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This past week, 877 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $2.2 million.   39% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.

Highlights of public sales include:

• Top .com: kindred.com at 50,000 USD
• Top ccTLD: interest.me at 80,000 USD
• Top “other” TLD: amara.org at 25,000 USD

See all of the sales reported by Sedo after the jump.

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Sedo sales just reported their domain sales for the week ending on May 14th, 2012.

This past week, 947 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $2.1 million.  41% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.  Highlights of public sales include:

• Top .com: ahha.com at 112,000 USD
• Top ccTLD: w.to at 53,000 USD
• Top “other” TLD: bangkok.net at 25,000 USD

See the all of the reported sales at Sedo for the previous week after the jump.

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This past week, 845 reportable transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace, totaling over $1.6 million.   41% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.

Highlights of public sales include:

• Top .com: drill.com at 50,000 USD
• Top ccTLD: lampa.pl at 12,000 EUR
• Top “other” TLD: hotspot.net at 9,000 EUR

See all of the sales reported by Sedo after the jump.

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Sedo announced today that Bloomberg and Reuters have added IDNX, the industry’s leading domain price index, to the financial markets covered on their respective Web sites.

IDNX provides insight into the current market value of domains, domain industry trends, and the risk-return ratio of domains as a financial asset. Using real estate economic methodology to index more than 200,000 domain transactions since 2006, IDNX exhibits strong correlation with broader economic indicators, substantiating the long-held assumption that domains are as much an economic asset as real estate, stocks or shares.

“It is gratifying to see people realize that domains are a valid investment option,” said Thies Lindenthal, the MIT researcher and economist who created IDNX and serves as Product Manager for Pricing at Sedo.com. “Internet entrepreneurs and domain industry professionals have long recognized fluctuations in domain value that parallel the economy as a whole, but unlike most other markets, these changes were not being tracked. IDNX provides the insight needed to make educated investment decisions. I am thrilled that Wall Street is taking the virtual investment space seriously, and that they are looking to the domain market for insight.”

When compared to other financial indicators such as the NASDAQ or the stock price of internet giant Google, IDNX  shows that the trend lines for these indices follow the same path as the trend line for the domain market. Updated monthly, IDNX has shown consecutive growth over the past five months and reached historical highs in March 2012, indicating a full rebound from 2011’s financial crisis, and suggesting that the remainder of this year could see even stronger figures.

 “This is the first index of ‘virtual real estate’ constructed using the same types of econometric techniques that have been pioneered for tracking prices of ‘real real estate’ and that work well in that context. I think this is a great next step into the new frontier!” said Professor David Geltner, Director of Research at MIT’s Center for Real Estate.

IDNX is currently available on Bloomberg and Reuters under IDNX <Index> and .IDNX, respectively. As with all indices featured on their sites, IDNX can only be viewed by those with valid Bloomberg or Reuters accounts. To view and interact with IDNX now, go to http://sedo.com/idnx

[via Email from Sedo]

Disclaimer: Managing Editor, Frank Michlick, also consults Sedo on their SedoMLS product through his Domain Registrar Consulting business.

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Sedo’s Greatdomains and Moniker have started a their online domain auction yesterday mid-day. While the Sedo Greatdomains auction will run for a week as usual, the Moniker auction, the first auction since the company was purchased by Keydrive, will run for almost a month. And the latest new entrant to the domain auction game, Brannans, will close their second auction for submissions today.

Here’s what you need to know:

• Sedo Greatdomains Auction (until April 26th)
• Moniker Premium Spring Auction (until May 17, 2012 3:15 pm ET (12:15 pm PT))
• Brannans submission  deadline for 2nd auction (April 20th, 2012)
• Moniker & Namedrive Submission for ccTLD auction Now Open (May 10th, 2012)
• Moniker Premium Year-End Auction Submissions Now Open! (September 6th, 2012)

For more information regarding current and upcoming industry events, please visit our partner site, the Domain Name Calendar.

See the full list of domains in the Moniker & Sedo Auctions after the jump.
Sedo Greatdomains Auction (until April 26th)

(to be added after we complete getting the list from the site)

Moniker Premium Spring Auction until May 17, 2012 3:15 pm ET (12:15 pm PT)

Moniker Premium Spring Auction (until May 17, 2012 3:15 pm ET (12:15 pm PT))

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Sedo’s Greatdomains and Moniker have started a their online domain auction yesterday mid-day. While the Sedo Greatdomains auction will run for a week as usual, the Moniker auction, the first auction since the company was purchased by Keydrive, will run for almost a month. And the latest new entrant to the domain auction game, Brannans, will close their second auction for submissions today.

Here’s what you need to know:

• Sedo Greatdomains Auction (until April 26th)
• Moniker Premium Spring Auction (until May 17, 2012 3:15 pm ET (12:15 pm PT))
• Brannans submission  deadline for 2nd auction (April 20th, 2012)
• Moniker & Namedrive Submission for ccTLD auction Now Open (May 10th, 2012)
• Moniker Premium Year-End Auction Submissions Now Open! (September 6th, 2012)

For more information regarding current and upcoming industry events, please visit our partner site, the Domain Name Calendar.

See the full list of domains in the Moniker & Sedo Auctions after the jump.
Sedo Greatdomains Auction (until April 26th)

Moniker Premium Spring Auction until May 17, 2012 3:15 pm ET (12:15 pm PT)

Moniker Premium Spring Auction (until May 17, 2012 3:15 pm ET (12:15 pm PT))

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According to a posting in DnForum.com today, there is a glitch in Sedo system that is placing domains not owned by a particular customer into its account thereby allowing the customer to edit the listings for domains they don’t own.

The customer of Sedo apparently logged into his account and found domain he didn’t own listed.

He successful attempted to change the price of one of the domain names that he didn’t own that was listed in his account lowering the price from $6,000 to $100 and then bought the domain.

The customer then contacted Sedo and had a detailed conversation with them, which he posted on DNForum.com under the title

“”Sedo allows ME to edit YOUR listings. Yes, really!”"

The customer that posted this on DNForum is the one who alerted us to the situation which sounds quite alarming and everyone should be on the lookout for similar errors.

The same customer posted the conversation on Namepros.com as well.

Here is the post of the conversation:

The following list shows the reported domain name sales for the previous week. The top 10 reported sales were:

We’ve included sales from Afternic, Bido, DomainMarket, Flippa and Sedo in our report.

See the full list after the jump.