Tag Archives: Afternic

Wed 19th June 2013
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33 good finish user domain name sales - From Hubspot to Target to Newsmax, here are more end user domain sales. I’m behind on end user sales reports due to HostingCon and some travel. This is the Afternic list I would have published last week, so the sale occurred a couple weeks ago. There are big names on this list, including Hubspot and Target. Melvynlux Co. Ltd bought the abbreviated name Melvyn.com for $26,000. Hershewe Law Firm bought KnowYourLegalRights.com for $17,500. Ironwood Capital Management ... read more ...
Tue 18th June 2013
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Afternic.com Sells $1.2 Million Led By Quif.com At $20K - Afternic.com just released its weekly report for the week of 6/10/13 – 6/16/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $1,202,401 All sales were led by Quif.com which sold for $20,000. Non-.com sales were led by Knowledge.info at $12,000 Note as a change this week, any domain name that was sold on Namejet.com is noted with a *   <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Thu 6th June 2013
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33 finish user domain sales - Miami’s airport and a Boston sports network among end user domain name buyers. Afternic released a double report of domain sales this week covering the past two weeks. Here are 33 end user domain name sales from the list. Environmental company Summerhill Group bought Summerhill.com for $12,500. Clearwater Seafoods in Nova Scotia bought ClearwaterLobster.com for $1,088. Energise Health Management in Sydney, Australia, which offers tennis fitness conditioning, bought ... read more ...
Tue 4th June 2013
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Afternic.com Sells $2.3 Million In Domains Led By One Of Ours WOI.com For $35K - Afternic’s just reported its  weekly domain sales for the previous two weeks (5/20/13 – 6/2/13). Total domain sales including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $ 2,267,480. All sales were led by one of our domain names (MostWantedDomains.com)  WOI.com which sold for $35,000. All Non-com’s were led by BIN.net which sold for $15,000 Here are all the reportable sales for the two week period   <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Fri 24th May 2013
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Afternic’s large proclamation and 22 finish user sales - Afternic signs a big distribution agreement. Before jumping into this week’s list of Afternic end user sales, Afternic made a big announcement today. It inked a deal with Directi to sell its premium domains through Directi’s registrars. This means Afternic has deals with 9 of the top 10 domain registrars. OK, on to the sales. Education advocacy group Achieve, Inc. bought BusinessandEducation.com for $2,488. Online education company ePals bought ToolsforSchool.com ... read more ...
Tue 21st May 2013
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Afternic.com Sells Almost $1.1 Million In Domains Led By GlobalOffice.com For $32,500 - Afternic’s just posted it reportable weekly domain sales for the week of 5/13/13 – 5/19/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $ 1,085,990. All sales were lead by Globaloffice.com which sold for $32,500 Frank Schillings NameAdministration sold the domain name margaritamachine.com (everyone should have one of these) for $19K In non-com sales Home.info sold for $7,500 and three 2 numbered repeater .Pw domain names sold for $1K each <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael ... read more ...
Wed 15th May 2013
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What domains P&G, Univision, and 22 other finish users bought final week - PG in France, Univision, and a Blue Cross Blue Shield affiliate among big name buyers at Afternic last week. Afternic sold just over $1 million in domains last week. The highest sale was FreeBackup.com, which was purchased by a direct response company. Direct response company Fiorentino Media bought FreeBackup.com for $45,000. California grocery store Los Olivos Grocery bought LosOlivosGrocery.com for $1,477. Bio Herbal Tech, seller of pills that it says help you ... read more ...
 
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BuyDomains relaunches site - NameMedia refreshes end user sales web site. BuyDomains, the end user domain name sales site owned by NameMedia, relaunched with a completely new look and feel today. The site places a greater focus than the previous one on explaining why a business should spend money on a domain name. It also emphasizes the ease and safety of buying a domain through BuyDomains and includes a number of testimonials. Domain searching and filtering has also been improved. You may recall ... read more ...
Tue 14th May 2013
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Afternic Sells $1M In Domain Names Led By FreeBackup.com For $45K - Afternic’s just published its reportable weekly domain sales for the week of 5/06/13 – 5/12/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $ 1,009,097 Sales were led by FreeBackup.com which sold for $45,000 which was sold by Frank Schilling’s Name Administration  (they still own FreeBackups.com) on the other hand the domain name Mybackups.com sold for $2,995. In the non-com world a nice sale of a .org, Coatings.org sold for $16K and someone ... read more ...
Wed 8th May 2013
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22 finish user sales final week - A pharmacy chain, cybersecurity company, and a baseball glove company made domain purchases last week. Afternic sold just over $1 million worth of domains last week. Here are 22 of the purchases that were clearly to end users. Glimmerglass, which offers big data product Cybersweep to extract actionable information for cybercrime, bought CyberSweep.com for $19,000. Examp prep and tutoring company Huntington bought iPrep.com for $7,995. Amplify, a News Corp company, ... read more ...
Thu 2nd May 2013
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Afternic finish user report: 28 finish user domain sales - A startup in stealth mode, an ad agency, and two churches bought domain names last week. Before jumping into the Afternic end user sales list, here’s a bonus end user sale that didn’t happen through Afternic but I learned about: ViSalus, which owns VI.com, bought VI.co.uk for $18,500. OK, now on to Afternic sales: A startup in stealth mode bought Seeq.com for $33,000. The sale was through GoDaddy.com. Ad agency GSDM bought StoryofAmerica.com for $1,500. Investment ... read more ...
Tue 30th April 2013
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Afternic.com Sells $1.2MM In Domains Led By Seeq.com For $33K - Afternic.com just released its weekly domain sales for the week of 4/22/13 – 4/28/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $1,212,847. The highest sale was Seeq.com, which sold for $33,000 which was a BuyDomains.com owned domain. Other reportable high dollar sales were DigiDeals.com for $15,000 and DrugDangers.com for $13,500 which was one of ours. Here is the full list of reportable sales: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Afternic BIN Domains To Appear On NameJet.com - Afternic, today announced that NameJet will join the Afternic reseller network as a Premium Partner. NameJet, a leading domain name aftermarket auction company co-owned by eNom and Web.com, will now offer Afternic’s portfolio of high quality premium domains with “Buy it Now” prices to its rapidly-growing customer base. Eligible Afternic domains will be transferred via its leading Fast Transfer technology to NameJet customers, giving them immediate control of the domain and providing an optimal ... read more ...
Wed 24th April 2013
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25 finish user domain sales - Scripps Networks among end user buyers last week. Here are 25 end user domain sales made through Afternic last week. Gibson Research Corporation bought SteveGibson.net for $1,477. The company was founded by Steve Gibson. Vancouver Laptop paid $25,000 for TabletScreen.com. It spent $1,499 for ReplacementScreen.com earlier this year. Global Software in Raleigh, North Carolina paid $2,000 for GlobalSoftwareInc.com. It currently uses GLBsoft.com as its web address. Here’s ... read more ...
Wed 17th April 2013
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What domains Pfizer and 24 others bought final week - Pfizer is among the big companies buying domains last week. Afternic sold slightly less than $1 million worth of domain names last week. Here are some of the end users who bought domains through the service. Czech Republic beverage company The Drinks bought TheDrinks.com for $1,500. Its main web site is TheDrinks.cz. Open Lease Software shortened its web address from OpenLeaseSoftware.com to OpenLease.com for $2,250. Core Merchant, a merchant services company, bought ... read more ...
Fri 12th April 2013
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26 finish user domain sales - Here are 26 sales to end users on the Afternic platform last week. Before jumping into the Afternic end user sales report, take a look at the details behind Afternic’s biggest reported sale of the week. It sold TribalWars.com for $34,910 to the company that tried to take it with a UDRP a couple years ago. Here are other end user sales from Afternic: Quicken Loans bought QuickenRealty.com for $1,277. It recently bought RocketLoan.com for $4,500, too. Prosight Specialty ... read more ...
Wed 3rd April 2013
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34 intelligent finish user domain buys - 34 companies add to their online presence with aftermarket domain purchases. Afternic had a better-than-usual sales week last week with close to $1.5 million in sales. Here are 34 end user domain sales I found on its list. American Association of Young People was back to buy YoungPeople.org for $2,488. AV India in Delhi bought AVIndia.com for $1,800. Financial Marketing Solutions, which use the dismal domain name FMS4Banks.com, bought “its name” FinancialMarketingSolutions.com ... read more ...
Mon 1st April 2013
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YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley Buys MixBit.com For $2,088 On Afternic To Start New Video Site - The Co-founder of YouTube Chad Hurley just announced announced on Twitter that he was  launching his new Video site, MixBit.com which he purchased on Afternic.com less than a month ago for just $2,088. “The future of video is launching soon!” Says Mixbit.com Interestingly the same week MixBit.com sold for $2,088 on Afternic.com another version of the domain, mixedbits.com also sold for $2,488. MixedBits.com not being forward to MixBit.com but has a Network Solutions placeholder which is the ... read more ...
Wed 27th March 2013
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21 some-more finish user domain sales led by a $27,000 .tv purchase - .TV leads the way in latest Afternic sales report. An Australian company just sold uLive.tv with the help of Afternic. It’s one of 21 end user sales I was able to identify in Afternic’s weekly sales report. Country Home Elevators and Stairlifts, LLC in Missouri bought ElevatorParts.com for $1,500. The Cartoon Museum in London bought CartoonMuseum.com for $2,000. Made in Granite, a company that creates tombstones and other memorials, bought TheMemorialShop.com ... read more ...
Fri 22nd March 2013
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Snapname/Afternic Auction Ends Today & Has Over $50K In Bids - The Afternic.com spring auction closes today on Snapnames.com today at 3:15pm EST As of publication with 6 hours to go there are over $50,000 in bids. There are some nice domains in the auction including the three letter domains of  gfa.com, vgv.com as well as a lot of nice one word .com’s including Sweat.com, Proprietary.com, Fascinating.com, Actors.com, Acquittal.com, complimentary.com and Plead.com to name a few Here are all the domain names in auction with the current high bid, number of bidders ... read more ...
Thu 21st March 2013
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51 some-more finish user domain sales this week - End users were busy buying domains through Afternic last week. Afternic had a banner week for end user domain sales last week. It even sold a three hyphen domain for 2,500! My fingers are so tired that I’m just going to jump right into it… Trendy Golf Limited is expanding its horizons with TrendySports.com at $2,500. Cantor Fitzgerald Securities paid $4,088 for CFWP.com. Wiggins Golf Consulting, LLC bought CarolinaGolfTrips.com for $1,000. Check iO, a game for ... read more ...
Tue 19th March 2013
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Afternic.com Sells $1.2 Million in Domains - Afternic just issued its weekly reportable domain sales for the week of 3/11/13 – 3/17/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $ 1,200,994. Here are the reportable sales: <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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GFA.com leads Afternic auction on SnapNames - Lots of good domains in auction ending Friday. Afternic is running another auction on the SnapNames platform and it’s attracting lots of bidders. The auction includes 136 domains with reserve ranges starting as low as $200 to as high as $250,000. It ends on Friday. As of right now the three letter domain GFA.com has the highest bid at $11,249. The reserve has been met. Also keep an eye on sweat.com. It has been bid up to $7,750, but the reserve is between $10,000-$25,000. The ... read more ...
Thu 14th March 2013
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23 some-more finish user domain sales final week - A mediation company, a landscaper, and hydroponics company make domain purchases. Here are some of the end users who bought domains on Afternic last week. A company in Florida called Complete Hydroponics bought CompleteHydroponics.com for $1,000. Sports Coach Systems Limited in the United Kingdom paid $1,288 for SportsSimulator.com. National Arbitration Mediation, Inc. bought NooLook.com for $1,595. I’m not sure what it’s for. Collaborative Consulting bought ... read more ...
Tue 12th March 2013
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Afternic.com Sells $1.2 Million In Domains Led By B88.com For $20K - Afternic.com just released its weekly report for the week of March 4th-10th 2013. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $ 1,182,278. 11000.com which sold for $3K, follows my story the other day about 5 numbered .com domain names. Here are the reportable sales: <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...