AfternicDLS reported $626,920 in sales last week, up 10% from the previous week. The three largest sales were:

With the volume of sales at 402, it makes the average price $1,560 with the median at exactly $1,000. The sales reflect two of the best areas of the economy right now: education and  health care.

While there are one or two domain auction companies that have a checkered past when it comes to ethics and the law, the vast majority of companies conducting domain auctions today are worthy of trust. The question of trust, however, should extend beyond rigging auctions to an analytics and economics level. Do you worry that placing a large bid at an auction house has the potential to have a negative impact on your domain acquisition economics?
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Afternic continues a good year of sales with today’s announcement of Ticket.com going for $1,525,000. No word yet on the buyer, but there are some big players in this space. Major League Baseball acquired Tickets.com in 2005, Ticketmaster–who owns TicketsNow.com, zTickets.com, and TicketWeb.com–and StubHub who does not have a domain portfolio.