First step in a fall marathon events related more or less directly with the secondary market of domain names, the conference DomainVermarkterForum meeting held on Thursday and Friday 4 and 5 September in Berlin.

This annual gathering is without doubt one of the largest of its kind in Europe, not so much by its international reputation because it takes place in the cradle of domaining on the Old Continent: Germany. Far from the bling bling U.S. DVF provides the atmosphere in a professional, productive and good.

And this year, Christoph Grüneberg and his team had put the package to offer a choice program: Affiliate Marketing, future parking, liberalization of TLDs and changing legislation domain names included the menu.

But the highlight of this event was probably the live auction held in partnership with Sedo for the second consecutive year. Animated by Klaus Graeber and dedicated to domain names germanophones, they are considered among the most prestigious in Europe.

Once is not custom Sedo proposed this year a novel approach with an application system online coupled to an interface to vote by domainers. The goal: collect a hundred names Premium domain labeled by insiders to focus on both demand than supply.

With the key blow a rather successful since more than 70 domain names were sold for a higher volume of transactions to 350 000. Among the 120 people in the audience sorted on the job, a quarantine has participated actively in the discussions. Sedo had also established the opportunity for a live chat to provide opportunities to those who could not move to submit their bids online.

After a 2007 edition which saw the consecration surprise 3 IDNs in the top 5 sales:

• ärzte.de (doctors) => 56 000
• reisebüro.de and reise-büro.de (travel agency) => 51 000
• hawaii.de => 22 000
• weiber.de (a variant of the word "women") => 19 000

2008 was particularly devoted threesome suchmachinenoptimierung.de (SEO), männer.de (men) and strom.info (current / electricity).

The full list of results is available at the following link.

And to prolong the pleasure, the names that were not selected during the screening phase by voting last night and 20h for 7 days put into play as part of a Last Call Auction on site sedo. of

Among them, the prestigious trio website.de (websites), monitore.de (Monitors) and konsolen.de (JPN) is the moment the rope. Reach-t-bar on the 500 000 sales volume? Mal sehen o)

When y'en more, still y'en:

• Moniker Auction DomainerMeeting: results
• Record increase of 270 percent for the 10 best sales of domain names. Com of the year
• Sedo's Premium Auction May is gone!
• Report Sedo secondary market for domain names: the transaction volume passes the 50 million euros in 2008
• Sales Sedo - Weeks 3 and 4