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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.

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.

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.

Retire 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.