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Sedo for tourism auction — .NYC chooses

Sedo for tourism auction — .NYC chooses

Good tourism domain names will head to the auction block in May.

Neustar will run an auction for tourism-related .NYC domain names next month. The auction will run May 3-May 10. Some of the domains in the auction include:

Museum.nyc
Tour.nyc
Theaters.nyc
Shows.nyc
Flights.nyc
Limos.nyc

Bidders must either live or own a business in Fresh York City.

This is the fourth registry auction for .NYC domains and the first to be held on Sedo.

The first auction for real estate names was on NameJet. It pulled in over $70,000 in sales led by RealEstate.nyc for $21,300.

The registry then held two auctions on SnapNames. The first was for fashion domains and had regarding $90,000 in bids. Still, the top sale in that auction (Fashion.nyc for $37,000) doesn’t appear to have ever closed. The second SnapNames auction for tech names ended with $29,000 in sales.

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