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Virtual market maker IGE recently paid $100,000 to purchase the domain name eq.com, which now takes visitors to a page on the IGE site offering the sale of online currency and accounts for Everquest, the popular Sony Entertainment MMORPG (massively multiplayer online roleplaying game). The eq.com domain was previously owned by Laserlight Publishing, which marketed a book called The EQ Factor (Entrepreneurial Quotient), according to Domain Name Wire.
Posted by RichM 
September 28, 2005 | Permalink | Newsletter
September 16, 2005
Are Registrar Deals Shrinking Inventory?
Domain Name Wire notes that the largest registrars are continuing to shift all the secondary market action "in-house," so they can capture backorder and resale fees that previously would have gone to drop-catchers. SnapNames seems to have successfully positioned itself as the leading outsourced solution for registrars without an in-house system to generate fees on expiring domains. An excerpt:
Is Enom's Club Drop doomed? Can Pool.com survive? According to DNJournal, expired domain heavyweight SnapNames has signed an exclusive agreement with Register.com to snap its expiring domains. SnapNames already has a similar agreement with Network Solutions. Since these were the two large early registrars, they have some of the best expiring domains.
Posted by RichM September 16, 2005 | Permalink | Newsletter