Tag Archives: end user domain sales

Fri 25th July 2014
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Paula Deen spends $27,900 on domain name for new try (end user sales) - Celebrity chef among end users who bought domain names last week. Celebrity chef Paula Deen, who experienced a spectacular fall from grace last year over her prior use of racial slurs, is making a comeback with Paul Deen Ventures. She’s launching a subscription service called Paula Deen Network (PDN). She just made a smart move by buying the domain name PDN.com for $27,900, which is a heck of a deal. That was just one of many end user domain name purchases at Sedo ... read more ...
Wed 17th April 2013
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Forward U.S. bought domain for $1,500 - New immigration reform group bought .us domain for $1,500 at Sedo. Forward U.S., the new immigration reform group led by companies including Facebook, Google, and PayPal, paid $1,500 for its domain name.The new immigration reform group that Ron Jackson wrote about last week paid $1,500 for FWD.us. That’s just one of the end user sales that Sedo made last week. It had a big week, closing nearly $2 million in sales. Here are some of its other end user sales. SumUp, ... read more ...
Fri 4th January 2013
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Over 50 finish user domain sales including Paramount Pictures’ $65k purchase - End users close deals before the new year. A lot of small businesses buy domain names toward the end of the year. One reason is they want to get the purchase on this year’s books. That’s what one buyer told me the last week of December — “I’ll do it for this price if you can complete the sale by the end of the year for tax reasons”. That’s great for domainers but bad for my fingers. They’re about to fall off after doing this end user sales report for ... read more ...
Wed 31st October 2012
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33 finish user domain sales: TrendMicro, Tufts, Shutterstock, and more - Big companies, small companies, and universities make domain purchases. A broad mix of end users made domain purchases this past week. Afternic The proprietor behind the BetterBaseball.com baseball equipment site expanded with BetterVolleyball.com for $1,250. Home decor company Rowley Company paid $1.888 for InternationalHomeDecor.com. The company behind LocalEats.com, a directory of local (presumably independent) restaurants bought TryLocalFirst.com for $1,000. I ... 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 ...
Wed 19th September 2012
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What domains a Kickstarter success, Christie’s and University of Oklahoma bought this week - Company that raised $70k on Kickstart buys its company domain name. This week’s end user domain name sales report includes some big names. Auction house Christie’s bought an Andy Warhol domain name, University of Oklahoma bought a four letter acronym, and a Kickstart success story bought its company domain name. Afternic Auction house Christie’s bought WarholArt.com for $6,457. It is selling some of Warhol’s works. MasterGuides.com was purchased by someone ... read more ...
Wed 22nd August 2012
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.TV and .Me among dual dozen finish user domain sales this week - .tv, .me, and a slurl. This week a .tv and a .me domain were amongst the best end user domain name sales. But before we get into this week’s normal end user sales report, I want to call out a Slurl. Divorce Detox bought the domain name divorcetherapist.com for $995 at Sedo. Now, maybe it’s because of all the media attention to “legitimate rape” this week, but the first thing I read was “Divorce the Rapist dot com”. Therapist is a common slurl word, but ... read more ...
Wed 9th May 2012
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12 engaging finish user domain sales from a past week - These domain names will be put to goo use. DNW’s weekly end user sale report is back. Most notable on this week’s list are purchases by a publicly traded REIT as well as Ziff Davis. All sales took place at Afternic except RoyalKey.com at Sedo. Austin based student housing REIT American Campus Communities bought AvalonHeights.com for $6,200 for one of its apartment complexes. Florida home builder Neal Communities paid $1,395 for LiveGrand.com. That’s a great ... read more ...
Wed 2nd May 2012
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Union pays for VeriGreedy.com and 14 other finish user domain sales - 15 end user domain purchases in the past week. Communication Workers of America bought the clever domain VeriGreedy.com last week to take a jab at Verizon. It looks like the domain owner wasn’t very greedy, too. Here are details on that sale and other “end user” domain buys from the past week. Sales at Afternic South Texas Innovations LLC bought STIConstruction.com for $1,895. Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port, which owns NCSP-net.com, bought NCSP.com for $6,400. San ... read more ...
Wed 26th August 2009
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An Easy Way to Find End Users to Buy Your Domain Names - A dead simple way to find qualified end users to buy your domains. End users, end users, end users. Everyone in the domain name industry wants to be focus on selling domains to the “end user”. This is essentially anyone other than a domain investor. But finding these elusive end users can be a challenge. Fortunately, the easiest way to find them is sitting right under your nose: people who have registered your .com domains in other TLDs. I recently scanned ... read more ...
Wed 3rd December 2008
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Bank Buys SC.com for $300,000 - Two character domain bought by end user. Sedo has completed the sale of SC.com for $300,000, and it appears the buyer is Standard Chartered Bank. Standard Chartered provides banking services mostly in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The Standard Chartered Group was formed in 1969 through a merger of two banks: The Standard Bank of British South Africa founded in 1863 and the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, founded in 1853. SC.com isn’t the only ... read more ...