Tag Archives: sales

Wed 26th November 2014
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A demeanour during Bitcoin/Crypto Related Domain Sales - CryptoNames.com is a site that specializes in domain names related to the Bitcoin/Crypto Currency Niche. They compiled a list of BitCoin, Crypto and Coin related sales. I have posted a partial list from each category. Check out the full list at CryptoNames.com. Bitcoin Related Bitcoin.com.au    $31,200    November 2014 BitcoinOption.com    $1,600    September 2014 BitcoinAnalysis.com    $X,XXX    September 2014 BTC.com    $1,000,000    August 2014 PriceOfBitcoin.com    $X,XXX    ... read more ...
 
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.Click’s 3,800 domains: Good or bad? - @Jim …. yes, well said, … small world indeed. im happy you do understand my point, for instance, .club held back the IDN release ( even though they had the ability implemented, but they made a big mistake on only including spanish characters, from their RFC, it is easy to see so [and later, touching the water on releasing a ‘premium IDN, which is listed as top premium right now at sedo as ‘registry exclusive … ] .. and the consequence i$snt good, for example, excluding ç means ... read more ...
Fri 21st November 2014
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Wow: Nissan sells Z.com domain name to GMO for $6.8 million - GMO to use Z.com domain name to fuel global expansion. GMO Internet, operator of Japan’s largest domain name registrar, has acquired the one letter domain name Z.com for JPY800 million ($6.8 million), the company announced today. Japanese car manufacturer Nissa sold the domain name, which it previously used to promote its Nissan Z car. GMO says it’s going to use the domain name, one of only three single letter .com domains available, to accelerate its global market ... read more ...
 
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Interview: .Cloud tip turn domain leader Aruba - Aruba, which defeated Google and Amazon to win the .cloud top level domain name, discusses why it applied for the domain name and what it plans to do with it. .Cloud was one of the most applied-for top level domain names, with big names like Amazon.com and Google throwing their hats in the ring. Which is why many were surprised to see that the winner of the private auction for the domain name was a company they might not have heard of: Aruba S.p.A. Although nowhere ... read more ...
Wed 19th November 2014
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Rin.com Sells for $35,000 on Sedo – Sold on Sedo for $14,000 in 2011 - Crossing the Sedo feed this afternoon is Rin.com at $35,000. Looks like it was the second time it sold on Sedo, DN Journal reported it sold for $14,000 in 2011. Affordable Webhosting Inc out of Oregon looks to be the seller and had the domain parked. Eli Shoval looks to be the buyer of the name. The name has been registered since 1995, at one time legendary domainer Garry Chernoff owned the domain back in 2004 and looks like he was the person who sold it on Sedo back in 2011. The buyer looked to ... read more ...
 
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17 finish user domain name sales, including a large .Me - An antiquated technology term in .me sells for five figures. Sedo sold $1 million worth of domain names last week. While this week’s list doesn’t include as many end user buyers as the last one (at least publicly), a lot of smaller businesses bought domain names. One of the most amusing ones is Telegram.me at $10,000. Now, be honest — if someone told you they registered a domain name with telegram in it, you’d laugh at him. Right? The New Zealand man who ... read more ...
 
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Dish DBS beats Google in .Dot auction, pays $700,000 for domain - Dish won a two way race to operate the top level domain name .dot. Dish DBS, the satellite TV company and owner of Blockbuster, has beaten Google in a public auction for the top level domain .Dot. It paid $700,000 for the rights to the domain name. You’re not misreading this – the domain name is .dot. So soon, you might be able to visit Blockbuster at Blockbuster-dot-dot. In its application for the domain name, Dish said it plans to use the domain name for its ... read more ...
Tue 18th November 2014
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Sedo Transactions Transactions Total $1 Million Led By Bohai.com - Over the past week, 554 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 million dollars. 51% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: bohai.com at 29,022 USD which was bought by a Chinese buyer. · Top ccTLD: erfahrung.de at 15,000 EUR · Top “other” TLD: jie.net at 4,800 USD The domain name hack T.im caught my eye which sold for 3,000 GBP.     ... read more ...
Mon 17th November 2014
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Mike Mann Featured In Washington Post: DomainMarket Grosses $4M A Year - The Washington Post just published a post on legendary domain name investor Mike Mann, entitled “Domain-name mogul Mike Mann will sell you happybirthday.com — for $2 million” While this is far from the first press Mike has received,  its a very good article in which he reveals some information I personally didn’t know, such as that his DomainMarket.com “grosses around $4 million a year in domain name sales, but it spends $3 million alone in buying new names. After legal fees, payroll, ... read more ...
 
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Mobile.co owners pays dearly for Mobile.co.com - Company pays $32,000 for mobil.co.com and movil.co.com. The company that owns Mobile.co has spent $32,000 to acquire the third level domain names Mobile.co.com and Movil.co.com, the .co.com registry reported this morning. Freelancing site Mobile Inc bought the domain names in a deal brokered by Igloo.com. Although it might seem like a lot of money, the company may have spent a proportionally staggering amount when it acquired Mobile.co. .co.com is a common typo ... read more ...
 
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Mike Mann and (more) economics of domain name portfolios - Washington Post article provides more data on about domain name portfolios. The Washington Post wrote about domain name investor Mike Mann yesterday, and the article sheds more light on the economics or large domain name portfolios. Really, it applies to all domain portfolios, even if you have a small one. I wrote about this topic before after BuyDomains sold for $44.9 million, or just $47 per domain name. According to the Washington Post article, Mann’s company ... read more ...
Wed 12th November 2014
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Disney buys a .club domain & 21 other finish user domain name sales - Disney, AMC and other big names bought domain names last week. Sedo had a busy sales week when it came to selling domain names to big name end users. From Disney, to $10 billion clothing company Next, to AMC, a number of household brands bought domain names at the marketplace last week. Interestingly, these three companies bought non-.com domains. .Club was the beneficiary of two of these big buyers, while AMC bought a .tv (although it has the matching .com domain ... read more ...
Tue 11th November 2014
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Sedo Domain Transactions Total $1.1 Led By EasyBet.com For 35K Euro’s - Over the past week, 572 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.1 Million Dollars 50% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: easybet.com at 35,000 EUR · Top ccTLD: shudder.tv at 10,000 USD · Top “other” TLD: penguin.club at 8,000 USD Topping all new gTLD’s were the sale of Penguin.club at $8K, Next.club for $4,500 and Beta.club for $1,500 Here are the public sales:   ... read more ...
Mon 10th November 2014
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What do Amazon and Google domain name waste meant for new TLDs? - Neither of them won .cloud, which begs a big question. .Cloud is a valuable top level domain name. I’m basing that on the seven applications it received, and that Amazon.com, Google and Symantec all applied for the domain name. So which one of these heavyweights won the rights to .cloud? This one: Wait – what? That cartoonish logo doesn’t match any of the heavyweights that applied for .cloud. Aruba S.p.A., an Italian webhosting company, won the battle for ... read more ...
Fri 7th November 2014
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Sedo sells $1.4 million value of domains, here are some finish user sales - Here are some of the end user sales among Sedo’s $1.4 million in transactions last week. Domain name marketplace Sedo handled 542 transactions last week for a total of $1.4 million in domain name sales. End user buyers included two large pharmaceutical firms and one of the largest online travel sites. Notably, many of the end user purchases were by companies buying the .com that matches their existing ccTLD names. Here’s a list of 14 end user sales at the marketplace ... read more ...
Tue 4th November 2014
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Sedo’s Domain Name Transactions Total $1.4 Million - Over the past week, 542 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.4 Million Dollars 49% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: pager.com at 45,000 USD · Top ccTLD: koffer.ch at 17,822 EUR · Top “other” TLD: 6.biz at 12,637 USD Here are the public sales; RookiePoker.com which sold for $20,000 was our domain:     ... read more ...
 
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Anyone Remember Pagers? Someone Does & Bought Pager.com For $42K On Sedo - The domain name Pager.com just sold for $42,000 on Sedo.com Back in the day before Smartphones, Tablets, Facebook and Twitter and even the lowly cell phone, people had pagers for those trying to get a hold of them. Yes boys and girls we are going way back to the time that is pretty much after smoke signals. Today the domain name Pager.com sold on Sedo.com for $42,000 According to Estibot.com the domain has a value of $122,000. There are no ads on Google under the term or on the side (at least for ... read more ...
 
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Endurance continues to hurl up, acquires BuyDomains - NameMedia sells off domain name portfolio. Publicly traded Endurance International Group continued its roll up of the webhosting and domain name business last quarter with the acquisition of BuyDomains, the company announced today. In his prepared statements for its quarterly earnings call, Endurance CEO Hari Ravichandran said: Second, we closed the acquisition of BuyDomains, a Waltham, MA based provider of premium domain products and services, in the second half ... read more ...
 
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Why Endurance bought BuyDomains, and because a cost competence make sense - BuyDomains is a natural fit for Endurance, and you need to look at more than price-per-domain to understand its value. Endurance International, a $2.1 billion (market cap) rollup of hosting and domain name companies, announced this morning that it acquired BuyDomains from NameMedia. The tie-up makes sense for Endurance, which is generally considered the #2 domain name registrar in terms of domains under management. It will now be able to sell its massive customer ... read more ...
Wed 29th October 2014
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Domain Holdings Sells $10M In Domain Names In 3rd Quarter: Transactions Up 7.8% - According to its Third Quarter sales report,  Domain Holdings reported almost $10,000,000 USD in domain name sales. The total amount of sales was  down from 3.8% from the second quarter however the number of transactions were up 7.8%. Domain Holdings reported their biggest domain sale for the quarter was $2.7 Million versus $5.0 Million in Q2 “showing a much healthier overall diversity in sales.” During Q3 we were involved in many key transactions including the sale of BentoBox.com, House.com, ... read more ...
 
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21 finish user domain name sales during Sedo - A sex toy company, pet food seller and Big Blue bought domain names last week. Sedo sold $1 million worth of domain names last week, including some to big name buyers. It looks like IBM even got into the mix. Here’s a list of 21 end user sales at the marketplace last week: (You can view previous lists like this here. If you’d like to learn how to sell your domain names like these on Sedo, download this report.) ShowReel.co.uk 1,500 GBP – Guy Harris, male voiceover ... read more ...
 
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Domain Holdings sole scarcely $10 million in domain names final quarter - …and 98% of sales were .com. Domain Holdings’ outbound domain name sales machine continued to churn last quarter, with the company selling $9.55 million worth of domains in Q3. That’s down slightly from the $9.9 million it sold in Q2, but that quarter included a $5.0 million sale. The biggest transaction in Q3 was $2.7 million. And compared to Q1…it’s up nearly 3x. Here’s some other interesting data from Domain Holdings’ quarterly sales report: 28% of ... read more ...
Tue 28th October 2014
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Sedo Transactions Total $1million Led by Angel.in - Over the past week, 554 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1 Million Dollars 49% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are:   Top .coms: cupofjo.com at 18,888 USD Top ccTLD: angel.in at 30,000 USD Top “other” TLD: joy.club at 10,000 USD Angel.in was also on the Sedo sales report back in April of 2012 when it sold for just $1,750   ... read more ...
 
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Radix gets .site as Google participates in a private auction - Radix tops Google and three others to win .site domain name. New top level domain name company Radix has secured the .site domain name, the company announced on social media this morning. That means the company has .website, .site and is still in the running to complete the trifecta with .web. Particularly interesting is that Google was in the contention set for .site. To my knowledge, the company has been a holdout for participating in private resolution of new TLD ... read more ...
Thu 23rd October 2014
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Did Facebook.com Just Acquire Messenger.com? Looks Like They Did - We have about 1,000 domain names we track on DomainTools.com and we just noticed that the Whois on the domain name Messenger.com has just changed. The new owner of the domain is the law firm Hogan Lovells LLP of Paris which may not mean too much to you but as we at Thedomains.com follow and write about a lot of UDRP’s we know the law firm represents Facebook in their intellectual property disputes most recently in the case of Facebok.Berlin, and in many other cases including Facebook.info. Facebook ... read more ...