Tag Archives: sales

Thu 23rd October 2014
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
17 some-more finish user domain name sales - Here’s a list of some of the end users that bought domain names last week. Sedo handled a total of 484 transactions last week, representing $1.4 million in total sales. Yes the most expensive sale they reported was just $16,200, suggesting there was at least one big sale that is not public. Before I run through some of the end user sales, here’s a quick thing I noticed. Remember when .berlin had a free domain giveaway? They canceled it after a couple groups registered ... read more ...
 
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How we can (and can’t) clear new Top Level Domain auction prices - In this post, DOT TBA founder Christa Taylor considers the payback period for new TLDs based on recent auction prices and current registration volumes. The October 22nd ICANN new top level domain name auction resulted in the resolution of several TLDs selling for substantial amounts of money: .Realty $5.6 million .Salon $5.1 million .Spot $2.2 million. These results, along with the September 17th auction results of .buy at $4.6 million, .tech at $6.8 million and ... read more ...
Tue 21st October 2014
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.4 Million -

Sedo.com Released a sale news and  over a past week, 484 exchange took place on Sedo’s marketplace and around SedoMLS, totaling $1.4m. 51% of sum sales were a outcome of Buy Now listings.

Highlights of open sales are:

· Top .coms: localgenius.com during 14,000 USD
· Top ccTLD: slv.fr during 5,000 EUR
· Top “other” TLD: designs.net during 16,800 USD
 

Via: thedomains.com

 
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Paradise.com, Holiday.com and Iraq.com strike auction retard subsequent month - Valuable domain names go up for sale next month. For a company I hadn’t heard of before it announced it was auctioning Holiday.com a couple months ago, Breathe Luxury has assembled an impressive list of domain names for its auction next month. The company will auction off dozens of domain names in conjunction with the World Travel Market conference in London November 5. Among the domain names for sale: Holiday.com Paradise.com Journey.com Iraq.com Kuwait.com Doha.com Arab.com GolfCourses.com NAS.com Most ... read more ...
Mon 20th October 2014
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GetFixed.me upgrades to Fixed.com for $40k and other finish user domain name sales - Fixed app fixes its domain name problem. I’m behind on last week’s end user domain name sales list since I was at the ICANN conference last week. This list is for sales taking place the week before last. The top reported sale was GoldPay.com at $50,000. It’s still in escrow, but I suspect the buyer is the person who registered the trademark “GoldPay” for “Providing monetary exchange services, namely, exchanging gold and precious metals of others for ... read more ...
Wed 15th October 2014
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WARNING: Stolen Domain Names Slash.com & County.com Are Being Shopped Around - We have received a report from Andrew Rosener of MediaOptions.com that at least two domain names, Slash.com County.com have been stolen from NetworkSolutions.com and are being shopped around for sale. In a email Andrew wrote: “I wanted to notify everyone that we have just discovered a domain theft at Network Solutions which I do not believe is an isolated incident.” “So far it involves two domains, slash.com county.com.” The domains are from different owners and stolen by the same thief.” County.com ... read more ...
 
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DNPric.es: There have been Over $1 Million In New gTLD Domain Name Sales - According to domain price research site DNPric.es there have been over $1 million in new gtld sales since the new gTLD launched in February. According to DNPric.es there have been 247 domain name sales in 58 New TLDs Totalling $1,016,987.12. I did not see a breakdown of EAP, Premium registry auction sales and/or whether these are just straight secondary domain name purchases. .Club led the way with over $191,000 in sales. This is of course based only on reported sales and we do not believe the list ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Transactions Total $1 Million; 51% Buy It Now; GoldPay.com Sells For 50,000 Euro’s -

Over a past week, 491 exchange took place on Sedo’s marketplace and around SedoMLS, totaling $1 million

51% of sum sales were a outcome of Buy Now listings.

Highlights of open sales are:

· Top .coms: goldpay.com during 50,000 EUR
· Top ccTLD: pri.mx during 10,000 USD
· Top “other” TLD: stream.org during 20,000 USD

Via: thedomains.com

Tue 14th October 2014
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Vodka Maker, Which Costs Up To $24,500 A Bottle, Buys KorsVodka.com For $750,000 - According to a press release out today KV Spirits LLC has purchased the domain name KorsVodka.com, for $750,000 “Made from the same old recipe that was enjoyed by the Royals over a century ago, Kors is known as being the most exclusive, handmade, limited edition Vodka, and is priced up to $24,500 per bottle.” Vodka.com was sold for $3 Million dollars by legendary domain name investor Roy Messer. “It’s certainly worth mentioning as a record-breaker of its own.” Harris adds that the dynamic ... read more ...
Mon 13th October 2014
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Mobile Corporation Acquires Mobile.Ph - Back on August 8, 2014 we spoke with Jeffrey Peterson of Mobile Corporation Mobile Corporation just completed the purchase of Mobile.co for $239,000. Our readers may recall that there was an interesting story behind this transaction. The start up based out of Cambridge,Massachusetts has raised $5 million in funding. Jeffrey Peterson the CEO of Mobile Corporation was kind enough to get on the phone and give me an interview about the company and their strategy. Mobile Corporation announced over the ... read more ...
Sat 11th October 2014
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October ICANN TLD auctions cringe to 3 after private deals - 10 contention sets settled at last minute, including three by Amazon.com. This month’s ICANN auctions of last resort for new to level domain names will settle just three contention sets, down from a schedule of 13 as of last month. The only three still on the schedule are .spot, .salon and .realty. Ten contention sets that were on the docket for resolution via ICANN auction this month have been settled: Amazon.com won .now, .deal and .save Donuts won .legal and ... read more ...
Thu 9th October 2014
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China.info Sells in Hexonet Drop Auction For $12K - A few days ago noted that the domain name China.info dropped. The domain name was owned by Chinese nic the registry for the China .cn ccTLD. We wrote that the domain name was not caught by any of the big drop catchers but by the domain name registrar hexonet.net. I was informed today by Hexonet.net that the auction between 16 bidders ended today with the winning bid hitting 12,005.00 USD. Nice domain Congrats to the buyer   ... read more ...
 
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Last week’s finish user domain name sales - Athlon.com leads Sedo’s end user domain name sales. Sedo sold about $1.2 million worth of domain names last week, highlighted by the six figure sale of Athlon.com. Athlon.com is still in escrow, but I have a pretty good idea who the buyer is. One other sale was notable not because of the dollar value, but because the sale was a trademark-matching domain for a $14.6 billion publicly traded company. The end user list is below. (You can view previous lists like this ... read more ...
Wed 8th October 2014
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NameJet.com Reports Reports Over $460K in Sales In September -

Namejet.com only released a sales news for Sep 2014 stating $460,000.

Only sales of $2,000 or some-more are reported,

Here is a list:

 

Via: thedomains.com

Tue 7th October 2014
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Sedo Transactions Totals $1.2 Million -

Over a past week, 443 exchange took place on Sedo’s marketplace and around SedoMLS, totaling $1.2 million

51% of sum sales were a outcome of Buy Now listings.

Highlights of open sales are:

· Top .coms: athlon.com during 100,000 USD
· Top ccTLD: netbet.ca during 13,500 USD
· Top “other” TLD: tdsc.org during 5,500 USD

 

Via: thedomains.com

Tue 30th September 2014
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
How to selectively allot sales leads on DomainNameSales.com - DomainNameSales.com allows you to handle the sales inquiries you want and send the others to brokers. I use DomainNameSales.com (DNS) to park most of my domain names because I like using their sales platform. DNS’ platform allows you to handle purchase inquiries on your own for no fee or assign a broker to handle your inquiries for a commission. For a long time I had DNS handle all my inquiries, but then I decided to broker domain sales myself. Yet sometimes I’d ... read more ...
Mon 29th September 2014
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Sedo finish user domain name sales - An aviation company and a seller of hair extensions among end user domain name buyers. Sedo handled 591 domain name transactions the week before last for a total of about $1 million in sales. The list includes a startup in Texas, a bunch of .uk purchases, and a company buying a .berlin domain name to match its .eu domain. The end user list, including new TLDs and existing ones, is below. (You can view previous lists like this here. If you’d like to learn how to ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling has sole $12 million in domain names this year - Schilling says his domain aftermarket sales have hit $12 million for the year. Frank Schilling has sold $12 million worth of his own domain names this year, already surpassing his total from 2013. Schilling disclosed this number in an update to DomainNameSales.com (DNS) clients. He said his sales platform has been the engine behind his secondary market domain name sales success. The update lists a number of other big changes and features coming soon to his domain ... read more ...
Thu 25th September 2014
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Top Level Design wins .design row set - Hotly contested top level domain name goes to Portland company. The .design top level domain name will be run, fittingly, by Top Level Design. Top Level Design beat out six other applicants in a private auction to win the domain. Given the number of applicants, I suspect the final price for the domain was near a high water mark. Top Level Design CEO Ray King told Domain Name Wire that winning .design was very important for the company, as you might guess from the ... read more ...
Wed 24th September 2014
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Minds + Machines’ numbers uncover new TLD auctions are removing out of control - Highly contested new TLD auctions are likely ending well above $10 million. Minds + Machines put out a press release today about winning the .law and .vip domain names at auction, and the numbers in it provide hints about how much companies are paying to win private auctions for new TLDs. If my math is right, these new TLD auctions are getting out of control. The company won .law and .vip, but lost five auctions: .design, .flowers, .group, .realestate and .video. ... read more ...
Tue 23rd September 2014
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Sedo Transactions Total $1 Million -

Over a past week, 591 exchange took place on Sedo’s marketplace and around SedoMLS, totaling $1 Million dollars

48% of sum sales were a outcome of Buy Now listings.

Highlights of open sales are:

· Top .coms: cabs.com during 50,000 USD
· Top ccTLD: kfz24.de during 11,500 EUR
· Top “other” TLD: uhr.kaufen during 4,200 EUR

 

Via: thedomains.com

Mon 22nd September 2014
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CentralNic invests in .Tickets TLD winner, valuing it during $13.5 million - Registry pumps money into .tickets auction victor. Domain name registry CentralNic (AIM: CNIC) has invested $1.62 million in Accent Media Ltd, which the latter used to help acquired the .Tickets TLD in a private auction. Accent Media Ltd beat Donuts, Famous Four Media, Tickets TLD LLC and Shubert Internet in the auction. CentralNic’s investment will give it a 12% equity stake in Accent Media. As best I can tell, Accent was set up to get the .tickets TLD, which ... read more ...
Thu 18th September 2014
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Unitedprint.com Buys EasyPrint.com For an “Unspecified Six-Figure Sum - According to a press release out today, a German company Unitedprint.com, announced the bought the domain name EasyPrint.com for an “amount in the six figures” The original Press release is in German and I used Google to translate it: Online printing unitedprint.com SE acquires the domain www.easyprint.com at an unspecified numbered six-figure sum, strengthening its global market access. With the acquisition of Easyprint.com address for their own brand Easy Print to unitedprint.com SE is even ... read more ...
 
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Igloo acquires Aftermarket.com - Domain broker acquires domain name marketplace. Igloo, a fast growing domain name broker, has acquired domain name marketplace Aftermarket.com from Thought Convergence. The move makes sense for Igloo. While its focus in the past has been on larger, high touch transactions, it is now handling the sale of the old DomainSponsor portfolio that was acquired by Rook Media earlier this year. Aftermarket.com will give it a good platform to sell these domain names (and others). “With ... read more ...
Wed 17th September 2014
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Wow: Amazon.com buys .Buy for $4.6 million, .Tech sells for $6.8 million - Amazon.com paid $4.6 million to win rights to .buy top level domain name, but that wasn’t the most expensive TLD auction on Wednesday. You might think new top level domain names aren’t meeting early expectations, but applicants still apparently value the opportunity very high. ICANN held its second “auction of last resort” for new top level domain names today. Three contention sets were resolved at multi-million dollar prices. Here are the results: .Tech ... read more ...