Tag Archives: sales

Fri 20th March 2015
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Diamond.com Which Sold For $7.5 Million in 2006 Is Back On The Market - The domain name Diamond.com is back on the market and its being brokered by Godaddy. In 2006 Ice.com bought the domain name Diamond.com for $7.5 Million from Odimo According DnJournal.com, Diamond.com it is the 5th highest all cash domain sale of all time. “If you consider that in nine years, the market has gone up, we hope for a better number than [the previous sale],” says Paul Nicks, senior director of aftermarket at GoDaddy. “If you look at the top end of the domain market, it’s all generic.” “We ... read more ...
Wed 18th March 2015
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Goldman Sachs and other finish user domain name buys - A Goldman Sachs company was among those buying domain names at Sedo last week. Sedo handled 675 domain name transactions last week for a total of $1.2 million. The top sale was TheRecRoom.com for $89,888. This was clearly an end user purchase, but the domain name’s whois record is protected by privacy. As for the ones that appear with open whois records…Goldman Sachs bought one of the domain names for its AYCO company. Other buyers include a dog breeder, an RV seller, and a storage company. (You ... read more ...
Tue 17th March 2015
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Sedo Weekly Sales Total $1.2 Million Led by TheRecRoom.com during $89,888 - Over the past week, 675 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: therecroom.com at 89,888 USD Top ccTLD: videos.de at 50,000 EUR Top “other” TLD: agro.net at 5,900 EUR ... read more ...
Mon 16th March 2015
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SXSW Finalist For Wearables Tech; Feetz.co Buys Feetz.com -                     Feetz.co a finalist for at SXSW in the Wearable Tech category, who has been using the domain name Feetz.co has just purchased Feetz.com Feetz is a Platform to make Customizable 3D Printed shoes. Like another 3D Printed Shoes company, Sols.co who we wrote about in January who upgraded to Sols.com, Feetz decided to step up and buy their matching .Com for an undisclosed amount from DomainShop.com Feetz did not win the SXSW award for Wearable Tech, that was won by Tinitell ... read more ...
Sat 14th March 2015
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RealSaltLake.com The Professional Sports Team (MLS) Buys RSL.com For $45K - The domain name RSL.com has been sold to the profession MLS Soccer Team “Real Salt Lake” which uses the domain name RealSaltLake.com Aron Meystedt the Director of the Intellectual Property Department of Heritage Auctions brokered the domain and gave some details of how he sold the domain which is a good lesson I think for all of us that are brokering domain names for third parties: “A client emailed with the name RSL.com for sale.” They wanted a really low price for it, but I knew we could ... read more ...
 
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Report: BufferApp Buys Buffer.com For $600,000 & It Took Almost 2 Years - inc42.com published a story about how BufferApp.com purchased the domain name Buffer.com for $600,000. Interestingly the company itself, Bufferapp.com, published a lot of details about the acquisition of the domain name which took almost 2 years to complete from first contact with the owner of the domain. The company BufferApp.com did not mention the price it paid for Buffer.com in their blog post, you will have to read the inc42.com story how they got to the $600K figure. Here is a few real interesting ... read more ...
Thu 12th March 2015
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VVV.com sells for $136,400 - One of the things about domain investors is they like rare domains, a repeating three letter .com certainly falls into that category, only 26 of them and one sold today on NameJet. VVV.com sold for $136,400. The bidding went back and forth between members VVVcom and First, in the end First won the name at $136,400 There were six bidders who bid $100,000 or more. A total of 515 bids. ... read more ...
 
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Archeo Sells $1.7 Million in 4Q: "2 Word Domains Continue to Be Our Most Popular Selling Class" - In a blog post, Archeodomains.com a division of Marchex (MCHX) gave some incite into their $1.7 Million dollars of domain names they sold in the 4th Quarter of 2014 The average domain sold had a character length of  11, and two word domains was their most popular selling Category of domain name Here are the details including some of the domain names they sold: ... read more ...
 
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18 End User Domain Name Sales - Wyndham Hotels, Business Insider and 23 and Me buy domain names. Sedo handled 602 domain name transactions last week for a total of $1.4 million in sales. Among the purchases were some typos and famous brands, but also companies buying up great generics for their industries. Writer wanted: Joseph Peterson has been writing the end user sales lists for the past month, but the weekly expired domain reports alone are taking up enough of his time. I’m looking for a writer to handle this weekly post. ... read more ...
Tue 10th March 2015
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Sedo Sales Total $1.4Million, led by Generational.com during $70,000 -

Over a past week, 602 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and around SedoMLS, totaling $1.4m. 52% of sum sales were a outcome of Buy Now listings.  

Highlights of open sales are:

  • Top .com: generational.com at 70,000 USD
  • Top ccTLD: expekt.gr at 20,000 EUR
  • Top “other” TLD: egb.net at 9,888 USD

Via: thedomains.com

 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Owners bullish on domain name values in 2015 - Domain name owners think domain name values will increase in 2015. Despite all of the changes in the internet naming landscape, or perhaps in spite of it, respondents to this year’s Domain Name Wire Survey are bullish on domain name values. 61% said they think domain name values will go up in 2015, compared to just 9% that think they’ll go down. The rest think they’ll stay about the same. The initial question did not distinguish between existing TLDs and new ones. In a subsequent question, ... read more ...
 
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A Hot Winter during NameJet - It’s cold in most of North America, but this winter has been hot at NameJet. Winter at NameJet has been hot. In January the auction venue set a record with more sales above $2k than during any previous month. February racked up 121, which makes it the 3rd month in a row surpassing 100. Apart from December, 2014 ranged between 61 and 95 monthly sales $2k … with a mean of 76. So if your impression has been that bids are climbing into higher price ranges more frequently, well, the data agrees ... read more ...
Mon 9th March 2015
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Mega List: 67 finish user domain name sales - Joseph Peterson tracks down 67 recent end user domain name sales. During the previous week, Sedo’s network handled 581 domain transactions totaling $1.4 million. Compared to last week, whose top 3 public sales at Sedo added up to $500k, a high of $14.5k seems pitifully small. But the total volume is up 56%. This time, I tracked down end users for 67 domains. As usual, I’m mixing domains that just sold with others that closed earlier but just emerged from escrow. Additive-Manufacturing.de (€3610) ... read more ...
Fri 6th March 2015
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LuxeValet.com shortens domain name to Luxe.com for $172,500 - Domain name sold to parking company after auction ended. Heritage Auctions continues to sell domain names that were listed in its auction last month in New York. One of the bigger sales is Luxe.com, which was purchased by on demand parking and valet service Luxe for $172,500. It has been using the domain name LuxeValet.com. Luxe recently raised $20 million in financing. The total from Heritage Auctions’ February auction lots now stands at over $1.2 million. In addition to the Luxe.com sale, the ... read more ...
Thu 5th March 2015
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Domain Sales Data Website SimilarSales.com Launches - Rudin Web Solutions out of Switzerland has a new site up on SimilarSales.com. The site provides historical sales data and I don’t know if they are just using NameBio.com to collect their data or if they have their own proprietary system for gathering sales data. The site is not as up to date yet as NameBio as the recent sales data was not showing anything for 3/3 or 3/4. They are incorporating data from BuyDomains and NetFleet.com.au along with Flippa, 4.cn and Park.io. One of the problems with ... read more ...
Tue 3rd March 2015
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Sedo Sales Total $1.4 million for a week, led by Ezpr.com -

Over a past week, 581 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and around SedoMLS, totaling $1.4m. 50% of sum sales were a outcome of Buy Now listings.   

 Highlights of open sales are:

  • Top .com: ezpr.com at 14,500 USD
  • Top ccTLD: moon.co at 6,000 GBP
  • Top “other” TLD: legend.net at 13,000 USD

 

Via: thedomains.com

 
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Namejet.com Reports Over $600,000 In Domain Name Sales In February -

Namejet.com expelled a domain name sales for Feb for domains that sole for $2,000 or more.

The sum of such sales is only brief of $615,000.

Here are a sales:

 

 

 

Via: thedomains.com

Tue 24th February 2015
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Sedo Transactions Total Led By Heika.com For $300K - Over the past week, 514 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $900,000 All sales were led by Heika.com I of course did a Google search and it looks like a “lovely shrubbery” as Monte Python would have said like 100 years ago, when I was like 100, I’m told that is also translates to “black card” but that is a whole different issue. Nice sale for the seller If you looking for my pick as the great buy off this list for the week OnlineChat.com sold for $24K ... read more ...
Mon 23rd February 2015
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DomainHoldings Sells Almost $31 Million In Domains In 2014; Over $8M In 4Q - Domainholdings.com in a company blog post today, said they brokered almost $31 Million dollars in domain names in 2014 Domain Holdings issued its combined Q4 and Annual 2014 report today In the 4th Quarter  Q4 Domainholdings.com sold  $8,086,642 in total domain name sales. Some of the sales brokered in 2014 included: Some of the main highlights from Q4 include: $622,049 Average Weekly Sales $26,323 Average Domain Sales. 72.38% of ALL Sales End Users ** The top two markets for buyers of domains ... read more ...
 
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Domain Holdings sells $8.1 million of domain names in Q4 - Company brokered over $30 million worth of domain names last year. Domain Holdings reported today that it sold $8.1 million worth of domain names last quarter, bringing its 2014 tally to $31.0 million. The fourth quarter number was down slightly from a strong Q2 and Q3 ($9.9M and $9.6M, respectively) but still strong compared to Q1 2014 and prior. 77% of the company’s sales in Q4 were .com domain names, and the same percentage of names had 10 or fewer characters. The company doesn’t report ... read more ...
Fri 20th February 2015
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MediaOptions Brokers Sales Of 50.com After Being Listed In Newsletter For $3.5 Million - The domain name 50.com has been purchased and the domain transferred to its new owner, Wang Yi of China. The domain was brokered by MediaOptions.com under a NDA. All we know is that the domain was sold and was listed in MediaOptions.copm newsletter back in December 2014, with an asking price of $3.5 Million dollars. The last reported two numbered .com sale was for 37.com which was sold for $1,968,000 according to DnJournal.com Congrats to the seller, buyer and MediaOptions.com on what appears to ... read more ...
 
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Brand.com domain name goes behind on a market - Company that acquired domain name in 2013 is changing business models. The owner of Brand.com, which bought the domain name for $500,000 in 2013, is putting the domain name back on the market. ReputationChanger.com acquired the domain name in 2013 and rebranded as simply Brand.com. Now Brand.com is changing its business focus to a news-related business model (and corresponding name) and no longer needs Brand.com. The short, five letter .com domain has a number of potential uses. Before the current ... read more ...
Thu 19th February 2015
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39 some-more End User domain name sales - 39 recent end user domain name sales at Sedo. Over the past week, Sedo’s network sold 538 domains totaling $1.2 million. As usual, I’ve done some research and compiled this list of 39 transactions where I’ve detected a specific end user. Some domains actually sold during a prior week but have only just emerged from escrow for inspection. At the moment, several of last week’s larger purchases – including Shein.com ($95k) and HOOQ.com ($50k) – remain indeterminate. 1Bridge.com ($999) ... read more ...
Tue 17th February 2015
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Sedo Sells $1.2million in domains for a week led by Shein.com during $95,000 - Over the past week, 538 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.2m. 53% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.   Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: shein.com at 95,000 USD Top ccTLD: whitstable.co.uk at 12,000 GBP Top “other” TLD: augenlidstraffung.net at 3,850 EUR I emailed Sedo if the price was correct on ZFE.com that seems cheap.     ... read more ...
 
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NameBio upgraded with pivotal new comps feature - Upgraded domain name sales database makes it easier to find comps when buying and selling domain names. Domain name sales database NameBio.com has been overhauled, and one of the new features should prove useful when searching for sales comps for domain name sales. Adam Strong brought in domainer and developer Michael Sumner to assist with the new site, which includes more data sources and a better mobile browsing experience. Domain names have also been split into 250 categories (underneath ten main ... read more ...