A: Dallas, Texas, United States
On October 24, 2013 Heritage Auctions of Dallas, Texas, announced their first auction of Domain Names and Intellectual Properties conducted by Aron Meystedt of Dallas, owner of the virtual real estate investment firm xf.com, who had been buying, selling, and developing Internet domains since 2009. As far as I was able to determine this was the first auction of Internet domains by a major auction house. The bidding period for the online auction was November 1 to 21, 2013.