I spent this afternoon doing some work while listening to the Moniker Live auction. While I am not surprised at the results ($2.56 million in sales), I am a bit disappointed in them. I was hoping to see somewhere in the ballpark of $4-5 million in sales, assuming Israel.com didn’t sell. I realize there might be more bids in the silent auction that continues for the next several days, but I don’t think the final tally will increase substantially.

Here are a few of my opinions for the auction:

1. Sellers still have very high expectations for their names and fairly unreasonable reserves. I think domain owners need to understand that in today’s market, buyers aren’t going to spend a ton of money on a domain name simply because it’s a great domain name. Unless a buyer has a plan for the name, chances are good that they won’t pay a premium for it.
2. Many decent/good one worders that would have sold in the $15-30k range at past auctions didn’t sell today or sold for less today.
3. From what I heard from a couple people in attendance, the house crowd was smaller during this auction.
4. Non-.com extensions saw much weaker results than before. I believe names like 20.net, Garden.info, and all the .mobi names would have sold for much more a year ago.
5. If you have a good name and set a good reserve, bidders will bid it up and set the price – just what happened in the case of PostalCodes.com.

I was expecting a weak auction, and that’s what we saw today.

Anonymity.com is up for auction at Sedo, it was originally registered back in 1996 and the bid is currently at $9,100 and the reserve HAS been met.

Google returns 12.1M results for “Anonymity”, and not that I need to remind everybody, but interest/concern for privacy is on the rise.Anonymous.net sold for $35,000 on March 19th, 2008 — Don’t miss your chance to own Anonymity.com.

You have about 16 hours to bid, until when the auction is over on Saturday, May 24th at 12:58 PM EST. You can bid on the auction here.