pizza -glasses

[abe]

Just went in Russia for a VERY good price.

[thefabfive]

Do you mean:

очки.рф
пицца.рф?

Care to elaborate?

[abe]

Sorry about that.. thought I posted.
Yes, rf- Pizza went for $11,164, glasses for $11,500

A great catch.

[alpha]

Do you have a link or screenshot please

[Steve Clarke]

If True....Somebody made like a bandit!

[555]

программы.рф 4454
корпоратив.рф 3004
отели.рф 45998
гостиницы.рф 49995
кровля.рф 10030
авиабилеты.рф 8030

http://forum.searchengines.ru/showpost.php?p=8375398&postcount=103

[Steve Clarke]

Any idea, Michael, when these re-auctions started, and should finish.

[abe]

Yes, I have a screen capture but I'll let others post/validate it.
Who knows, maybe the buyer will default on paying(??) though I doubt that.

Its great for the buyers but its somewhat disappointing as I would have expected these names to go for a lot more.

[thefabfive]

I know for a fact the .coms would not go that cheap.

[Avtal]

RU-CENTER has posted an article on the auctions: http://info.nic.ru/node/3490.

A few highlights (rough translation, heavily condensed):

24,754 domains were originally up for auction in November/December. 263 were removed from the auction, at the request of local governments or trademark holders. As a result of the December auction, 23,117 domains were sold. Of the 1,363 domains that were not sold (because the top two bidders didn't pay), 914 had more than 1 remaining bidder, and were re-auctioned (the ones that only had 1 remaining bidder will be sold at an open auction later). Of those, 2 were removed at the request of trademark holders.

As of noon on January 19, here are the results of the second auction.

In the December round of auctions, 6 domains that received bids of more than $100,000: "офис.рф" (office), "золото.рф" (gold), "игры.рф" (games), "максим.рф" (maxim?), "полиграфия.рф" (polygraph), "машина.рф" (machines/cars) failed to sell (the bidders didn't pay). In the second round, the high bids for these domains ranged from $2,000 to $55,000. The highest price paid so far has been for фрилансер.рф (freelancer), which sold for $67,169. [If I understand correctly, there may have been higher bids in other auctions, but the winners of these other auctions haven't paid yet]. So far, 223 of the domains have been paid for by the winning bidders.

I notice that according to whois, фрилансер.рф has already been transferred to its new owner.

Avtal