Tag Archives: sales

Sat 10th May 2014
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Sónar Purchases SonarFestival.com - We always cover stories when a trademark holder over reaches and tries to stake claim to a domain through UDRP instead of entering into a transaction with the registrant. In this post we are taking a look at a company that went out and purchased the name instead of going the UDRP route. Now whether or not a UDRP would have been a victory remains to be seen. Sonar is a music festival that was founded in 1994 in Barcelona by Advanced Music Sl. They put on festivals all around the world and operate ... read more ...
Fri 9th May 2014
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Only one new TLD “auction of final resort” to take place in June - Other auctions deferred until later months. ICANN’s first official auction to resolve a new top level domain name contention set will take place on June 4…but with only one TLD. Participants in at least six TLD contention sets eligible for the first auction have postponed them. These auctions can be postponed for two reasons: First, by mutual agreement of both parties. Second, if any applicant in the contention set wants to wait for the finalized framework for ... read more ...
Thu 8th May 2014
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.Club domain name debuts during #6, here are a Top 10 - .Club goes clubbing with over 25,000 registrations. As a follow up to yesterday’s story about .club, the first day zone file has been released showing a solid 25,776 domain names. That’s good enough to land the domain at #6 on the new top level domain name charts. Here’s a look at the top ten new TLDs by registration volume (based on the zone*) as of today: 1. .guru 54,868 2. .berlin 46,734 3. .photography 34,499 4. .在线 (.xn--3ds443g, Dot Chinese Online) ... read more ...
 
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What domains Microsoft, HBO and others bought final week - HBO buys a potential show-related domain other end user domain name sales. Sedo sold $1.2 million worth of domain names last week. That seems to include about $200k from the Chinese IDN auction it held in China a while back. Here are some of Sedo’s sales to end users. You can see previous lists here. RDH.com $29,000 – RDH Building Engineering Ltd. in Vancouver. They’ve been using the longer acronym domain name RDHBE.com. RiverSoftware.com $25,000 – this domain ... read more ...
Tue 6th May 2014
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UPDATED Orgasms.com Sells Very Quietly On SnapNames.com For $38K: Did It Drop? - The domain name Orgasms.com sold yesterday on SnapNames.com for $38,166 without much fanfare and without a blog post written about it during or after the auction, which is pretty unusual for a domain that sells for that amount. The domain has an Estibot appraised value of $143K. It’s not exactly clear from the whois records found at DomainTools.com what happened to the domain, but it does look like the domain expired at the end of March and had new registration date of  May 1st The previous whois ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.2 Million - Over the past week, 466 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.2 Million Dollars 44% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Interestingly (well at least I found it interesting) whatsup.today sold for more ($1,500) than Friday.org (999 Euro’s) Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: kalamata.com at 45,000 EUR · Top ccTLD: autos.de at 120,000 EUR (autos = “cars” in German) · Top “other” TLD: 房地产.在线 (portfolio with 3 domains) ... read more ...
 
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Survey: domain name sales, marketplaces, and brokers - Will domain values go up? Survey says… This year’s Domain Name Wire survey asked a number of questions about how people use domain name marketplaces and brokers. Domain Marketplaces The majority of survey-takers use only one or two domain name marketplaces. 30% use just one and 32% use two. However, 58% said they’re considering adding their domains to one or more additional marketplaces in 2014. The number of options for how to list domains at marketplaces ... read more ...
Mon 5th May 2014
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NameJet.com Reports Over $460K In Domain Sales In April -

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Namejet.com only published a list of domain name sales that sealed in Apr that totaled over $463,000

All sales were lead by 472.com that sole for $43,700

Only sales of $2,000 0r some-more are reported:

 

Via: thedomains.com

 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
13 finish user domain name sales from Sedo - A motorcycle parts company, real estate firm and lawyer make domain name purchases. Sedo’s most recent sales week had $1.1 million worth of domain name sales. Here are some that I identified as “end user” domain name sales. You may view more end user sales here. Verosa.com $1,099 – Verosa, which appears to be a new company in Vacouver. Movineo.com $4,000 – Movineo Network S.A., which uses the domain name Movineo.com.br WorthyBooks.com $1,000 – Worthy ... read more ...
Fri 2nd May 2014
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Publicly Held eHealth Purchases Medicare.com For $4.8 Million - eHealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: EHTH) announced they acquired the Medicare.com for $4.8 Million Dollars in the first Quarter of 2014. Although Medicare.com wasn’t just a simple domain name its pretty clear from the conference call the company bought Medicare.com just for the domain. During the earnings call, there was some interesting clarifications: Tobey Sommer of SunTrust asked this question during the earnings call: “”How is eHealth ranking in search for Medicare now and what would you expect the ... read more ...
 
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.CEO: How not to marketplace your new tip turn domain name - .CEO marketing is not well executed. I’ve written before that .ceo as a standalone domain name doesn’t make sense to me. I see some potential for a network for CEOs, and the company behind .ceo has plenty of experience with social networking. But that wouldn’t be about a domain, it would be about a network. dotCEO sent out an update on its first 30 days yesterday. It doesn’t look good and has me scratching my head even more. It seems .ceo is dropping the ball ... read more ...
 
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Medicare.com domain name sells for $4.8 million - A huge domain name sale: Medicare.com sells for $4.8 million. eHealthInsurance Services, Inc. has acquired the domain name Medicare.com for $4.8 million. On the company’s investor conference call yesterday the company said it paid $4.5 million in cash for the domain and forgave $0.3 million in receivables from the seller. The seller was apparently an existing business partner with eHealth. Although the whois record for Medicare.com has used whois privacy for a long ... read more ...
Wed 30th April 2014
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Autos.de Sells For $166,000 - The domain name Autos.de just crossed the Sedo sales wiring selling for for 120,000 Euro’s or around $166,000 based on today’s exchange rates. The buyer of the domain appears to be DAY Investments GmbH out of Austria whose website is at Day.eu The previous owner of the domain was one4vision GmbH which acquired the domain in 2007. Congrats to the buyer and seller. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.1 Million Led By FlashCards.com For $250,000 - During the past week 445 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.1 Million Dollars 48% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: flashcards.com at 250,000 USD · Top ccTLD: tel.fr at 22,000 EUR · Top “other” TLD: ejm.net at 9,800 USD     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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22 finish user domain sales and some reward .co.com sales - GoDaddy and Afternic combined to sell about $1.8 million worth of domain names last week. Before jumping into the regular end user sales list, I want to point out a couple premium .co.com sales. SurfMyAds.com, a company that creates shopping sites, paid $3,750 each for Istanbul.co.com and CouponCodes.co.com. .Co.com, led by Ken Hansen, Paul Goldstone and Gregg McNair, offers third level domain names. OK, on to the regular list. (You can see previous domain sales ... read more ...
 
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New TLD auction prices attack highs: Minds + Machines, Uniregistry, Donuts all win some domains - Average purchase prices may be north of $3 million. By all accounts, registries paid much more to settle contention sets during last week’s private auctions than in previous ones. Minds + Machines won auctions for .garden and .yoga. It spent a net $5.97 million for the two domains once the proceeds of losing the .deals and .property private auctions and withdrawing the applications are taken into account. That means it paid much more than $6 million to win auctions ... read more ...
Tue 29th April 2014
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Go Daddy/Afternic Sells $1.7million in domains for a week -

GoDaddy and Afternic’s reportable weekly domain sales for a week of 4/21/14 – 4/27/14.

The tip sale for a week was Modernize.com during $25,000.

Prostate.info was a tip non .com sale during $15,000

Total Sales $1,778,547 for a week.

Buffalo.org was a good buy imo for $2,100 and Mike.co sole for $2,500 with this already adult on a site:

Because .com was taken !

Via: thedomains.com

 
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Villa.com changes registrars as partial of Villa landgrab - Who’s behind this Villa landgrab? Last year I wrote about how someone was buying up lots of country code domain names with villa and villas at the second level. Since then I’ve continued to watch dozens of similar domain names get purchased/registered with Mark Monitor. All of them have Mark Monitor’s version of Whois privacy “DNStinations”. Now the final shoe has dropped: Villa.com has moved from Whois privacy at Fabulous to Whois privacy at Mark Monitor. Was ... read more ...
 
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DomainAgents’ new complement competence accelerate your domain name sales - DomainAgents adds system for domain name sellers. Domain sales platform DomainAgents has made a major upgrade with the hopes of helping domain name investors sell more inventory. DomainAgents launched as a “certified offer” service in 2012. Domain buyers would pay to submit an offer on a domain and DomainAgents would track down the owner to present the offer. Negotiations would take place over email. The original concept was somewhat similar to Network Solutions’ ... read more ...
Mon 28th April 2014
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Live.TV offered for $500,000 Joins Small Group of non dot coms offered for $500,000 plus - Live.tv was reported sold on Namepros by Ammar from Quest Financial. He has been in communication with Cyber Tavern and was working with them to get the sale reported to DN Journal. (Live.tv is NSFW) Live.TV enters the exclusive club of reported  non .com sales that have sold for $500,000 and up. Shopping.de    $2,858,945 9/2009 Sedo Kredit.de          $1,169,175     Sedo     11/25/08 Cruises.co.uk  $1,099,798     Pvt Sale     2/5/08 Poker.org         $1,000,000 ... read more ...
 
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Whoa: Chinese IDNs rocket in initial day - Two Chinese IDN domain names have 50,000 registrations after first partial day of general availibility. [Note: TLD Registry provided registration numbers this morning that later turned out to include registry reserved domain names. The initial numbers were about twice the updated ones in this story.] The Chinese IDN new TLD .在线, which means “online” in Chinese, had 54,011 33,012 domain names under management as of this afternoon, according to TLD Registry. ... read more ...
Thu 24th April 2014
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Publicly Traded Company Announces Acquisition of FindIt.com - In a pretty unusually worded press release sent out by Artemis Energy Holdings, Inc. (OTC Pink: ARTT) (PINKSHEETS: ARTT) it said it “recently entered into an agreement to purchase the domain name Findit.com. The company has opened escrow and made the initial payment.” “The domain Findit.com has been transferred to Escrow.com and Artemis Energy Holdings, Inc. now has control of the Findit.com URL. ” “The deal provides Artemis Energy Holdings, Inc. to make monthly payments while using the ... read more ...
 
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.Club and dual Chinese new tip turn domains have about $500k in reward sales - A few top level domain names have sold an impression amount of premium domains prior to general availability. Here are three new top level domain names to keep an eye on: .Club, .在线 and .中文网. .Club Domains is an “all-in” registry, meaning it has only one new TLD to offer. The company raised $7 million and spent a decent amount in a contention set auction for the domain. Still, it has millions of dollars to spend on marketing. For example, it has paid ... read more ...
 
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Sedo’s finish user domain name sales - Sedo sold a number of domain names to end users last week. Sedo sold 513 domain names last week for a total of $1 million. Here are some domain names purchased by end users. (You can view previous end user sales lists here.) BBCStore.co.uk 810 GBP – Broadcaster BBC Golf.academy $2,000 – New Media Golf Corporation Soundtrack.fm $1,000 – the publisher of Soundtrack.net NativeOil.com $2,995 – Medicine Stone Petroleum Svcs, LLC ENSGroup.com $2,000 – IT company ... read more ...
 
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.City row set resolved during a high price - Many new TLD contention auctions were held this week. There were a number of new top level domain name contention set auctions this week, although details on winners are scant thus far. .Garden, .property, and .yoga were set for auction on Tuesday. I haven’t been able to figure out the winners yet, although I’m sure publicly traded Minds + Machines (a participant in all three) will issue a press release as soon as everything is settled. I’ve learned that Donuts ... read more ...