Tag Archives: sales

Wed 9th July 2014
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Investing in new TLDs? Hope for modest, not great, success of program. - Early investors in new top level domain names might get a better return if new TLDs as a whole are a mediocre success instead of a home run. Domain investors have registered a good chunk (the bulk?) of new TLD offerings to date. Is this a good investment? I’ve thought about the potential returns from a number of angles. There are three scenarios I see: 1. New TLDs are a big failure. They don’t take off and end up being small niche TLDs like many existing sTLDs. 2. ... read more ...
 
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Bitcoins.com gives Heritage Auctions a press it has been looking for - HA adds a press-worthy domain name to its July auction. One of the things Heritage Auctions is trying to do with domain name auctions is bring domain investing to the mainstream. By mainstream, I mean collectors and investors in coins, memorabilia and other items HA already auctions. It’s working the press angle, too. Yesterday the company announced it will be auctioning off Bitcoins.com in its July 24 auction. Heritage finally has a domain name the press wants ... read more ...
Tue 8th July 2014
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.Club Leads All New gTLD’s Again On Sedo’s List Selling English.Club For $17,500; Total $2.4M - Over the past week, 564 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $2.4 Million 45% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: satoshi.com at 75,000 USD · Top ccTLD: autoankauf.de at 36,000 EUR · Top “other” TLD: english.club at 17,500 USD   Here are the reportable sales: SharpMind.com which sold for $25K ... read more ...
Mon 7th July 2014
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TMZ.com: Lil Wayne Spent $600,000 To Buy The Domain YoungMoney.com & Is In Default -     According to TMZ.com, hip hop artist Lil Wayne purchased the domain name YoungMoney.com which matches the name of his record label which has signed artists like Drake and Nicki Minaj for $600,000 in 2011. In a lawsuit filed by the company that sold the domain name, Wayne’s company hasn’t paid the $250K balance it owes. The seller is suing to get its domain name back. ... read more ...
 
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Salesforce.com sells Do.com domain name to startup - After shutting down service that used Do.com, company sells domain name to startup. It appears Salesforce.com has sold the domain name Do.com to Redo, Inc., parent company of meeting productive application DoMeetings.com. If you go to DoMeetings.com today, it will forward to Do.com where you can sign up for a beta of the service. It appears that the San Francisco startup is just getting off the ground. On July 3 or 4, the domain name’s whois record changed from ... read more ...
Sun 6th July 2014
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Company that bought Mi.com for $3.6m sells 50,000 Tablets in 4 minutes - Xiaomi paid $3.6 million for the domain name Mi.com back in April, and today they sold 50,000 MiPad tablets in four minutes. The company said on their website: Good news! Mi Pad goes on sale for the first time today, and 50, 000 sets of Mi Pad sold out in 3 minutes 59 seconds! Features of Mi Pad: 7.9”IPS display 2048×1536 326 PPI NVIDIA Tegra K1 2GB RAM, 16/64GB Flash, extensible to 128GB via microSD card 8MP rear / 5MP front camera (Camera Samples) 802.11ac 2×2 Wi-Fi6700 mAh battery NeoWin ... read more ...
Thu 3rd July 2014
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2nd turn .UK domain name registrations tip 100,000 - A strong sales month for .UK. Over 100,000 second level domain names under .uk have been registered since they became available for registration last month, .uk registry Nominet announced today. About two-thirds have been registered by people who have matching third level .uk domain names. They are given first rights to the second level domain name for a period of five years. Surprisingly, over one-third have been registered as completely new and unique registrations, ... read more ...
Wed 2nd July 2014
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“Creator Of Bitcoin Protocol” Domain Name Satoshi.com Sells On Sedo.com For $75,000 - According to wikipedia.org, Satoshi Nakamoto is a person or group of people who created the Bitcoin protocol and reference software, Bitcoin Core. In 2008, Nakamoto published a paper on The Cryptography Mailing list at metzdowd.com describing the Bitcoin digital currency. In 2009, he released the first Bitcoin software that launched the network and the first units of the Bitcoin currency, called bitcoins.” Today the domain name Satoshi.com just crossed the Sedo domain sales wire selling for $75,000. The ... read more ...
 
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.Club domain tops final week’s finish user domain name sales - Catering company goes clubbing. Sedo’s top sale last week was MM.com at $1.2 million. But it’s not an end user sale. It appears to have been purchased by the owners of Chinese domain marketplace 4.cn. Instead, this week’s top end user sale honors go to a new TLD. .Club sold Eat.Club $20,000 to employee meal catering company Eat Club, which has been using the domain name MyEatClub.com. I have to assume they tried to acquire EatClub.com as well. Was it more than ... read more ...
 
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New TLD Luxury.Estate sells for $50k - A new high water mark for a domain sale in a new TLD? Hot of the heels of news that eat.club sold for $20,000, DomainHoldings announced today that it brokered the sale of Luxury.Estate for a whopping $50,000. The Luxury.Estate sale is different from the eat.club one because an early domain registrant cashed in big, rather than the registry getting paid for a premium sale. According to DomainHoldings, the seller of Luxury.Estate purchased it on day 5 of Donuts’ ... read more ...
Tue 1st July 2014
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What domain names L’Oreal and others bought - L’Oreal among companies buying domain names at Sedo. I’m behind on end user sales because I was busy at the ICANN conference in London last week. Here are the sales that Sedo sent out last week. View previous end user sales lists here. Want to sell domain names on Sedo? Read this report to learn best practices. MyLifebox.com $27,500 – U Lived It, Inc., which I believe offers a system for recording important moments in your life. Mi.co.id $60,000 – I’m a ... read more ...
Mon 30th June 2014
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Igloo to marketplace 300k+ DomainSponsor domain names - Domain name portfolio acquired by Rook Media will be marketed by Igloo. When Rook Media acquired DomainSponsor earlier this year, it also acquired Oversee.net’s large portfolio of domain names. Domain brokerage Igloo will begin marketing many of these domain names shortly, Igloo and Rook announced today. While not all domain names will be offered for sale, over 300,000 will be offered through Igloo’s brokers and a new online marketplace. Oversee.net once owned ... read more ...
Sat 28th June 2014
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Since Mi.com sole for $3.6 million, Mark Monitor has been scooping adult other Mi.cctld domains - Back in April, Chinese mobile device maker Xiaomi purchased Mi.com for $3.6 million, some reporters noted that the MI made perfect sense for the company as Mi can work as an acronym for Mobile Internet. Since that acquisition it seems that brand protection specialist Mark Monitor has been out scooping up Mi domains in other country codes. Mi.co.uk was reported sold on DN Journal for $14,000. The domain was reported sold by DomainNameSales.com. This domain was reported sold before the Mi.com sale, ... read more ...
Wed 25th June 2014
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Impressive formula from .Global domain name auction - .Global auction sells 35 domain names for a total of $63,780. .Global held a live domain name auction in London yesterday afternoon, and the results were quite impressive. The $63,780 in sales across 35 of 82 domain names far surpassed those I asked in a “straw poll” prior to the auction. It certainly exceeded my expectations. I think a key moment was the 12th lot for flights.global. The preceding nine lots failed to sell, and a $5,000 bid on flights.global was ... read more ...
Mon 23rd June 2014
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What domain names Colgate, AOL and others bought - Colgate buys a domain for its teeth whitening products. Sedo sold about $1 million worth of domains the week before last, including some to big brands. Here’s a look at some of the end user sales. You can view previous end user sales lists here. Want to sell domain names on Sedo? Read this report to learn best practices. Heals.com $16,800 – Furniture store Heal’s, which uses the domain name Heals.co.uk. Tokin.com $35,000 – Electronics company NEC. One of ... read more ...
 
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MM.com domain name sells for $1.2 million - Two letter domain name sells for $1.2 million. No, it wasn’t bought by a candy company. Sedo domain name broker Dave Evanson just posted on Facebook that he has brokered the sale of MM.com for $1.2 million. The whois record recently updated to show Hangzhou Duomai E-Commerce Co., Ltd as the new owner. I believe that’s the company behind Chinese domain name marketplace 4.cn. The company also owns Game.com, JZ.com and a bunch of number domain names. The most recent ... read more ...
Wed 18th June 2014
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Sedo is #1 registrant of .Berlin domains - .Berlin’s second day of free domains is a lot slower, but German domain seller is a big boost to the TLD’s numbers. .Berlin received a lot fewer registrations on the second day of its free domain giveaway. DomainIncite Pro reports 5,227 new registrations in the zone file, leaving .Berlin in second place behind .xyz. An interesting tidbit has emerged: Sedo is now the number one registrant of .Berlin domain names. According to stats collated by nTLDstats.com, Sedo’s ... read more ...
 
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No some-more GoDaddy/Afternic sales reports during Quiet Period - Quiet period eliminates weekly data on aftermarket sales. GoDaddy’s planned initial public offering means no more weekly domain name sales reports for a while. Afternic has long sent out weekly aftermarket sales reports including total sales numbers and specific domains with sale prices. GoDaddy took over that responsibility when it acquired Afternic. These reports are the basis for Domain Name Wire’s end user sales reports. With GoDaddy’s IPO filing, the company ... read more ...
Tue 17th June 2014
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.Bid/.Trade domain name auction closes with no sales - Auction attracts bidders, but none are willing to pay the reserve prices. A domain name auction on Sedo for registry-reserved .bid and .trade domain names has closed with no sales. The auction included 35 domain names, 10 of which received bids. The top auction was PPC.bid at $1,050, which was below its stated reserve of between $1,000 and $5,000. The nine other domains that received bids all closed below $1,000 but had reserves above $1,000. Personally, I’m a ... read more ...
Fri 13th June 2014
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What domain names Harvard Business School and others bought final week - Harvard among end user domain name buyers last week. Sedo sold $1.1 million worth of domain names last week. Here are some that were purchased by end users; see previous end user sales lists here. Want to sell domains like these on Sedo? Download this report to learn how. PuzzleRings.com $18,000- jewelry company Uctuk, which operates the website PuzzleRing.com (singular). IdentityToys.com $1,395 – Fremont, California company IdentiToy Inc. They design “Object-to-display ... read more ...
Thu 12th June 2014
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GoDaddy End User domain name sales - A slow week in the aftermarket. GoDaddy and Afternic sold just $1.3 million worth of aftermarket/expired domain names last week, a far cry from the usual $1.8M-$2.0M it turns in. It may be a hanghover from the holiday weekend in the U.S. a couple weeks ago. An additional reason might be the temporary loss of Afternic on its Premium level distribution. Both Afternic and Sedo had to temporarily remove Moniker due to its ongoing problems. GoDaddy’s registration path ... read more ...
Tue 10th June 2014
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Godaddy/Afternic Sales Total Just Over $1.3 Million -

Godaddy/Afternic reported the weekly sales that totaled only over $1.3 Million dollars.

All sales were led by Suzies.com for $62,050 that was owned by a Scottcraft Label Co. out of Marlton, NJ

 

Via: thedomains.com

Mon 9th June 2014
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What domain names Microsoft and others bought - Microsoft headlines last week’s Sedo end user sales list. Microsoft is the biggest name on last week’s Sedo end user sales list, but a flower delivery company bought the most expensive (disclosed) domain name. There’s also a .berlin domain name on the list. Below are end user sales I found on the list Sedo sent last week; see previous end user sales here. Bouq.com $40,000 – Flower site The Bouqs. Bouq is short for Bouquet. They have a video that explains ... read more ...
 
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Sex.sells: 15 .Webcam domains sell for $175k - .Webcam hits premium gold with large sale ahead of launch. Famous Four Media launches its first three top level domain names today, and one of them is off to a nice start thanks to a big premium sale. The company announced today that it has sold a package of 15 adult .webcam domain names for a total of $175,000. While some new TLDs have failed to find their footing with premium domain sales, it seems that the adult community is very interested. Famous Four Media probably ... read more ...
Thu 5th June 2014
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Company pays $600,000 in auction to run .信息 tip turn domain name - Rights to IDN domain name sell for $600,000. Beijing Tele-info Network Technology Co. has won the first ICANN “auction of last resort” to resolve a new top level domain name contention set. It paid $600,000 in an auction for .信息, which roughly translates to “info”. The losing party was Afilias, which operates the .info domain name. This is the first of many planned auctions to resolve contention sets. ICANN published an auction report that includes the ... read more ...