The live auction from DOMAINfest Global just ended  .23 out of 61 domain names were sold for about $390,000 . QR.com received a bid of $350,000 ,but it seems that the bidder wanted to bid on another domain.So,this was an accidental bidding.

Here are the results :

Qr.com    $325,000 (accidental bidding)
Empire.com    $135,000
Qe.com    $89,000
CatFood.com    $61,000
Marriages.com    $36,000
ICard.com    $26,000
RentalTrucks.com    $12,500
Avengers.com    $4,000
Margo.com    $4,000
StripMall.com    $3,700
LiverDonor.com    $3,000
VintageMirrors.com    $2,750
SportsTherapist.com    $2,500
CivilUnion.com    $2,400
ActivityCenter.com    $1,900
AntiqueGuide.com    $1,700
CaliforniaRolls.com    $1,500
LiberalArtsColleges.com    $1,500
AutoSupply.net    $900
Xeam.com    $900
Guavas.com    $800
WeddingCards.net    $700
HotCoupons.net    $400
PrescriptionRefill.net    $300

All the unsold domain names will remain in the silent auction until February,16th,2012 .

Sedo in partnership with the .ME Registry is holding an exclusive auction of premium .ME domains.The auction began on February 2,2012 and runs for a full week,until February 9,2012 .

This isn’t the first time Sedo and the .ME Registry partnered to sale .ME domains.Sedo has brokered the sale of more than 1,000 .ME     domains,totaling about $2 million.Premier .ME domain names brokered by Sedo so far,include Business.me,sold for $40,000 and Join.me,sold for $45,000 .

The auction include a wide range of premium .ME domain names,such as :

Hotel.Me
Singles.Me
Boats.Me
Yoga.Me
Creditcard.Me
Gift.Me
Movies.Me
Webhosting.Me
Friends.Me

There are 178 total .ME domains up for auction during this event,including Wedding.me,Laptop.me and 411.me .

You can register here your .eu domain names .

The complete list of .ME domains available for auction can be found at Sedo.com

The auction for Sion.fr domain name is underway .Sion.fr received one bid of 35,000 EUR and has six days left until the auction closes .

Another interesting domain name is Zla.com,which received one bid of $15,000 and has less than two days until the auction ends.

ChitterChatter.com hit $8,000 with four days left until the auction closes,while HandyShop24.de  hits 7,000 EUR with five days remaining.

Other interesting domains in the auction include :

Fashionclocks.com
Goodz.com
Carparts.in
Cloudrocket.com
E-receipts.com
Anuncïos.es
Villa.co.za
Bebe.org
Sextoydildos.com
Gifttoyou.com
Virtualcheck.com
Athlet.com
Unicrédit.com
Autosoccasion.com
Accidentclaims.co
Weightlossholiday.com

You can see the entire inventory here .

There are now more than 100 million .COM domain names according to separate statistics revealed by RegistrarStats and HosterStats.

The 100 million mark was passed in January both websites revealed in their counts of various top level domain name registrations. According to RegistrarStats, there were a total of 100,052,046 domains while HosterStats claimed there were a total of 100,045,666 registrations on 1 February out of a total base of 134,613,318 for all generic Top Level Domains.

Verisign publicly announce combined domain name registrations for .COM and .NET in their quarterly reports, but do not separate out individual statistics.

Meanwhile the latest publicly available .COM Registry Monthly Report that Verisign is obliged to prepare for ICANN notes that there were a total of 100,540,971 domain names in the .COM zone as of 31 October 2011.

The difference was explained by DomainIncite that said “domains which do not have name servers or are in special registry status codes such as Pending Delete do not show up in the zone file.”

The next gTLD milestone to be passed is likely to be .ORG, which could pass the ten million registration mark in May 2012.

DENIC,responsible of the administration of .DE extension ,is approaching 15 million domain name registrations under .DE .
This number makes .DE one of the largest ccTLDs when one looks at the number of domain names registered per person.

DENIC registered the 14 millionth .de domain name on 26 November 2010 .So,in less than seven months, almost 500,000 .DE domain names were registered .

Every six inhabitants of the German Republic has registered a .de domain name and the number is constantly growing .

The annual average growth rate of the recent years has been about 1 million domain names,which is an impressive number .Moreover,at the end of October/beginning of November 2010,domain growth gained particular momentum through the introduction of the special character eszett, ß .

There are 14,825,305 .DE domain names registered up to date,according to the most recent figures on Denic’s website .Yesterday,3,533 .DE domains have been registered .

You can register here your .DE domain .