It’s time for another weekly summary of Sedo’s domain sales. This week features Riva.com selling for 200,000 USD, Crab.com closing at 92,000 USD, and Casas.net reaching 87,000 EUR. But there’s much more after the jump!

Domain name
Price
Currency
Translation

.COMs

riva.com
200,000
USD

crab.com
92,000
USD

z7.com
35,000
USD

autodriver.com
20,100
USD

clickfree.com
20,000
USD

rid.com
16,000
USD

mobilecomputing.com
16,000
USD

ese.com
13,501
USD

donors.com
13,345
USD

gey.com
10,100
USD

o6.com
10,001
USD

approach.com
9,999
USD

salespeople.com
9,900
USD

zut.com
8,600
EUR

foothills.com
8,150
USD

mynewsbar.com
8,000
USD

mypokerblog.com
5,000
USD

staffordloans.com
5,000
USD

gxx.com
4,802
EUR

anyad.com
4,600
USD

letsfixdinner.com
4,500
USD

3min.com
4,500
EUR

japanunix.com
4,350
USD

rubico.com
4,000
USD

golfview.com
3,891
USD

breathtaking.com
3,888
USD

gopinoy.com
3,650
USD

jovencitasnaturales.com
3,600
EUR
Natural girls in Spanish

mortgageworkout.com
3,500
USD

nofos.com
3,500
USD

uniteddomain.com
3,400
USD

zqr.com
3,100
EUR

loramyc.com
3,000
EUR

homesend.com
3,000
GBP

GOTUGO.com
3,000
USD

sportsalive.com
3,000
USD

holy-quran.com
3,000
USD

only-you.com
2,916
USD

rensen.com
2,800
EUR

acrobatic.com
2,800
USD

tobogan.com
2,600
EUR

warmemorials.com
2,542
USD

momobi.com
2,500
USD

wconcept.com
2,500
USD

ihealthcheck.com
2,500
USD

swebank.com
2,500
EUR

ittips.com
2,500
USD

buste.com
2,500
EUR

reliances.com
2,500
USD

icooks.com
2,500
USD

animalmate.com
2,380
EUR

irefining.com
2,250
USD

clickbroker.com
2,230
USD

voxcall.com
2,200
USD

justinehenin.com
2,100
EUR

inkme.com
2,100
USD

hunted.com
2,050
USD

genomescreen.com
2,025
USD

aquashape.com
2,020
USD

vierges.com
2,000
EUR
“virgins” in French

sofashion.com
2,000
EUR

autoauct.com
2,000
USD

perkinsloan.com
2,000
USD

ccTLDs

schauspiel.de
20,000
EUR
“Play/Show” in German

weihnachtsgeschenke.de
15,000
EUR
“Christmas gifts” in German

onlive.fr
11,000
EUR

caiman.co.uk
8,000
GBP

babyplein.nl
7,500
EUR
Baby square in Dutch

hochzeitsfotos.de
5,500
EUR
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In writing a previous post equating user names on social media sites to domain names, it raised my curiousity what big brands were up to on Twitter.  It’s understandable in the early 1990’s, as the internet was slowly emerging, brand managers and/or executives couldn’t see the potential for a brand like McDonalds to be on […]

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In the spring of 2007, Steve Poland wrote the article “Twitter Usernames Are Like Domains in 1995″. As the popularity of the microblogging service grows, more and more evidence of the similarities seem to be recognizable.  Poland points out
Twitter usernames are one-of-a-kind — and I kind of feel like this is 1995 and someone just told me, “Hey, you […]

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Over the last twelve months I’ve received an enormous amount of encouragement from readers to keep on analyzing the industry and blog about the results. I would like to thank you for your kind words as you all are the inspiration that keeps me going. I will continue to blog…

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I just received this comment from Mike Cohen of Wanna Develop (http://www.wannadevelop.com/) on the article regarding Google and their Domain Partners. With Mike's permission I thought that it was worth while posting it as an article as it contained some interesting insights. Enjoy!

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The US Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration sent a letter to ICANN expressing concern over the plans to introduce new TLDs.
In the letter, the US DOC expresses concern that ICANN is moving forward with the proposal to introduce new TLDs without giving significant thought to stability and whether or not this is […]

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In a case that is well over a year old, Vulcan Golf and other plaintiffs in the “Vulcan vs Google” case where handed a set back this week as the court denied their class certification.  The court’s decision can be found at this link on Docutek (pdf).  DNN caught wind of this news through Eric […]

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Pool.com has just added the .DE ccTLD to their backorder services. Their site currently lists about 1,600 .de domains that will be expiring as of January 23rd.
It appears that the list only contains names that are in “TRANSIT” state at this point, which means that the registrar has handed the domains back to the registry […]

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