Tag Archives: sales

Tue 21st January 2014
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What domain names Yahoo! and 21 other finish users bought - Yahoo! buys a sports domain name and other end user domain name purchases. Afternic and GoDaddy sold $1.7 million worth of aftermarket domain names from 1/6/14 – 1/12/14. Here are some of the sales that were to end users. You can see more end user reports here. JiveCloud.com $3,650 and LCloud.com $13,700 – Community software and social media marketing firm Lithium. WarehouseCleaning.com $1,199 – Web design company Ambidextrous Services, which specializes in ... read more ...
 
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Heritage Auctions usurpation submissions for subsequent domain name auction - Auction is scheduled to take place in late March. Heritage Auctions is planning its second domain name auction to take place in late March, and is seeking domain name owners to submit their domains for the auction. The company sold about $1.5 million worth of domain names in its inaugural domain name auction last November, headlined by an after-the-auction sale of MutualFunds.com. Heritage Auctions is only looking for one and two word .com domain names. They should ... read more ...
Mon 20th January 2014
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What domains Sprint, Cox, BitTorrent, and Buzzfeed bought - Big companies buy aftermarket domain names. Once again, I’m a bit behind with end user domain names sales reports due to traveling for NamesCon last week. Here are the end user domain sales I found on Sedo’s sales list it sent out last week. You can view previous reports here. JCT.com $98,000 – Investments company Junction Investments, Inc. JCT is an abbreviation for “Junction.” JLL.pt $5,000 – Commercial real estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle bought its ... read more ...
Thu 16th January 2014
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Go Daddy/Afternic Weekly Sales Led by Fia.org - Go Daddy/Afternic Weekly Domain Sales: 1-6-14 to 1-12-14 Fia.org was the top sale for the week at Go Daddy/Afternic selling for $18,000. Undie.com and Connectup.com were the top two .com sales. Total sales for the week were $1,723, 709 Lcloud.com selling for $13,700 is the second such 1 letter cloud.com sale in the last few months. In November Fcloud.com sold on NameJet for $10,000. .com Sales    Price undie.com    $15,000 connectup.com    $15,000 lcloud.com    $13,700 3dprintingmagazine.com   ... read more ...
Tue 14th January 2014
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Sedo’s Transactions Total Over $2.5 Million In Domains On Just 572 Domains - Sedo just released its weekly report for the week of January 6th, 2014- January 13, 2014. In all just 572 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $2.5 Million Dollars. All sales were let by JCT.com which sold for $98,000 which sold to Junction Investments, Inc of San Fransisco. In a very nice .biz sale the domain llc.biz sold for $23,520 The highly brandable domain name BigBen.com sold for $50,000 and the buyer Kugo, Inc,. has nothing to do with the London tourist ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Tops Domain Industry Sales Charts in 2013 - Sedo put out a press release today looking back at their 2013 as related to domain sales. Sedo Tops Domain Industry Sales Charts in 2013 Leading Marketplace Books Nearly Twice as Many Top 100 Sales as Nearest Competitor and Four Times More Non-.Com Sales Sedo, the world’s largest domain marketplace and monetization provider, maintained its market leading position in 2013, according to the Top 100 Domain Sales Chart as published by the domain industry publication, DN Journal.  With 34 of the top ... read more ...
 
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What domain names Burberry and 14 other users bought - Fashion company Burberry among companies recently buying domain names. These are end user sales from Sedo that occurred December 30 to January 5. You can view more end user sales lists here. ThisIsBrit.co.uk $1,150 – British fashion company Burberry Limited. It registered the .com in September. StyleLondon.com $900 – Signature X Ltd, which runs TheStyleLondon.com, drops the the. Meilleureassurance.com EUR 14,995 – MeilleurTaux.com Triangl.co.uk EUR 2,000 – ... read more ...
Thu 9th January 2014
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39 finish user domain name buyers including Lowe’s and Experian - Home improvement company and credit data provider are among big names who bought domains through Sedo over the holidays. Sedo didn’t publish sales reports over the holiday, so this week we have a doozy. This report includes sales from December 16-29. I’ll publish the most recent report later. You can view previous end user sales reports here. Greenbot.com $14,500 – International Data Group (IDG), the media company behind CIO Magazine, ComputerWorld, etc. Adata.com ... read more ...
Wed 8th January 2014
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Namejet.com Reports $840K In Dec Sales Led By 5.co.uk - Namejet.com reported some $841,000 in domain name sales in December These sales are not all inclusive but  simply are reportable domain name auction sales that took place in December 2013. Sales were led by 5.co.uk which sold for $67,611 Actually .there were plenty of big dollar co.uk sales Personally I got outbid on getcash.com at $33,901 <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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What domain names De Beers and 20 other finish users bought final week - De Beers was among the famous brands that bought domain names last week. GoDaddy and Afternic sold $1.36 million worth of aftermarket domain names during the New Years week of 12/30/13-1/5/14. Below are some of the domain names that were purchased by end users, including diamond company De Beers. You can see view end user domain name sales reports here. DragonCoin.com $1,199 – OC Gold, and Orange County gold and silver dealer 360eye.com $12,500 – Enerfund, a private ... read more ...
Tue 7th January 2014
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Cisco Acquires A Domain In Stealth Mode That Represents An Industry They Say is Worth Trillions - Mike did a story the other day about IOT.com and it having a price tag of $2.8 million.  The Internet of Things has become a very hot topic over the last couple years, Cisco has also been busy branding the Internet of Everything or IOE.  IOE.com is now owned by Cisco although the sale was never made public. The name back in the day was first owned by the  International Oceanic Enterprises of Alabama, they were a seafood company doing business as Master Marine. They subsequently let the registration ... read more ...
Mon 6th January 2014
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13 some-more finish user domain sales, including Folia.com for $37,500 - App maker buys Folia.com for new app. Afternic and GoDaddy combined to sell $1.1 million worth of domain names over the holiday week ending December 29. Here are some of the sales that were to end users, including Folia.com. You can see more end user sales here. Folia.com $37,500 – Branchfire, creator of the iAnnotate app, bought this domain for a new productivity app. The seller appears to be Notion Research LLC, which previously was creating a product called Folia ... read more ...
 
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2013 Top Stories: GoDaddy acquires Afternic - The combined entity will give more reach domain name sellers, but it also means there’s one less competitor in the marketplace. Mergers and acquisitions in the domain name industry happen all the time. Yet one that took place in 2013 has the potential to have a big effect on domain name owners. In September, GoDaddy acquired domain name aftermarket Afternic. At its core, Afternic is a platform for buying and selling domain names across various websites. Yet the ... read more ...
Fri 3rd January 2014
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20 finish user domain name sales - GoDaddy and Afternic had a good sales week heading into the holidays. The domain name aftermarket doesn’t stop just because of the holidays! Today we’re playing catchup, as this list of end user sales is for Dec 16-Dec 22 at Afternic and GoDaddy. These are part of the $1.55 million worth of aftermarket domain names they sold during the week. You can see more end user domain name sales here. BluDot.ca $10,000 – Furniture seller BluDot. (I’m actually typing ... read more ...
Thu 2nd January 2014
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Bitcoin.me Sells For $10,000 - Just crossing the Sedo sales wire is the domain name Bitcoin.me which just sold for $10,000 The domain was registered in July 2010. The buyer is Help.org and the domain is being forwarded to Millybitcoin.com Bitcoin.biz sold for $2,800 in March 2013, Bitcoin.im sold for $1,500 in February 2013, Bitcoin.be sold for $1,950 in January 2013. On the other hand Bitcoin.us sold for $17,500 in December 2012 and BitCoin.de sold back in June 2011 when a lot few people had every heard of it and it was trading ... read more ...
 
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Afternic/Godaddy Sells $1.1 Million In Domain Names - Afternic/Godaddy released its sales report right before the New Years Break for the the week of 12/23/13 – 12/29/13. Sales totaled $1,120,500 All sales were lead by Folia.com Looks like one New York based Real Estate Investment Trust picked up a pair of domains for $8,300 each; NewYorkREIT.com and NYREIT.com   <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Auctions sells tighten to 40,000 domain names in December - Top reported sale was Uber.org for $36,000. GoDaddy Auctions tallied 38,841 domain name sales in December, according to preliminary numbers in the company’s Domain Market Report. The top reportable sale was Uber.org for $36,000. Although the whois record does not yet reflect the buyer, a likely buyer is taxi/black car service Uber. Here are the top ten reported sales for the month: uber.org $36,000 supporter.com $35,000 personalcfo.com $29,000 squid.com $25,500 3dprinters.net $23,001 uchat.com $20,000 adata.com $15,000 ... read more ...
 
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Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg launch AllThingsD inheritor on a .net domain - New tech publication Re/code acquires and launches on a .net domain name. Tech journalists Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg have shut down AllThingsD after their contract with NewsCorp/Wall Street Journal concluded without a new deal. With backing from NBCUniversal and Windsor Media, they’ve launched the successor to AllThingsD on a .net domain: Recode.net. It appears the duo may have bought the domain name from NameMedia last month. In fact, the whois record still ... read more ...
Wed 1st January 2014
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Uber.org Leads The Go Daddy Auctions Domain Report for Dec 2013 - Go Daddy finished the year selling 38,841 domains vs 39,715 in November. Uber.org was the top sale for the month at $36,000. The domain registered in 2001 looks to have been sold by the Canadian powerhouse Original.com. The whois shows Go Daddy and the name still points to an Internet Traffic parked page. (click to enlarge) ... read more ...
Tue 31st December 2013
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Sedo and Tucows ink domain inventory placement deal - Tucows has joined SedoMLS, giving access to the domain sales network to its thousands of resellers. Sedo has gained a big customer for its SedoMLS network. Tucows, which is generally considered the third or fourth largest domain name registrar, is joining the network, the companies announced. This means that domain names listed for sale on Sedo are now eligible to appear on Tucows’ OpenSRS network of 13,000 resellers. Domain names registered with Tucows will also ... read more ...
Mon 30th December 2013
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It’s roughly 2014, and people are induction 2014 domain names in droves - Over 6,000 2014 domain names registered in December. It’s almost 2014, and the market for registering domain names that include “2014” is apparently quite robust. Verisign data show that 6,108 .com and .net domain names including “2014” have been registered in December as of the end of yesterday. Scanning through the list, I picked up on a few trends. First, counterfeiting and unauthorized trademark use is alive and well. Many of the domain names include ... read more ...
Thu 19th December 2013
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A stellar week for large sheet finish user domain name sales during Sedo, 25 domains adult to $100k - Sedo racks up a number of big ticket end user domain name sales. Sedo sold $1.4 million worth of domain names last week. And for those of you that always complain about end users getting off too cheap, I think you’ll like some of the sales on this week’s list. The top one is Pizza.nl at €75,000 (appx $100k USD). See more end user reports here. Pizza.nl €75,000 (appx $100k USD) – Takeaway.com, a pizza and food delivery service. NextDirect.co.uk £1,500 ... read more ...
Wed 18th December 2013
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32 finish user domain name sales adult to $50,000 - Gaming company, natural food store, and rental car company make domain name purchases. GoDaddy and Afternic combined to sell over $1.8 million worth of domain names last week. Here are 32 that were sold to end users. See previous end user sales reports here. Humble.com $50,000 – Humble Bundle, which sells PC and Android games on a pay-what-you-want model and donates money to charity. Its websites is HumbleBundle.com. EconomyRentalCars.com $25,000 – Economy Rent ... read more ...
Tue 17th December 2013
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.4 Million Led By Musique.com For $75K - Sedo reported 688 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.4 Million This amounts to $64.5 Million  in year-to-date sales revenue. Over 45% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Record sale: Today, Sedo’s broker Dave Evanson brokered jobs.ca for $450,000. Please note that this sale is not included in the attached sales list. It will appear in next week’s sales list. Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .coms: musique.com ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy/Afternic Sales Total $1,838.00 Led By Humble.com For $50K - Godaddy.com and Afternic.com just released its sales report for the week of 12/9/13 – 12/15/13. Total domain sales for the week summed to $1,838,001. All sales were led by Humble.com which sold for $50,0000 Orderme.com at $20K was pretty cheap. iFollow.com at $9,700 is interesting. I have no idea who would buy or why Godaddy.com or Afternic would sell GoogleCreate.com at all,  but it sold for  $2,300. Google does not seem to be the buyer. <![CDATA[]]>  Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...