Four comic books to have sold for over $ 1 million USD as of December 2010, including two examples of Action Comics No. 1, the first appearance of Superman, both sold privately through online dealer ComicConnect. com in 2010, and Detective Comics No. 27, the first appearance of Batman, via public auction.

On an online auction, it stands a good chance of bringing a good price.

For example, a website such as an online auctions website may charge the users of its auction service to list an auction, but also display third-party advertisements on the site, from which it derives further income.

* Allegro ( auction website ), a Poland-based online auction website

Many online auction sites employ sophisticated ( and usually secret ) methods to detect collusion.

The online auction site eBay forbids shilling ; its rules do not allow friends or employees of a person selling an item to bid on the item.

Manufacturers in this period included Nishijin and Sankyo ; most of these machines available on online auction sites today date to the 1970s.

(" Dutch auction " is also sometimes used to describe online auctions where several identical goods are sold simultaneously to an equal number of high bidders.

The large auction houses, such as Sotheby's and Christie's maintain large online databases of art which they have auctioned or are auctioning.

The site was put up for online auction in September 2011 through the U. S. General Services Administration.

eBay Inc. () is an American multinational internet consumer-to-consumer corporation that manages eBay. com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide.

eBay expanded from its original " set-time " auction format to include " Buy It Now " standard shopping ; shopping by UPC, ISBN, or other kind of SKU ( via Half. com ); online classified advertisements ( via Kijiji or eBay Classifieds ); online event ticket trading ( via StubHub ); online money transfers ( via PayPal ) and other services.

had a head start, and New Zealand where TradeMe, owned by the Fairfax media group is the dominant online auction website.

New cassettes are still available for purchase at online shops and used recorders are often found at flea markets, thrift stores or on Internet auction sites.

A game's synthetic economy often results in interaction with a " real " economy ; characters, spells, and items may be sold on online auction websites like eBay for real money.

While many game developers, such as Blizzard ( creator of World of Warcraft ), prohibit the practice, it is common that goods and services within virtual economies will be sold on online auction sites and traded for real currencies.

" If tickets were left to auction online, they'd bring in enough to fund a state Senate campaign ".

Online marketplaces may have an online auction format or may allow the student to list their books for a fixed price.

A variant of real time pricing is online auction business model ( such as eBay ).

One class of resource allocation algorithms is the auction class, whereby applicants bid for the best resource ( s ) according to their balance of " money ", as in a online auction business model ( see also auction theory ).

The two most common systems are the classification adopted by the website AmphibiaWeb, University of California ( Berkeley ) and the classification by herpetologist Darrel Frost and the American Museum of Natural History, available as the online reference database Amphibian Species of the World.

Ouellette v. Viacom International Inc. followed in Access Now's footsteps by holding that a mere online presence does not subject a website to the ADA guidelines.

As part of its very large website, the museum has the largest online database of objects in the collection of any museum in the world, with 2, 000, 000 individual object entries, 650, 000 of them illustrated, online at the start of 2012.

The website and online database of the collection also provide increasing amounts of information.

In February 2010, a website for the online multiplayer game, Digimon Battle Online, was launched, showing it to be based primarily in the world of the Tamers saga and its characters.

On 22 January 2009, Britannica's president, Jorge Cauz, announced that the company would be accepting edits and additions to the online Britannica website from the public.

An example of an automated online assistant on a merchandising website.

Garfield. com is the strip's official website, containing archives of past strips along with games and an online store.

Its website is no longer online and the Internet Movie Database page has been deleted ; the Graham Chapman Archive's website has disappeared as well.

As search engine traffic achieved greater significance in online marketing plans, consultants were brought in who were well versed in how search engines perceive a website.

* magic-lantern. eu website with more than 6100 lantern slides online

2008 also saw the opening of a website, Nostratica, devoted to providing important texts in Nostratic studies online.

Pietro Di Miceli, an Italian volunteer, developed and administered the first Project Gutenberg website and started the development of the Project online Catalog.

* Nanomedicine website Freitas ' Nanomedicine book series on medical nanorobotics, freely available online

The National Property Administration, Ministry Of Finance website has an online system to report squatted lands.

Effectively, this section immunizes both ISPs and Internet users from liability for torts committed by others using their website or online forum, even if the provider fails to take action after receiving actual notice of the harmful or offensive content.

Domain names are often seen in analogy to real estate in that ( 1 ) domain names are foundations on which a website ( like a house or commercial building ) can be built and ( 2 ) the highest " quality " domain names, like sought-after real estate, tend to carry significant value, usually due to their online brand-building potential, use in advertising, search engine optimization, and many other criteria.

At least one website now exists where collectors can permanently register their collections in an online database with a photograph and description of each item.

In mid-2009, after the split of Queen + Paul Rodgers, the Queen online website announced a new greatest hits compilation named Absolute Greatest.

ASU Online was ranked # 1 in online Student Services and Technology by U. S. News and World Report.

When AA was ported to the English Electric KDF9 computer, the character set was changed to ISO and that compiler has been recovered from an old paper tape by the Edinburgh Computer History Project and is available online, as is a high-quality scan of the original Edinburgh version of the Atlas Autocode manual.

AIM Pages was released in May 2006, allowing the 63 million AIM users to create an online, dynamic profile.

AMD's new fab in Dresden came online, allowing further production increases, and the process technology was improved by a switch to copper interconnects.

PETSCII was also supported by the nationwide online service Quantum Link.

The most popular form of online graphics was ANSI art, which combined the IBM Extended ASCII character set's blocks and symbols with ANSI escape sequences to allow changing colors on demand, provide cursor control and screen formatting, and even basic musical tones.

The version with Bardot was issued in 1986 and became a popular download hit in 2006 when Universal Records made its back catalogue available to purchase online, with this version of the song ranking as the third most popular download.

The Beano Club was closed down in 2010 and it's pages changed to Beano VIP with more online presence.

CEO and chairman Howard Lutnick, whose brother was among those killed, vowed to keep the company alive, and the company was able to bring its trading markets back online within a week.

Counter-Strike was originally played online through the WON gaming service, which was shut down in 2004, forcing players to switch to Steam.

In early 2000 Engelbart produced, with volunteers and sponsors, what was called The Unfinished Revolution – II, also known as the Engelbart Colloquium at Stanford University, to document and publicize his work and ideas to a larger audience ( live, and online ).

An idea he introduced in one of these columns was the concept of " Reviews of This Book ", a book containing nothing but cross-referenced reviews of itself which has an online implementation.

On September 22, 2011, online game publisher Joymax announced the release of an MMORPG game called Digimon Masters, which was developed by the Korean publisher DIGITALIC.

In 1996 Jones International University was launched and claims to be the first fully online university accredited by a regional accrediting association in the US.

In 2009 the entire contents was made available online, free of charge.

" The Department of Education and Science, which paid € 450, 000 to give children in school online access to the Encyclopaedia, said it was " disappointed ".

On 3 June 2008, an initiative to facilitate collaboration between online expert and amateur scholarly contributors for Britannica's online content ( in the spirit of a wiki ), with editorial oversight from Britannica staff, was announced.

Like the Britannica, Encarta was available online by subscription, although some content could be accessed for free.

* 1982: Minitel was introduced nationwide in France by France Telecom and used for online ordering.

The Baudot system was accepted by the French Telegraph Administration during 1875, with the first online tests of his system occurring between Paris and Bordeaux on November 12, 1877.