Just came across Ed's blog post about the TRAFFIC cctlds conference. Great to read about successful networking and new friends:

Traffic ccTLD’s Amsterdam, My thoughts! (Part 1) | OzDomainer.com

Update: Here's Part 2:

Traffic ccTLD's Amsterdam, My thoughts! (Part 2) | OzDomainer.com

Less than 24 hours to go before the extended online auction ends. The auction ends 5:00 pm Eastern (Monday, 15th June).

Currently, only 4 bids have been made. However, I expect there will soon be a big flurry of activity, as everyone is going to bid at the very last minute. Even with Bido's short 1-hour auction, many times the real activity only happens during the last five minutes!

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*Update:* Auction has now ended. Only 30 of the 1,000 domains sold (most within the last 5/10 minutes!). I'm surprised more domains didn't sell. What you do you think that this?

Here's a list of the 8 .Indian domains that sold via this silent auction:

Refrigerator.in - 1,064.00 Euros (approx. $1,466 USD)
Publish.in - 700.00 Euros (approx. $964 USD)
Hang.in - 532.00 Euros (approx. $733 USD)
CricketGame.in - 532.00 Euros (approx. $733 USD)
LawSchools.in - 360.00 Euros (approx. $496 USD)
Powergenerators.in - 200.00 Euros (approx. $275 USD)
Antidepressant.in - 200.00 Euros (approx. $275 USD)
ComputerDegree.in - 200.00 Euros (approx. $275 USD)

Congrats to the buyers and sellers!

1/4 domains that sold are .in – that’s good news

Looks like it was the same person who bought most or all of the .in domains.

I was happy. I sold antidepressant.in and PowerGenerators.in. Although, he chose CricketGames.in over my iCricket.co.in. Shame shame. Lol.

Apparently, he was/is a member here. Still? Not so sure. When I search his id in google inforum.in comes up with him as a member, but when you click on it it says no such member exists.

Yes Jeff. That's good news.

Great to see the success of .IN in the auction.

I think we will see a huge reset in the global giants as the world emerges from this recession. I fully expect to see .China and .India rising to the top of the heap but of course this will take time.

I just re-read interesting statistics regarding India's population:

50% is under the age of 25

66% is under the age of 35

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I think these are really nice sales!

Such sales were not possible two years ago.
We can see a huge increase in value of dot.in !

What will be in two years?

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Wondering if the person who won the .INs in Rick's Auction is going to default.

update: been informed he sent money via wire last week.

The transfering auth. is in process .. Will recieve via wire sometime in July 3. .

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Update: Still haven't receive via wire money yet since he/she said need to confirm the buyer whether he has received my domain yet (transfer to godaddy) and it should be in his account since July 3rd already ..

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