Tag Archives: sales

Wed 5th February 2014
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Teamwork.com customer explains because $675,000 was a intelligent investment - Company’s CEO says valuable .com domain gives it more credibility and help it grow sales. TeamworkPM recently bought the Teamwork.com domain name for $675,000 and is rebranding its business around the domain name. I previously caught up with Alex Lerman, who sold the domain name. This week I also had the chance to speak with Peter Coppinger, co-founder and CEO of TeamworkPM, to understand why his company spent $675,000 on the domain name. Coppinger said it took ... read more ...
Tue 4th February 2014
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Seddo Transactions Total $1.1 Million - Over the past week, 728 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $11 Million 47% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: ·         Top .coms: btb.com at 38,350 USD ·         Top ccTLD: sandwich.co at 18,000 USD ·         Top “other” TLD: singular.net at 13,400 USD   <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Donuts’ subsequent 7 sunrises: usually 2 tip 100 domain names - Based on zone files, only two of Donuts’ second batch of TLDs to go through sunrise topped 100 registrations. Last week I wrote about Donuts’ first seven sunrises, each of which typically resulted in about 100-200 registrations. The next batch of seven domain names has concluded sunrise, and the numbers are markedly lower: only two reached 100 domain names, according to the latest zone files. Now, as with last time, there are a lot of caveats with this data, and ... read more ...
Mon 3rd February 2014
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Sandwich.co Sells For 18K After The .Com Sells For $137,500 - The domain name sandwich.co sold on Sedo today for $18,000 USD. Yahoo sold the domain name Sandwich.com for $137,500 back in November 2013 also on Sedo. The buyer of Sandwich.co is Sandwich Company of Los Angeles, California. The buyer of Sandwich.com seems to be a different party. The purchase price of the .co is over 13% of the .com. Congrats to the buyer and seller. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy Auctions Jan Market Report led by Spokes.com - Go Daddy Auctions Market Report January 2014 Go Daddy sold 4386 less domains in January vs the previous month. In total there were 35, 209 sales in January vs 39,595 in December. Last January Go Daddy sold 35,156 in January. The top sale was spokes.com at $40,000 currently resolving to a parked page and was registered in 1995. As usual Online was the most popular keyword, this has been a trend for many months. (click to enlarge) ... read more ...
 
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How to adjust your DomainNameSales.com comment for low labelled domain names - Here’s a way to segment your DNS account to handle low-priced sales by yourself. This weekend Frank Schilling’s domain name brokerage service, DomainNameSales.com, sent a notice to its customers that it is setting a minimum charge of $175 per sale when it brokers the sale. DomainNameSales (DNS) is a unique platform in that you can select any broker to handle your sales, but many have opted in to having DNS handle this. It charges just 12.5%. But with the new ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Auctions sole over 35,000 domain names including Spokes.com for $40,000 - GoDaddy Auctions helped sell over 35,000 domain names last month. GoDaddy Auction’s monthly market report is out, and it is reporting 35,209 sales for January. This preliminary number is typically adjusted upward later in the month. Here are the top ten sales from last month, some of which have already been reported in the company’s weekly sales lists: spokes.com $40,000 radiant.org $23,000 rottencredit.com $22,000 oair.com $20,100 myanmar.org $20,000 – purchased ... read more ...
Sat 1st February 2014
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2013 Turkish Domain Name Market Study - AlanAdlari.com put out their 2013 Turkish Domain Report Top 3 keywords for sales were Game,News and Ticket. The most popular lengths for domains that sold were in the 7 to 11 character range. (click to enlarge) ... read more ...
 
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Tnooz “Travel domains going for (not exactly) a song” - Linda Fox wrote a piece today on Tnooz.com about Tour.com being put up for sale for $3million. In the past three years, according to information from domain specialist Sedo, a number of premium travel domain sales have taken place: Jerusalem.com – $510,000 Visitstockholm.com – $70,000 wellnessfinder.com – Euro 300,000 sommerhus.dk (Danish summer house rentals) – Euro 87,500 gruppenreisen.de (group travel in German) – Euro 59,500 hoteles.es  (hotels in Spanish) – Euro 275,000 xinjian.com ... read more ...
Thu 30th January 2014
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What domain names IdeaLab and other finish users bought final week - IdeaLab among buyers at GoDaddy/Afternic last week. GoDaddy and Afternic combined to sell nearly $1.8 million worth of domain names last week. Here are some that were sold to end users. (If you like to read about end user domain name sales, you can see previous lists here.) WPTI.org $2,569 – Workforce Professionals Training Institute in New York. Covius.com $1,800 – Atlanta company Covius, LLC, which appears to just be getting off the ground. BWM.com $15,000 – ... read more ...
 
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The numbers are in! Donuts sunrises typically get 100+ domains, though they also got gamed - Most of Donuts domain names received at least 100 sunrise registrations, and some of them are of questionable merit. Donuts has just published its zone files for the seven domain names that recently exited sunrise. Most of the domains have at least 100 domains in their zone files, but there’s also some curious activity: it appears Donuts got gamed by some of its fellow applicants. First, some caveats. The zone files, dated 1-31, are post sunrise and include a lot ... read more ...
Wed 29th January 2014
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$1277 seems to be a sorcery series this week, though something does not seem right - In the Sedo weekly sales report it seems a lot of names that should fetch a price far greater than $1277 sold this week. As astutely pointed out in the comments by Dan, Jose and Todd there seems to be something odd here. Thighs, Their, Byline, Broth, Chose, Monologue, Gaiters, Chard, Succubus, Saviour, and Trying all bought for $1,277 each all by the same person. They were sold by the the same owner Virginia Comito. She was featured in Beta Beat back in 2011 Virginia Comito, d.b.a. V.L. Raymer, is ... read more ...
 
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End user domain name purchases adult to $350,000 - Sedo brokers sale of True.com to car sals data company. This week’s Sedo end user sales list includes the big $350,000 sale of True.com to car sales data company TrueCar. If you’ve never checked out TrueCar.com, it’s a really cool site. Based on the landing page currently at True.com, it appears the company will use this as a holding brand/site as it branches out into other data services. Here’s the rest of the list. (If you like ready about end user domain ... read more ...
Tue 28th January 2014
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.7 Million - Over the past week, 769 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.7 Million 48% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: · Top .coms: true.com at 350,000 USD · Top ccTLD: lotterie.at at 15,000 EUR · Top “other” TLD: offer.net at 50,000 USD Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Afternic/GoDaddy Sell $1.77 Million In Domain Names - Afternic/GoDaddy released its sales report for the week of 1/20/14 – 1/26/14 All sales for the week totalled $1,770,240. The top .com sale was lead by Heard.com for $40,000, with the top non-com sale lead by Hui.net for $8,125. Below is the complete report: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Ex-Wrestler; Dancing With The Stars Contestant, Stacy Keibler Buys Her .Com For $5,500 - Stacy Keibler the ex-wrestling star and well as a contestant on Dancing with the Stars and the ex-girlfriend of George Clooney just bought the her matching domain name of StacyKeibler.com which just sold for 3,333 GBP or $5,500. The domain is being directed to Ms Keibler’s site at Skphilosophy.com Based on her career and frequent television appearances Ms. Keibler might have been able to win this domain in a UDRP however it appears she just bought the domain instead for what it would have cost ... read more ...
Mon 27th January 2014
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Report: Dailymail.com “Sold For As Much As £1m-plus” (1.65 Million) - According to a story in TheGuardian.com, whose parent company operates Mail Online otherwise known as the  Daily Mail General Trust “has paid potentially as much as £1m-plus to secure the valuable domain name. DailyMail.com” One Million British Pounds Equal just over $1.650,000. According to the story “Mail Online is switching from a .co.uk to .com homepage address, following protracted negotiations with the US paper that owned the dailymail.com domain name”. The technically challenging ... read more ...
 
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What domain names Pepsi and others bought - Pepsi bought a domain name for one of its sodas and other end user domain purchases. Sedo reported $1.6 million worth of domain names sales for the week ending January 19. Here are a dozen that involved end users, including Pepsi. You can see previous end user sales reports here. FederalCreditScores.com $17,950 – One Technologies, which services the direct-to-consumer credit monitoring industry. Sym-Tech.com $816 – Sym-Tech, which provides services to car dealers ... read more ...
Sun 26th January 2014
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Donuts tops $5 million in “orders and commitments” - New TLD company reports metrics as it gets ready for general availability later this week. New top level domain name “mega registry” Donuts says it has topped $5 million in “orders and commitments” for its services so far. Seven of Donuts new top level domain names exited sunrise yesterday. Next up they’ll go into the “Early Access Program” and then general availability by January 29. It has another 40 domain names currently in sunrise. Given the relatively ... read more ...
Fri 24th January 2014
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Man who sole Teamwork.com for $675k tells his story - Seller acquired the domain name from Great Domains over a decade ago. Earlier this week Silicon Republic reported that Irish tech company Teamwork PM acquired the domain name Teamwork.com for $675,000. I reached out to the seller, Alex Lerman, to confirm the sale and ask for more details. He confirmed that the $675,000 sale took place via Escrow.com and the seller buyer paid the escrow fees. He also gave this background: I was fortunate to be an investor in premium ... read more ...
Thu 23rd January 2014
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Tube.xxx and Tubes.xxx Sold for $750,000 - JT also asked me to post here part 2 of his GFY.com post……. he also told me he bought in the secondary market viral.xxx yesterday also, in addition to the further 4 names for us. “I am not looking for justification on anything I do, not least the price I have paid for the recent acquisition of tube.xxx and tubes.xxx. But I do feel that an explaination as to why I have made this purchase will hopefully help you understand better. I was part of the team that grew YouPorn from zero (Aug ... read more ...
 
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Two .xxx domain names sell for $750,000 - ICM Registry sells two more domain names to previous premium domain customer. Premium .xxx domain names continue to sell for top dollar. .XXX domain registry ICM Registry announced today that Really Useful has acquired Tube.xxx for $500,000 and Tubes.xxx for $250,000. Really Useful is the same company that acquired four .xxx domain names for $600,000 back in October. ICM’s press release quotes Really Useful’s “JT” comparing his success on .xxx sites compared ... read more ...
 
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What domain names Capital One and 28 other finish users bought final week - Capital One was among the end user buyers making domain name purchases last week. GoDaddy and Afternic combined to sell $1.9 million worth of domain names last week, which is higher than normal. Below are sales that appear to be to end users. You can see previous end user sales reports here. KirklandPermits.net $2,077 – City of Kirkland, Washington. They also have the matching .com. Crafting.com $51,500 – Missouri Start Quilt Co, seller of craft supplies. This ... read more ...
Wed 22nd January 2014
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TeamWork.com Sold For $675,000 To Company With $12 Million In Sales - According to Siliconrepublic.com, an Irish software company located in Cork, TeamworkPM just bought the domain name Teamwork.com for $675,000. According to domaintools.com is appears the domain name was actually sold last year by domain investor Alexander Lerman to the software company. Alexander acquired the domain name back in 1999. The software company which bought the domain has 20,000 customers in 147 countries includingeBay, Microsoft, Oxfam, Forbes, PayPal, Electronic Arts and NBC. The company ... read more ...
Tue 21st January 2014
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.6 Million - Over the past week, 710 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.6 Million 47% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: ·         Top .coms: homify.com at 30,000 EUR ·         Top ccTLD: rabatkoder.dk at 36,500 USD ·         Top “other” TLD: boot.net at 11,500 USD <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...