Tag Archives: sales

Tue 15th October 2013
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Godaddy/Afternic.com Sells $1,780,000 in Domain Names Led By Likers.com For $28K - Godaddy.com/Afternic.com just released its weekly sales report for the week of 10/7/13 – 10/13/13 Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1,000, summed to  $1,779,357. Sales were led by Likers.com for $28,0000 and Rah.com for $20K. Non .com sales were led by Fn.net which sold for $15,050 Here are all the reportable sales:   <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Last Sold In 2005 For $1.4 Million, VIP.com Is Sold To Publicly Held VipShop.com - Publicly traded VipShop.com (NYSE: VIPS) whose site is VipShop.com has quietly acquired the domain name VIP.com. The company has a market cap of $3.77 billion dollars. It appears according to DomainTools.com the company acquired the domain just a few weeks ago at or around September 24th, 2013. I haven’t seen any announcement on the sale and VipShop.com has not issued a  press release. Back in 2005 it was reported that British betting site operator Leisure Gaming PLC  paid $1.4 million to acquire ... read more ...
 
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Sedo.com Transactions Total $1MM Led By USA.org For $56K - Sedo.com just published their domain transactions for the week 10/7/13 – 10/13/13 totaling $1MM. Over the past week, 698 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1MM. This amounts to $53.1MM in year-to-date sales revenue. Over 45% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: - Top .coms: triglycerides.com and nineforums.com each at 25,000 USD - Top ccTLD: startup.tv at 8,750 USD - Top “other” TLD: USA.org at 56,000 ... read more ...
 
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Four .xxx domain names sell for $600,000 - Registry sells four more premium adult domain names. ICM Registry, the company behind the .xxx top level domain name, announced today that it sold four premium .xxx domain names for $600,000. Adult entertainment company Really Useful Limited bought Mature.xxx, Bdsm.xxx, Publicsex.xxx, and Teen.xxx. Teen.xxx was the highest priced domain name at $400,000. The Chairman of Really Useful, known only as “JT”, said he has found his .xxx domain names to outperform .com ... read more ...
Mon 14th October 2013
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After appropriation TenMarks, Amazon.com’s domain name group went to work - Company registers over 75 domain names after making acquisition. Whenever Amazon.com announces a new product or acquires a company, it goes a bit nuts defensively registering related domain names. Last week Amazon acquired online match education company TenMarks, and its domain name team went to work. I count at least 75 defensive registrations, and I’m sure there are many more. ccTLDs - many startups don’t buy their domain names across multiple country codes. ... read more ...
Sat 12th October 2013
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What domain names a Jacksonville Jaguars and 30 others bought final week - NFL team was among the end user buyers of domain names last week. When GoDaddy acquired Afternic, one of my unspoken concerns was that Afternic would no longer release sales data. GoDaddy has historically released less information than other large domain marketplaces. The good news is Afternic sales are still be disclosed. The great news is that GoDaddy’s sales are also being included now! Here’s last week’s sales list from GoDaddy/Afternic: Gun holster seller ... read more ...
Fri 11th October 2013
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Google acquires CRR.com domain name from Telepathy for new TLDs - Google buys CRR.com domain from Telepathy. It would seem that good .com domains are still highly prized, even by new top level domain name applicants. Google has acquired the domain name CRR.com, and I have no doubt it was acquired for the company’s new TLD subsidiary Charleston Road Registry. [Update: the domain now forwards to Google’s registry page.] Google currently uses the long domain name CharlestonRoadRegistry.com to promote its new TLDs. I’m somewhat ... read more ...
Thu 10th October 2013
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The 1st Godaddy/Afternic Weekly Sales List: $1.625 Million In Sales: MGM Buys SkyLofts.com For $41,250 - GoDaddy.com and Afternic.com  just issued its first combined weekly domain sales list  since Godaddy acquired Afternic.com Here are the reportable or the week of 9/30/13 – 10/6/13 Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1,000, summed to  $1,625,913. All sales were led by Skylofts.com which was bought by MGM whose MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas has been offering luxury rooms called Sky Lofts for many years now, certainly a bargain for them since the rooms ... read more ...
Wed 9th October 2013
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The Inaugural DomainNameSales.com finish user sales list - NBC Universal and Harry David among companies that bought domain names via DomainNameSales.com last month. DomainNameSales.com sent out a monthly sales list for September yesterday. This marks the first time DNW is putting together an end user sales list for DomainNameSales.com. Some of the bigger sales, including DataCenters.com at $190,000, have unknown buyers. NBC Universal bought DumbandDumber.com for $15,000. Bloomsbury Publishing plc, the book publisher that ... read more ...
 
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Got Milk? or Milk Life: Sedo finish user domain sales - End user domain name sales at Sedo last week. This week’s end user domain sales at Sedo include a purchase by ad firm Deutsch. Deutsch, which counts California Milk Processor Board (Got Milk?) as a client, bought MilkLife.com for $7,000. Deutsch is also GoDaddy’s ad firm. Here are other end user domain sales at Sedo from the past week: Cloud storage and document sharing company Box bought BoxNotes.com for 8,000 EUR. That’s a lot less than it paid for the Box.com ... read more ...
Tue 8th October 2013
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Sedo Transactions Total $970K - Sedo just published it weekly transactions report Over the past week, 615 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $970,000. This amounts to $52.1 Million in year-to-date sales revenue. Over 44% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .coms: chriskay.com at 22,000 EUR ·         Top ccTLD: cbs.de at 22,015 EUR ·         Top “other” TLD: epargne.net at 4,500 EUR   Here are ... read more ...
 
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DomainNameSales Sells $1.5 Million In Domains In Sept Led By DataCenter.com For $190K; Waitress.com $168K - In the first of what appears will be a regular monthly report, DomainNameSales.com reported over $1.5 Million in domain name sales for the month of September 2013, led by DataCenters.com at $190,000 and Waitress.com at $168K Here are all the sale we received and I assume there are more that were under NDA:   <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Cruises.com.au Sells For $102,000 To Company With Over $50 Million In Sales - According to a press release out this morning the Domain name  Cruises.com.au, sold for $110,000 AUD (approx. $102,000 USD) in an all cash deal. The domain was brokered by , Dtrade. The domain name was purchased by Ozcruising Pty Ltd which according to the press release is ” Australia’s number one online cruise agency with sales exceeding fifty million dollars annually.” Another nice domain sale once again proving that the cheapest acquisition of a valuable asset a company will ever make is ... read more ...
Mon 7th October 2013
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CBS.de Sells for $30K on Sedo & Meetings.co.uk Sells For A Measly $1,200 - A couple of sales of note crossed the Sedo.com sales wire this morning. The domain name CBS.de sold for 22,015 Euro’s or around $30,000. The CBS of course is one of the four Major Television broadcast networks in the United States but can stand for thousands of other things as well. .De is the ccTLD for Germany. It will be interesting to see who the buyer of the domain is. On another note the domain name Meetings.co.uk sold for just 800 GBP or around $1,200 Its a bang on domain name and to see ... read more ...
 
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DomainNameSales.com gets placement (and here’s how to opt-in) - If you opt-in, GoDaddy and DomainTools customers will now see that your domain is for sale. DomainNameSales.com’s domain sales platform has been quickly adopted by a number of domain name investors. But until now it has been missing a key ingredient of domain sales – distributed listings. That changed today as the company announced a deal with GoDaddy and DomainTools to help generate more sales leads for domain names. If a GoDaddy user searches for your exact ... read more ...
Fri 4th October 2013
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WTF: ChrisKay.com Sells For $30,000 On Sedo After Its Just Dropped One Year Ago - The domain name ChrisKay.com just crossed the Sedo sales wire selling for 22,000 Euro’s or just about $30,000. In 2012 The domain name was owned by Chris Kay of Essex UK and registered at Tucows until it went into redemption and dropped in March 2012 The domain name was then registered by  someone in China then transferred  to a Christoph Kunckel of Germany in June of 2012. Now the domain name was purchased for $30K, looking at Screenshots.com its not clear if the buyer of the domain name is ... read more ...
 
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31 some-more finish user domain name sales - Several food companies among end user buyers at Afternic last week. Afternic had a strong sales week last week, tallying nearly $1.3 million in sales. Here are 31 of the sales that were to end users. Edlong Flavors, which creates concentrated dairy flavors, bought DairyFlavors.com for $1,977. MD Direct, manufacture of protective masking films and papers, bought ProtectiveFilms.com for $3,000. New Jersey company CommandCare LLC bought CommandCare.com for $1,895. Snackfoods ... read more ...
 
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Servers.com domain name to be sole in failure auction - Prized domain name will be sold in a court ordered bankruptcy sale. The domain name Servers.com is headed to the auction block due to bankruptcy. Servers.com is one of the domains in the Ondova Limited Company bankruptcy. A previous portfolio of domains from Ondova sold for over $5 million, although it got hung up in court for a while. The auction will take place October 29 in Dallas. A bankruptcy hearing is scheduled for November 4 to approve the sale. There’s ... read more ...
Thu 3rd October 2013
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CBS/Cnet Quitely Sells Events.com To Bump Network & Gets Ready To Launch - CBS Interactive quietly sold the Killer domain name Events.com sometime in late April of this year to BUMP Network, Inc. CBS Interactive is a subsidiary of CBS Corporation which owns CBS. CBS Interactive purchased Cnet in June 2008 and acquired this domain name Events.com as part of that acquisition. BUMP Network, Inc owns Bump.com which is a different company than Bu.mp which was recently acquired by Google While Bu.mp is the developer of Android/iOS app that allow users to share contact info, photos, ... read more ...
 
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What domains Getty Images, John Hancock, and others bought final week - Getty Images and John Hancock Insurance were among the end user domain buyers at Sedo last week. Sedo sold $1.4 million worth of domain names last week, including these sales to end users. pairNetworks bought yet another domain in the aftermarket. This time it was Pair.es for $2,000. Online backup service KeepItSafe, a j2 Global company, bought KeepItSafe.de for 800 EUR. It uses the .com version. A guy with the last name Siegmund bought Siegmund.com for $15,000. Swedish ... read more ...
Wed 2nd October 2013
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NameJet.com Announces $312K In Top Domain Sales In September - Namejet.com just announced over $312,000 its “top domain sales” for September 2013. TTM.com led the way selling for $28K and Onions.com which sold for $19,100 Here are the reportable sales of $2K or more for September: <![CDATA[]]>  Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Afternic.com Sells $1.3 Milion In Domains Led By One Of Our’s Emancipated.com For $30K - Afternic.com just published its  reportable weekly domain sales for the week of 9/23/13 – 9/29/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $1,296,502. All sales were led by one of our domains, (Worldwide Media, Inc. d/b/a MostWantedDomains.com) Emancipated.com which sold for $30,000 Here are all reportable sales:     <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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What domain names BMW and 19 others bought - BMW was among the end user buyers at Sedo recently. Some times when you schedule a post on WordPress it somehow doesn’t publish, giving an error “misses schedule”. That happened to one of my end user sales posts scheduled for September 20. I just realized it. So here’s a belated look at some of Sedo’s end user sales from September. Nutritional supplements company nu3 GmbH, which already owns nu3.com and nu3.de, bought nu3.co.uk for 1,400 GBP. Swiss architecture ... read more ...
Tue 1st October 2013
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.4 Million; Moneta.com For $150K; LT.org For $26K - Over the past week, 746 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.4 Million This amounts to $51.2 Million in year-to-date sales revenue. Over 45% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .coms: moneta.com at 150,000 USD ·         Top ccTLD: gta-worldmods.de at 15,000 EUR ·         Top “other” TLD: lt.org at 26,000 USD Sedo Congratulates  to the buyer and seller of Moneta.com ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Auctions sells 39,071 domain names in September - GoDaddy Auctions’ September was in line with previous months. GoDaddy sold 39,071 domain names through GoDaddy Auctions in September, down slightly from 41,291 in August. The company’s latest Domain Market Report didn’t change much from previous months. “Online” was, once again, the most popular term found in domain names sold through the platform. As usual, Auction and BuyNow inventory each accounted for about half of sales. Only 768 domain names were sold ... read more ...