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Next week TRAFFIC will be in Milan, Italy.

The event runs over 3 days and will feature sessions on many of Europe's more popular ccTLDs with a wide variety of industry speakers participating in the panel sessions.

There are also going to be live domain auctions, the 1st is for .eu domains, while the second one is being billed as a premium auction, though the actual catalogue hasn't been released yet.

Hopefully I'll be able to blog a bit from Milan..

(Disclosure: I'm on one of the panels to talk about co.uk)

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The .me registry have announced their next premium domain auction in association with SnapNames.

This time round the focus is on a small number of very strong "call to action" names.

The initial list consists of the following domain names:
Auction.Me
Check.Me
Baby.Me
Guide.Me
Mini.Me
Change.Me
Improve.Me
Hold.Me
Clone.Me
Inform.Me
Trade.Me
Let.Me
Get.Me
Bug.Me
LookAt.Me
Avatar.Me

You'll be able to bid from May 4th to May 11th on SnapNames.

David Clements has left Rick Latona Auctions.

By the sounds of things they parted on good terms.

It's unclear what happened, but David's brother Toby is still with the company.

Some more details on Rick's blog.

The TRAFFIC conference will be held in the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas from January 21 to 23rd 2010.

TRAFFIC, which has been running since 2004, is one of the more popular conference series in the domain industry. 2010 will see the event being held in the US, Europe and Asia - which is a first for them.

Further details are available on the official site.

Rick Latona has made available the list of domains that will be on auction during TRAFFIC Silicon Valley.

The list is pretty impressive, but so are the reserve prices!

Names on the list include

• Seoul.com
• Shows.com (no reserve)
• Belgium.com
• French.com
• Sofas.com
• Houses.co.uk
• Palermo.com
• archers.net

The reserve prices vary wildly, from nothing through to over $1 million.

The full list with reserves is on the Rick Latona site

The GeoDomain auction over on Aftermarket.com had some interesting inventory, with names like toweroflondon.com on the table. However the inventory got a lot more interesting in the last 24 hours with the addition of several high value names:

• ticket.com (starting bids will need to be over $3.3 million)
• miss.com
• mundo.com
• frenchkissing.net

and several others ...

If you're planning on bidding make sure your account is validated with Aftermarket.com in advance.

Domain auctions can be fascinating to watch and predict - though they can be a little dangerous to get involved with.

Last night Rick Latona held a live auction with an adult theme. Going under the hammer were a very wide range of not only domain names, but also services (hosting, video editing etc.,) for people working in the adult internet industry. What made this auction a bit more interesting was the fact that it also included several ccTLD names.

As seems to happen all too often at domain auctions, some of the more interesting lots did not reach their reserve, so domains like xxx.com did not sell (it had a reserve described as "millions and millions").

So what sold? In short a mixed bag. Some lots had no reserve, others had a "ballpark" reserve, while others had a very clear highball reserve.

stripclubs.com went for $101k

At the low end domains went for a few dollars a pop - in some cases as low as $8 / domain (in a lot of 25)

Based on the post-auction list, here are the results in lot order:

Pornczars.com $1 (?)

ChicBars.com $50

GayMaleWebcam.com pass

GayManMasturbating.com pass

ScottsdaleStripClubs.com pass

ToplessWomen.com pass

HugeCockPorn.com pass

Girls.info pass

HispanicPornos.com $75

BoyCollege.com pass

HispanicCouples.com $100

Jiz.com pass

Boned.com $4750

HornyChicks.co.uk $350

Paysite.tv pass

StudFinder.com pass

BigDickPornos.com $175

Wet.co.uk pass

TranssexualPornos.com $150

SexMuseums.com $300

MenModeling.com pass

Posing.com pass

CyberPorn.com pass

ExtraSmallCondoms.com pass

GirlOnGirl.com pass

FirstDates.com pass

XXXMPegs.com pass

HispanicCoeds.com $100

Novelties.com pass

AmateurShowGirls.com pass

Boys247.com $50

Pornos.com.br pass

SinglesListings.com $125

PublicSquirting.com pass

Porno.co.uk pass

Sadistic.com pass

Milf.info pass

Lot of 25 Adult Domains $200

FU2.com pass

GroupOrgies.net $10

NiceLegs.com pass

NicheTube.com pass

LiveVoyeur.net $20

BangedUp.com pass

XXX.com pass

StripClubs.com $101,000

CamGirls.com pass

Webcam.com pass

EmailTraffic.com pass

SwingerHousewives.com $30

Fingering.com pass

AnalKissing.com pass

NudieBars.com $500

SexShows.com pass

Tits.info pass

Coed.com pass

BigCockPornos.com $80

StreamingSexShows.com

TubeGratis.com $125

LocalBoi.com pass

AdultWebsites.co.uk $275

VoyeurCams.net $75

NightClubPromoter.com pass

EroticShowers.com pass

RibbedDildo.com, RibbedDildos.com, RibbedVibrator.com, & RibbedVibrators.com $75

NaughtyHusband.com & NaughtyHusbands.com $75

FirstPornoMovie.com $30

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Short generic domains can be insanely expensive, so it was interesting to see how much xml.mobi would fetch at auction over on Sedo

The bidding heated up a bit in the last hour or so, but the domain went under the hammer for a mere $430, which is a lot lower than you might have expected.

Toys.com has been sold at auction this evening for a staggering $5.1 million!

Adam Strong covered the auction live over on Twitter:



More coverage over on DomainNameNews.com

Aftermarket.com are currently conducting a survey of their users. If you complete it (and it really does take about 10 minutes) you can enter for a draw to win $500 of credit, which isn't bad.

A lot of the questions relate to how you would like to buy and sell domains via an aftermarket provider, but what makes this survey different is that there are no compulsory questions that I could see.