Tag Archives: NameMedia

Tue 29th September 2009
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NameMedia Sells Flying.com, Racks adult $600k Domain Sales - NameMedia has another strong sales week. NameMedia, which sells domain names through BuyDomains and Afternic, had another big week with over $600,000 in sales. It sold Flying.com through its BuyDomains platform. The sale price of Flying.com was not disclosed, but Jets.com sold for $375,000 a couple weeks ago at Sedo. The company’s median .com sale was $1,062 with an average selling price of $1,479. The median non-.com sale was $800 with an average sale of $1,328. ... read more ...
Thu 24th September 2009
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Selling Your Domain Names Fast – Good Tips - NameMedia presentation is worth watching. This week NameMedia presented a webinar “How to Sell your Domain Names Fast, and for Maximum Value.” The webinar is now available for playback on the Afternic web site. I just watched the thirty minute webinar, expecting it to be one big pitch for NameMedia. And although that’s certainly there, the webinar has some good data and information. If you don’t know much about Afternic and BuyDomains, I recommend watching ... read more ...
Thu 10th September 2009
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NameMedia Wins Reverse Domain Name Hijacking Charge - NameMedia wins charge against marketing firm. NameMedia, parent company of BuyDomains, has successfully won a reverse domain name hijacking charge against online marketing firm SpinSix. SpinSix filed for domain arbitration for the domain Lincs.com. SpinSix offers a product called LINCS. According to the complaint, NameMedia alleged that SpinSix manufactured evidence that the parked domain at lincs.com included links that were competitive to it. Although it’s ... read more ...
Mon 24th August 2009
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NameMedia Sells over $800,000 in Domain Names Last Week - NameMedia has stronger-than-usual sales week. NameMedia continues to show its sales prowess, turning in over $800,000 in sales over the past week. This is especially impressive when you consider that the sales chart isn’t top heavy — the top sale was $15,000. NameMedia sells domain names through BuyDomains and Afternic. Here are the company’s stats for the past week: .Com sales: $719,743 .Com domains sold: 435 Median .com sale price: $1,210 Non-.com sales: ... read more ...
Mon 17th August 2009
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Zeal.com Directory to be Reborn - Former Looksmart web directory gets new life. Domain name broker NameMedia has brokered the sale of the storied domain name Zeal.com for $50,000. Zeal.com was formerly a human-powered directory run by Looksmart. Looksmart purchased Zeal in 2000 for $20M. It was once seen as a potential rival to Open Directory. The domain was purchased by Kenneth Yeh, a former volunteer editor of Zeal. On a message on the Zeal.com domain, Yeh writes: I know that many of you Zealots ... read more ...
Tue 4th August 2009
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iGuide.com Domain Name Sells for $100,000 - NameMedia sells close to $1M in domain names in one week. Thanks in part to a “no reasonable offer will be refused” marketing push at BuyDomains and a six-figure domain name sale, NameMedia sold nearly $1 million worth of domain names over the past week. That’s double what the company usually sells each week. The top sale was iGuide.com, which was purchased by Baroda Ventures LLC of Beverly Hills. It forwards to OVguide.com, a web site about online video. ... read more ...
Tue 28th July 2009
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NameMedia Sells $600k Domains, SkyHarbor.com for $35k - NameMedia has a sky-high week thanks to SkyHarbor.com. NameMedia, which operates BuyDomains.com and Afternic, sold over $600,000 in domain names over the past week. The standout sale was SkyHarbor.com at $35,000. SkyHarbor.com has yet to change hands, but a possible buyer is the Phoenix airport, called Sky Harbor. Other notable .com domain sales include: militarylawyers.com $7,500.00 trademarkets.com $6,400.00 adhelper.com $6,400.00 recipex.com $5,800.00 piketon.com ... read more ...
Tue 7th July 2009
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BuyDomains Sells Rosary.com for $78,088 - Seller listed domain on AfternicDLS with Expanded Promotion. BuyDomains, the end user sales arm of NameMedia, has sold the domain name Rosary.com for $78,088. The domain was listed through Afternic.com, and the seller selected the Expanded Promotion option. This means the listing was syndicated across multiple sales sites and gave the seller access to BuyDomains’ sales team, which closed the deal. Although NameMedia wouldn’t disclose the name of the seller, ... read more ...
Tue 30th June 2009
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NameMedia Sells Another $600k in Domains - Company shows consistency in domain name sales. Domain seller NameMedia, which sells domain names through BuyDomains and Afternic, sure is consistent. It seems that every week they total $600,000 or so in announced domain sales. That sort of consistency can only come with a large inventory of domain names. This past week the company sold about 400 domain names, or an annualized 20,800 names. Assuming an inventory of a million domain names, that’s a 2% turnover ... read more ...
Wed 10th June 2009
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Check NameMedia Parking Stats on iPhone App - Apps let you check stats on all three NameMedia platforms. On Monday Cortnee Gunn, a NameMedia domain parking account manager based in Austin, stopped by my office to show me the company’s latest parking innovations. If it seemed that NameMedia and its parking companies — GoldKey, ActiveAudience, and Smartname — fell off the earth for a while, that’s because the company was dealing with its initial public offering quiet period. With the IPO called off, ... read more ...
Tue 9th June 2009
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NameMedia Tops $600k in Weekly Domain Sales - BathSupplies.com tops list of over 350 domain names sold. NameMedia, parent company of BuyDomains and Afternic, sold more than 350 domain names over the past week for total reported sales of $600,000. The top domain sales were BathSupplies.com at $11,500 and Authenticated.com at $9,000. Here are other top .com domain sales: transpond.com $8,500.00 justbikes.com $7,500.00 megafashion.com $6,230.00 debtdestroyer.com $5,400.00 financialstore.com $5,000.00 daycarebusiness.com ... read more ...
Tue 19th May 2009
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Afternic’s Instant Transfer Enables Registrar Integration - New Premium promotion option utilizes instant transfer technology. Over the weekend Afternic rolled out a number of changes, including a new “Premium” promotion level. I caught up with NameMedia Senior Vice President and General Manager Peter Lamson, as well as members of the product and customer service teams, to learn more about this new level of promotion. (NameMedia owns Afternic.) Premium promotion improves on the existing “Enhanced” promotion level. ... read more ...
Thu 14th May 2009
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directNIC Offers NameMedia Domain Name Inventory - Large domain name registrar to offer AfternicDLS domain names. People searching for domain names at directNIC will soon have the option of buying an existing domain name through NameMedia. NameMedia, which owns BuyDomains and Afternic, will offer its catalog of domain names to customers. For example, I just searched for “baseball.com” at directNIC and was offered an assortment of baseball domain names for purchase: Domain owners that want to have their domains ... read more ...
Tue 24th March 2009
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LAinsurance.com Sells for $100,000 - Detroit-based insurance agency shells out 6 figures for domain name. L.A. Insurance has purchased the domain name LAInsurance.com from NameMedia for $100,000. Although the number may seem high for a geo insurance domain name, this deal makes perfect sense for the buyer. (As it turns out, “L.A.” is not a geography to this company). L.A. insurance has 150 locations and currently uses the domain name LAInsuranceAgency.com. It’s no doubt that a number of its ... read more ...
Tue 17th March 2009
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BachelorsDegree.com Sells for $62,500 - NameMedia cashes in on degrees. NameMedia (Afternic, BuyDomains) sold two big “degree” domain names over the past week: BachelorsDegree.com for $62,500 and PsychologyDegree.com for $25,000. Both domains are protected by Moniker whois privacy and forward to eLearners.com. Add these other recent education domains the company has sold lately and it has found a nice niche: MastersDegree.com $48,000 CounselingDegree.com $9,000 LiberalArtsDegree.com $8,000 ManagementDegree.com ... read more ...
Tue 3rd March 2009
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AfternicDLS to Expand Promotion, Improve Integrity - NameMedia platform getting two major improvements. NameMedia will notify customers of Afternic later today about two major enhancements to its platform. First, the company will be greatly expanding the reach of domains listed on Afternic with “Expanded Promotion”. Currently, domains listed with expanded promotion are cross listed on BuyDomains, GoDaddy Auctions, and several other sites. Although the company isn’t yet disclosing additional partnerships, it’s ... read more ...
 
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Claim.com Domain Name Sells for $80,000 - NameMedia sells Claim.com for $80,000. NameMedia, parent company of BuyDomains and Afternic, has completed the sale of Claim.com for $80,000. The buyer is unknown but appears to have used domain financing service Domain Capital to complete the transaction. Claim.com was just one of over 400 reported domain names NameMedia sold last week. Many of the domain names the company sells are subject to non-disclosure agreements, so the total sales numbers are much higher. ... read more ...
Thu 19th February 2009
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Median End User Domain Name Sales Price $1200 - NameMedia provides data on the SMB end user market for domain names. Earlier this month I reported that the median sales price for domain names at Sedo last year was $500. I pointed out that this number represents a mix between end user sales and investor sales. If you’re looking for a better number for the small and medium business end user market, look no further. NameMedia, which focuses on the SMB end user market through BuyDomains and other market channels, ... read more ...
Tue 17th February 2009
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NameMedia Upgrades Parking Platform - NameMedia improves stats and landers for its three domain parking programs. NameMedia, parent company of BuyDomains and Afternic, has released several improvements to its three domain name parking platforms: GoldKey, ActiveAudience, and SmartName. The improvements span three areas: 1. Reporting – improvements to reduce timeout issues and site downtime and improvements to data discrepancy reporting. This includes a move to a new data center as well as database ... read more ...
Thu 12th February 2009
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3 Companies That Still Want to Buy Your Domain Names - These three companies are still buying domain names in the down market. Domain buyers are fewer and further between in this down economy. But that doesn’t mean they don’t exist. Here are three companies that still want to buy your domain names. Oversee.net – parent company of Moniker, SnapNames, and DomainSponsor. Oversee.net is still buying domains and portfolios of domains. You shouldn’t expect to sell for what you would have two years ago, but the ... read more ...
Thu 15th January 2009
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The Google Squeeze: How Google’s Black Box Affects Partners’ Revenue - Google’s black box of ad pricing makes it impossible to understand if partners are getting a fair share. When Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) offered a “direct to consumer” domain parking option last month, many cheered. “Finally, we can cut out the middleman!” they exclaimed. But others worried about potential downsides. Specifically, domain owners realized that they have little bargaining power with Google compared to parking companies that aggregate significant ... read more ...
Mon 29th December 2008
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The Perils of Trying to Go Public - NameMedia’s withdrawn IPO more painful than it looks. It may appear that NameMedia’s decision last week to to drop its planned initial public offering is just a temporary setback. Aside from the costs of filing its S-1 to go public, going on the investor roadshow, and obliging quite period regulations, did it really cost the company anything? The answer is yes. And it’s not the time, money, or decreased morale that hurts the most. It’s the disclosure. By ... read more ...
Fri 5th December 2008
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Marchex Lays Off 10% - Marchex latest domain company to announce layoffs. Domain name and local advertising company Marchex (NASDAQ: MCHX) has laid off 10% of its workforce, reports The Pugent Sound Business Journal. About 35 people are losing their jobs, although some of those are contract workers. Marchex has made a series of acquisitions, so some of the jobs were redundant. But it’s also working to maintain a strong cash position in the 12-month old recession. Shares of Marchex ... read more ...
Sat 22nd November 2008
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Reports: NameMedia Lays Off 30 - Unconfirmed reports suggest domain giant has laid off 30 people. [Updated]Xconomy is citing unconfirmed reports that NameMedia, parent company of Afternic and BuyDomains, has laid off 30 employees. Please note that Xconomy has been unable to confirm the layoffs as of yet. I have reached out to multiple employees at NameMedia and will update this post as more information becomes available. As of September 2007 the company had 136 employees according to SEC filings. NameMedia ... read more ...
Tue 15th July 2008
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4 Ways to Liquidate Domain Names - Hmm, I’m curious about who Frank means about the person “behind Namemedia.” That could be an interesting story in itself. Will he care to elaborate further? (hope hope hope) As someone who sells client domains and my own everyday, I find the following sources for domain sales the best: 1. Snapnames Private Auctions – Get your domains registered at Moniker.com, send your list to Jonathan Stanfill at Snapnames, and if you have halfway decent domains, you’re going to sell through ... read more ...