Tag Archives: sales

Thu 27th March 2014
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Sedo domain names get kicked off GoDaddy on Monday - Domain sales partnership comes to an end next week. Last November GoDaddy announced it was ending its syndication agreement with Sedo effective the end of March 2014. That date is just around the corner: Monday. Domain names listed with SedoMLS will no longer show up on GoDaddy Auctions and, more importantly, in the registration path at GoDaddy.com. The move comes in the wake of GoDaddy’s acquisition of rival domain marketplace Afternic last September. GoDaddy is ... read more ...
Wed 26th March 2014
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Confirmed: Credits.com Sold For $100K Net To Buyer - A few days ago we noticed that the domain name Credits.com came through on the Sedo sales wire selling for $30,000. Today we have been able to confirm with the seller of the domain name that the domain sold for $100,000 net to Seller, that Sedo.com RSS feed picked up the down payment of  $30,000 as the selling price. So as it turns out the seller of the domain did not lose money on the domain, which is very good to hear and we have another six figure sale. Even as of today the Sedo wire is still ... read more ...
 
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End user sales report: People still wish a relating .com - Many examples of companies buying the matching .com when they use a .net, .org, or ccTLD. Frank Schilling said something during his keynote at NamesCon that really rings true. When companies get a domain name other than .com, they say to themselves “we really ought to get the .com domain too”. In the year 2014, that’s certainly true. You can argue this will change in the future, but when people tell me today the domain extension doesn’t matter, it’s usually ... read more ...
Tue 25th March 2014
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Afternic/GoDaddy Sells $1.9 Million In Domain Names - Afternic/GoDaddy released its sales report for the week of March 17th – March 23rd 2014 All sales for the week totaled $1,904,435. The top .com sale was lCatterton.com for $25,000 followed by AmericanNational.com for $20,000. I’m going to guess that Catterton.com probably was bought by the large private equity firm, Catterton Partners The top non-com sale lead by sna.net for $4,500. CEObuzz.com sold for $3,920 SEO.buzz is priced at $5,320 by the registry Here are all the reportable sales Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling Sells iAcademy.com for $55,000 - Last week it was iMeeting.com selling for $47,750 on Sedo and today Afternic reported on their website the sale of iAcademy.com for $55,000. The domain was sold by Frank Schilling and his company Name Administration. The domain was registered in November of 2001 and the farthest Domain Tools goes back in whois history is 2005 and Name Administration was the registrant. Interestingly iAcademy.mobi is a developed website. The buyer is B.E.Publishing an online website that according to their website ... read more ...
 
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16 finish user domain purchases including EA’s new video game - EA buys a domain name that’s likely for a new video game. Yesterday I published an end user sales list of sales from Sedo. They sent two weekly lists at once and I’m getting caught up, so this morning I’ve got another one for you. You may view previous end user sales lists here. HFF.org $10,000 – a Mark Monitor client InvestorAdvantage.com $877 – Lincoln Financial Group HorizonCityRealEstate.com $999 – Realty Executives Vantage in El Paso, Texas. OpenFuture.org ... read more ...
Mon 24th March 2014
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17 finish user domain name sales including Hallmark - A Hallmark company is among the companies buying domain names at Sedo. Here are some end user sales from Sedo’s sales list for the week of March 10th-16th. You may view other end user sales list here. Payability.com $15,000 – Payability, Inc in New York. zzPhone.com 10,000 EUR – Las Vegas company ZZ Inc, which operates sites such as ZZPrint.com, zzShare.com and zzRides.com. Smart-Movie.com $925 – J-Stream, a video distribution company. Innovate.at 790 EUR ... read more ...
Sat 22nd March 2014
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End user sales are partial of Afternic’s large $2.1 million sales week - Pharmaceuticals company, non-profit, and garage door repairman are among end user domain buyers. GoDaddy and Afternic teamed up to sell $2.1 million worth of domain names last week, led by QY.com at $100,000. Following are some of the sales that were made to end users. You can end user sales from previous weeks here. AutismSociety.com $9.750 – Hussman Foundation, which just launched the Hussman Institute for Autism. Renta.Limo $1,776 and Chicago.Limo $1,625 – ... read more ...
Wed 19th March 2014
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One of The Worlds Best Domain; Chat.com Is Sold By CBS Interactive - One of the great domain names in the world, Chat.com was just sold. The domain name was owned by CBS Interactive, Inc. which acquired the domain  it when it purchased Cnet in June 2008. We reported last year that the company sold another killer domain it acquired in the  Cnet.com deal, Events.com The deal was co-brokered by the Domain Hall of Fame Nominee Larry Fischer of GetYourDomain.com and digital DNA. The domain now under under privacy and the sale is under NDA. The buyer of the domain which ... read more ...
 
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Chinese supervision buys 20,000 new IDN domain names - TLD Registry inks deal with Chinese government for over 10,000 domains in each of its new TLDs. Pictured: Director LI Qingfeng, The Service Development Center of SCOPSR (China’s own registrar) and Arto ISOKOSKI, CEO, TLD Registry Ltd.TLD Registry Ltd, which is launching the new top level domain names Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网), has inked a deal with the Chinese central government’s own registrar for 10,226 domain names in ... read more ...
Tue 18th March 2014
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Sedo Two Weeks Of Transactions Total $2.8 Million - Sedo, just published its sales for two weeks For the week of March 3rd – 9th 677 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.3 Million 50% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales for the week of March 3rd-9th were: ·         Top .coms: jamrock.com at 68,750 USD ·         Top ccTLD: homify.fr at 20,000 EUR ·         Top “other” TLD: hff.org at 10,000 USD For the week of March 10th- 16th: 691 transactions ... read more ...
 
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Gaia.Tv sole for $22,372 On Sedo - The domain name Gaia.tv sold for $22,372, according to the former owner of the domain. The word Gaia according to Wikipedia.org is from Ancient Greek meaning “land” or “earth”; Gaia was the great mother of all: the primal Greek Mother Goddess; creator and giver of birth to the Earth and all the Universe; the heavenly gods, the Titans, and the Giants were born to her. The buyer appears to the same company that owns Gaiam.com a Yoga and Fitness site and the domain name GaiamTV.com which  ... read more ...
Fri 14th March 2014
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Teabox.com sole by MostWantedDomains Featured in Tech Crunch - Back in June of 2013 our very own Michael Berkens and his company Most Wanted Domains sold Teabox.com for $30,000. Today the company was featured on Tech Crunch as the company is seeking to raise $1million in seed funding. Now TeaBox, a speciality e-commerce startup based in the North Eastern town of Siliguri in India, is raising around $1 million in seed funding led by Accel Partners India to serve fresh tea packages across Russia, US, China and Japan. Another investor participating in this round ... read more ...
Tue 11th March 2014
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Chinese Game Company 37wan.net Is Buyer of 37.com For $2.1 Million & Predicts $36 Million In Profit - According to a story out tonight in Chinatechnews.com,  the buyer of the domain name 37.com for $2.1 Million dollars is Shanghai-headquartered 37wan.net a Chinese Gaming company The company officially renamed the company 37 Game today. Li Yifei, president of the company said “the market for web game exports is optimistic and it is a necessary way for gaming companies to expand into overseas markets. ” “He revealed that 37 Game will launch its mobile game distribution in China and abroad simultaneously. ... read more ...
Mon 10th March 2014
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Classified Ventures Seeking $3 Billion for Cars.com - Now that the sale of Apartments.com is completed at $585 million, Classified Ventures is looking for $3 billion for Cars.com. William Launder,Dana Mattioli and Mike Spector wrote an article tonight for the Wall Street Journal. A group of newspaper publishers has put the cars.com online marketplace up for sale for as much as $3 billion, hoping to cash in on booming values for e-commerce sites, people familiar with the plans said. Moelis Co., which is advising the Classified Ventures publishers consortium ... read more ...
Fri 7th March 2014
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Yesterday Vine bans Porn, Today VinePorn.com sells for $9,900 on Sedo - Last January someone registered the domain VinePorn.com, yesterday Vine banned porn on their service, today VinePorn.com sold for $9,900 on Sedo. Vine posted: A change to Vine content rules We introduced Vine to make it easier for people to find, watch, create and share videos right from their mobile phones. As we’ve watched the community and your creativity grow and evolve, we’ve found that there’s a very small percentage of videos that are not a good fit for our community. So we’re making ... read more ...
 
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iMeeting.com Purchased For Less Than 2 Years Ago For $15K Sells For $47,750 - The domain name imeeting.com just sold for $47,750 on Sedo. The domain was owned by Rodger Lew in China and is currently under Sedo Escrow. The domain name was owned by a company Meeting Maker, of Waltham, MA let the domain go into pending delete status around April 2012 at Network Solutions and sold on NameJet.com for 15,166 in July 2012. So basically in less than 2 years the domain investor tripled his money. Congrats to Mr. Lew, nicely done.   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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23 some-more finish user domain name sales - I’d Laugh out Loud at being paid twenty grand for LaughOutLoud.com. Afternic and GoDaddy teamed up to sell just over $2 million worth of domain names last week. Here’s a list of some of the sales to end users. You can see previous end user sales lists here. LaughOutLoud.com $20,800 – a company called Codeblack Enterprises, LLC. Is it connected to this entertainment company? BoatTransport.com $16,000 – auto transport company Showroom Transport. HealthShield.com ... read more ...
Thu 6th March 2014
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15 finish user domain name sales during Sedo - A lawyer, shirt company and calendar program bought new domain names. Sedo sold 582 domain names for a total of $1.3 million last week. Here are 15 domain names that were sold to end users. You can see more end user sales lists here. TeamShirt.com $23,000 – Shirt seller Spreadshirt. They recently paid $89,000 for the plural version TeamShirts.com. LaptopScreen.co.uk $13,600 – Laptop Screen International Inc in Vancouver. Blue-Group.co.uk 840 GBP – Blue Machinery ... read more ...
Wed 5th March 2014
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Go Daddy/Afternic Sales Total Just Over $2million for a week, led by LaughOutLoud.com -

GoDaddy and Afternic’s reportable weekly domain sales for a week of 2/24/14 – 3/2/14

Total domain sales for a week summed to $2,046,716.

The tip sale was laughoutloud.com during $20,800

W3.co led a non .com sales during $9,000

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.Tips domain name sells for $8,200 - Domain name investor pays top dollar for a .tips domain name. A .tips domain names has sold for $8,200 at GoDaddy. HorseRacing.tips was purchased by London-based Domain Invest Ltd. [Apparently I looked up the whois record of HorseRacingTips.com, not HorseRacing.tips. The latter is under whois privacy. Sorry about that.] Domain Invest Ltd appears to own a lot of gambling related domain names. This is the highest price I’ve seen so far for a GoDaddy auction to resolve ... read more ...
Mon 3rd March 2014
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Donuts pitches photography associated domain names during tradeshow - Company markets six of its domain names to photography industry. New top level domain registry Donuts is exhibiting at the The Photography Show 2014 in Birmingham, England. The show began Saturday and runs through tomorrow. The company is pitching a number of domain names that have a relationship to photography including .camera, .equipment, .gallery, .photos, .lighting, and of course .photography. This is exactly the type of end-user marketing that new domain name ... read more ...
Fri 28th February 2014
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17 finish user domain name sales including “DNW” and 3D Printing - A California organ donor group bought DNW.org and a 3D printing company buys a shorter domain name. GoDaddy/Afternic sold $1.8 million worth of aftermarket domain names last week. Here are 17 that were purchased by end users, including the .org version of this blog’s DNW.com shortcut domain. You can view previous end user sales reports here. DNW.org $7,000 – This one obviously caught my eye given that I use the .com version. The buyer is California Transplant ... read more ...
Thu 27th February 2014
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Marchex’s Archeo Clarifies 4th Q Sales -   Last week we reported on Marchex earnings which included its Archeo division sold a total of 262 domain names in the 4th Quarter that yielded $1.6 million. At the time we noted that the average sales price of  domain names in 4Q was just over $6,100 per domain name which was well below the average price the company sold its domains in the third quarter of 2013. Today we received some additional and clairfy information from Rod Diefendorf COO, of Archeo on the sales “”Each quarter our team ... read more ...
 
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While Most of a domain attention debates new gtlds, 4.CN is lighting it adult offered numeric domains - While most of the domain world is talking about new gtlds and registration numbers, 4.CN is selling some nice numeric .com domains for big numbers. The Chinese New Year was on January 31st this year, that caused a lull in selling on 4.CN the first half of February.  Over the last week things have picked up with some of the biggest sales ever in the history of the site. 920.com which sold on 2-26-14 is the number 5 sale all time. Here is a look at the numeric sales over the last week and change: 920.com  ... read more ...