.cm premium domains going for auction

[mixdev]

As you already know, the .cm ccTLD registry is openingup this month. The biggest attraction is typos when people write website addresses into the browser. Sometimes people forget the O in the .com and type google.cm. This is a huge traffic opportunity actually. So here are the top domains that are going for auction (BTW, normal .cm domains can be bought without auction for a very nominal fee)

These are the 46 domain names being offered at auction starting today and ending on July 14:
Domain Names with reserves:
cars.cm
$20,000
casino.cm
$20,000
poker.cm
$20,000
creditcards.cm
$10,000
jobs.cm
$10,000
drugs.cm
$5,000
drugstore.cm
$5,000
forex.cm
$5,000
games.cm
$5,000
jeux.cm
$5,000
juegos.cm
$5,000
loan.cm
$5,000
shopping.cm
$5,000
401k.cm
$1,000
aaa.cm
$1,000
abc.cm
$1,000
academy.cm
$1,000
ae.cm
$1,000
apartmentguide.cm
$1,000
australia.cm
$1,000
billboard.cm
$1,000
bodybuilding.cm
$1,000
boston.cm
$1,000
budget.cm
$1,000
buy.cm
$1,000
canada.cm
$1,000
coach.cm
$1,000
cupid.cm
$1,000
date.cm
$1,000
digitalcameras.cm
$1,000
elsalvador.cm
$1,000
fling.cm
$1,000
forrent.cm
$1,000
gap.cm
$1,000
gateway.cm
$1,000
guess.cm
$1,000
gunbroker.cm
$1,000
king.cm
$1,000
lasvegas.cm
$1,000
launch.cm
$1,000
maps.cm
$1,000
musica.cm
$1,000
nick.cm
$1,000
playboy.cm
$1,000
switchboard.cm
$1,000
virgin.cm
$1,000

Interested?
http://www.register.cm/index.html

[prashanth]

Ah!!!!
I want google.cm :p

[SathyaBhat]

Its probably taken :P

[mixdev]

Its probably taken :P
True. It is taken. it is going to google anyways. But the whois is showing error as of now. I guess the whois servers are not setup properly yet.

http://whois.domaintools.com/google.cm

But look at the Alexa rank. it is 22,810. Pretty good traffic.

[SathyaBhat]

Fairly common to do a typo of 'cm' instead of 'com'

Interestingly, a Reverse IP lookup indicates that 102 other sites are hosted on the same server including

163.cm
4shared.cm
6park.cm

Me thinks the site still hasn't been picked up by Goog yet

[mixdev]

Good find. So, somebody really want to make some quick money before big companies start suing them. Guess these guys are gonna be in trouble soon.

[mixdev]

Apparently, cars.cm got sold for $35,000!

Some (sold)domains and their price
cars.cm $35,500
jobs.cm $10,000
drugstore.cm $5,000
games.cm $5,000
juegos.cm $5,000
loan.cm $5,000
401k.cm $8,250
abc.cm $1,200
apartmentguide.cm $1,200
australia.cm $1,500
bodybuilding.cm $3,600
boston.cm $4,100
buy.cm $1,700
canada.cm $2,300
date.cm $1,000
elsalvador.cm $1,000
fling.cm $1,800
forrent.cm $1,000
king.cm $1,000
lasvegas.cm $3,200
maps.cm $2,400
musica.cm $1,900

Source: TheDomains (http://www.thedomains.com/2009/07/14/carscm-sold-for-35k-to-lead-rick-latona-in-over-100k-cm-auction-sales/)

I think the best deals are abc.cm and fling.cm.

[the100rabh]

Just wondering who in this world paid $8.25k for 401k.cm . Its something interesting to note

[mixdev]

Wikipedia says
In the United States of America, a 401(k) plan allows a worker to save for retirement by depositing the savings invested while deferring current income taxes on the saved money and earnings until withdrawal.The 401k Plans are mainly employer sponsored plans. The employee elects to have a portion of his or her wages paid directly, or "deferred," into his or her 401(k) account. The Employer then matches whatever the employee puts in his/her 401k account, if he chooses to do so.Pretty golden stuff. uh? Look at 401k.com -- Big business there. Somebody wants a cut from that I guess.

[the100rabh]

so is anyone planning 80C or something similar for India???

[SathyaBhat]

80c.in ? Thats not possible, domains need to be atleast 4 characters. Well, unless you pay for it or have some 'special' privileges right ?

[mixdev]

80c.in ? Thats not possible, domains need to be atleast 4 characters. Well, unless you pay for it or have some 'special' privileges right ?
That's interesting. Will I get 2 letter .in domains if I pay for it? Special privilege is out of question anyways I guess.

[mixdev]

so is anyone planning 80C or something similar for India???
since 80c.com is not a real website, I guess the typo traffic must be less.

But after all, Google can detect all these techniques pretty easily and can give less weight to the .cm domains. Remember, when you trype something in address field in FF, it goes to Googles as a search and then redirected to the first result in the Google search for that keyword -- Just like you are clicking "I am feeling lucky" :-)

[rmholy]

MIXDEV, yes they are: email@Dotty.biz
< www.Dotty.biz >

refer: TheDomains ;)

HaveILovedYou.com
AmILovingYou.com

[SathyaBhat]

\, when you trype something in address field in FF, it goes to Googles as a search and then redirected to the first result in the Google search for that keyword -- Just like you are clicking "I am feeling lucky" :-)
Love that little feature :-)