CompUSA and CircuitCity domains, plus Moniker auction: Domain sales watch

These domain name sales and auctions are worth watching.

With all of the news surrounding the prior week’s ICANN meeting in Durban, I’m a bit behind on a couple domain auctions and sales that are noteworthy.

First, Hilco Streambank is offering the domain names CompUSA.com and CircuitCity.com.

Both of the domain names are from defunct technology retailers. Systemax bought the assets of both of these firms last decade. It kept CircuitCity.com as a separate online storefront until it later just forwarded it to its own TigerDirect.com site. CompUSA.com also now forwards to the Tiger Direct web site.

There’s certainly value in the traffic these domain names get.

Both assets are being sold with associated trademarks and related domain names. The deadline to submit a bid is August 15. Details are here.

Second, Moniker’s Summer Auction ends Thursday.

The auction features a domain and trademark bundle for Senico Labs LLC’s iCall.com. The reserve for the bundle is $500,000 or more.

So far 30 of the domains have bids and 21 have met their reserve. The top domain to hit its reserve so far is MZW.com at $5,250.