Tag Archives: sales

Tue 16th September 2014
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Sedo Transactions Total Just $1M As Baltic.Cruises Tops The List during $25,000 -

Over a past week, 543 exchange took place on Sedo’s marketplace and around SedoMLS, totaling $1 Million

49% of sum sales were a outcome of Buy Now listings.

Highlights of open sales are:

· Top .coms: kiel.com during 19,500 EUR

· Top ccTLD: bs.tv during 15,000 USD

· Top “other” TLD: baltic.cruises during 25,000 USD

 

Via: thedomains.com

 
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Handy.com Sells: New Owner Says “it wasn’t Cheap” & Has A Lesson For Domain Owners - TechCrunch.com just covered a company that acquired the domain name Handy.com which quotes the buyer saying “it wasn’t cheap.” The domain name was owned by Neue Medien GmbH of Germany. which may have been formerly  known as Media Empire and Benjamin Pitzer as that was what the domain was registered under a couple of years ago and according to Screeshots.com the website hadn’t changed in years. We have some thoughts about this sale and a lesson for domainer, but first here is the rest of ... read more ...
 
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$25,000 new TLD sale among this week’s finish user domain name sales - Travel company is among at least four end users who bought new TLDs at Sedo this past week. There is an aftermarket for new top level domain names. It’s not huge, and few people are getting rich from it. But there is a market. Take this week’s $25,000 sale of Baltic.cruises by Viking River Cruises. I’ve seen magazine ads for Viking, which promotes small ship cruises in European rivers for those that don’t want to venture far from shore. This domain was among ... read more ...
Mon 15th September 2014
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Cabs.com Sells On Sedo For $50K -

The domain name Cabs.com only sole on Sedo for $50,000

The domain name was owned by Enterprise Solutions Holdings Inc, of Alpharetta Georgia

The new owners is William Berry of London, England that he acquired in 2013 from Softbrands who seemed to acquire a domain in 2004.

The domain name was initial purebred on Sep 05, 1995.

Sounds like a ruin of a buy.

Congrats

Via: thedomains.com

 
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A Step-By-Step Guide to Moving your GoDaddy Premium Listings to Afternic - Here’s how to move your domain names to Afternic Premium to take advantage of GoDaddy’s new integration with the service. Last week I shared the good news that GoDaddy is now fully integrated with the Afternic Premium network with fast transfer. This means that you can list domain names registered with GoDaddy on Afternic Premium, which gives you much greater reach than listing domains on GoDaddy alone. If you currently list domain names for sale on GoDaddy Premium ... read more ...
Thu 11th September 2014
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Sedo Weekly Sales $1.4 million led by Musik.de - Sedo.com Weekly Sales List 2014-09-01 – 2014-09-07 Top .com: Decoded.com $50,000 this domain was purchased by the .Co owner Top cctld: Musik.de 99,999 Euros Top non com gtld: KQ.net $13,500 Over the past week, 525 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.4m. 48% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.    ... read more ...
 
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List of finish user domain name sales adult to $50,000 - .Co owner pays dearly for .com, Shopzilla buys a .co.uk domain and CitizenHawk picks up a typo on behalf of Home Depot. Sedo had 525 transactions last week for a solid $1.4 million worth of domain name sales. A lot of the bigger sales are still in escrow. Still, we know about end user sales of $9,999 and $50,000 for domains that have already transferred. Here are some of the end user domain names sales for the week: (You can view previous lists like this here. If ... read more ...
Wed 10th September 2014
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Big news: GoDaddy now entirely organic with Afternic - Fast Transfer integration is good news for all domainers that sell domains with fixed prices. It’s been almost a year since GoDaddy acquired Afternic, and domainers can finally realize a huge benefit of the acquisition. Starting later today, GoDaddy will be fully integrated with Afternic as a “Fast Transfer” partner. This means two things for domain name investors: 1. If you have domain names listed for sale at Afternic’s Premium level, your domains will get ... read more ...
Wed 3rd September 2014
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Was Daimler a reason for RideScout’s $80k domain name purchase? - A subsidiary of Daimler has acquired RideScout, a company that just paid 60,000 euros for a domain name. Last week I wrote about how RideScout, a company that helps map out the best transportation options for a route, purchased the domain name RideScout.com for 60,000 euros ($80,000 USD) at Sedo. The company has been using the longer domain RideScoutApp.com for its web address. The timing and price tag make a lot of sense with news out today: A subsidiary of German ... read more ...
Fri 29th August 2014
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.Club initial new TLD to strech 100,000 paid registrations - Marketing efforts pay off as .Club crosses milestone. .Club sent out a press release this morning touting that it has now sold 100,000 domain name registrations — the first new TLD to reach this milestone. .XYZ and .Berlin have more registrations, but most of their registrations were given away for free. What was .club’s secret to getting to 100,000 registrations? Pick a good domain and then add money. The company has certainly outspent all of its rivals on ... read more ...
Wed 27th August 2014
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Largest .org sale of 2014 Dolphin.org sells for $45,000 - pic courtesy of James DeMers Dolphin.org just crossed the Sedo sales tape as sold at $45,000. This is the highest .org sale of 2014, year to date. The domain was registered in 1994 and had been owned by a Miles Fawcett of SAI Comm. The domain is currently parked and the whois is currently Sedo. Congrats to the seller. ... read more ...
 
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App builder spends $80k to dump “app” from domain name - Ridescout pays big bucks for shorter domain name and other end user domain name purchases. The .app domain name is coming. Until then, many app makers have plugged “app” onto the end of their domain names when they can’t get the .com domain that matches their app name. Does the domain name still matter for app makers? Yes, judging by RideScout’s 60,000 euro purchase of RideScout.com last week. The Austin maker of the RideScout app for finding the best transportation ... read more ...
Tue 26th August 2014
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How 22 finish users are (or aren’t!) regulating domain names they bought this year - Each week I write at least one post about which end users bought domain names over the past week. What do end users do with these domain names they buy on the aftermarket? I was curious, so I went back to one of the weekly end user reports I published about six months ago. The report included 22 sales ranging from $1,000 to $25,000. Six months later, here’s a breakdown of how the buyers are using the sites: 4 of 22 are used as the domain name for a website 8 of ... read more ...
Wed 20th August 2014
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What domain names NASCAR and others bought during Sedo final week - NASCAR among end users buying domain names last week. Sedo sold $1.1 million worth of domain names last week, including one to NASCAR. Details of these end user domain name sales are below. 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. Creon.co.uk $1,500 – Abbott Laboratories, maker of Creon, a pill that aids digestion. QuartetMedicine.com $850 – This domain was registered ... read more ...
Thu 14th August 2014
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A garland of domain names sell for $1.5 million, arrange of… - Domain names change hands, but not with cash. The domain names manufacturedhome.com, manufacturedhomes.com, manufacturedhouse.com, manufacturedhomes.net and modularhomes.com have been sold for over $1 million. Sort of. There’s a bit of a backstory. The seller is SearchCore, a company that, until recently, was in the business of creating directory and lead gen sites. Before that, the company was known as WeedMaps. It had a directory for marijuana sellers, but sold ... read more ...
Wed 13th August 2014
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Amazon launches Square competitor, snaps adult 100 domain names - Company registered 100 related domain names ahead of latest product launch. Today Amazon.com launched Amazon Local Register, a mobile credit card merchant solution similar to Square. Yesterday the company registered close to 100 new domain names for the new service, by my count. Of the companies I track, Amazon does the most defensive domain name registrations when it releases new products. The company has over 35,000 registered domain names. These domains will ... read more ...
 
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What domain names Shell and other finish users bought final week - Shell buys a .IN, liquor company buys a .club. Shell Oil is among the big companies that bought domain names last week at Sedo. 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. Chat.fr and Chat.de 99,999 EUR and 65,000 EUR – I’m not sure if I should clasify these as under user purchases because the buyer is domain investor Xedoc. However, I imagine the domains were purchased ... read more ...
Sun 10th August 2014
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Adam Strong Sells Racing.com To Australian Company; Racing Victoria - According to AFR.com, Racing Victoria based in Melbourne Australia has purchased the domain name ­Racing.com “a further step in establishing its own media business ­containing almost all of the state’s ­digital thoroughbred racing assets..for an undisclosed fee, and will launch the media unit and new, wider ­consumer brand for the industry by mid-September.” Racing Victoria website is at RacingVictoria.net.au and you can read all about the company here According to DomainTools.com, domain ... read more ...
Fri 8th August 2014
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End user domain name purchases including State Street and Live Person - State Street and LivePerson among domain name buyers. Sedo sold 632 domain names last week for a total of $1.7 million. Their highest reported sale was just $25,100, which means there were one or more big ticket sales that were confidential. Here are some of the domain names that were purchased by end users. 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. EasyBook.com 13,500 ... read more ...
Thu 7th August 2014
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Treat.co Bought For $1,050 in 2011 Just Flipped For $19K - The domain name Treat.co just crossed the Sedo.com sales wire selling for $19,000. The domain was bought by the Seller also from Sedo, back in December 2011 for $1,050. So its a 19X return in about 30 months. Not bad. The domain name is already active and appears to be a new Pet site, that will be coming soon. Congrats to the buyer and seller. ... read more ...
Tue 5th August 2014
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GCA.com customer is a Turkish Real Estate Developer – Gürallar Yapı - GCA.com sold back on 7/15/14 for $90,000. The seller was Glenhaven Capital Associates out of Toronto, Canada. The whois has finally updated and the buyer is Gürallar Yapı a Turkish real estate developer out of Istanbul. The domain currently does not resolve, the company website is at gurallaryapi.com. A little about the company: Gürallar Yapı Malz.ve Kim. San. A.Ş. started business in 1948 within the body of Gürallar Group. The name Gürallar has led the way to the creation of brand values ... read more ...
 
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Inside a BTC.com Sale With Mike Robertson of Domain Guardians - We are talking today with Mike Robertson of Fabulous.com fame and Co – Founder along with Jen Sale of Domain Guardians. Domain Guardians successfully brokered the name BTC.com for seven figures, He was kind enough to give us a few minutes on just how the sale went down. Jen Sale and Mike Robertson 1) What was the total sales price of the domain, was there a buyer’s premium or any other added costs ? If you can add, was this a straight cash buy, no lease, no equity or any other special financing ... read more ...
Mon 4th August 2014
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Wow: BTC.com domain name sells for $1.0 million to Bitcoin company - Three letter domain name sells for seven figures. Domain name brokerage firm Domain Guardians has brokered the sale of the BTC.com domain name to a bitcoin company. GAWMiners, seller of bitcoin mining machines, is the buyer. This is an example of how a three letter domain name can gain significant value based on new popular terms. I’m a bit shocked by the price. It makes me wonder how much Bitcoins.com would have sold for in the recent Heritage Auctions domain ... read more ...
Fri 1st August 2014
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.Kiwi Premium Domain Sales Top $250,000 -       The .Kiwi Registry is reporting for the firs time that they have sold over $250,000 in .Kiwi premium domain names. The total amount of sales including domains sold under NDA which comprised about $70,000 of the $250,000 in sales. .Kiwi is also listing some sales as “Undisclosed” as these domains were sold on the basis that the sale and amount could be released publicly but not the domain. These sales are included on the list below. .Kiwi still has thousands of premium domain name avaliable ... read more ...
Thu 31st July 2014
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Sedo sells $17M of domains in Q2, including a new TLD for $100k - Sedo reports on its domain aftermarket sales so far this year. Sedo released its market report for the first half of 2014 today. The company sold about $17 million worth of domain names in the second quarter, down slightly from $19 million in Q1. In the second quarter is sold 7,453 domains, down from 8,763 in the first quarter. One interesting item of note: Sedo sold a second level domain in a new TLD for $100,000. The name is confidential, but that bests the luxury.estate ... read more ...