Tag Archives: Afternic

Wed 30th April 2008
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Survey: Escrow.com Tops for Big Ticket Domain Name Transactions - Survey shows Escrow.com is leader at facilitating large domain purchases. 34% of respondents in Domain Name Wire’s third annual survey said they prefer to use Escrow.com to safely pay for high dollar domain names they buy. Escrow.com is popular with domain owners because it was designed as a fully automated platform for escrow and has a particular focus on domain names. Pricing is also reasonable: $0-$5,000 3.25% $5,001-$25,000 $162.50 + 0.26% of amount over ... read more ...
Tue 29th April 2008
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Survey: Sedo “Most Innovative” Domain Aftermarket Company - Company selected as “Most Innovative” when it comes to selling domain names. 45% of those surveyed in Domain Name Wire’s third annual survey believe Sedo is the “Most Innovative” company in the domain aftermarket. This is the first year the question was asked on the survey. Sedo sold about $75 million worth of domain names last year, mostly through its online sites. It holds monthly “Great Domains” auctions featuring high quality domains and has over ... read more ...
Wed 23rd April 2008
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Survey: Sedo Best Online Sales Venue - Sedo tops list of best online sales venues. For the second year in a row, Sedo has been selected as the best online sales venue for buying and selling domain names. In a survey of 841 domain name professionals, 51% selected Sedo as the top online sales venue. Last year Sedo was first but only grabbed 36% of the vote. The question on this year’s survey was slightly different from last year, as the question specified that it only pertained to online sales venues. ... read more ...
Tue 8th April 2008
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Back to a Future: iREIT Pricing Blunder - iREIT lets three letter domains go for under $1,000. Domain investors know the value of three character domains. These domain names are in limited supply and often represent acronyms of large organizations. Although poor ones sell for under $10,000, it’s not unusual to see them sell for six figures. Last month I wrote about how you can protect your three character domains from companies that want to steal them from you. But apparently I left off some other advice: ... read more ...
Mon 31st March 2008
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Dark Blue Sea: Domain Portfolio Worth $600 Million Retail - Company values retail value of portfolio at approximately $1,000 USD per domain. A Dark Blue Sea investor presentation (pdf) suggests that the retail value of its 570,000 domain portfolio is about $600 million. The presentation also provides a wealth of other statistics and details on its deal with domain registrar GoDaddy. Dark Blue Sea, an Australian company, is well known to domain name investors for its Fabulous domain registrar and domain parking services. As ... read more ...
Wed 19th March 2008
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Afternic to Open Auctions to Individual Domainers - Domain sales site to open up auction platform to individual domain owners. Afternic plans to open up its auction feature this year to allow individual domain owners to submit domains for auction, the company disclosed in an online web conference. Currently, Afternic’s auctions only include domains that have met their reserve. I imagine this will work somewhat like Sedo’s auctions, where you can list qualified domains with a specific closing time but retain a ... read more ...
Wed 6th February 2008
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How to Buy Expired Domains during Afternic - Afternic’s new expired domain service provides opportunity to get expired domains without much competition. Expired domain catchers that are tired of bidding wars at SnapNames and NameJet may want to check out Afternic’s expired domain auctions. I first wrote about the new service in December, but domains finally started going to auction in late January. Much like other services, Afternic expired auctions require you to preorder domain names. I preordered a ... read more ...