ToysRUs has bought the domain name Toys.com at auction for $5.1 million. The auction saw a battle between ToysRUs and domain holding company National A-1 Advertising for the url.
The sale is still subject to subject to court approval

Sotheby’s has announced that the Company has opened an office in Jakarta and appointed Deborah Iskandar as Managing Director, Indonesia Representative Office to direct the Company’s operations in the country. The opening coincides with a preview of the highlights from the sale of Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Paintings at Sotheby’s Hong Kong on 5 [...]

IpAuctions® Inc. will auction 10 unique yacht designs created by famed luxury yacht designer Tom Fexas currently owned by his estate. These patented designs offer a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own a piece of boating history and craft a yacht from a choice of 10 individual Fexas designs never before seen in the world.
The 10 copyrighted [...]

CBEX (China Beijing Equity Exchange) announced today the auctioning of the fous (an ancient Chinese percussion instrument derived from clay potteries and bronze ware) that were used in the grand performance of fou at the opening ceremony of Beijing Olympics Games.
According to CBEX, the first auction will be held on March 8, in which 1,000 [...]

A French court rejected China’s efforts to block the auction of bronze heads of a rat and a rabbit, part of a once-magnificent fountain of Chinese zodiac animals in Beijing’s Summer Palace, which were said to have been looted by pillaging French and British troops in 1860, during the Second Opium War.
Five of the 12 [...]

BlackRock Preferred Income Strategies Fund, Inc. (NYSE: PSY), and BlackRock Preferred and Corporate Income Strategies Fund, Inc. (NYSE: PSW) announced today the redemption of a portion of their issued and outstanding auction market preferred stock (“AMPS”), at liquidation preference of $25,000 per share, together with accrued and unpaid dividends thereon to the redemption date, if [...]

Many a time it is the background story that lends a work of art its true fascination. This once again proves to be the case with one of the top lots at the auction of 19th century paintings, to be held on 1st April 2009 during the Vienna Dorotheum first auction week of 2009.
Originally painted [...]

“BillionaireXchange.com is the destination website for people that want to acquire or exchange luxury goods with others all around the world,” said Quintin Thompson, Executive Partner with BXE International. “Instead of hunting on an auction website around bean-bag toys and novelty candy dispensers, we cut to the chase and make it easy for people with [...]

Indian government bonds fell by the most in more than a week on speculation investors sold securities to free up cash before debt auctions.
The government plans to sell 70 billion rupees of 7.46 percent bonds maturing in 2017, 30 billion rupees of 8.35 percent notes due in 2022 and 20 billion rupees of 7.5 percent [...]

An elite portfolio of 57 HVAC (heating, ventilating, and air conditioning) Domain Names is being auctioned on eBay this week. The high profile domains are all perfectly positioned to be used for premium HVAC sites or for shopping comparison sites. The portfolio includes: * HVACELITE.COM * HVACDEPARTMENT.COM * HVACGENERAL.COM * HVACLOCAL.COM * HVACNATION.COM * HVACTOTAL.COM [...]