high caliber bidders and multiple high caliber domains it should set the market correctly. We find that domains often go cheaper at auction because not all the right bidders are in the room. This process is one way to offset that lack of bidders. The delay in not selling them all in one sitting also has the effect of getting more bidders in the room as press spreads of the event each month.

I love investigating Domain Spying!  I saw a case last night, and I think I need to publicly report what I am seeing so people know what is going on.  I see these cases all week long.  I am going to blank out any sensitive data from his email because he still wants to buy this domain and most likely will get it if he waits out the Domain Taster.

Domain Tasting in bulk can cause a lot of frustration for users that don’t understand the complexities of the system. I have even had a CEO of large registrar call me and ask about a domain he thought was being front run. I was able to troubleshoot the situation, and if people like that are confused I am sure the confusion is widespread.

I don’t believe any Registrars are spying on queries from people trying to register domain names and then registering the names themselves.  However, Verisign and ISPs are selling Non-Existent domain DNS queries. So it is much safer to do a whois lookup than it is to type a domain directly into the address bar.

Here is the letter I received:

This evening, a very valuable domain name was stolen from me while I was in the process of purchasing and registering it.

The domain name is: D*******H*****.com.

I did the search for the availability of the domain name (D*******H*****.com) at GoDaddy.com at approximately 10pm eastern time tonight (October 26, 2007) .

This is a typo domain of D*******H*****.com; and the keyword term “D******* H*****” is listed as receiving over 44,000 searches per month according to Overture. This typo domain name very likely has a fair market value of in excess of $5,000, possibly as high as $20,000 or more, depending on who does the appraisal.

This is extremely disturbing, to say the least.

The domain name showed as being available when I checked at GoDaddy.com; however, by the time I went to purchase it–along with several other domain names–this one suddenly registered as “not available”. All the others, which were MUCH LESS valuable, were available.

I then immediately performed a WHOIS query on the domain, and the info indicated that the domain name was registered today/tonight–again, quite coincidentally, within a matter of minutes after it showed as being available.

“Coincidentally”, this domain name was BY FAR the most valuable one I was registering tonight, and is one of the more valuable domains among the over 1,000 domain names that I own.

The Sales and Support Rep from GoDaddy.com that was assisting me in the purchase of my domain names this evening is Jared Donnellon. He was extremely helpful.

My local access ISP provider is CableVision, Optimum Online.

I have not initiated any correspondence to the thief/front runner. I will await feedback from you before I do anything like that.

Please advise me of my legal options in this situation, and how I can recover this highly valuable domain asset.

This is the first time that this has happened to me personally, however, I have colleagues who have large domain portfolios that have told me that this has happened to them so many times, it is out of control, and resulting in severe financial damage to them. I am also aware of your advisory report on Front Running.

I have blind copied some of the domain industry leaders and news sources here, as some have publicly expressed direct interest in this type of crime.

If you require any more information from me, please let me know and I will promptly respond. Thank you.

Below my name is the WHOIS information of the party who stole the domain name. I hope this email and the WHOIS information below is not considered to be anecdotal or incomplete.

Kind Regards,
*********

******
CC: President@GoDaddy.com–Can and SSAC-Fellow@ICANN.Org — Can you let me know any information or complaints that you have about the registrant listed below in the WHOIS data? Thank you.

PS–Here is the WHOIS information listed by the individual who stole this domain (D*******H*****.com):

Registrant:
Marketing Total S.A. (D*******H*****-COM-DOM)
P.O. Box 556
<SNIP>

My Response:

> *******,
> Thanks for the blind carbon copy. Using our database I can see that
> this domain has been domain tasted three times prior to this during
> 2007 - possibly more. This domain is being domain tasted right now. It
> appears GoDaddy’s domain checker is not real time. When you got to the
> checkout process at GoDaddy that is when they did a real check against
> the registry and that is why the domain appeared to be registered at
> that time. At some point today. I do not have access to run an EPP Info
> command right now or I might be able to tell you at what time they
> registered the domain before you. I think it may have been hours
> before you. I would recommend GoDaddy offer real-time checks rather
> then rely on zonefiles for checks. It has been a common practice to
> speed check against a local copy of the zone rather then checking the
> registry.
>
> DomainDoorman is a company that on the average day registers over
> 1,000,000 domains per day. The particular domain had been tasted on
> the 21st of this month as well. I would recommend waiting this one out
> and registering it when they ignore it. You have a 99.9% chance they
> will delete it with in 5 days. Do not click on anything on the page or
> even visit it. This would tip the company off that the domain is
> valuable. Check the whois at
>
> http://whois.domaintools.com/**************.com and we will record those
> records and preserve the history.
>
> Jay

I checked the EPP-Info information directly from Verisign the next morning (something only registrars have access to) and the domain had been registered at 4:00 AM on the morning of the 26th. More the 12 hours before registration attempt was attempted. I can see why people think Domain Front Running exists, but I have yet to see a case that I have not been able to explain. Perhaps it exists with some small no-name whois site but I have yet to find that site. I want to thank this person for providing so much information, it made it easy to track things down. I hear a lot of cases but they are normally not as well documented as this.

There are several things I would recommend the industry do to avoid these types of perception issues.

1. Help get rid of Domain Tasting. It times up a lot of domains that users are not able to register.
2. Fetch the creation time directly from Verisign and show it to users on this whois records IF the domain was registered within 5 days ago.
3. Have Verisign show the time of day the domain was registered in the whois. Currently they only show the date publicly.
4. Allow people to run real-time checks against the registry.

Next week they will be discussing a lot of these issues at the ICANN meeting in LA. I would suggest anyone interested to show up. ICANN meetings are free to attend and there are a lot of discussions like these ones but with a lot less facts.

ICANN has a stupid policy that allows gTLD registries to opt-out of showing thick whois information. DotTel tried to use this policy because UK privacy law doesn’t allow whois. Or that is at least what DotTel is telling us. The US Government denied the proposal and I have to say I agree with them. I love the US Veto power in this case! I think whois should be open and transparent.  Call me biased, but I have seen more good things come out of the open whois than bad things.  By turning off whois, it would allow criminals to operate more freely in the dark. My mother is in property management and it is scientifically proven that if you keep lights on all night long in a dark parking lot it wards off crime. If whois records and domain ownership goes into the dark, more bad will happen than we are already seeing. While I generally don’t like the US Government using the Veto power, I think it was a good call in this case.

My view is actually counter to my strongest belief, I would prefer that registries don’t publish thick whois records at all. I want Registries to publish thin whois like Verisign does. Then let the registrars control the whois of who owns a domain. The registrars are the official source according to ICANN so registries should get out of the business of publishing thick whois.

ICANN also needs to enforce the rules against registrars that don’t publish whois records for DotOrg and other thick registries. Registrars are required to publish records even if the Registry is doing it as well. When DotName stopped publishing whois records we figured out the registrar for the domain and then queried them directly to get the record.  Some Registrars publish records, but some do not. We have the only whois service that allows people to get easy access to whois records in DotName (at least for registrars that follow the rules).

I am glad the US Government stepped in but let’s get the thick whois out of the registries and into the registrars. I would also require registries to publish the IANA id of the registrar along with the URL of the Registrar’s whois server.

If you are a regular reader of Frank Schilling’s personal blog, you will want to re-subscribe to his blog. He is off typepad and on his own domain like all domainers should be. Head over to SevenMile.com and click subscribe. His old RSS feed is dead, so be sure to re-subscribe. If you are not a regular reader, now is a great time to start.

Typepad is good for beginners, but if you want your own blog make sure to do it under your own domain. Traffic is hard to build up for a blog, it takes months and months of hard work and a lot of posts. However Calvin Ayre of Bodog proved you can switch domains mid stream and the visitors will find the other front door if they are really loyal. (It also helps if you email them several times and they are addicted to your product. )

While I am announcing Frank’s new permanent URL. I think I will mention some other domainers that are fun to read. If the DomainTools Blog is not covering a subject, it is because one of these great guys already beat me to it. Subscribe to all of them and read them along with me. We are like one big newspaper.

• Richard Ball of Apogee.
• Sahar Sarid of Conceptualist.
• Ari Goldberger and Larry Fischer of DirectNavigation.com.
• Frank Michlick, Adam Strong, and Crew of Domain Name News.
• Andrew Allemann of Domain Name Wire.
• Peter Askew of Domainers Gazette.
• Roland Buck of DomainNews.com.
• Milton Mueller of Internet Governance.
• Dominik Mueller of Dmueller.com.
• Mark Fulton of DotSauce.com.
• Elliot J. Silver of ElliotsBlog.com.
• Joe Davison of NameStrategy.com.

I recommend full feeds, not partial feeds. It is much easier for someone to read your blog this way (your audience will also grow faster and link to you more). There simply is not a HUGE blog out there that has partial feeds so please open up your feeds. Go full feed. Say “No” to partial. I know it is tempting because you see more page views in your log files and that makes you happy. But frankly page views are an old way of measuring success for a reading based media source. A blog’s success should be measured by a third party RSS counters like feedburner. If you want to make money with your blog, put the ads inside the feed or get creative. Don’t quote page views to potential sponsors, quote them readership base. People can read your posts via email delivery or via an RSS Reader like (Google Reader). End of rant.

One last thing, if I did not mention your blog, feel free to post it in the comments below, I think there are 50+ domain blogs out there and I try to read them all. I may not get any work done, but I know what is going on. It seems like last year there were none. We have come a long way in this industry, perhaps in 2009 we will all have vlogs.

I saw this interesting Google Ad today. I saw the ad inside my gmail account, but the weird thing is that this ad was for a PPC page. The ad was for the domain name “V V hite House.com”, which looks like whitehouse.com. Is this an Ad designed to arbitrage Google traffic, or is the domain really being sold or leased? The ad took me to a PPC page over at Oversee with no ability to buy the domain or lease it. The only thing on the landing page was a bunch of PPC ads. Perhaps this ad is being shown on PPC pages as well, which would really complete the circle. When a parking page is being advertised, you know something odd is going on. I honestly thought the domain was being sold but it turned out to be an ad for a parking page.

Upon a deeper check I took a look at the whois record for vvhitehouse.com and it appears to be owned by Domainamania.com LLC, which is a snapnames company, which is an Oversee company, which is the company that actually parks the domain. The domain whois record said it was listed for sale at Sedo for $2500. So I visited the Sedo for sale page for the domain and it had this description:

The ClickAlike.com portfolio includes look-alikes for many of the highest priced generic domains ever sold, including some of this years top-selling domains. ClickAlikes are a whole new breed. Clickalikes can be a thrifty and clever fiat to enable otherwise unattainable marketability. Because ClickAlikes convey the same meaning as the actual generic domain, (for example, www.incorporation.com can be represented as www.lncorporation.com), they can be an extremely important asset in driving web traffic.

Which means Click-A-Like domains cost $6.42 to register and can be sold for $2500. That is a nice profit. I wonder if anyone is buying them? If so, I can see a bunch of domainers going out and registering these types of domains. I went over to the domain being advertised (ClickaLike.com) in the Sedo description and it was a parking page. Go figure.

UPDATE: My deeper check that showed the domain was for sale on Sedo was half correct. The previous owner had listed it for sale on Sedo and it is still listed. Sedo has no automated mechanism of removing the old listings, so there may be a lot of old listings that are not truly for sale. Snapnames and Oversee are not associated with ClickALike.com. That description must have been the previous owner. Snapnames registered the domain for $6.20 this summer on a drop. Snapnames claims no ownership of the Google Ad. So it appears on the surface that the old owner (JB of WirelessGarden.com) is still running advertising to sell or lease his old domain which he failed to renew in April of this year. Wow. You see something new everyday.

ICANN’s Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC ) has issued an advisory on a process known as Domain Name Front Running. It is a practice of stealing someone’s domain name search queries and registering the domain name before the original person can register it. Let’s say you find a domain that is available for registration. If someone steals your idea and registers it before you, it is like holding you hostage and is called Domain Spying or Front Running. The SSAC was not able to find any hard evidence during their first inquiry so they are issuing the advisory for people to come forward with good hard evidence it is happening.

“Much of the information presented before SSAC regarding domain name front running is anecdotal and incomplete. The information SSAC has reviewed allows us to observe that some part of the community believes monitoring practices that result in preemptive registration of domain names have occurred and that such practices are not acceptable. SSAC is concerned that, whether real or perceived, preemptive registration portrays an unfavorable image of the domain name industry. This Advisory is therefore a preliminary study and is intended to put the issue before the community for discussion and to solicit well-documented incidents, if any can be obtained.”

There are several ways that spying could occur:

• Client software.
• 3rd Party WHOIS query portals.
• Unauthorized executables.
• DNS operators.
• Registrars (and resellers).
• Name Spinners.
• Registries
• Information leaks, social engineering.

Basically the SSAC is looking for hard evidence that this spying exists. If you can help with hard evidence, please contact them. I would encourage people to perform their whois query via our services as I can guarantee we are clean. We have also published ways that stealing can happen even if using our service. It is possible for spyware on your computer to steal your queries or even DNS queries at your own ISP.  It is possible that a Registrar or Reseller is stealing your query. It is also possible that a Registry is leaking the information to Domain Tasters. Never type a domain name into a browser and see if a website exists. This is a horrible way to test if the domain exists because you are leaking the DNS query to global root servers and your ISP’s DNS servers. Major ISPs sell click stream data and non-existent domain name results.

As another side note. Our Bulk Check utility is not real-time. We run the results against a zonefile that could be up to 12 to 24 hours delayed. If you need a real-time query, please run it manually on our services. Domain Tasters are testing millions of domains a day that have been previously registered and that takes a lot of good names off the floor everyday. The only good news is that Domain Tasters generally throw back 99.9% of the domains within 5 days.

There will be a public forum next week at the LA ICANN meeting and I would encourage people to show up and speak out against Domain Tasting. I think Domain Tasting is causing a lot of damage to people, but it is hard to measure. People assume that names are being spied on while I find that the most common thing is Tasters that re-filter old domains over and over again.

A new hope has just surfaced against the Verisign-ICANN monopoly. ICANN granted Verisign a contract that has no ability to end and has price increases that are baked into the contract forever. The new hope is an underdog watch group known as the “Coalition for ICANN Transparency, Inc.” (CFIT) that has filed a motion to declare the Verisign-ICANN contract a monopoly according to the Sherman Act. This is the third time they have brought the suit against ICANN and Verisign. The head lawyer on the case is Bret Fausett a sharp ICANN observer. There is not much hope that CFIT will win against such a titan, the other side has been able to get the case dismissed two times before, however I think the case is very strong and very accurate. The reason CFIT will face an up hill battle is because ICANN and Verisign have a lot of money to fight the lawsuit. Verisign has an extra $20 Million a year thanks to the contract and ICANN and VeriSign baked in a new ICANN fee that would be assessed on VeriSign and passed on to the registrars and ultimately passed on to consumers. This fee would result in excess of approximately $150 million dollars to ICANN over the contracted period of time and would be an end run around the existing ICANN budget approval process. The Court has already recognized that to eliminate competitive bidding violates the Sherman Act. The CEO of Tucows went on public record that they could provide DotCom registry services for $2 a name, which prompted the CEO of GoDaddy, the world’s largest registrar, to say that GoDaddy could do it for a dollar a name. Meanwhile the Chinese Registry CNNIC has figured out how to do provide global registry services for 13 cents a name per year. There is certainly a competitive market to run the DotCom registry.

So while the challenge is for CFIT to prove Verisign has a Monopoly in the eyes of the court, this will be a David vs Goliath type of fight that has a lot of valid points. What ICANN did was to grant a contract which goes against its own Bylaws and the Memorandum of Understanding between ICANN and the United States Department of Commerce, one of ICANN’s core missions is to promote competition. The DotCom contract now contains a “presumptive renewal” provision, which by its nature hinders competition. The proposed DotCom contract, however, goes much farther than the existing contract by strengthening the presumptive renewal and termination provisions on behalf of VeriSign, thereby making it virtually impossible for VeriSign to lose the DotCom registry and impossible to reap the benefits of competition. With price increases baked into the contract it also makes it nearly impossible for ICANN to take out the language of price increases. Next time the contract is renewed ICANN is obligated to extend the same terms and conditions and those price increase will continue to go up faster and faster. If that doesn’t make your blood broil then you don’t own a domain name.

The way the current contract reads Verisign has a monopoly and there is no way to break it. No other Registry can bid when the contract goes up for renewal. Prices will always go up and ICANN is mandated to continue renewing the contract. Verisign has a lock on ICANN and now owns the DotCom registry forever. The only hope we have is that the ICANN-Verisign contract is found to be a monopoly and a truly competitive bid is allowed on the Registry contract in the future.

Ask your Registrar to support the CFIT case financially. Only do business with a registrar that supports overturning the Verisign Monopoly.

I have taken three days off this week to attend the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. There are no new brands being launched but there are a lot of interesting people in the hall ways that I am talking to. Domain conferences are good and comfortable but some real business can take place when talking with people in different sectors. It was well worth the trip to come down here and meet a few of these people. I think I like TechCrunch 40 conference better because it had all the startups and that is more entertaining to watch. However this conference has a lot of important leaders of established tech companies and it was very easy to approach people and talk about deals. I found out that Jay Adelson of Digg used to be an old sysadmin and loves our site and uses it all the time. MC Hammer was here, he has a new company called Dance Jam. I met Chad Hurley the founder of YouTube. Overall this is a very good place to make new business development deals and see what neat features these companies are coming out with.

There are a lot more Domainers running around as well, Champ Mitchell (CEO of Network Solutions), Rob Hall (CEO of Momentous), Roland Chemtob (Branded Holding Group), Rob Monster (Domain Strategies), Victor Pitts (Moniker), Andrew Miller (Internet Real Estate), and Mike “Zappy” Zapolin (Internet Real Estate).

It has been about two months since we moved into our new office space in Seattle. We have fixed the place up a bit and invited a few friends over to celebrate the move. If you are in Seattle on Tuesday, you are welcome to the open house. The event is at 6:30pm on Tuesday and no RSVP is required.

Our address is: 2211 5th Ave, Seattle, WA 98121

We expect about 100 or so people. Parking is free on the Streets in Seattle after 6pm and there is plenty of parking around the office. We occupy two connected buildings off of 5th AVE and Blanchard St.

Computer.com flips again for $2,200,000. The domain has been in a Superbowl commercial and has a lot of owners over the years, but every time it goes to auction it gets more expensive. This was the only domain that sold for more then a million dollars.

Investment.com sells for $900,000 but OnlineInvestment.com sells for $9,000. It goes to show not many domains can sell for more then $100,000.  There were 12 other domains that sold for more then $100,000. It takes a special domain to go 6 digits at an auction. SportingGoods.com goes to bat at $450,000. The CowBoys football team scores a new address for their team at Cowboys.com for a cheap $275,000. The generic category of CateringService.com is fully baked at $270,000. Someone sets the Table.com for $260,000. My personal favorite of the big boys is CrosswordPuzzles.com for $210,000. If you want to find evil lawyers, try this new site, CriminalLawyers.com for $195,000. Some club promoter ponied up Promotion.com 8,500 admission tickets at $20 a pop ($170,000). If you want to play Poker on your mobi head on over to Poker.mobi which cashed in for $150,000. The songs can be downloaded at Ringtones.mobi for $145,000. People can now better plan a trip at CaribbeanVacations.com for $130,000. A new couple may want to visit Newlyweds.com which was gifted at $130,000. Or the singles can head to a new dating site at SinglesOnline.com for $125,000. If you want to figure out what is going on in the world just read News.mobi for $110,000.

Due to all the demand, DomainTools will be holding an auction in November. More information will be coming soon. Meanwhile enjoy the full results of the auction as if you where in my head.

Lousy Insurance.com	$1,000	Registered 24 hours before during a game. Proceeds went to the ICA.
Ticker Symbols.info	$750	Hmmm… Odd domain and it is a DotInfo. Not sure I see the value.
MotorPool.com	$5,000	Great generic. This will be easy to flip.
Comic book Store.com	$13,000	If a site could locate local comic book stores this site would make money.
Chinese Checkers.com	$6,500	Bargain, I wish I had purchased this. Chess.com would be worth a lot more.
Speaker Of The House.com	$750	Cheap, but I am not sure what goes on this site.
Pleasure Yachts.com	$3,750	Mega Yachts.com sold for $150,000 in June 2007
Street Maps.net	$2,000	Looks like a Microsoft product.
Art Deco Furniture.com	$5,500	Great domain for a company that sells this stuff.
Deposit.net	$4,000	Seems like a product of Authorize.net
Repossessed Cars.com	$7,500	Want a cheap drug dealer’s car?
Tuxedo Rental.com	$65,000	I like the name, but it is too off-line of a product.
Voice Recognition Software.com	Pass
Emergency Loan.com	$13,000	Quick, I need a loan
Massachusetts Real Estate.com	Pass
Download Movies.net	$4,000	Seems like it would be hard to SEO for. And not enough type-in traffic on DotNet.
Virtual Office Space.com	$4,250	What is Virtual Office Space?
Poker.mobi	$150,000	Seems rather high. I must be missing something.
Discount Tours.com	$21,000	I am not sure this is focused enough. There can’t be a lot of traffic here.
Borrow.net	Pass
Office Supply Stores.com	Pass
Dog Boarding.com	$25,000	I thought it was a new sport. Then it struck me. Dogs need a place to stay.
School Teacher.com	$28,000	I think this is how much a school teacher makes per year.
Tennis Rackets.com	Pass
Gold Plan.com	$6,000	Hostway is number #1 in Google for this.
Podiatrists.com	Pass
Wifi.us	$5,500
Cash.mobi	$12,500
Debit.com	Pass
Prime Interest Rate.com	$5,500	Another good one I missed. Nice and cheap. Good SEO target here.
411 Information.com	$4,000
Home Budget.com	Pass
Check Cashing Service.com	$13,000
News.mobi	$110,000
Home Based Businesses.com	$23,000	HBBs are big business. This name looks cheap at this price.
Cholesterol.net	$15,000	… and this one looks expensive.
Catering Service.com	$27,000	With sub-domains like Seattle.CateringService.com I would love this domain. Good development potential.
Invest.net	Pass
Auto Financing.com	$75,000	Great Brand to advertise or use with arbitrage
Bull Dozers.com	Pass
House.net	Pass
Crossword Puzzles.com	$210,000	One of my personal favorites. Please develop this out!
Investment.com	$900,000	I think this was cheap.
New York City Museums.com	$5,000	Good value. Terrific SEO ability here but a lot of work.
Discount Software.net	$5,000	Is DiscountSoftware.com worth $50,000. Yep. So good value.
Cemetery Plots.com	$15,500	Last minute bidding war on this one. It was pulled back after an initial pass.
Cysticfibrosis.org	$17,000	Good for a charity!
European Vacations.com	$85,000	Seems high, it would take a lot of work to develop this. But the sky is the limit with it.
Global Positioning System.com	Pass
Pension Plan.com	Pass
Sports Scores.com	Pass
Wallstreet.com	Pass	No one from Wall Street wanted this.
Golf Clubs.net	$30,000	Seems expensive for the DotNet
Bank Auctions.com	$17,500	What is a Bank Auctions?
Discount Cruises.org	$3,500	Cheap brand but I don’t like the DotOrg for this.
Virus Protection Software.com	Pass
Teen Chat.net	Pass
Payment Calculator.com	Pass
Promotion.com	$170,000	Pronominal Brand. But that is a lot of tickets and promotion.
Taxes.com	Pass
Fast Mortgages.com	Pass
Email.mobi	$50,000	Email.com is worth at least $3,000,000, it is a wait and see about Mobi
Buy.mobi	$32,500	Buy what? Buy.com is advertising, so that has to help this one.
Financial Counseling.com	Pass
Industrial Engineering.com	$17,000	I am sure some company out there wants this.
Lotto.info	$12,500	Seems cheap!
Sports Auction.com	Pass
Wood Cabinets.com	Pass
Computer.com	$2,200,000	The big question is… Who was on the phone? Is it Dell? Is it Gateway? I am glad we get to find out soon.
Digital Certificates.com	$30,000	I am surprised Verisign didn’t buy this.
Delaware Insurance.com	$12,000	Geo names sell for less because the market is more narrow but I think they are better buys.
Professional Shoppers.com	Pass
Concert Tickets Online.com	$7,000	Ticketmaster hates competition.
Free Movies.net	Pass
Medical Transcription Service.com	Pass
Aids.net	Pass
Chocolate Candy.com	$26,500	Great name! Better SEO ability then Chocolate.com or Candy.com
Automobile Parts.com	$70,000	Car Parts seem more natural.
Crow.com	$48,300	Reminds me of Raven.com
Discount Pet Supply.com	$7,500	Terrific price. I missed this one.
Science Fiction.com	Pass
Pool Sticks.com	Pass
Tourettes.com	Pass	Good name, but not sure how someone monetizes it. Good for a charity.
Tennis Player.com	Pass
Snowmobile Accessories.com	Pass
Stock Quotes.com	Pass
Online Investment.com	$9,000	100 to 1 ratio because of the word Online is in front.
Organic Farms.com	$57,500	Sweet Brand. But it will take some natural elbow grease for this one.
Ethanol.com	Pass
School Trips.com	$12,000	Not sure I understand this one.
For Sale.org	$12,000	Everything is For Sale.
Pda.mobi	$8,000	Doesn’t make sense
Podcast.mobi	$25,000	Hmmm
Elections.com	Pass
Corgis.com	$10,000	Buy a dog online.
Certified Organic.com	$21,000	In the right hands this is a very strong domain.
Sicilian.com	Pass
Caribbean Vacations.com	$130,000	Terrific for a travel site.
Photographers.com	Pass
South Padre Island Real Estate.com	$3,500
Public Opinion Polls.com	$4,000
Tollfree Phone Numbers.com	$16,000	Hard inventory to SEO for.
Certified Public Accountants.com	$30,000	Excellent name. I would develop this. CPAdirectory.com has a site that would fit this.
Ankle.com	Pass
Kuwait.com	Pass
Family Cell Phone Plans.com	Pass
St Marten Real Estate.com	Pass
Sports Agent.com	Pass
Blood Test.com	Pass
Shopping.mobi	$55,000	Should be big if Mobi takes off
Ringtones.mobi	$145,000	Ringtones and Mobile phones. Who would would have thought it? I think this should have been at least $200,000. Flowers.mobi is lamer then this one.
Ghetto.com	Pass
Zipcodes.mobi	$8,000	I don’t understand this domain.
Income Tax Return.com	$30,000	Should be big in March and April
Money Lenders.com	Pass
Deli.com	Pass
Copiers.com	Pass
Bookclub.info	$4,500	Not really sure about this one.
Hospitals.us	$8,000	Not sure about this one either.
Spaghetti Sauce.com	$11,000	Recipes and Coupons, insert here.
Luxury Yacht.com	$20,000	Lot of Yacht domains in this auction. I wonder why?
Reverse Telephone Directory.com	$30,000	Great SEO domain.
Communication.com	Pass
Prepaid Cellphone Cards.com	$750	What is a prepaid Cell Phone card? Is that a sim card?
Exercise Class.com	$4,000	Doesn’t seem like it should be online
Amusement.com	$60,000	The Brand is brilliant. But I am not sure how to use it.
Low Interest Loans.com	Pass
Personals.net	Pass
Miniature Golf.com	Pass
Cable Television.net	$7,000	I don’t like this one.
Consumer Electronics.com	Pass
Home Mortgage Rates.com	$26,000	I think Home is redundant in this domain. Seems expensive.
Starting a Small Business.com	Pass	Do people aim to be small?
Lotto Results.com	$25,000	Seems like a great domain for a company that can data mine.
Home Stereo.com	$30,000	NetShops type of domain.
Sporting Goods.com	$450,000	Huge category
Cowboys.com	$275,000	Sold to the Cowboys Football team.
Draftboard.com	$4,000	Niche Shopping, seems logical
Dentists.net	Pass
Car Races.com	$8,000	I don’t understand the value.
Mortgage Rates.org	Pass
Carburetors.com	Pass
Math.net	Pass
Cigar Bars.com	$6,000	Is smoking still allowed?
Leather Furniture.com	Pass
Reno Apartments.com	$4,500	Seems like a natural domain that just do well.
Fertility Doctors.com	$55,000	I think this should have sold for a lot more!
Glass Block.com	Pass
Telephoto Lens.com	$4,500	Great Micro-Store type of domain
Location.net	Pass
Venus Fly Trap.com	Pass
Card Stores.com	$8,000	Go Directory type of domain.
Supplying.com	Pass
Scientists.com	$50,000	Very Broad, Not sure about this one.
Manufacture.com	$90,000	Excellent domain.
Xmas.com	Pass
Electronic Greeting Cards.com	Pass
Fragilex.com	Pass
Bill.mobi	$3,000
Business Class Airfares.com	$8,000	Good PPC term
Allergy Medications.com	$16,000	If developed a site like this could make $100 a day, easy.
Airline Tickets.org	$8,500	Not sure I see this one.
Malpractice Attorneys.com	$18,000	Attorneys that sue bad doctors earn a lot of money.
Rap Videos.com	$70,000	Absolute steal at this price.
Log Home Kits.com	Pass
NewlyWeds.com	$130,000	Excellent brand!
Mortgage Points.com	$2,700
Bad.com	Pass
Document Translation.com	$4,500	I think this is low because of Auction Coma
Choppers.com	Pass
Oil Drilling.com	Pass
Idols.com	$19,000	There is no PPC for Simon Cowell
Semen.com	Pass
Banners.com	Pass
Basketball Online.com	Pass
Election 2008.com	Pass	Shelf life on this domain is going stale quick
Software.info	$8,500	Excellent buy! Dotcom was sold for more the $2 Million
Christmas Gift Baskets.com	$25,500	Very popular shopping term during Christmas
Scores.mobi	$33,000	Seems expensive
Estate.com	Pass
Girl Blog.com	$4,000
Pregnancy Centers.com	Pass
Design Studios.com	$8,600	I don’t understand this one.
Truck Loan.com	$16,000	Seems like a good one. I thought about buying it.
Sambuca.com	Pass
Singles Online.com	$125,000	Seems like a brand rather then search phrase.
Billy Jean.com	$3,500	Billie Jean or Billy Jean. Is that why it was low? Or was it Auction Coma again?
Yardsale.org	Pass
Take Part.com	$17,500	Seems expensive
Grapes.com	Pass
Martial Arts.com	Pass
Last Minute Airfare.net	$4,400	Good SEO phrase
Pesos.com	Pass
Custom Rims.com	Pass
Races.com	$75,000	Generic, Yes. But I think it too high priced. Races what?
Contraceptives.com	Pass
Drug Rehabilitation Program.com	$8,000	Good SEO Phrase
Individual Savings Account.com	Pass
Conventions.org	$10,000	It would only make sense with the DotCom
Aircraft Rental.com	$17,500	Seem low. Auction Coma?
Transplant.com	Pass
Gas Prices.com	Pass
Mucho.com	$50,000	Could be a million dollar domain for the right company.
Construction Workers.com	Pass
Explosion.com	Pass
Toasts.com	Pass
Table.com	$260,000	Seems expensive
Primary Education.com	$8,000	I am not hot about this name.
True Confession.com	Pass
Americans.org	Pass
Eel.com	Pass
ePayments.com	Pass
Wednesday.org	Pass
Demo.net	Pass
Free Searches.com	Pass
US Trademarks.com	$10,000	I wanted to bid on this but to develop it would take a lot of work and be boring but would involve a lot of data mining so that would have been fun.
Emergency Clinics.com	Pass
Employment References.com	$2,500	Doesn’t make sense to me. Why is this a domain. No one targets this SEO keyword combination.
Energy Companies.com	$5,000	I don’t see the value. Why would I look this up.
Businesses.org	Pass
Maine Lobsters.com	$45,000	Order up some dinner from the east coast. I have got crab shipped overnight but I go to the store and pick up fresh lobster.
Hy.com	Pass	Bidding didn’t go very high at all. I thought it stopped at $50,000.
Home Loan Rates.com	$10,000	Good PPC term
Criminal Lawyers.com	$195,000	Bidding was very funny on this. Going to the tape to review it. The person who bought it was not present and it seem to sell when no one was bidding on it. The reserve was something like $25,000 so it is odd it went so high with no one bidding. I will want the video tape and report on this one.
Wir.com	Pass
Public.com	Pass
Cab.mobi	$17,500	Sounds natural.
Classic Car Shows.com	$12,000	Great SEO name.
Emmanuel.com	$17,500	First name domains sell for about $20,000 right now.
Bathing Suit.com	$160,000	DigiMedia has the plural, did they get the singular?
Closings.com	Pass
Technology.org	Pass
Federal Government.net	$5,000	I would not want to be confused with the Government.
United States Immigration and Naturalization.com	Pass
Relative.com	Pass
Locally.com	Pass
Discount Airfares.net	$7,500	Good buy.
Artist Management.com	Pass
Dock.com	$70,000	Short and sweet, but this is a total Brand. No PPC here.
Hate Crimes.com	Pass	Who would buy Hate Crimes online?
Show Me.com	$47,500	What do you want to show me?
Best CD Rates.com	Pass
Blood.net	Pass
Education Grants.com	$30,000	GK?
SAT Tests.com	$17,000	Everyone has to take this test to go to college.
Audit.net	$12,000	Seems expensive for this DotNet.
Perch.com	Pass
Comment Box.com	Pass
Electro Magnets.com	$7,500	I like this one a lot.
Press Releases.com	Pass	Seems like it was the wrong audience.
Helicopter Charter.com	$21,000	Lots of PPC on this. Needs to be developed
Remodeling Services.com	$4,000	Good arbitrage brand.