Tag Archives: sales

Thu 31st October 2013
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DL.com sells for $210,689, Twitter batch pitch domain doesn’t sell - Two letter domain sells for big bucks, but three letter domain and Tweeter brands fail to sell. A domain name and intellectual property auction held by Hilco Streambank has concluded with a big two letter domain name sale. Bidding for DL.com ended at 210,689, which was above the reserve price for the domain name. 7 bids were placed in the auction. Also selling in the Hilco auction was the domain name FireDog.com and some associated intellectual property. I believe ... read more ...
Wed 30th October 2013
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PhoneTracker.com Sells For $50K & GiveSmart.com For $40K on Sedo - A couple of  domain name sales hit the Sedo.com wire today. PhoneTracker.com just sold to Spy Phone Labs LLC. According to Estibot the domain name PhoneTracker.com last sold in 2008 for $5,877 The domain name was previously held at Moniker under privacy. The domain name GiveSmart.com was just sold to GiveSmart US, Inc. for $40.000 The domain was formerly owned by of Brian Carrozzi of California. Two nice sales.     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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21 some-more finish user domain name sales - Sedo sells domain names to a window company, a music school chain, and an office furniture maker. Sedo sold $1.3 million worth of domain names last week. Here are 21 that were to end users. YorkshireWindows.co.uk 2,399 GBP – UK window company Yorkshire Windows HomeWizard.co.uk 950 GBP – Home automation company HomeWizard B.V., which uses the domain name HomeWizard.nl AirCar.co.uk 750 GBP – Airlink Limited in the UK FWG.ch 700 EUR – Fredy Wiesner Gastronomie ... read more ...
 
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What domains Exxon and other finish users bought final week - Exxon among companies that bought domain names last week. GoDaddy/Afternic sold about $1.7 million worth of domain names last week. Here are 15 of the sales that were to end users. Suvidhaa.com $28,000 – Suvidhaa Infoserve P. Ltd., a technology company that uses the domain MySuvidhaa.com. SeeItVideo.com $3,000 – a CSC client ElKitab.com $1,999 – communications company Vodafone. It’s possible an employee bought this for his own use, although it’s registered ... read more ...
Tue 29th October 2013
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Sedo.com Transactions Total $1.3 Million Led By Frank Schilling’s Sale Of Baristas.com For $45K - Over the past week, 705 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1,3m. This amounts to $56m in year-to-date sales revenue. Over 47% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. All sales were led by Baristas.com which sold for $45,000 through  SedoMLS that came through GoDaddy. The domain was sold by Frank Schilling’s Name Administration. Highlights of public sales include: · ·         Top ccTLD: xocial.co.uk at 14,900 USD ·         Top ... read more ...
 
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Godaddy/Afternic Weekly Sales Total $1.7 Million - GoDaddy and Afternic’s reportable weekly domain sales for the week of 10/21/13 – 10/27/13 summed to  $1,696,432. All sales were led by suvidhaa.com for $28K The buyer appears to be Suvidhaa.in out of Mumbai. I really like thediary.com at $1,300     <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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How a GoDaddy lead looks on DomainNameSales.com - I’ve received my first lead from DNS’ integration with GoDaddy. Here’s how it looks. Earlier this month I wrote about how DomainNameSales.com users can now syndicate their listings to GoDaddy.com and DomainTools in order to reach potential buyers. I recently received my first lead through syndication to GoDaddy, and here’s what it looked like in my DNS account: Now, there’s a bit of a catch with the GoDaddy integration. GoDaddy customers basically fill ... read more ...
 
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dotCloud renames itself - …and that’s not a top level domain name. Technology company dotCloud has renamed itself Docker Inc., in a bit of news tangentially related to the domain name industry. Despite its name, the company has nothing to do with domain names. It created the Docker.io container technology for Linux Apps. Since that’s the crux of its business, it is renaming itself Docker. Although the name change had to do with a business model change, don’t you think the company’s ... read more ...
 
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Robin Wauters starting tech announcement during Tech.eu - Journalist who has covered the domain industry is starting a new technology publication. Robin Wauters is launching Tech.eu.Robin Wauters, a technology journalist who has frequently written about domain names, is starting a new online technology publication geared to Europe. It will launch at Tech.eu. Wauters previously wrote for The Next Web (where he was European Editor) and TechCrunch. Although just a small part of his writing, he sometimes covered domain name ... read more ...
Mon 28th October 2013
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With An Asking Price Of $495,000, Looks Like Kosher.com Just Sold - It appears the domain name Kosher.com sold in the last few days. The domain was offered to me in an email earlier this year for $495,000 “”If you would like to purchase this domain name, we are offering it for a one-time cash price of $495,000. Depending on how you are intending to use the domain, we would also entertain other deal structures, such as royalties, equity, and/or payments over time.  Please let us know.”” We have no idea what the price was, but we have reached out to the previous ... read more ...
 
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SEOP.com Claims Its Sold Bestseos.com For $530,000 - According to a press release out this morning, SEOP.com, a Digital Marketing and SEO agency headquartered in Irvine, CA, says it has sold the  domain name bestseos.com to independent research firm topseos.com for the price of $530k. “SEOP.com placed the domain name for sale or lease to the highest bidder. “Eric Schiffer, CEO at SEOP.com, said, “We decided to sell the domain to the party which would benefit most and essentially pay us fair value for the domain.” “SEOP.com approached topseos.com ... read more ...
 
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FindYourDomain.com Brokers Sale Of Shen.com For $125,000 - FindYourDomain.com has brokered the sale of the domain name Shen.com for $125,000  to a Chinese buyer. Shen means “God” or “Spirit” in Chinese. According to FindYourDomain the domain Shen.com was listing in one of our NameJet auctions last year with a $50,000 reserve, however, the reserve price was not met (the high bid was $44,444). FindYourDomains.com was established in 2002 to facilitate the buying and selling of high quality domain names. Some of the premium domain names that are for ... read more ...
Fri 25th October 2013
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Binary options site spends $99,000 to rebrand as Binary.com - Site spends nearly six figures to rebrand with better domain name. The binary options website formerly known as BetOnMarkets.com has purchased the domain name Binary.com and rebranded to the new domain name. The company’s CEO disclosed to Domain Name Wire that the purchase price was $99,000. The Binary.com domain name was previously owned by a technology company called Binary Systems. “After 14 years in business we decided to re-brand and acquire a category defining ... read more ...
 
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TLDH scores scarcely $5 million by losing dual domain name auctions - TLDH grows its cash pile thanks to losing two private auctions. Top Level Domain Holdings will add $4.81 million to its cash reserves as a result of losing private auctions for .website and .lawyer, the company announced today. $130,000 is from refunds for withdrawing its two applications, bringing the total auction proceeds down to $4.68 million. This doesn’t tell us too much about the winning bids for .website and .lawyer. There were three competitors for .website, ... read more ...
Thu 24th October 2013
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What domain names T-mobile and 15 others bought final week - T-Mobile among domain buyers at Sedo last week. Here’s the latest end user sales report for Sedo sales. Notable buyers include T-mobile, and check out the price tag on CloudID.net. Secret.ly – $3,500 – A new start up called Whispr, LLC appears to be creating a sort of SnapChat for non-video messages. If you go to GoWhispr.com and wait a moment you can click a link that brings you to a page that says “Send beautiful, disappearing notes to your friends. Brighten ... read more ...
 
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What domain names a Sacramento Kings and 20 others bought final week - NBA team among those that bought domain names last week. Afternic and GoDaddy sold $1.6 million worth of aftermarket domain names last week. Buyers included the Sacramento Kings NBA team, an office furniture etailer, and a gun manufacturer. Here are the sales in the format domain / price / buyer: ICTGlobal.net – $1,485 – tech company ICT Global Limited, which uses the domain ICTGlobal.nl. Another company owns the .com. Infologistics.com – $2,712 – Online ... read more ...
Wed 23rd October 2013
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BuyDomains Sells JHAH.com For $3,888 To The #1 World’s Oil Producer Saudi Arabian Oil Company - The domain name JHAH.com was sold by BuyDomains.com, in June on Afternic.com for 3,888 probably on a Buy It Now basis. Today the whois on the domain name updated and the buyer is the world’s #1 oil producer, the Saudi Arabian Oil Company. Saudi Arabian Oil Company according to  Hoovers.com, is “the king of oil, and the world’s #1 oil producer, supplying more than 10% of global oil demand. “In 2012 the company had oil reserves of 260 billion barrels (the world’s largest); it also owned 283 ... read more ...
 
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Afternic/Godaddy Sales Total $1,625,000 - GoDaddy and Afternic’s reportable weekly domain sales for the week of 10/14/13 – 10/20/13 attached. Total domain sales for the week summed to  $1,625,205. Here are the reportable sales for the week     <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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3 things that provoke me about domain sales emails - Selling domain names via email is OK. Doing the following three things is not. If you own a handful of domains, you’ve surely received an email from someone offering to sell a domain name that is similar to one in your portfolio. This isn’t a problem in and of itself. I’ve occasionally done it. Elliot does a great job sending highly targeted emails. That said, there are three mistakes I think some people make when sending domain name sales emails. 1. Sending ... read more ...
Tue 22nd October 2013
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Escrow.com: We Close Domain Sales For More Money In a Week Than What Others Are Reporting For The Year - In the final session from the TRAFFIC Conference  some blockbuster statements which indicate a huge amount of big dollar domain sales have gone unreported and the total amount of domain sales are way under-reported. Andee Hill from Escrow.com had a pretty eye opening statement at the Meeting of the Chiefs. The Must-Attend T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Seminar, that the  total dollar volume of domain sales that get processed through Escrow.com,  greatly exceed the amount that gets reported saying; “we close ... read more ...
Sat 19th October 2013
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Roy Messer Sells BigBreakfast.com To IAC/InterActiveCorp - Domain investor Roy Messer’s Nett Corp, which sold Vodka.com for $3 million dollars a few years back, just sold the domain name BigBreakfast.Com to a public company. If your thinking McDonalds or one of the restaurant groups bought the domain you would be wrong. The domain instead was bought by IAC/InterActiveCorp which owns many of the most popular web properties including Match.com, Ask.com and About.com. Of course Roy may have not know who was buying the domain since it appeared to be bought ... read more ...
Thu 17th October 2013
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Another Domain Sale We Never Heard About: Buyer Of Personal.com Gets $4.5 Million In Funding - According to the Term Sheet today “Personal, a Washington, D.C.-based digital vault and private network for people to store and manage important information and documents, has raised $4.5 million in new VC funding led by Bill Miller of Legg Mason.” The company owns the domain name Personal.com The domain was owned by Yahoo! in 2009 In 2010 it went under the control of Brand protection company MarkMonitor.com The domain sold in July/August of 2010 where it went into Sedo escrow where it stayed ... read more ...
 
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23 finish user domain name sales from GoDaddy and Afternic - A furniture company, entrepreneur group, and a large electronics cases company buy domain names. Before jumping into this week’s Afternic/GoDaddy end user sales report, I’d like to call attention to two very timely domain name sales: DebtCeiling.com for $2,249 and DebtCeiling.net for $1,500. I don’t know who bought them (they have privacy on), but this may have been a smart buy. Even once this round of debt ceiling talks concludes, it won’t be long before ... read more ...
Wed 16th October 2013
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Over 7,000 .LA domains purebred during GoDaddy given June - GoDaddy registers over 7,000 .LA domain names since promoting the domain for Los Angeles. A reader who invested in .la domain names asked me this week if I knew how the domain name was doing since GoDaddy put some of its marketing weight behind the domain. Here’s your answer: GoDaddy customers have registered over 7,000 domain names since the company got involved in June. The registrar started promoting the domains in July. At about $40 a year, that’s around $280,000 ... read more ...
 
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15 finish user domain name sales - Sedo’s end user sales last week include a three letter .org that sold for $56,000. I’m trying a different format for this week’s end user domain name sales report. The format is domain / price / buyer. Let me know if you prefer this to the old format. FaceTravel.at – 2,500 EUR – German travel company Facetravel GmbH. USA.org – $56,000 – this one hits close to home. It’s an Austin marketing company called GasPedal, which is located about a mile from ... read more ...