Could This Be the Woman.Com of the Year?

A woman is generating lots of interest on the Internet this week. And no, it’s not cyber celeb Mahir’s female equivalent.

It is “woman.com,” one of seven domain names for sale in an online auction expected to bring in millions of dollars before it ends at 2 p.m. today. The auction is being held at Domainrace.com, a Web site founded by L.A. cyber entrepreneur Ron Perelman as a venue for the sale of domain names.

The owner of woman.com is a software company named Today.com that invests in “cyber real estate” (i.e., domain names). The Tempe, Ariz.-based outfit decided to put the name on the block at Domainrace.com a month ago and began publishing sales notices in newspapers.

“Woman.com represents half the world . . . but what it represents to each person is different,” auction organizer Eric Wade told us. “You could easily slap a commerce site up there or put the name on an existing site that doesn’t have very good brand recognition. Or, you could create a more personal site to handle issues that are important to women.”

Wade expects these magnificent seven, which include jeans.com, publicrelations.com and quehora.com (one of the first Spanish-language domain names, he said, to generate intense buyer interest) to sell for more than $10 million. His hopes are particularly high for woman.com.

“We think woman.com is one name that has a good chance at breaking the record for a domain-name sale, which was $7.5 million for business.com,” Wade said. “I mean, what is more important? Business or a woman?”

Depends on the business. Depends on the woman.

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We have to stop for a moment here to rant about the Dec. 28 National Enquirer cover that pictures Chelsea Clinton in tears. It’s hard enough to handle the stress of college, a philandering father and a mother who moves out without a camera lens intruding into your private moments. Chelsea’s tears should be her business.

A White House spokeswoman for the first lady said the Clintons would have no comment.

“We don’t talk about Chels,” she said.

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Santa Claus is taking time out of his busy schedule this week to field calls from the world’s kids. But you can’t just pick up the phone and dial the bearded one.

Here’s how it works: Log on to https://www.keen.com and enter your home phone number, then click “call Santa now.” Your telephone will ring, and after you confirm that yes, indeed, you did place a call to Santa, he will pick up his receiver in the North Pole and answer any Santa-related questions live.

Calls are free, and the Web site will donate 10 cents each minute Santa is on the phone to Toys for Tots. Check the site for Santa’s hours. He is available every day until Christmas Eve, when he has more pressing business to attend to.

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The New York Daily News reports Jerry Seinfeld’s fiancee, Jessica Sklar, has chosen her boss, Tommy Hilfiger, to design her wedding dress.

Sklar, who’s in charge of PR for Hilfiger’s children’s line, has already had several fittings in preparation for the ceremony, said to be taking place sometime this week in New York.

Hopefully the secretive newlyweds will release at least one pic of the gown, because we gotta know: Will it be festooned with the Tommy Girl logo?

Booth Moore can be reached at booth.moore@latimes.com.