Tag Archives: Aftermarket.com

Thu 18th September 2014
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Igloo acquires Aftermarket.com - Domain broker acquires domain name marketplace. Igloo, a fast growing domain name broker, has acquired domain name marketplace Aftermarket.com from Thought Convergence. The move makes sense for Igloo. While its focus in the past has been on larger, high touch transactions, it is now handling the sale of the old DomainSponsor portfolio that was acquired by Rook Media earlier this year. Aftermarket.com will give it a good platform to sell these domain names (and others). “With ... read more ...
Fri 24th May 2013
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Aftermarket.com to mix parking and selling - Thought Convergence’s domain marketplace will integrate domain parking and the company has switched ad feed providers. Aftermarket.com, the domain name sales platform by Thought Convergence, is getting ready to launch a combined parking and selling platform. In a blog post today, the company said it will start offering a parking platform integrated into Aftermarket.com. Domain owners will be able to park their domain names and funnel purchase inquiries through Aftermarket.com. Although ... read more ...
Wed 10th August 2011
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Aftermarket.com Offers Private Domain Name Brokerage - Company officially moves into domain brokerage services. Aftermarket.com is now officially offering private domain name brokerage services. The company has recently sent solicitations about domains including WorldTradeCenter.com. But today the group sent out an email announcing its private brokerage services. It includes a list of some of the domains it has recently gotten under exclusive contract to sell. Some of the domains include UrgentCare.com, Proposition.com, ... read more ...
Thu 3rd March 2011
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French Word for Wedding Domain Name Gets $130,000 Bid - Six figure offer made for French language .com domain name. Mariage.com — a typo of Marriage but more importantly the French word for Wedding — has received a 92,000 EUR bid at Sedo. That’s about $130,000 USD. An auction for the domain name ends March 8. Elsewhere in the domain auction world SnapNames is running its March feature auction. It includes primarily domains related to travel and entertainment. A few domains already have bids but the auction ... read more ...
Mon 8th November 2010
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Aftermarket.com Is Alive - It’s alive! Thought Convergence’s Aftermarket.com has been reborn today. I wrote a preview about some of the new site’s features back in August. The site works like a number of other domain name marketplaces, but has a few twists thrown in. I think the domain name verification system through sister company DomainTools will help maintain marketplace integrity. As Michael Berkens opined yesterday, Aftermarket.com could set itself apart from many other marketplaces ... read more ...
Mon 20th September 2010
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Aftermarket.com Gears Up For Launch - New ideas come to online domain sales. Aftermarket.com is getting closer to its relaunch as an online marketplace for buying and selling domain names. In general the marketplace will be similar to what you have come to expect from Sedo and Afternic, but with some twists: Private auctions – you can hold your own private auction with up to 100 guests Domain data – pull DomainTools data directly into your listing Escrow – escrow will be handled through Escrow.com Aftermarket ... read more ...
Tue 10th August 2010
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Aftermarket.com Gearing Up for Launch - TCI is working on relaunching its aftermarket business. Thought Convergence, parent company of TrafficZ, is working on a formal launch of its domain name marketplace Aftermarket.com. Thought Convergence started using the Aftermarket.com domain name this time two years ago. Since then it has used it primarily as a service for its own and third party event auctions. The company bought the domain name for $125,000 at a Moniker auction in 2008. You’ll find very little ... read more ...
Tue 23rd June 2009
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Aftermarket.com Auction Ends Today, Great Domains Thursday - Two large online domain name auctions conclude this week. The online-only portion of the Domain Roundtable Aftermarket.com auction concludes today at 5 PM EDT. 269 domain names are up for grabs, ranging from $0 to $300,000. A number of domains in the under $3,000 arena have received bids already, including HealthAdvisor.com ($2,245), TopMortgage.com ($1,000), and eQuestion.com ($850). There are some well priced domains in this auction; bid online at Aftermarket.com. Sedo’s ... read more ...
Wed 17th June 2009
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Yahoo Sells Contests.com for $380,000 - Yahoo sells domain name during Domain Roundtable auction. Search and media giant Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) has sold the domain name Contests.com for $380,000 during a live domain name auction in Washington, D.C. The domain started at a $150,000 price before receiving 15 bids from 3 different bidders. Two of the bidders were on site at the auction and one was online. The domain appears to have been picked up when Yahoo acquired Broadcast.com. Historical records show ... read more ...
Tue 5th May 2009
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GeoDomain Auction Ends Today with during slightest $200k Sales - Extended geo domain name auction ends today starting at noon pacific daylight time. DomainConsultant’s GeoDomain auction ends today, with lots starting to close at 12 pm PDT. Already the auction is shaping up to be a success thanks to some high dollar domains receiving bids ahead of the closing bell. Longhorn.com has a $35,000 bid, Ponce.com has a bid at $21,000, and SantaClarita.com is $30,000. An auction for Reserve.com, which ironically started with no reserve, ... read more ...
Fri 1st May 2009
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3 Online Domain Name Auctions Going on during Once - Take advantage of lots of inventory to get good deals. There are three online domain name auctions going on right now, and that doesn’t include the regular auctions such as Sedo. I’m talking about the silent version of three live auctions held in the past two weeks: DomainConsultant’s GeoDomain Auction, Rick Latona’s TRAFFIC auction, and the Moniker auction. This means there’s a lot of inventory out there and lots of good deals. You just need to look ... read more ...
Tue 28th April 2009
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GeoDomain Auction Gets More Sales - Longhorn.com and Ponce.com snag bids in extended auction. I learned something important when I went to Las Vegas for DomainConsultant’s live domain auction: the initial results are just the beginning. DomainConsultant does a great job closing sales after the auction ends. But they also make sure that no one has an incentive to hold off on buying domains in the live auction domains with the hope that they’ll be available for less: they never lower prices after ... read more ...
Sat 25th April 2009
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GeoDomain Expo Day Two Wrap and an Auction First - A look back at Friday’s GeoDomain activities and a unique twist on today’s auction. Friday kicked off the first official full day of activities at the 2009 GeoDomain Expo in San Diego. The day opened with a brief address from San Diego mayor Jerry Sanders. Associated Cities president Dan Pulcrano then provided a State of the Industry speech. Next, a panel of GeoDomain owners discussed how they’ve developed their sites. They provided some good tips on getting ... read more ...
Sun 29th March 2009
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Vegas Baby, Vegas! - I’m off to Las Vegas for Domain Madness. Keeping up with all domain news it tough work. Here’s a case in point on how I’m taking one for the team. You know, sacrificing. So on Friday Adam Strong of Domain Consultant sends me an e-mail to tell me about the live version of Tuesday’s Domain Madness auction. Man, so you mean I have to go to Vegas for the event to cover it? And stay at the rinky-dink Palms hotel? What a sacrifice. I guess I need to do it ... read more ...
Fri 27th February 2009
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More Domains Sell in Aftermarket.com Extended Auction - Auction ends today at 4 PM CST. It ain’t over until the fat lady sings. Aftermarket.com’s Domainer Mardi Gras auction is still going, and some of the domains that didn’t sell during the live auction last Saturday are getting bids. That includes Credenzas.com, at $13,500, and GolfSets.com at $4,500. The extended auction also includes new domains that weren’t in the original auction and have no reserve. These include Engrossing.com, HealthyMenu.com, PhotoPapers.com, ... read more ...
Sun 22nd February 2009
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Domain Name Auction Picks Were 82% Accurate - My picks for the Aftermarket.com auction were right 82% of the time. I used a stunningly complex methodology to pick the winners in yesterday’s Aftermarket.com auction at Domainer Mardi Gras: I made a gut call on whether or not someone would bid on the name. Yep, that’s it. No complex algorithms. No looking up advertiser or traffic counts. Just making a call. I was right 82% of the time. I underestimated the number of domains that would sell. I predicted ... read more ...
Fri 21st November 2008
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2o.com was Fair Deal, Jury Still Out on .com.au Domains - A look back at comments about this week’s Aftermarket.com auction results. A couple people commented about the Aftermarket.com auction held this week in Australia, and they commented about how many of the sales were absolute steals. Two comments in particular I have seen on various forums and blogs are that the purchase of 2o.com at $8,500 was a steal, and that the .com.au domains sold at very low prices. The first comment is somewhat true, the second one can’t ... read more ...
Thu 20th November 2008
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A Tale of Two Auctions - Yesterday’s Aftermarket.com auction started out great. Then it flopped. I thought yesterday’s Aftermarket.com auction went great. And I still thought that well after the auction was over. Why? Because I didn’t watch the second half. I watched the first 25 or so auctions from my office, and then packed up and headed home. The first 25 lots went great. The sell through rate was high and the auctioneer was lively. The online interface was greatly improved ... read more ...
Wed 19th November 2008
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It’s Domain Name Auction Day - Two live domain name auctions kick off this evening. Two live domain name auctions that are part of the Traffic Down Under conference will take place this evening starting at 5:30 PM Eastern U.S. time. The first auction is organized by Aftermarket.com and starts at 5:30. I previewed that auction last week. Online bidding started early and already a number of domains have received multiple bids. Later this evening at 9:00 PM EST the RickLatona.com auction will take ... read more ...
Fri 14th November 2008
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Aftermarket.com Traffic Down Under Auction Underway - Live auction kicks off online today, live next week. The Aftermarket.com live auction at the Traffic Down Under conference in Australia has begun. Domains are finalized and bidding is now available on the Aftermarket.com site. Lots will begin closing when the on-site auction in Australia begins on November 20th and 8:30 a.m. local time. That’s 5:30 PM EST on November 19. Aftermarket.com is offering a text message reminder service to notify you when the auction ... read more ...
Mon 10th November 2008
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Thought Convergence is Converging a Domain Ecosystem - Domain company Thought Convergence putting together all the pieces of a domain name ecosystem. There are lots of companies playing one or two angles of the domain name business: sales, monetization, registration, etc. Thought Convergence, however, is making a play to own the entire life of the domain from research to registration all the way through sales. That puts it in a class with another Los Angeles domain icon: Oversee.net. You probably know Thought Convergence, ... read more ...
Fri 31st October 2008
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Submit Domains to Aftermarket.com Auction by Saturday - Priority deadline is Saturday for Australia auction. Domainers wishing to sell their domains in the upcoming Aftermarket.com auction at TRAFFIC Down Under should submit their domains by this Saturday. Domains can be submitted through the online system at Aftermarket.com. The submission process is similar to the one used for the New York TRAFFIC auction. “From a customer’s perspective, the submission process itself is relatively the same,” said Thought Convergence’s ... read more ...
Thu 25th September 2008
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Backdrop for this Week’s Domain Auctions is Shaky - This week’s onslaught of domain auctions couldn’t have come at a more unstable time. Call it the week of domain name auctions: two from Moniker, plus auctions from Rick Latona Auctions, Aftermarket.com, and Sedo. Also call it the week of economic uncertainty. Yesterday afternoon the backdrop for the Aftermarket.com auction was knowledge that President Bush was going to address the nation about the financial crisis just a few hours later. In that speech, he ... read more ...
Wed 24th September 2008
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Aftermarket.com Auction Hits NYC Today - Aftermarket.com auction premieres this afternoon in New York. The Aftermarket.com domain name auction will kick off at 5 PM Eastern today at the TRAFFIC conference. Online bidding is available at Aftermarket.com and you must register your account in order to bid. This is the first auction under the Aftermarket.com brand, but the team behind this auction has lots of live auction experience. Thought Convergence, parent company of Aftermarket.com, also owns Name Intelligence, ... read more ...
 
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Aftermarket.com Sells $150,000 in Live Domain Auction - Aftermarket.com auction ends with $150k in sales. The Aftermarket.com auction at TRAFFIC just concluded with $148,700 in sales according to my unofficial tally. Overall the online auction system worked fairly well with no latency. There are a few kinks to work out, though. For example, the bid increments used by the auctioneer didn’t match bidding increments requested online. Sometimes they were higher and sometimes lower. The auctioneer would ask the house ... read more ...