Tag Archives: Afternic

Thu 19th September 2013
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Breaking: GoDaddy acquires Afternic from NameMedia - Acquisition will make it easier for customers to buy domain names that are already registered. GoDaddy has acquired domain name sales platform Afternic from NameMedia in a move that will make it easier for people to buy domain names that are already registered. The acquisition also includes NameMedia’s domain name parking platform SmartName. The BuyDomains.com site and NameMedia’s domain name portfolio are not part of the acquisition. A simpler domain name purchase ... read more ...
Wed 18th September 2013
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What domain names CBS, JPMorgan, and 30 others bought final week - CBS and JPMorgan among the big names buying domain names in the aftermarket last week. Afternic sold just shy of $1 million worth of domain names last week. Here are some purchases by end users. St. John Cantius Church bought Cantius.com for $1,800; it already owns the .org. Waterloo, Iowa Marketing company Impact bought ImpactHealthcare.com for $1,850. Equestrian Stylist, a site for horse lovers, bought EquestrianConsulting.com for $1,200. Amana Villas in Bali ... read more ...
Wed 11th September 2013
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17 finish user domain name sales - A law firm, casino owner, and bank bought domain names through Afternic last week. Afternic sold $968,810 worth of domain names last week. Here are 17 domain names that sold to end users. Online car rental company Booking Group bought CarRentalNews.com for $3,000. Designer accessories store Electric, which uses the domain ElectricVisual.com, bought ElectricCalifornia.com for $5,000. The law firm Driggs, Bills Day PC bought PersonalInjuryAdvocates.com for $4,288. Athens ... read more ...
Tue 10th September 2013
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Afternic.com Sells $970K in Domains Led By HomesInc.com For $15K - Afternic.com just reported its  weekly domain sales for the week of 9/2/13 – 9/8/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $968,810.   Here are the reportable sales:   <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Wed 28th August 2013
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25 finish user domain name sales during Afternic - Here are 25 domain name sales to end users at Afternic last week. Let’s start this week’s Afternic end user sales report with a look at FAB.net. I tweeted about this $39,000 sale by Frank Schilling on Monday. (You do follow Domain Name Wire on Twitter, right?) The domain’s whois is protected by privacy. But just a couple weeks ago someone in Santa Monica bought Fab.us for $8,995. Is it the same person? What are their plans? It’s hard to say, although I’m ... read more ...
Tue 27th August 2013
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Afternic.com Sells $1.1 Million In Domains Led By Name Administration’s Sale Of Fab.Net For $39,000 - Afternic.com just reported fits weekly domain sales for the week of 8/19/13 – 8/25/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $1,108,62 All sales were led by a Net, in this case Fab.net which was sold by Frank Schilling’s Name Administration’s For $39,000. All .com sales were led by a Tucows.com owned domain DreamLover.com which sold for $19,200 Here are the reportable sales: <![CDATA[]]>  Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Wed 21st August 2013
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Afternic.com Sells $1.425 Million In Domains Including A $500K Sale - Afternic’s published its  reportable weekly domain sales for the week of 8/12/13 – 8/18/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $1,425,642. This total included a $500k+ private transaction. The reportable transactions were led by HJX.com which sold for $29,000 which looks like it sold through Godaddy.com   <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Billionaire pays $2,395 for his domain name - Billionaire hedge fund chairman buys his name as a domain name. Afternic had a solid sales week last week thanks to a $500,000 domain name sale (the name was not disclosed). A billionaire – technically his hedge fund – spent a lot less than that on his personal name. Billionaire Bruce Kovner, chair of one of the world’s largest hedge funds, Caxton Associates, paid $2,395 for BruceKovner.com. Here are other end user domain purchases at Afternic last week. (A ... read more ...
Tue 20th August 2013
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Namejet Announces Auction of Top Tier Afternic.com Domain Names - Namejet.com just announced it was holding an domain name auction of some of Afternic.com “top tier” domain names: “Afternic and NameJet have partnered together to offer this exclusive list of generic, brandable domains in auction. “ “All domains are exclusively available at NameJet and are priced to sell with very low reserves. “ “The first auctions begin August 23rd with the final auctions ending a month later on September 26th. Get your backorders in ASAP and don’t miss out on these ... read more ...
Fri 16th August 2013
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What domains a Vancouver Canucks and 19 others bought final week - The Canucks make an offseason transaction and other end user domain name sales. Afternic sold $1.1 million worth of domain names last week. Here are some of the end user sales. A Marksmen client – perhaps the ITT spinoff called xylem – bought xylem.com for $47,100. Talmer Bank and Trust in Michigan bought the shorthand domain TLMR.com for $3,988. Atlantic Health System paid $1,195 for WarrenPrimaryCare.com. Lake Systems Corporation in Mikwaukee bought LakeSystems.com ... read more ...
Thu 15th August 2013
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22 finish user domain name sales - It’s a little late, but here are 22 end user domain name sales from Afternic. End user sales reports are back! I was out of town last week. That, combined with a change by GoDaddy’s whois format to comply with the new RAA set me back a bit. It’s resolve nowd, so here we go. This report is Afternic’s report from last week, so sales are two weeks prior to now. There were a lot of companies “upgrading” from .org or .net to .com, and quite a few ccTLD owners ... read more ...
Tue 13th August 2013
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Afternic.com Sells $1.1 Million In Domains Led By Xylem.com For $47K and BXE.com For $40K - Afternic.com just published its domain sales for the week of 8/5/13 – 8/11/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $1,106,700. All sales were led by Xylem.com which sold for $47,100 and BXE.com which sold for $40,000 Xylem.com has a wikipedia.org entry, which says Xylem is one of the two types of transport tissue in vascular plants (phloem is the other). The word xylem is derived from the Greek word ξύλον (xylon), meaning “wood”; ... read more ...
Fri 9th August 2013
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Makers Of Hottest Game; Candy Crush Files 1st UDRP & Purchased CandyCrush.com For Less Than $2K - The makers of what appears to be the hottest game in the country, Candy Crush has filed its first UDRP. King.com Limited Midasplayer.com Ltd. filed a UDRP against the domain name CandyCrushSecrets.com The domain name CandyCrushSecrets.com was registered in February 19th of this year by someone in Malaysia. The domain CandyCrush.com was first registered in April 2012, and  was purchased in February of this year for a whopping $1,877 at Afternic. The domain name CandyCrush.com is being forwarded to ... read more ...
Wed 31st July 2013
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34 finish user domain sales - Afternic has another big week for end user domain name sales. Afternic sold over $1 million worth of domains last week. Here are 34 domains that were sold to end users. Memorial and headstone company Tecstone Granite USA paid $1,477 for CivicMemorials.com. Ciudad Del Saber in Panama bought CiduadDelSaber.com for $1,495. It currently uses CDSPanama.org. Boston event production company Gateway Productions bought BostonVideo.com for $1,350. UK Pet Food company Pet Organic ... read more ...
Tue 30th July 2013
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Afternic.com Sells $1.06 Million Led By 3 Domains Of Frank Schilling’s NameAdministration - Afternic just reported its weekly sales in all selling $1,058.26 in domains. All sales were led a three domain name owned by Frank Schilling’s Name Administration; DrugPrices.com which was sold for $39,500;  Keka.com which sold for $32,000 and Digity.com which sold for $20,000. Here are the reportable sales: <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Tue 23rd July 2013
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What domain names a U.S. Treasury and 27 others bought final week - A division of the U.S. Department of Treasury was among last week’s domain name buyers. Afternic sold another $1 million+ worth of domain names last week. Here’s a run down of some of the end user domain sales. Forester Media Inc., which published a number of journals related to highly technical fields, bought BusinessEnergy.net for $1,488. eCommerce platform Upclick bought ClickSolve.com for $1,095. UK printing company Solopress bought Soloweb.com for $3,000. Smart ... read more ...
Wed 17th July 2013
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What domains Jerry Bruckheimer, Papa John’s, and 27 others bought final week - Movie and TV producer among end users buying domain names last week. Afternic sold over $1 million worth of domains last week, and many of the sales were to notable buyers. Let’s start of with Highmark, which bought AHN.org for $50,000. I wrote about this sale yesterday. The next four sales are what I’d call “global upgrades”. These are sales where a company already owns the matching ccTLD and bought .com: Ascent Labs Ltd., which uses AscentLabs.ie, bought ... read more ...
Tue 16th July 2013
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Healthcare association spends $50,000 on .org domain name for sanatorium chain - Tucows sells AHN.org for $50,000 to hospital system. Healthcare provider and insurance company Highmark spent $50,000 for the AHN.org domain name, topping Afternic’s list of reportable sales for last week. The domain name is the acronym for Allegheny Health Network, which Highmark announced in April as the new name for a Pittsburgh hospital system anchored by West Penn Allegheny. The health insurer bid $1.1 billion to buy the West Penn Allegheny Health System. Tucows ... read more ...
Fri 12th July 2013
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Domain upgrades and other finish user domain sales during Afternic - A company upgraded for .net to .com for just $1,000 and other end user sales at Afternic. Last week was a slow week at Afternic thanks to the U.S. Independence Day holiday, but the company still managed to sell almost $700,000 worth of domains. Here are some of the end user sales. Easysmart Technology Limited in Shenzhen, China bought EasySmart.com for $3,088. Online advertising company CPX Interactive bought CompleteInteractive.com for $1,488. Publisher Swift Communications ... read more ...
Wed 3rd July 2013
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38 some-more finish user domain sales including some tangible brands - 20th Century Fox among domain name buyers. Some recognizable brands made domain name purchases at Afternic last week. Here’s the end user sales list. IMF.com sold for $27,000. Although the whois is protected by a privacy service, the domain now forwards to imf-formacion.com, the web site of Instituto Madrileo de Formacin. PayHere Payment Services Ltd bought PayHere.net for $3,900. The domain was sold by Tucows’ YummyNames. Marchex owns the .com version. A guy ... read more ...
Tue 2nd July 2013
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Afternic.com Sells $1.1M In Domains Led By imf.com For $27K - Afternic.com just released its domain sales for the week 6/22/13 – 6/30/13. Total domain sales, including confidential purchases and sales under $1,000 summed to $1,131,989. The highest sale was imf.com which sold for $27,000, followed by ufun.com for $24,500. Here is the full list of reportable sales: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Wed 26th June 2013
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SnapNames gets Japan Registry, Afternic and NameJet get .buzz business - Domain marketplaces get a couple notable client wins. There were a couple unrelated “client win” announcements this morning coming from major domain name marketplaces. First, SnapNames announced that it has inked Japan Registry to an expired domain deal. Japan Registry, part of GMO Internet Group, will send its expired domain stream to SnapNames in an exclusive deal. GMO holds a 90% share of the gTLD market in Japan. Second, Afternic and NameJet announced a deal ... read more ...
 
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24 finish user domain name sales adult to $28,000 - Raw materials company paid $28,000 for shorter domain name. Afternic had another good sales week. Here are 24 end user domain sales the company facilitated. Emeraude International, a plastics raw materials company, shortened its domain name to merely Emeraude.com for $28,000. Luxury retailer Paris Gallery (which is actually located in the Middle East) bought LuxuryClub.com for $25,000. Pharma company Pro Medico bought Promedico.net for $1,188. It uses Promedico.at, ... read more ...
Tue 25th June 2013
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Afternic Sells $1.6 Million In Domains Led By Emeraude.com $28K/ LuxuryClub.com $25K -   Afternic.com reportable weekly domain sales report for the week of 6/17/13 – 6/23/13 is out total sales including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $1,157,605. All sales were led by Emeraude.com which is the French word for Emerald and yes I had to look it up. The seller of the domain was Tucows. The second highest sale of the week was LuxuryClub.com, which was sold by Mike Mann’s Domain Asset Holdings. In non-.com sales Jasmin.Tv led the way at $12,000 I have an email out ... read more ...
Fri 21st June 2013
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31 finish user domain domain sales during Afternic - Afternic sells $1.2 million in domains including a number to end users. What do a natural gas fracking company, an asphalt layer, and a company that cleans portable tanks all have in common? They bought domain names on Afternic last week. Here’s the list. The site Auctionet.com bought AuctionNet.com (two n’s) for $6,000. Building materials company CRH paid $3,000 for CRH.net to go along with its CRH.com domain name. Asphalt company Lakeside Industries Inc bought ... read more ...