Tag Archives: sales

Wed 4th June 2014
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What domain names Fujitsu and 18 others bought final week - 19 end user domain name sales from GoDaddy/Afternic. Fujitsu finally got around to buying a domain to match a brand it launched last year. Here are details on that sale and 18 other end user sales that took place at GoDaddy/Afternic last week. (See previous end user lists here.) Compounding.com $25,000 – Pharmacy compounding company Medisca. Quina.org $3,688 – Lottoland in Gibraltar Quina is the name of a lottery in Brazil. RenovatingForProfit.com $4,000 – The ... read more ...
Tue 3rd June 2014
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Godaddy/Afternic Sales Total $2.1 Million -

GoDaddy and Afternic’s reportable weekly domain sales for a week of 5/26/14 – 6/1/14 totaled  $2,109,201

All sales were led by a really nice,  rarely brandable domain name, PerfectBalance.com for $28,450

Here are a reportable sales:

 

Via: thedomains.com

 
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.1 Million Led By Bouqs.com For $40K - Over the past week, 482 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.1 Million Dollars 31% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: bouqs.com at 40,000 USD · Top ccTLD: watchmovie.to at 8,650 USD · Top “other” TLD: jobboerse.berlin at 8,000 EUR The domain name Bouqs.com was purchased by the companythat owns and operates TheBouqs.com and the domain Bouqs.com is already being redirected to TheBouqs.com Here ... read more ...
Mon 2nd June 2014
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Legacy Fund Sells Moda.TV For $30,000 Acquired 2.5 Years Ago For $1,200 - The domain name Moda.tv has been sold by Legacy Fund for $30,000 “Moda” is the spanish word for  “Fashion” Legacy Fund acquired the domain name Moda.TV “close to 2.5 years ago”. “Legacy paid “$1200 to acquire it and $52 in renewal fees to hold it? We have reported on other sales by Legacy Fund which specializes in .TV domain names when they sold NF.Tv for $20,000. Other Legacy Fund sales include:: Jeu.tv – $50,000. SS.tv – $30,000 OO.tv – $18,000 Femme.tv – $7,000 Congratulations ... read more ...
Sun 1st June 2014
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GoDaddy Auctions sells 45,852 domains in May - SteamEngine.com leads the way at $38,000. GoDaddy Auctions sold 45,852 domain names in May, according to preliminary numbers posted on the company’s Domain Market Report. Some of the top ten sales have been reported previously while others haven’t. Check out the $20,000 sale of michaelpitts.com. The buyer’s name isn’t Michael Pitts, although the buyer appears to have a connection to someone by that name. steamengine.com $38,000 filmesonline.com $28,000 sepg.com $23,000 ... read more ...
Thu 29th May 2014
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.Ninjas win Wednesday’s conflict of a new TLDs - Ninjas attack cruiselines and vacationers. Ninjas win. Seven new top level domain names hit the market yesterday, and the .Ninjas sliced their way to the most new registrations of any of them. .Ninja recorded 4,535 new registrations in the zone file, which is a pretty good measure of how many domains were registered. (Note: today I’m using data collated by Namestat.org. Some of my zone file access has expired. I, like many others, don’t know why they have to ... read more ...
 
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Sex.xxx domain name sells as partial of $5 million deal - Multi-year deal for forty .xxx domains valued at $5 million. The domain name Sex.xxx has been sold as part of a $5 million deal between ICM Registry and Barron Innovations. The two parties pegged the price of Sex.xxx itself at a whopping $3 million. The $5 million deal includes 40 .xxx domain names including cam.xxx, phone.xxx and black.xxx. Each of these three examples were valued at six figures. A press release about the deal describes it as a “multi-year deal,” ... read more ...
Tue 27th May 2014
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20 finish user domain name sales adult to $25,000 - Mobile app company and environmental consulting company among end user domain name buyers last week. Afternic and GoDaddy sold a combined $1.6 million worth of domain names last week. This is lower than usual, possibly due to the holiday weekend in the U.S. Here are twenty domain sales that involved end users; view previous end user lists here. AppDay.com $20,000 – GetJar, a mobile app discovery service. StandardInsurance.com $25,000 – I’m a bit confused about ... read more ...
Sat 24th May 2014
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PVP.com sells for $70,000, A demeanour behind during a story of a domain - PVP.com sold for $70,000 on Afternic.  PVP commonly referred to as Player Vs Player in gaming circles. The domain currently is under Afternic escrow for whois, and does not propagate properly and timing out. The domain has a registration date of 12/14/08 which seemed odd to me. It looks like the history of the domain started in the Cayman Islands, if we go back to the earliest records Domain Tools has on the name, we see: Modern Limited - Cayman Web Development PO Box 908 Suite #147 George Town, ... read more ...
Fri 23rd May 2014
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Mail.Ru Quietly Buys My.com - Internet giant Mail.Ru Group bought the domain name My.com very quietly sometime between October 2012 and April 2013. The domain was registered under privacy at Moniker.com for many years until it changed to Tip Powers of My Acquisition Corporation in September 2012. In October 2012, the whois changed again to the the brand protection company Marksmen. It wasn’t until April 2013 until Mail.Ru Group showed up as the owner of the domain. Its not exactly clear if Marksmen acquired the domain immediately ... read more ...
Thu 22nd May 2014
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What domain names TNT and 16 others bought final week - TV network among end user domain name buyers at Sedo last week. Sedo had a lot of five figure sales last week that are still in escrow, meaning I can’t see who bought the domains yet. Most of them are likely end users given the price tags and domains. Still, I uncovered 17 end user domain names sales. This includes TV network TNT, which bought the domain name TNTBoom.com related to its new slogan. Here’s the list, and you can view previous end user sales lists ... read more ...
Wed 21st May 2014
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18 finish user domain name sales adult to $38,000 - SteamEngine.com among company’s top reported sales for last week. GoDaddy/Afternic teamed up for a better-than-usual $2.3 million worth of aftermarket domain name sales last week. Here are some of the sales made to end user. (As always, you may view previous end user sales lists.) SteamEngine.com $38,000 – Data center company SWITCH. I imagine this is a brand. MMSConnect.com $17,016 – Market technology company Demeure bought the domain name for its MMS Connect ... read more ...
 
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Report: How to Sell Domain Names on Marketplaces - Free report provides details for getting the most out of domain name marketplaces. Today I’m delighted to release my first in-depth Domain Name Wire report, “How to Sell Domain Names on Marketplaces”. I wrote this report in response to the numerous inquiries I receive from people trying to sell their domain names. You may download the 26 page report by filling out the form below or sending a blank email to sell_domains@getresponse.com. The report explains: • ... read more ...
Tue 20th May 2014
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Garry Chernoff sells Scada.com domain name for $110k - Domain investor strikes gold with SCADA.com. Domain name investor Garry Chernoff has sold the domain name Scada.com for $110,000. The buyer is B-Scada, Inc. (Beyond SCADA). SCADA stands for Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, and is a field I know a bit about thanks to a technology licensing deal I did nearly a decade ago. Chernoff says the deal was brokered by Darryl Lopes at DomainNameSales.com and was paid over a period of nine months. Chernoff has sold a ... read more ...
Fri 16th May 2014
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Domain Holdings reports $3.4M domain name sales in Q1 - Company releases sales data for first time ever. Domain name broker Domain Holdings has released statistics about its sales for the first time ever. The company plans to release data every quarter going forward. While not disclosing specific sale prices, the company reported aggregate numbers. The company says it sold $3,381,634 worth of domain names last quarter. The average price per sale was $36,756.89. While averages can be misleading, this does help generate ... read more ...
Thu 15th May 2014
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Chicago Cubs among those shopping domain names final week - MLB buys domain name for Cubs and other end user domain name purchases. The Chicago Cubs (technically MLB Advanced Media, L.P.) were among those companies buying domain names last week. The team and Major League Baseball paid $1,700 for MyCubs.com. This is the name of their season ticket holder portal. It looks like MLB uses this same name for more clubs (e.g. MyBrewers) , which means MLB might try to acquire the other domain names. Here are other domain names sold ... read more ...
 
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Booking.com launches Villas.com to contest in vacation let market - Site launches after company goes on domain name buying spree. Travel booking company Booking.com has launched Villas.com to offer vacation rental properties. This answers the question I’ve been asking for almost a year: who has been registering dozens of country code domain names for villa and villas? I first noticed the “villa” registrations in July 2013 when a (then) mystery company got villa.me, villa.am, villa.sh and villas.biz. Since that time I’ve noticed ... read more ...
 
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See Tucows’ new sales-focused parked page landers - Tucows pushes the envelope on sales-focused domain name landing pages. Yesterday domain name registrar and portfolio holder Tucows told analysts it was trying something new to generate more aftermarket domain name sales. CEO Elliot Noss said the company is undertaking an “aggressive program of experimentation” on landing pages for its domain names in an effort to sell the domains. When I tested a half dozen Tucows-owned domain names this morning, they all went ... read more ...
Wed 14th May 2014
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What domain names Procter & Gamble and others bought final week - PG among end users that bought domain names via Sedo last week. Sedo sold 473 domain names for a total of $1.4 million last week. Here are some that were purchased by end users. (View previous end user lists.) Flipkart.co.za and Flipkart.com.au 5,000 EUR each – FlipKart, similar to Amazon.com for India. Last week they bought a couple other ccTLDs. StuffSacks.com $1,995 – Motorcycle clothing company Schampa, which sells “stuff sacks”. OpenArcade.com $1,995 ... read more ...
 
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DNPric.es has a good lead list for profitable new TLDs. Unfortunately a registries also have it. - You’ll find good ideas for new TLDs on this list, but many will be priced at a premium. I’m going to let you in on a secret strategy I’ve been undertaking with new TLDs. Every time one heads to general availability I go to DNPric.es to look for domains including the top level domain that have sold in recent years. For example, when .center came out recently I went to the site and searched for “center”. For each high value domain that popped up I went to ... read more ...
 
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Recruiter Harry Joiner buys CMOJobs.com from IDG - Joiner adds to his collection of valuable job domain names. Harry Joiner, who has acquired a number of job related domain names to help his recruiting business, has acquired CMOJobs.com from media giant IDG for a five figure pricetag. Joiner told Domain Name Wire he used a few brokers to try to acquire the domain name. Acquiring a domain name from a large company is never easy and the first couple brokers were unsuccessful. Then he received a fortuitous call from ... read more ...
Tue 13th May 2014
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Afternic.com/Godaddy Sells $1.8 Million In Domain Led By EverydayCounts.com For $40K -

GoDaddy and Afternic only reported a weekly reportable domain sales for a week of 5/5/14 – 5/11/14.

Total domain sales for a week summed to $1,814,616.

All sales were led by a good call to movement domain name EverydayCounts.com $40,000

GreatIdeas.com sole for $19K

Weedshops.com sole for $18K

Light.Co sole for $25,000 and Seattle.Co sole for $9,999

Via: thedomains.com

 
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Canada’s MuchMusic Quietly Acquires Much.com - Canada’s Much Music quietly acquired the domain name Much.com in what appears to be around October 2013. The domain Much.com is now being forwarded to MuchMusic.com Much Music is a television network owned by Bell Media subsidiary of BCE It looks like the domain was acquired sometime in October 2013 by brandcertified.com a company related to MarkMonitor Prior to the acquisition in October,  the domain name was owned by for approximately  two years under privacy at Moniker.com. Prior to that ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Domain Name Transactions Total $1.4 Million For The Week - Over the past week, 473 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: intensity.com at 57,000 USD · Top ccTLD: groups.io at 10,000 USD · Top “other” TLD: bussgeldkatalog.net at 6,000 EUR (“schedule of fines” in German)   ... read more ...
Mon 12th May 2014
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Sega buys a video diversion domain name and 24 other finish user sales - Sega among notable domain name buyers over past week. There are several notable end user domain name sales on GoDaddy/Afternic’s sales list from last week. First, Sega bought DawnofWar.com for the video game title. Video game companies often buy names of existing games when they’re ready to ramp up the franchise. Second, two departments of U.S. states paid fairly notable prices for four character domain names. You can see previous end user domain name sales lists ... read more ...