Tag Archives: sales

Thu 8th January 2015
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ROTD auction during NamesCon will sell a lot of domain names - Sell-through rate at next week’s auction is guaranteed to be high. Right of the Dot (ROTD) is hosting a live domain name auction next Tuesday during NamesCon. From the looks of it, they’re going to sell a lot of domain names. The only question is how much they’ll sell for. Already 31 domain names have pre-bids that have met their reserves (mostly on no reserve domain names). That means the auction is already at about a 30% sell-through rate on a planned inventory ... read more ...
Wed 7th January 2015
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Sedo.com Releases 3 Weeks Of Transactions Totaling $2.6 Million Led By TV.AE For $95K - Sedo just issues its transaction report covering the past 3 weeks including the Christmas and New Years holiday weeks In those 3 weeks 1,067 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $2.6 Million 49% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. All .com sales were led by one of our domain names FindYourCalling.com which sold for $30,000 but all domain sales were led by Tv.Ae which sold for $95,000 .AE is the ccTLD for the United Arab Emirates. The highest other ... read more ...
 
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Existing TLD .Reise headed to a auction block - Top level domain name will be auctioned at the end of February. Innovative Auctions Ltd., the same company handling many private new top level domain name contention set auctions, is holding an auction for .REISE on February 27. What’s unique here is that .reise is an existing top level domain name that’s now available for purchase. I believe this is the second time Innovative Auctions has held auctions for already-released TLDs. Reise roughly translates to “journey” ... read more ...
 
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25 End User Domain Name Sales - End user domain names sales continued during the holidays. Sedo didn’t report domain name sales over the holidays, so this week’s end user sales report includes sales from the past three weeks. Over this period, Sedo handled 1,067 transactions for a total of $2.6 million worth of domain names. Let’s just right into the list of recent end user sales at the Sedo marketplace: (You can view previous lists like this here. If you’d like to learn how to sell your ... read more ...
Tue 6th January 2015
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Garry Chernoff sells Montrose.com for $75,000 - Domain name investor starts the year with a good sale. Longtime domain name investor Garry Chernoff has started 2015 with a nice sale: Montrose.com at $75,000. The domain name now shows CSC Corporate Domains, a brand domain name registrar, as registrant. Chernoff says the company approached him about the domain name. Montrose is a city in Colorado, a neighborhood in Houston and the name of a band. I went through the first 10 results on Google, and none of the sites ... read more ...
Mon 5th January 2015
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2014 in Review: Short .com domain names value large money - .Com domain names continue to sell for big bucks. Especially the short ones. This is the final in a five part series covering the top stories in the domain name industry in 2014. You can also listen to the companion podcast covering these five themes of 2014. New TLDs and domain name choice be damned — short .com domain names are still worth a lot of money. Take a look at DNJournal.com’s year-to-date sales chart and something will pop out at you. Short .com domain ... read more ...
Mon 22nd December 2014
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Hottest Phrase Of The Moment: IcantBreathe.com Sells - The domain name IcantBreathe.com which matches one of the hot phrases in life and on social media, just sold earlier this month The domain name was listed for sale on CATCHYDOMAINS.COM The buyer has a page up and the domain already has an Alexa.com ranking of 11M. I spoke to the new owner of the domain who told me he has already received several offers on the domain. Of course the phrase not only is “Hot” as its in the news every day, its highly divisive. It maybe another example of a domain ... read more ...
Tue 16th December 2014
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Sedo Transactions Total $1 Million - Over the past week just 573 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 Million Dollars 57% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: competitiveintelligence.com at 35,477 USD · Top ccTLD: ferienhausschweden.de at 4,500 EUR · Top “other” TLD: ovn.org at 9,888 USD KingFashion.com at $10,000 was one of our domains that sold A few notes: Someone paid almost $2K for shooopping.com Someone paid $4K for snowflakedb.net Crowdmoney.com ... read more ...
 
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CompareNow.com buys Compare.com domain name - Auto insurance comparison site upgrades its domain name. Auto insurance comparison company CompareNow.com has purchased the domain name Compare.com, according to Whois records. CompareNow.com was founded by Andrew Rose, previously the chairman and CEO of Elephant Auto Insurance. If that name sounds familiar, it might be because the company unsuccessfully tried to get the domain name Elephant.com from Adam Dicker through a UDRP in 2005. It later purchased the domain ... read more ...
 
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Brown Shoe Co. sells Shoes.com business - Owners of SHOEme and OnlineShoes.com buy Shoes.com. Publicly traded Brown Shoe Co has sold its Shoes.com online business to online shoe-seller SHOEme. SHOEme operates Shoeme.ca/com and OnlineShoes.com. Hardy Capital acquired both of these companies earlier this year. In an interview with Business in Vancouver, SHOEme CEO Roger Hardy said “Predominantly, we’re acquiring the assets. That’s the URL, the customers and the history of the customers as well as the ... read more ...
Fri 12th December 2014
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Some people are successfully flipping new TLD registrations - Here are some cases where new TLD registrants flipped new domains for a nice return. Some people are striking oil with new TLDs.It’s easy to come out and say new TLDs are a waste of time for domain name investors and that you won’t make any money with them. You can point to high initial prices and registry premiums to suggest that domainers are being cut out of the action. The reality is that some people are making good money flipping new TLDs. I want to be careful ... read more ...
 
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13 finish user domain name sales from final week - RestaurantUniforms.com leads the list. Sedo handled 458 transactions last week for a total of about $1.0 million of domain name sales. The biggest public sale was RestaurantUniforms.com, purchased by New York uniform company Paragon Uniform Apparel, Inc. Another notable sale was GIII.com. Although the price tag was only $5,000, the buyer is a $2.1 billion (market cap) clothing company. Here’s the list of some of the week’s end user sales at the Sedo marketplace: (You ... read more ...
Wed 10th December 2014
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Heritage Auctions to reason super-exclusive domain auction during Waldorf Astoria Hotel - Auction will be limited to 30 high quality domain names. Heritage Auctions is trying something different for its next domain name auction: it will be a super-exclusive event held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York. What makes it so exclusive? There will only be 30 domain names at the auction. That’s the smallest (in terms of number of lots) live domain auction I can recall. It also means the inventory will be limited to high quality, one word domain names ... read more ...
Tue 9th December 2014
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Sedo Transactions Total $1 Million As a Record Number 60% Of Domains Sell At Buy It Now - Over the past week, 458 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 Million dollars 60% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings which I believe is a record high for Sedo or anyone else in the industry Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: restaurantuniforms.com at 20,000 USD · Top ccTLD: etfs.de at 11,900 EUR · Top “other” TLD: joins.net at 3,500 EUR I wish I can pick out a favorite buy but I have nothing off this list:   ... read more ...
Fri 5th December 2014
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QNB.com Sells For $1 Million Dollars To Qatar National Bank - Another $1 million domain name transaction discovered by George Kirikos http://t.co/yoRgLR9Qnj domain name sold for $1 million by QNB Corp $QNB to Qatar National Bank http://t.co/hgrJ70T79W — George Kirikos (@GeorgeKirikos) December 5, 2014   QNB Corp., parent company of QNB Bank, filed a Current Report on Form 8-K regarding a change to its website domain to qnbbank.com and the planned sale of its prior domain name to a third party for a purchase price of $1,000,000. The transfer of the prior ... read more ...
 
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QNB.com domain name sells for $1 million - Bank sells domain name to another bank for $1 million. Qatar National Bank has paid $1 million to acquire the three letter domain name QNB.com. The deal was disclosed in an SEC filing made by the seller, another bank called QNB Bank. The seller changed its web presence to QNBBank.com. Changing a bank’s domain name is a big deal, and I’m not surprised at the price tag on this deal given the circumstances. Qatar National Bank uses the country code domain name QNB.com.qa ... read more ...
Thu 4th December 2014
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Last week’s finish user domain name sales during Sedo - A Hong Kong game developer, investment firm and manufacturer bought domain names last week. Sedo handled 509 domain name transactions last week, for a total of $1.3 million. It was a little bit harder than usual to find obvious end user sales, but there are plenty of them. Once again, many of the sales were to people who owned one TLD version of a domain picking up another. Here’s the list of some of the week’s end user sales at the Sedo marketplace: (You can ... read more ...
Wed 3rd December 2014
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Report: TruckDrivingJobs.com Sold For $800,000 - According to a Press Release just out, Trucking Unlimited, an online recruiting firm for the trucking industry, announced the acquired  TruckDrivingJobs.com, a specialty online website focusing exclusively on truck driving jobs for $800,000. Truckdrivingjobs.com is as of today an active website but as recently as December of last year the domain name was parked, according to Screenshots.com and had the same owner so I’m not sure what to make of it According to the press release, Trucking Unlimited ... read more ...
 
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Meet 8 people who spent some-more than $10,000 on a .NYC domain name - With over 60,000 domain names registered, the new .NYC domain name is off to a roaring start. During the “landrush phase”, over 1,000 .NYC domain names had more than one interested party and were thus headed to auction. Ten domain names, according registry records, sold for more than $10,000. One of the ten on the list appears to be a typo, so I looked up the remaining nine to find out who would spend so much money on a .NYC domain name. A general conclusion: ... read more ...
 
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Minds + Machines pockets another $4.4 million from losing new TLD auctions - Company now has $45 million in cash. New top level domain name applicant Minds + Machines continues to add to its pile of cash by losing new TLD contention set auctions. In a release out this morning, the company said it received $4.4 million for withdrawing applications for .latino, .school and one as-yet-unnamed application. .School was a four way race won by Donuts. Other applicants included Fegistry and Uniregistry. .Latino was a two way race won by Dish. Dish ... read more ...
Tue 2nd December 2014
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.3 Million Led by ehaber.com For $45K - Over the past week, 509 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.3 Million 49% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: ehaber.com at 45,000 USD · Top ccTLD: tanzkurse.de at 8,925 EUR · Top “other” TLD: signup.net at 13,000 USD I like the acquisition of Heated.com for $4K   ... read more ...
Mon 1st December 2014
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Highest Reported.Mobi Domain Sale In Almost 5 Years: Olamobile Buys Ola.Mobi For $15k -         The domain name Ola.mobi just crossed the Sedo.com sales wire selling for $15,000. According to Estibot.com its the highest reported sale of a .Mobi domain in almost 5 years. The domain name Ola.mobi was purchased by Olamobile Cyprus Limited whose website is at olamobile.com. The last reported .mobi domain name to sell for more than Ola.Mobi, was P*ssy.mobi which sold for $23,619 back on 2010-01-28. There are just a handful of reported .mobi domain names that have sold in the five figures ... read more ...
 
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23 finish user domain name sales adult to $35,000 - Two Heineken breweries among end user domain name buyers. I was too busy eating turkey last week to do the end user sales report, so I’m publishing this a week late. Sedo closed $1.2 million worth of domain name transactions the week-before-last, including a number of end user domain name sales. Two breweries in Africa that have been acquired by Heineken bought domain names. Also note the sales of .host and .club domains. Here’s the list of some of the week’s ... read more ...
Sun 30th November 2014
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Invest.com Sells For Over $5 Million Dollars - According to the forexmagnates.com, the domain name Invest.com has been sold for more than $5 Million dollars to the VC firm Singulariteam headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel and will be used for a Forex trading site. Singulariteam, is described as being a “super angel investor”, and Moshe Hogeg’s,  its Managing Partner Chairman,  is also known for having invested $200,000 in the messaging app Yo!, and is the is the CEO and Founder of Mobli, a social mobile photo and video-sharing website ... read more ...
Wed 26th November 2014
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.2 Million; Rin.com & Everything.Org Sell For $35K; Show.Tv $20K - Over the past week, 566 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.2 Million 50% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: rin.com at 35,000 USD · Top ccTLD: show.tv at 20,999 EUR · Top “other” TLD: everything.org at 35,000 USD A few interesting sales: Another three letter .com, bmh.com sold for 25,990 Euro’s Drop.co sold for $17K, Printing.clud sold for $2,500 CrowdPay.com a pretty good domain sold ... read more ...