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Here's the The Lowdown
from DN Journal,
updated daily
to
fill you in on the latest buzz going around the domain name industry.
The Lowdown is
compiled by DN Journal Editor & Publisher Ron
Jackson. |
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The
DOMAINfest Asia Auction That Ends Thursday Has
Already Drawn Over $6 Million in Bids + Some
Related Domain Sales Notes
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While
the first
DOMAINfest
Asia conference ended
Monday (Sept. 7, 2015) in Macau,
the RightOfTheDot.com
domain auction being held on the 4.cn
platform as part of the show is still
going on and is shaping up to be
the biggest domain auction in
years.
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As
of this writing TheDomains.com
(the popular blog run by
RightOfTheDot Co-Founder Michael
Berkens) is reporting
that over $6 million
worth of bids have already been
placed in the 545-lot online
auction. A very large offering of
3-letter and 3-number .com
domains continues to drive that bid
total up. Lots will begin closing
(in groups staggered four hours
apart) on Thursday morning,
September 10, 2015 at 8AM U.S.
Eastern time (which is 8PM
Thursday in Hong Kong where
4.cn is hosting the
sale).
You
can see a full list of domains in
the auction and the current bids here.
If you want to bid you have to register
at 4.cn first.
TheDomains also noted that if
you’re a U.S. based buyer
and want to bid without putting down
a deposit you need to let ROTD know
today by sending an email to [email protected].
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The
DOMAINfest Asia conference
was very well received and
will be back next year when
the show will move to Hong
Kong where it will run
from September 19-22,
2016 at a venue to be
announced.
It
is no secret domain sales
have been booming in China. If you want to learn
more about what it is
selling there (and what is
not) you will want to check
out the latest
article in TLD
Registry's Chinese
Domaining Masterclass Blog
Series that covers
the "number 4."
Numerics are especially
popular in China where the
digits have special
meanings. For example, the
article notes, "the
number four in Chinese
culture is widely known as
being a number that carries
a negative,
superstitious, and
relatively gloomy
meaning." You
will learn why that is the
case in this interesting new
article. |
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One
other note today -
while we are on the
subject of blog
posts about domain
sales - Hobi
Michalec, the
Director of Business
Development at Domain
Holdings,
has jus posted his first
article
at the new DomainSaleGuide.com
site. In it, Hobi
gives you the
inside story on
how a $50,000
sale of Charts.com
that he brokered
with Deepak
Daftari came
about.
You
will find out that
it is not always
easy to find a buyer
for even a great
domain like this
one. Hobi gives you
some eye-opening
insight into
everything that was
involved in getting
the sale done when the
seller and potential
buyers started miles
apart. The
original asking
price was $200,000
and a lot of the
initial offers from
likely buyers were
only in three or four figures! The
article covers how
that vast gap was
eventually bridged. |
Hobi
Michalec |
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(Posted
September 8, 2015)
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