The year’s second seven-figure sale, and the year’s biggest to date, topped the weekly sales chart to 7 August. Social.com sold for $2.6 million through Moniker/NameQuiver, easily surpassing the year’s second-biggest sale, DomainName.com, which sold for an even $1 million back in May. In a sales chart covering two weeks due to Domain Name Journal holidays, there was one other sale over $100,000, that of UcakBileti.com (”flight ticket” in Turkish) that sold for $250,000 through NoktaDomains. Jewel.com was the third biggest sale of the week, selling for $74,333, and also the first Sedo sale on the chart. Overall there were 27 .COM domains in the top 40 chart and Sedo sold 24 of the domains with one other being a collaboration between Sedo, Moniker and SnapNames. There were also 11 sales through AfternicDLS. There were ten ccTLD sales, with the top seller being fr.cc, selling for $50,000 and three non-.COM gTLD sales. To see the full listing of Domain Name Journal’s top reported sales in the fortnight to 7 August, check out: dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2011/20110713.htm

SnapNames and Moniker have teamed up with VeriSign to auction a number of premium .TV domain names in an auction that concludes on 23 March. The continued explosive growth in online video is making .TV an extremely relevant extension for reaching target audiences and site visitors and engaging them in new and exciting ways. The auction provides a unique opportunity to acquire .TV domain names and join the wealth of savvy businesses and content creators who are successfully using .TV

The DOMAINFest Global Preliminary Live Auction Catalogues for Premium and Low and No Reserve auctions are available for pre-bidding. Pre-bidding began on Jan. 10.

12|03|2010 2:00 pm EDT Monte Cahn Leaving Oversee.net and Moniker.com at End of December by Adam Strong in Categories: People – 4 Comments Monte Cahn At Affiliate Summit West 2009 Oversee.net , parent company of Moniker.com, announced today that Moniker.com founder Monte Cahn will no longer be with their organization effective December 31, 2010 Oversee purchased retail registrar Moniker.com at the peak of the domain name auction boom in 2008, when Moniker had been enjoying a string of huge auction events during TRAFFIC conferences.  The company soon merged Moniker and Snap operations and launched new live auction formats and new auction events.

Zero.com certainly was worth more than zero, selling for $329,420 to top the list of sales for the fortnight to 17 October, with Moniker/SnapNames selling the name to wrest the usual week when Sedo tops the charts. The other four six-figure plus sales for the fortnight were wicker.com, selling for $230,000 through WebsiteProperties, DiscountVouchers.com (£100,000 or $157,000 through AcornDomains.co.uk), Cursos.com ($150,000 through Sedo) and ShortSale.com ($101,000 through Moniker/SnapNames).

Bid.com will be up for grabs at the Moniker Premium Live Auction at DOMAINfest Europe in Prague today. Other names that are available for online and live bidding include: DayTrading.com Digital.com DVDrental.com HouseInsurance.com Journey.com LawFirm.com MX.com Physicians.com Plan.com Restaurants.com ShortSale.com SlotMachine.com Tools.com Zip.com The Moniker and SnapNames Live Auction will be held at the Intercontinental Hotel in Prague on Wednesday, 6 October, from 16:00 to 19:00 local time (10:00 to 13:00 US Eastern time). Immediately following the live auction, Moniker and SnapNames will host an extended online auction that will run for a full week, starting October 6 and ending October 13, 2010, at 3:15 p.m.

Computer Giant Hewlett-Packard (HP) will make the domain Digital.com available for auction at the DOMAINfest Europe , which will be held in Prague October 5-7, 2011. The live auction takes place on October 6th at 6pm ET and is also accessible to online remote bidders. Other names featured in the auction are: DayTrading.com DVDrental.com HouseInsurance.com Journey.com LawFirm.com MX.com Physicians.com Plan.com Restaurants.com ShortSale.com SlotMachine.com Tools.com Zip.com The domain digital.com used to be owned by Digital, a Unix company that was later purchased by Compaq, which was in turn bought by HP.