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Opportunity: Number of “Group Buying” sites offering daily deals is up from 10 to 80 in less than a year

Fusible.com started covering the craze with “Group Buying” web sites in early February when the domain name HomeRun.com sold for $130,000 at Moniker. The domain was purchased by HomeRunDelivers.com who recently launched their own group buying website.

Pampering
Domain Guru Kevin Ham's latest venture involves a group buying website called: GoodNews.com.

As “group buying” ventures continue to spring up on the internet – related domain names will sell, too. MassBuy.com sold for $2,700 earlier this month via NameJet and what might be one of the best buys for a domain that could be used for branding a “group buying” website and ranking well in the search engines – DailyBargains.com sold just over a week ago on Sedo’s GreatDomains for less than $11,000.

Mainstream News is all over Group Buying

And if you think there isn’t time to get involved in “group buying”, USAToday ran a story last week that discussed the group buying craze which has been fueled by bargain shoppers and social media.

Group-buying websites — Groupon, LivingSocial and dozens of smaller ones — are the latest craze among price-obsessed consumers and an evolution of social media and shopping. Groupon has grown from 400 subscribers in November 2008 to more than 4 million; 8coupons.com, which aggregates online deals, says the number of sites offering daily group deals is up from about 10 last June to at least 80.

The most popular deals tend to be restaurants and activities involving pampering. Often, the more specialized the deals, the less interest they generate, O’Shaughnessy says.

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Rage.com, Clitoris.com, other Great Domains easily exceed $100,000 in early bidding, still 5 days left

bidding war

One of the world’s leading auction websites, Sedo’s GreatDomains, is eyeing another successful auction.  This month’s featured auction which started May 20th and ends May 27th, 2010 has yielded over 100 bids and over $100,000 in bidding – and there are still over five days remaining. The auction so far has the highest bid of $14,999 USD for coa.com – a domain name that averages over 1,000 unique visitors per month as a Parked page.  The acronym COA also means Certificate of Authenticity.

Other names already receiving large bids include:  769.com, Blokes.com, Clitoris.com, Peaches.com, Roamining.com, Trekking.com, Pranks.com, NHO.com, 627.com, SSW.com, Rage.com, CFJ.com, WOIS.com, HCK.com, and more.

Good Buys
 
Quantity-wise, the auction offers a good amount of No Reserve and Low Reserve names, with YUZU.com the top bidding “No Reserve” name currently at $2,000 USD and over 20 bidders.  The domain name expired in 2008 and sold at NameJet.com for $3,100.  It’s a catchy domain that also was once the home page of a Japanese website in the late 90s, early 2000s.

Telephone.net is another no reserve name, among the many .net domains up for auction that has over 20 bidders.  Judging by the past history of sales for telephone domains, the “no reserve” price shouldn’t impact the final sale price.  Telephone.com sold for $2,000,000 in 2000 and Telephone.mobi sod for $4,305 in 2007.

The ongoing auction that ends in 5 days will be another success for Sedo, thanks to the early bidding that will only get more heated in the final hours and minutes.

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Hallpass Media Launches New Site for $350,000 “Casual Gaming” Domain Name: CookingGames.com

"Cooking Games"
Bill Kara with his collection of highly entertaining and virtual world websites including CoolGames.com, GirlGames.com, WordGames.com and more - knows how to quickly recover an investment, even large six-figure investments for a two-word domain name in one of the worst recessions of all time.

After redesigning its own website, HallPass Media the entertainment network has launched CookingGames.com – the domain name that sold for $350,000 in January at Noktadomains and caused many to question the reasoning behind the purchase.  Maybe because the fact that CookingSupplies.com only sold for $2,500 in 2006 or that other game domains had sold for far less – but it was a no brainer for Bill Kara the CEO of Hallpass Media who paid $100,000 for the domain StickGames.com and is on track to quickly turn a profit in months.

Bill didn’t have sticker shock. Hallpass Media doesn’t buy and park, the company buys and develops.

CookingGames.com like many of the Hallpass Media properties is a casual gaming site. And casual gaming is a high growth market, with big money that attracts a mass audience.

Google even opened up their wallet recently to purchase Labpixes, a company that develops casual games – including applications for the Android phone.

Hallpass Media’s newest site lets you play games where cooking is a big part of the game.  From the CookingGames.com website:

Greetings and welcome to Cooking Games! The best place on the ‘net for you to sink your teeth into a mouth watering assortment of fresh as can be Free Flash Cooking Games. We’ve rounded up a more then fair assortment of all the best that the web has to offer and are serving it up to you on silver platter. Feel free to sample everything from the deliciously decorated treats available in baking games, the saucy, spicy fun of pizza games or the sweetly unique ice cream games. Put together a great dining experience in our meal games and follow up with our great selection of cake games for dessert. Try your hand at running a fast and fun paced restaurant with our diverse selection of service and restaurant games. Whether traditional home made food or exotic foreign delicacies, timed cooking puzzle competitions or cooking and baking lessons. You’ll find we’re well stocked in top notch, ‘grade A’ flash cooking games. Dig in and enjoy!

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The Domain Name Almost Every Marketer Wants, RetireWealthy.com (and someone lets it expire)

Retire WealthyRetire Rich.  Retire Young.  Retire Wealthy.  The goals that everyone would like to reach.  And the words that marketers love to use when coaxing people into buying their get-rich-quick products or services.

Most of the names that grab attention on aftermarket sites like NameJet are product names, keywords, names with page rank.  There are always a few interesting call-to-action domains dropping, but this could possibly be one of the better call-to-action domains to expire in 2010.

Some of the more popular call-to-action messages like Retire Early, Retire Rich, Retire Young – are all registered, of course.  RetireRich.com is the home page of Contemporary Pensions, Inc. RetireEarly.com is parked a 1&1 and was registered back in the 1990s.

Rich Dad Poor Dad owns hundreds

One of the great call-to-action retire domains: RetireYoung.com is owned by RichDad.com – run by Robert Kiyosaki who co-authored the book Rich Dad Poor that advocates financial independence through owning businesses, investing and other techniques.

RetireWealthy.com is listed at NameJet in PreRelease and heads to private auction on June 7th, 2010. The domain already has 47 bidders and will likely fetch a pretty penny in the aftermarket.

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DailyBargains.com sells for $10,500; Another Hot New “Group Buying” web site in the making?

Daily Bargains
Despite owning 400,000+ names, Kevin Ham may have been better off using a name like DailyBargains.com over GoodNews.com for his "group buying" venture.

It appears another “group buying” site could be in the making with the sale of DailyBargains.com on Sedo’s GreatDomains.com for $10,500. Group buying sites like LivingSocial have raised millions in venture capital, with LivingSocial raising $14 million in its third round this past April. Group buying sites offer daily bargains, making DailyBargains.com a perfect domain for yet another group buying venture.

DailyBargain.com which currently shows a BuyDomains.com For Sale page, is no longer available for sale when you click through the buy link.

Group Buying = Daily Bargains

Group buying is a hot new trend. Though conceived years earlier, the concept never quite caught over the past years, but it has taken the internet by storm in 2009 and 2010 with the popularity of social media.

If you own a domain name that fits this category, you may want to hold on.

These are names that could be very profitable in 2010.