Tag Archives: sales

Wed 22nd April 2015
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15 finish user domain name buyers including Univision - Univision buys a domain name and a lighting company pays big bucks for a co.uk domain. Sedo handled 568 domain name transactions last week for a total of $1.2 million in sales. The company turned in some solid sales to end users, including Spanish-language broadcasting company Univision. The most impressive sale for the TLD was Lights.co.uk, which a German lighting company paid £25,000. Now, let’s get to the list: Previous weeks’ lists can be found here. If you’d like to learn how to sell ... read more ...
 
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Marchex Sells Its Domain Portfolio Of 200K+ Domains To Godaddy For $28.1 Million - Marchex, Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHX), today announced they have entered into a definitive agreement to sell its remaining domain portfolio of more than 200,000 domains to GoDaddy Inc.(NYSE: GDDY). Under the agreement, Marchex received cash consideration of $28.1 million from Godaddy, plus additional earn-out payments the terms of which were undisclosed including the maximum additional earn out. Marchex also announced it sold $6.7 million in direct domain sales since January 2015 so the aggregate proceeds ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy acquires Marchex's domain name portfolio for $28 million - An in-depth look at GoDaddy’s purchase of over 200,000 domain names and what it means for domain name investors. GoDaddy has acquired Marchex’s Archeo domain name portfolio for $28.1 million.GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) has acquired about 200,000 domain names from Marchex (NASDAQ: MCHX) for $28.1 million, plus a potential earnout. Marchex has owned the portfolio for a long time, and it includes most of the 100,000 domains it acquired from domain name investor Yun Ye for $164 million in 2005. The company ... read more ...
Tue 21st April 2015
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Sedo Sales Total $1.2 million led by Houtian.com during $59,000 - Over the past week, 568 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.2m. 54% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.  Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: houtian.com at 59,000 USD Top ccTLD: lights.co.uk at 25,000 GBP Top “other” TLD: drone.academy at 6,000 USD There were a lot of strong country code sales this week with 4 selling in the five figure range. As a longtime fan of .TV, I especially liked Rocket.tv at $6,224. $6,000 for Drone.Academy ... read more ...
Thu 16th April 2015
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20 End User Domain Name Sales - Here are 20 end user domain name sales that took place over the past week. Sedo handled 593 domain name transactions last week for a total of $1.2 million in sales. End user buyers include a webhosting company that created a shorter domain with .ch, an air conditioning company in Arizona, and a bail bond seller. A whopping 57% of domains that sold at Sedo last week had “buy now” prices. (You can view previous lists like this here. If you’d like to learn how to sell your domain names like these ... read more ...
Wed 15th April 2015
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Which new TLDs are behaving best on a resale market - .Club is a top seller. NameBio, a domain sales data site, published details this morning about which new top level domain names are selling best on the aftermarket. Here are the top 5 based on publicly-reported sales, ranked by dollar volume: You can see the full chart here. NameBio’s Michael Sumner provides a number of caveats, and I think it’s worth reviewing them. A key one: NameBio’s database only includes public sales it gathers from Sedo, NameJet, Flippa and other marketplaces. I’d ... read more ...
Tue 14th April 2015
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Sedo Sales Total $1.2 million for a week, led by HSE.com during $34,000 - Over the past week, 593 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.2m. 57% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.   Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: hse.com at 34,000 USD Top ccTLD: czescisamochodowe.pl at 9,000 EUR Top “other” TLD: yit.net at 4,800 USD Congrats to Michael as his philadelphiabailbonds.com sold for $4,888. ... read more ...
 
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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 ...
 
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.Promo and other TLDs headed to auction - Auction group hopes to sell .Promo and other TLDs at June auction. Innovative Auctions Ltd. is holding another auction to “resell” already-contracted top level domain names. The next auction will take place June 4 and will feature .Promo. Play.PROMO Oy has entered into a contract with ICANN for the top level domain name but has not yet launched the domain name. .Promo was an uncontested application. Innovative Auctions previously auctioned .reise as a resale domain. That domain name had already ... read more ...
Sat 11th April 2015
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Flippa Weekly Sales Led by FZV.com - Flippa released their sales leaderboard for the week on their blog today. FZV.com at $15,000 led the way and that was followed by another 3L.com, NVL.com sold for $12,600. Both of these sales were negotiated post auction. Flippa continues to be the place for .io domains. Analytics.io sold for $10,000 and Movie.io sold for $6,500. There was also some nice .net sales there this week led by Keyboards.net at $6,800. Flippa Domain Sales Leaderboard for This Week FZV.com  @ $15,000  (Negotiated Post-Auction)NVL.com  ... read more ...
Thu 9th April 2015
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DomainNameSales increases sales commissions - Rate increased to 15%, in line with competitors. DomainNameSales.com is increasing the fee it charges for brokering a sale from 12.5% to 15.0%. The commission applies to existing negotiations for which a deal hasn’t been reached. In justifying the price increase, DNS VP of Sales Jeff Gabriel wrote: Over the past 90 days we have added 5 new Domain Brokers – two are fluent in Mandarin, three have backgrounds in Hi-Technology, Advertising, and Engineering Sales. Our new team members allow us to ... read more ...
Wed 8th April 2015
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16 finish user domain name sales adult to $109,000 - End users buy domain names for up to $109,000. Domain name marketplace Sedo had a banner week, closing 543 transactions for a larger-than-normal $1.8 million tally. The sales were led by Mercari.com, bought by the maker of the Mercari app. Mercari has been downloaded over a million times. A number of other five figure sales are currently still in escrow or have private whois records. Before we get to the list, be sure to check out this week’s Podcast with Sedo CEO Tobias Flaitz. (You can view ... read more ...
Tue 7th April 2015
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Sedo Weekly Sales Total $1.8 Million Led By Mercari.com during 100,000 Euros - Over the past week, 543 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.8m. 59% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.  Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: mercari.com at 100,000 EUR Top ccTLD: feedback.me at 10,000 USD Top “other” TLD: airwave.net at 10,000 EUR 7 of the top 11 sales were three letter .coms ... read more ...
Mon 6th April 2015
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Namejet Reports Over 640K in Domain Name Sales In Mar Led By vvv.com for $136K - Namejet.com reported its domain name sales that closed in March for those domains selling ofr $2,000 or more. All sales were led by the rare three letter .com repeater vvv.com which sold for $136,400. Total reported sales came to $641,557.00 The highest 7 sales of the month were all three letter .com domains as were 9 of the 1st 12 highest sales. Only three 4 numbered .com’s broke up the clean sweep of three letter .com’s in the top 12 sales of NameJet.com Here are the reported sales of $2,000 ... read more ...
Thu 2nd April 2015
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22 finish user domain name sales from final week - Car.info and Portfolio.me highlight this week’s list. Sedo’s marketplace handled 669 transactions last week for a total of $1.3 million in sales. The top public sale was Car.info, a staggering price for a .info in light of all of the new top level domains available. Yes, “car” is a great second level domain, but it’s still a surprising purchase. Be sure to tune in Monday to the Domain Name Wire Podcast, when my guest will be Sedo CEO Tobias Flaitz. We’ll discuss trends in domain name ... read more ...
Wed 1st April 2015
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WallStreet.com Is Back For Sale With Wall-Street.com & 7 Trademark: Starting Bid: $30M - WallStreet.com is back for sale. According to a press release just out the domain name WallStreet.com, Wall-Street.com are being sold with 7 U.S. registered trademarks with bidding starting at $30 Million Dollars. Wall-Street.com is an active website not just a domain name. WallStreet.com was the first publicly reported domain name to sell for more than $1 Million dollars. Monte Cahn brokered the domain for $1.02 Million dollars 1999. The domain name resold for $1,030,000 in 2005. According to the ... read more ...
Tue 31st March 2015
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Highest Reported .info Sale Since 2007; Car.info during $76K Leads Sedo's $1.3 Million Week - Over the past week, 669 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.3 Million dollars. 56% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .com: cyberobics.com at 22,500 USD · Top ccTLD: portfolio.me at 10,700 USD · Top “other” TLD: car.info at 76,000 USD According to Dnpric.es,  Car.info ranks as the 3rd highest reported .info sale of all time. Sex.info sold at a Sedo auction in August 2007. Travel.info sold for ... read more ...
 
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Sedo augmenting smallest offers and commissions - Low-ball offers now must be a bit higher. Domain name marketplace Sedo is increasing the minimum offer people have to make on a domain name as well as the minimum commission sellers pay. Effective April 9, the minimum offer for most domains will increase from $60 to $90 (or EUR) or 75 GBP. Sellers will pay at least a $60 commission on all sales. The minimum offer price will likely be greeted positively by those people frustrated about getting $60 offers on their domains. I’m not sure that $90 will ... read more ...
 
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Google Inc. Acquires YT.com Domain Name - Google Inc. has acquired the 2 letter .com domain name YT.com. The domain came out of Privacy Protection at Dynadot on 3/30/2015 and transferred into MarkMonitor revealing Google as the buyers. Based on what I can tell and whois history records, the transaction likely took place on 1/29/2015 when the domains registrant data changed from Cyber Trading Co. at Tucows and transferred to Dynadot under privacy. Was the domain name YT.com acquired for YouTube.com? That is what I am thinking it was for ... read more ...
Sat 28th March 2015
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Buzz.com Domain Acquired by Domo Inc. From YP.com - YP.com (Yellowpages.com LLC) has sold the premium generic domain name Buzz.com to Domo Inc. (Domo.com) according to whois records! YellowPages.com had a website on the Buzz.com domain name up until the early morning hours today, until Buzz.com started showing a mirrored site of Domo.com with the Buzz.com domain name. I didn’t see any press on it myself, but I did find a recent listing page on SnapNames.com for the domain name Buzz.com that was listed on February 19, 2015 with a $50,000 minimum ... read more ...
Thu 26th March 2015
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.Ping fetches $1.5M during auction, .Srl goes for $400,000 - Two two-way races for new top level domain names have been settled. Two top level domain name contention sets were settled in auctions yesterday. Golf company Ping (Karsten) won .Ping for $1,501,000. It was in contention with Radix. Thus, .Ping will become a .brand instead of a generic domain name. InternetX won the auction for .Srl at only $400,000, beating Google. Srl is a corporate identifier similar to LLC for Limited Liability Company. InternetX already runs .LTDA, a similar corporate identifier ... read more ...
 
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Another Case of Cybersquatting Paying off - This transaction takes us all around the globe and shows just how magical the Internet can be. So a Chinese registrant gets a domain that represents a major U.S. brand, in the South African extension. NBAstore.co.za sold yesterday on Sedo for $5,500. The buyer shown in whois is Victor Dutka and Mr.Dutka according to LinkeIn is Sr Director, Enterprise Network Services National Basketball Association. Responsible for voice and data networking for the league. So instead of going the UDRP route, the ... read more ...
Wed 25th March 2015
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Heritage Auctions usurpation submissions for summer domain name auction - Auction house will hold another exclusive auction this summer. Heritage Auctions is planning another live domain name auction for early this summer. The format will be similar to one it held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York in February. It will be limited to about 30 high value domain names, primarily .com. It will take place in June in either Dallas (where Heritage Auctions is based) or New York. The February auction brought in over $1.3 million in sales, with many of them coming post-auction. ... read more ...
Tue 24th March 2015
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.2 Million: Record 56% of Sales Were Buy It Now - Sedo just reported that over the past week, 674 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.2 Million 56% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings which I think is the all time high Highlights of public sales are: · Top .com: buymyhouse.com at 45,000 USD · Top ccTLD: visitdubai.ae at 20,000 GBP · Top “other” TLD: dxb.net at 9,888 USD Although I do like to point out my favorite buy of the week, this week I didn’t find one   ... read more ...
Mon 23rd March 2015
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Mike Mann Is On Fire Selling $76K in Domains That Cost Him Less than $750 Total - Mike Mann has been reporting some very impressive domain name sales the last few days on his Facebook page Mike just announced today he sold the domain name MissCandy.com for $30,000 a domain he purchase on July 30th 2012 for $75 Last week Mike reported selling Jazz.co for $22,000 a domain he purchased on July 19th 2010 as well as the domain TakeTheChance.com for  $15,000 which he purchased on August 1, 2013 for $300 The previous week Mike announced the sale of CityMarkets.com for $9,000 a domain ... read more ...