SnapNames Shopping & eCommerce Showcase Auction Ends July 20th, 2010 at 3:15pm EST. The auction contains a decent amount of  product domain names. I picked out what I thought were the best values and listed them below:

bronzingcreams.com – $201 – $500
cdromdrives.com – $1,001 – $2,500
handheldgps.com – $10,001 – $25,000
seamlessflooring.com – $201 – $500
turquoisejewelry.com – $50,001 – $100,000

View the full domain inventory here

GreatDomains (powered by Sedo) June 2010 online auction starts today and runs until 06/24/2010 Noon EST. Listed below are several .com product domain names from the current auction list. About half of all the domains in the auction already have bids.

Keytar.com – 500 – 999 $US
MicroComputers.com – 1,000 – 4,999 $US
PillowChairs.com – 500 – 999 $US
Satay.com – 500 – 999 $US

Product category domains

ChristmasPresents.com – 50,000 – 99,999 $US
SafetySupplies.com – 1,000 – 4,999 $US

View the complete auction inventory here

Sedo’s Online Retail Auction ends today at 12pm EDT (in about 75 minutes).  Some interesting .com product domain names that have met their reserve prices are:

SkinnyJean.com – $4,999
HardwareTools.com – $3,900
AbMachines.com – $1,500
AdhesiveLabels.com – $3,816
AirSanitizers.com – $999

Again, I personally have the domain name OnlineDeals.net in the auction at No Reserve. The domain has a PageRank of 2, all major tlds registered, was created 12/18/1999 and listed below are some search stats from the Google AdWords Keyword Tool:

[online deals] – Exact Match:

12,100 Avg Global Monthly searches
$0.68 Estimated Avg CPC

“online deals” – Phrase Match:

74,000 Avg Global Monthly searches
$1.66 Estimated Avg CPC

online deals – Broad Match:

246,000 Avg Global Monthly searches
$2.51 Estimated Avg CPC

This has been an interesting week for Sedo sales, more exactly sales not being completed by the domain sellers. Three separate events have been brought to light this week two of them being new the other several months old. Outlined below are details of each:

1. Seven legal domains sold for $200K in early May 2010. The domain seller has defaulted on the deal and has refused to complete the sale. Sounds like legal action will be taken by the winners of the domains in this transaction.

2. A single .co.uk domain was sold for $110K and the buyer is claiming an error and is now backing out of the deal. The winning bidder starting taking legal action against the domain seller.

3. NBC agrees to sell two domains for $1 Million and has backed away from the deal stating it was being blocked by the President of NBC. A lawsuit was filed by the winning bidder in this transaction.

In the first two transactions the domain seller accepted an initial offer for the domain/s agreed again to Sedo’s TOS and pushed the domains to auction. Upon completion of the auction the domain sellers failed to transfer the domain name/s to the winning bidder. The third transaction was an offer made by the buyer which was accepted by the domain seller.

If Sedo has time to comment on issues such as their ethics about a $2,800 domain sale, certainly they can comment about three separate domain transactions involving a total of 10 domains being ’sold’ for more than $1.3 Million.

Thoughts?

Slots.com has entered the top ten domain sales of all time when it sold for $5.85 Million to BodogBrands last month and officially announced today. The buyer Calvin Arye had the following to say about the purchase: “The internet really has changed how we do business – I sat on a bar stool in London’s L’Atelier restaurant bidding millions for one of the biggest gaming domains in the world!”

He added: “After Casino.com, we feel that Slots.com is the best gaming domain in the world. Bigger even than Poker.com because there are no strong brands in this space and slots are far more universal than poker. Just look at the amount of space a casino devotes to slots over poker, added to which it’s simple to spell and easy to remember. Slots.com will work for us on a number of levels, not least in generating global traffic to our Bodog branded properties but also to form a number of other targeted websites including one that will be created by and for the female gambler.”

GreatDomains (powered by Sedo) May 2010 online auction runs until 05/27/2010 Noon EST. Listed below are a couple .com product domain names from the current auction list.

peaches.com – 50,000 – 99,999 $US
roofrack.com – no reserve

There are many .net product domains in the auction as well, if that is your flavor.

DomainNameWire has a short Q&A with the owner of Peaches.com about the history of the domain name.

View the complete auction inventory here

DomainFest Ft. Lauderdale wrapped up yesterday with a total of $2,386,550 in domain name sales. Listed below are the product domain names that were sold at the live auction. An extended auction consisting of 700 domain names is taking place online and runs through May 20th, 2010.

BoardGames.com – $450,000
Antidepressant.com – $30,000.00
PatioTables.com – $5,500
cakestand.com – $3,000
StoneFurniture.com – $1,500
CherryTrees.com – $950

Latona’s extended online domain auction following the TRAFFIC conference in Las Vegas starts today at 9:00am EST and runs through Feb 4th, 2010 1:00pm EST. After the snafu during the live auction last Friday this auction will be run on the Proxibid platform instead of Latona’s auction platform. There are over 600 domains in the auction inventory and includes domains that did not sell during the live auction.

I have a few domains in the auction as I’m doing some house cleaning of my domain portfolio, they are listed below with Valuate and Google Keyword data:

CheapWomen.com – Valuation appraisal $5,700

Cheap Women
Local Search Volume – December: 480
Global Monthly Search Volume: 590
Estimated Avg. CPC: $4.64

Link to No Reserve Auction

OnlineDeals.net – Valuation appraisal $2,000

Online Deals
Local Search Volume – December: 22,200
Global Monthly Search Volume: 9,900
Estimated Avg. CPC: $2.03

Link to Auction – $1,000 Reserve

CompanyCrendentials.com – Valuation appraisal $380

Local Search Volume – December: N/A
Global Monthly Search Volume: 140
Estimated Avg. CPC: $0.05

Link to No Reserve Auction

SnorkelingLessons.com – Valuation appraisal $300

Local Search Volume – December: N/A
Global Monthly Search Volume: 110
Estimated Avg. CPC: $1.20

Link to No Reserve Auction

*All data compiled using exact match queries i.e. “online deals”

The next few weeks should be exciting times for domain buyers and sellers alike. There are 4 large domain name auctions starting this week and continuing through February 2010. The details and dates for each auction are outlined below.

Latona’s at Targeted Traffic – January 22, 2010 – Auction Details

This auction is live in Las Vegas at the Targeted Traffic Conference – Live Auction Inventory

Latona’s Extended – January 23, 2010 – January 29, 2010 – Auction Details

Following the live auction in Las Vegas this extended domain auction is online only.

Great Domains – January 21, 2010 to  January 28, 2010 – Auction Details

Running parallel to Latona’s extended online auction is the Great Domains auction featuring a short list of reasonably priced names.

Domainfest Live Auctions – January 26, 2010 and January 28, 2010 – Auction Details

Low and no reserve domain auction followed by a premium domain auction.

Domainfest Extended – January 28, 2010 – February 4, 2010 – Auction Details

After the two live auctions there is an online only auction.

Total Auction Inventory

Domainer Mardi Gras – February 09, 2010 – February 16, 2010 – Auction Details

This domain auction is going to spotlight generic and keyword domain names, no inventory has been released yet and is still accepting submissions here.

GoDaddy Domain Auctions has made some changes over the past couple weeks that include pricing changes for fire sale domains and time extensions when bidding on expiring domain auctions, more details below.

Fire sale (Closeout) domains – now have price points of $9, $8, $7, $6, and $5. Formerly all closeout domain names were priced at just $5.

Bidding time extension – when bidding on expired domains each bid now extends the auction an additional 2 minutes. Formerly an auction was extended an additional 2 minutes only when a bid was placed within the last 2 minutes.