The new record IDN sale is Gartenmöbel.de (”garden furniture” in German) for a fairly staggering €150,000 ($214,500).
So the question on every IDN investors lips should be “why are IDN sales so strong in Germany but not in my market(s)?” Here’s my take:

IDNs are a great fit for the German language.
The German online advertising market is [...]

DNJournal.com reported this week that Büromöbel.de (”office furniture” in German), sold for a whopping €69,000 ($100,749) at Sedo.
There have been other larger, probably much larger, private IDN sales, but this is the highest public sale to date. Look for larger public sales soon, especially for German IDNs which are really blazing the IDN trail at [...]

ICANN has kept a pretty tight hold on single-letter ASCII domains. Only a few are not currently reserved by ICANN, (x.com for example is in use today), and I believe ICANN has a plan to auction them off soon, a process that I’m sure will generate huge excitement and many millions of dollars for the [...]