The details of the buyer are unknown, and currently, the site is parked at Sedo. CreditCardProcessing.com and PaymentProcessing.com, are currently both set up as mini informational sites.
GreatDomains has had no shortage of big-ticket domain sales in the last couple weeks.
The company that holds monthly Premium Auction Events and features traditional Offer/Counter-Offer listings for qualifying domains, today, reported the sale of Processing.com, a name first registered in the mid-nineties.
The sale price: $33,400.
The domain Processing.com has been parked for most of the 2000s, and over the years, even served up Adult web pages in 2001.
Processing “Possibilities”
As you know, the keyword processing has a lot of uses.
“Credit Card Processing” had an exact global monthly search volume last month over 100,000 – followed closely by “Processing” with 90,500. Coming in third, “Payment Processing” had a global monthly search volume of 12,100.
With more than 1.4 million member accounts from around the world, Sedo is the world's leading marketplace for domain names. Sedo's own Press Service backlinks to Domain Industry blogs including the popular DNJournal written by Ron Jackson.
If you weren’t aware of Sedo’s Press Service, it’s a page on Sedo’s website that provides up-to-date news on hot topics and domain industry trends.
The page includes backlinks to a number of Domain Industry stories written by bloggers listed on Francois Carrillo’s Domaining.com – including Mike Berkens’ TheDomains.com, Elliot Silver’s ElliotsBlog.com and a number of other sources including Business Wire.
If you are planning on starting a blog or whether you already write a blog, getting backlinks from a reputed company like Sedo can help you get traffic and it’s great overall exposure for your website.
While there’s no shortage of blogs written about SEO and web development, there is a shortage of blogs covering the Domain Industry.
If you want to start a blog, one of the first steps to building an audience is getting listed on Domaining.com. Getting listed isn’t free, but it’s well worth the cost, as Francois Carrillo’s website aggregator will keep readers returning to your site, again and again.
To submit your blog for consideration to Domaining.com, email [email protected]
While several keyword .tv domain names are appearing on the aftermarket auction sites, Enom.tv has several listed for sale such as Display.tv for $870. Is .tv losing more interest to the new country code top level domains like .co?
There are lots of .TV domain names that are dropping in the next several days, or in some cases, being auctioned by their owners with a minimum bid of $69 on the aftermarket.
The crop of domain names, which appear to be registered at eNom (a Demand Media Company) look decent, however no one seems that interested in placing a bid.
A few .TV names that have bids are bidding high – with journalist.tv attracting 26 bidders with a current high bid of $300.
But for every one .TV domain with a bid, there are dozens more with zero.
List of .TV Domain Names with zero bids
Here’s a sample list of some of the keyword .TV domain names with zero bids that have a backorder due date of August 2, 2010 @ 11 PM EST. The names are being auctioned at NameJet.
If you expand your search to “Order By Date” within the next 5 days, dozens of more keyword domains are up for auction with zero bidders including Insatiable.tv, LongTerm.tv, Methane.tv, MousePad.tv and more.
Although we own very few .TV domain names such as Evangelist.tv, we’re interested to see what these names will ultimately sell for.
Slots.ca is the second highest publicly reported Slots domain sale of all-time, ahead of Slots.eu which sold for $31,000 in 2009. Calvin Ayre, the buyer of Slots.ca, also owns Slots.com, one of the top 10 domain sales of all-time.
As we suspected, the purchase of Slots.ca for $207,000 in July 2010 was made by Calvin Ayre and his company Bodog Brand. The purchase of Slots.ca followed Calvin Ayre’s acquisition of Slots.com for $5.5MM.
The domain name Slots.ca up until this week, redirected to Slots.com, but now the crew behind Bodog has given the domain its own web site. This means the site will start ranking in the search engines.
Calvin Ayre is set to dominate the global internet when it comes to Slots with his recent acquisitions of Slots.com and Slots.ca — and his company knows a thing or two about online gaming.
According to Wikipedia, Calvin founded Bodog in 1994 with $10,000 to his name and rapidly evolved his brand into an online gaming and entertainment empire, becoming a billionaire – with the likes of Richard Branson who operates the Virgin empire.
Media sales prices of $500, a goal by Andrei Polgar the founder of AuctionPus, have proven to be elusive in 2010, even with Bido shutting its doors
Have you looked around lately at the newer domain name auction platforms? What happened?
The lifespan is shorter these days for smaller domain auction websites that try to launch amongst the big auction houses like Sedo.
Since Bido closed down in May this year, the startup that was funded by Sahar Sarid who is well-respected within the Domain community, hasn’t come back online — despite being put up for sale months ago.
The Low Quality Domain Stigma
Nothing gives life to an auction like a premium domain name and low asking prices, and few auction websites are willing to implement the strategy.
Even sites like GreatDomains who run monthly premium domain auctions, can’t seem to keep a quality inventory month to month, especially an inventory with attractive pricing.
Bargain Domains
Francois Carrillo’s BargainDomains.com might do the best job at listing domain names cheaper than they should be.
To submit domains for sale, domains must appraise at least $250 to even be considered. This strategy immediately helps to eliminate the poor quality domain names, and it forces sellers to list their names at bargain prices – a bonus for prospective buyers on the hunt for deals.
AuctionPus
The still-new AuctionPus.com launched by Andrei Polgar, promised no more crappy domains for sale, a problem that plagued Bido’s platform where names like GlassesFreeTV.net were listed for sale at $1,199.
While many web sites promise change, it’s hard to deliver.
AuctionPus has noted a slowdown. Though Andrei Polgar is very familiar with Domain Investors and he has had success with other ventures, AuctionPus has yet to be one of them. Though names are displayed on the website daily, you’ll be hard pressed to visit the website and see a name with a bid.
Given the ease of starting a website these days, the difficulty lies in the business model and differentiating yourself.
While domain name auctions (both online and offline) have drawn a large number of critics in 2009 and 2010, it is still nice to see startups giving it a shot in hopes of creating the winning formula.
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