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Moniker has released a preview of the domains that will be for sale in the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. West 2008 live domain auction in Las Vegas, NV in February. This has to be the most impressive list of domains for sale I’ve seen in a long time. More than 80,000 domain names have been submitted for consideration so far, about 250 of them will be featured in the live auction. Another 2,500 will be put up for sale in a silent online auction. There are so many one-word generics on the live auction list that it’s difficult to say which is the best - all of them are top-notch:

• Daily.com,
• Beverage.com,
• Homeowner.com,
• Affiliate.com,
• Dance.com,
• SearchEngines.com,
• Bachelor.com,
• and JobOpenings.com to name a few.

I’m sure the auction will set a new sales record, unless something goes very wrong, because these top .com domains combined with Moniker’s auction experience, Rick’s and Howard’s solid organization of the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference and rising domain prices, the basis for high-value sales looks better than ever before. Given the reserve prices won’t be too high, of course. I don’t know the reserves, yet. After several successful auctions, however, I think Moniker knows pretty well what they’re doing, so they won’t list too many domains that start off at speculative end user prices. They will want to keep the auction running at full speed, after all.