Joe,
I am quite aware of what has happened this past week at Afternic. As it turns out, it seems as though iReit opted to list a huge chunk of their portfolio for sale. However, they made a crucial mistake of not pricing domain names out properly. Domain names that were substantially more valuable were sold at a fraction of their reseller prices.
I was aware on Friday of several sales, including Say.org and Gut.org (as well as one that I grabbed - Overwhelm.com) all at $500 each. I spent a good deal of Friday on the phone with BuyDomains trying to determine what teh situation was, and how best to go about buying domains.
I attempted to purchase several LLL.net, but I was too late. (Including Lad.net). They had already pulled most of the valuable domain names by then. Only a lucky few on Friday got their orders filled in time before the mistakes were corrected.
I had not been aware of the 5 LLLL.com's until this morning, when afternic listed them and I did a proper historical check. By my guesstimates iReit lost about 34-40k in potential revenue (easily) just on the LLL.com's and personally, I think the mistake is much closer to 100k in total. As more sales are posted (if they are posted) I will continue to document this critical error, but one of the largest domain holders.
Justin