Tag Archives: Domain Sales

Tue 12th January 2016
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How large is China? Big. - 57% of Domain Name Sales’ revenue coming from China. This morning at NamesCon, Domain Name Sales VP of Sales Jeffrey Gabriel showed a slide with sales data from the past year: Wow. 2% of leads generating 57% of the dollar volume of sales. That’s amazing. Gabriel compared this to leads from other countries. The U.S. accounts for about one-third of leads and one-third of sales and dollar volume. Leads from the UK convert higher, while those from India convert more poorly. ... read more ...
Mon 11th January 2016
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.Club Sells Over 5,500 Premium Domains In Dec For Almost $615K - .Club just released it premium sales report for December 2015. On December 16th .Club released 13,000 new premium names to the registrar channel, with many priced at $100 or lower In all, 5,525 premium names were sold in December. Total premium name sales for December, from all sources, came to $614,071.90. Total premium name sales for Q4 2015 came to $2,350,116.47. As of December 31, 2015, total cumulative sales of registry reserved premium .CLUB names came to $3,398,167.27. The highest single sale ... read more ...
Tue 15th December 2015
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55 Three Letter .Com's From My Former Portfolio Sold & Buyer Is NOT From China - I just noticed that 55 three-letter domain names (LLL.com) that I sold as part of my portfolio to Godaddy/Afternic, which was announced a week ago Monday, have already been sold off and the biggest surprise maybe the buyer was not from China. Domain investor Nat Cohen’s Telepathy is now the owner of the following three-letter .com’s. All appear to be the type of letter domain names favored by Chinese domain investors those without vowels or the letter “v” Some repeaters are included. The ... read more ...
Mon 14th December 2015
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DNPric.es Database Of Domain Sales Tops 1M: Total Sales Tops $1.6 Billion - DNPric.es database of domain name sales passed over 1,000,000 historic records. According to the developer of the site, not only it makes DNPric.es, the first one to gather so much public entries in one place, it is also times bigger than any other known data provider. According to the statistics section on the site: “The database has 1,089,771 sales records of 1,015,189 domain names totaling sales of $1,605,714,604” That is over $1.6 Billion dollars in domain name sales. In addition DNPric.es ... read more ...
Sun 13th December 2015
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Premium .SKI Domains Hit NamesCon Auction: Water.Ski; Jet.Ski, Shop.Ski; i.Ski - Some of the most valuable snow skiing and water skiing domain names are being made available for the first time by the .Ski Registry, in the RightOfTheDot / NamesCon live domain Auction being held on January 11, 2016 at 2:00 PM Pacific Time at the NamesCon conference at the New Tropicana Hotel Casino, online bidding will be available. Names such as Rentals.ski, Water.ski, Jet.ski and the powerful one letter domain, i.ski are now opened for prebidding on Namejet.com.  Those domain names were reserved ... read more ...
Sun 6th December 2015
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Report: Domain 688.com Sold For $1.5 Million - According to a report appearing  in ename.cn, the domain name 688.com just sold for about $1.5 Million dollars. According to the report the sales price was 9,580,000 RMB which according to today’s exchange rate is $1,496,290.52. The domain name 688.com did change ownership yesterday. The domain was owned by a XiaoFeng Lin of China at the domain name registrar MAFF Inc. until December 5th when the whois information was updated to reflect LinXiaoFeng of DotMedia Limited as the new owner.  The domain ... read more ...
Sat 5th December 2015
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Census.com, In Last Namescon Auction Sells To Mark Monitor Client - The domain name Census.com which was in the RightoftheDot.com domain name auction at Namescon in January 2015, just sold to a Mark Monitor client as the whois information changed yesterday. The domain name Census.com was one of my favorite picks from that auction. The domain name had a auction reserve of between $100,001 – $250,000 It will be interesting to see who wound up buying this domain. Census.com as a parked page has an Alexa ranking in the 5 million range. In a just 5 weeks RightoftheDot.com ... read more ...
Fri 13th November 2015
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DomainPros Buys 260 Five Digit Domains For $1M; $3,850 Per - DomainPros.com announced today that it just acquired 260 five number domain names (NNNNN.com) for $1,000,000 That works out to just over $3,800 per domain name. “Most of those 260 domains originally belonged to Marchex’s portfolio of 5 digit domains” which Godaddy bought from Marchex. Back in April we announced that Godaddy paid $26.2 Million dollars for Marchex’s portfolio of over 200,000 domain names, however its not clear if Godaddy still owned the domain names that DomainPros.com acquired. 62.com ... read more ...
Tue 20th October 2015
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Lucky 8's: Rick Schwartz Tops $10.5M in Sales For 2015: Sells 989.com For $818,181.81 - Rick Schwartz a/k/a the Domain King just sold the domain name 989.com for $818,181.81, topping $10.5 Million in domain name sales in 2015. For Rick who always talked about having a 20 year plan, 2015 marks the 20th year and its been a record setter. For a guy who made a reputation for saying NO to offers,  has said Yes for the 4th time in 2015: Rick previously announced the sales this year of shows that “8” is his lucky number too: Porno.com for $8,888,888 which is still by far the highest reported ... read more ...
Sat 3rd October 2015
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Publicly Traded Autodesk, Inc. Purchases Graphic.com Domain Name From GoDaddy.com - Publicly traded company Autodesk, Inc. has purchased the premium generic domain name Graphic.com from another public company, GoDaddy.com. GoDaddy is listed on NYSE: GDDY with a market cap of $3.99 Billion. Autodesk is listed on NASDAQ: ADSK which has a $9.95 Billion market cap. The domain name was part of the domain name portfolio GoDaddy acquired from Marchex in a $28.1 Million dollar deal in April 2015. How much did Graphic.com sell for? That is a good question but not something disclosed at ... read more ...
Fri 11th September 2015
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Veo.com Purchased By TD Ameritrade For $36K on NameJet.com Auction - Three letter domain name Veo.com has been acquired by TD Ameritrade, a domain name that was recently owned by New Ventures Services Corp according to whois records, prior to it selling for $36,100 on Namejet.com A company by the name of Veo International owned the domain name dating back to 2005 according to whois records and the past owner allegedly claims that he had his account “frozen from 2008 when i try to renewal i can’t, they tell me for reason security i do not know why, i try more time ... read more ...
 
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HIGH Movements Of 2 Letter .com Domains, Including FF.com And More Sold? - There have been A LOT of movements on 2 letter .com domain names the past two days starting on September 10, 2015 and continues into today, September 11, 2015, so I wanted to make you aware of the movements as some may be sold. The majority of movements detected include a “status” update in whois records, and this can indicate a domain name may have been “unlocked” for transfer and this can be an early indicator to a potential sale. FF.com, a domain name owned by Bank Of America has had a ... read more ...
Fri 14th August 2015
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Yahoo! Inc. Sells 2 Letter Domain Name AV.com - Yahoo! Inc. has sold the premium 2 letter domain name AV.com according to whois records. The domain name has transferred to domain name registrar eName. Also according to whois records, the buyer is a Jack Shen from Shanghai China. This isn’t the first time that Yahoo! has offered AV.com, as they listed the domain for sale on Sedo.com in 2013 but the domain name did not sell at that time when it had a reserve price range of $1,000,00-$1,499,999. Yahoo! did sell Sandwich.com for $137K and several ... read more ...
Thu 30th July 2015
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Willing.com, Evolve.com, Zeros.com And More Domain Movers - Here are the latest Domain Movers that I have recently detected. The following domain names have been purchased, registered or are simply moving, mainly all by large companies. These are often early detections and likely the first time that most have been reported on. I heavily rely on the domain name whois system to provide ownership information to provide accurate data, but that doesn’t always reveal the whole story. Simply put, I try to provide the most accurate data as I can but data is mainly ... read more ...
Tue 9th June 2015
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MM.com Domain Sells After $1.2 Million Purchase - The domain name MM.com has been confirmed sold! The transaction took place last Wednesday, June 3, 2015 with the domain name being acquired by Jinxin Wang Luo of Fujian, China according to whois records. I did try and get a purchase price but the buyer did not wish to share the details publicly. Hangzhou Duomai E-Commerce Co.,Ltd, owners of the popular 4.cn website acquired the domain name MM.com in a $1.2 Million dollar purchase that was brokered by Sedo.com’s Dave Evanson as reported by DomainInvesting.com’s ... read more ...
Tue 14th April 2015
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YM.com Sold By Advance Publishing Inc. - The 2 letter domain name YM.com has been sold by the 44th largest private company in the United States, Advance Publishing Inc. according to whois records. Advance Magazine Publishers Inc. was the official company name listed in whois records for YM.com, and they are a subsidiary of Advance Publishing Inc. Advance Digital and Conde Nast Digital are all part of Advance Publishing Inc. company. The domain name YM.com was forwarding to TeenVogue.com for several years but I wasn’t able to find a public ... read more ...
Mon 30th March 2015
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Tips to Sell More Domain Names with Jeff Gabriel – DNW Podcast #26 - Sell more domains with these expert tips. Want to sell more domain names? Jeff Gabriel, VP of Sales for DomainNameSales.com, has sold many domains (including some record-breakers). He shares tips for how to sell more domain names in this episode of the Domain Name Wire Podcast. Many of the tips are universal and can be used to sell more of anything, not just domains. Also: Donuts’ renewal rates, .PING and Verisign-supported study suggests .com domains perform better than new TLDs. Subscribe via ... read more ...
Mon 22nd December 2014
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Domain Name Aftermarket with Joe Uddeme – DNWP Episode 012 - Domain name sales in 2014 and looking forward. How did new top level domain names affect .com domain name sales in 2014? What impact will they have in 2015? You might be surprised by the answer. Joe Uddeme, Director of Business Development for Domain Holdings, talks about trends the domain name brokerage saw in 2014. Uddeme will discuss how domain sales changed throughout the year as well, and how you can work with a domain broker like Domain Holdings. Also: .Club ... read more ...
Wed 23rd January 2013
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What domains Target, CareerBuilder, and others bought on Afternic this week - Target, CareerBuilder, and the franchisor for TCBY stores make domain purchases. As promised, here’s the Afternic sales report for the past week. Some big name buyers picked up domains through the Afternic network. Retail giant Target bought TargetScholarships.com and TargetScholarship.com for $1,477 each. Nationwide Structured Cabling bought NationwideSupport.com for $1,500. Sales consulting company Cohen Brown Management Group bought the killer domain CrossSelling.com ... read more ...
Thu 13th December 2012
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Marchex finish user sales report, partial 3 - A belated look at more of Marchex’ end user domain sales. Last month I created a three part series about Marchex’ end user domain sales. I was on the road in NYC and scheduled the third part to publish on November 7. But, as WordPress often does, it “missed schedule” and I didn’t notice it until now. Call it delayed gratification. Here’s my final list of end user domain buys from Marchex’ top 500 list. You can see see other sales here. I did the best ... read more ...
Wed 26th September 2012
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21 finish user domain sales (including some large buyers) - 21 end user domain name sales from the past week. This week’s end user domain sales report includes a shop that’s probably at your local mall, a big online university, and cosmetics giant Loreal. Afternic Thomson Reuters bought SJNK.com for $4,200. I’m not sure what it stands for. Used Gym Equipment, LLC paid $1,988 for UsedGymEquipment.org to accompany its dot.com. Harris Research, Inc., owner of the ChemDry franchise, bought ChemDry.net for $1,277. Personal ... read more ...
Mon 17th September 2012
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Details of $528,000 sale of Accommodation.com and Accommodation.co.uk - Pixel Capital buys domain names to enter online travel market. Australian company Pixel Capital Pty Ltd announced last week that it had acquired Accommodation.com and Accommodation.co.uk for a combined $528,000 USD. Both domain names were owned by a British company and were developed at one point. Although the transaction is finalized, Pixel founder Roland Bleyer told Domain Name Wire that the deal is owner financed over multiple years. In other words, Pixel is still ... read more ...
Wed 5th September 2012
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Top Domain Name Wire stories of August - ccTLDs, domain parking, and more make the top five list. If August is over, why is it still 100 degrees in Austin? Sigh… Here are the top 5 news stories from Domain Name Wire last month. Oops, I entrusted my domain name to a tiny island nation! – think about political and technical risks before setting up your web site on a country code domain name. Wow: Craigslist loses Craigslists.com domain dispute – so this guy creates a list, and his name is supposedly ... read more ...
Mon 20th August 2012
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30 finish user domain sales including Microsoft and America’s Cup - Domain Name Wire’s end user domain sales report. It’s difficult to compile the end user sales report while traveling. It requires bulk whois lookups, yet many registrars rate limit how many whois searches you can run within a time period. When I’m in the office I have a whitelisted IP for lookups at the largest registrar. But when I’m out of the office a lot of whois searches are blocked. Why does this matter to you? Well, I’ve been out of the office for ... read more ...
Thu 26th July 2012
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20 finish user domain sales from a past week - Fox Broadcasting Company among end user buyers this past week. Here’s Domain Name Wire’s weekly wrap of end user domain name purchases from Afternic and Sedo. Afternic Fox Broadcasting Company bought MidnightBlack.com for $3,588. Any ideas what it’s for? The owner of IrishCityTours.com bought eatplaystay.com for $1,350. This is a great domain and I see variations on this “slogan” from time to time. The only challenge is remembering the word order. Machines ... read more ...