Tag Archives: sales

Fri 19th July 2013
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BXSP.com Sold By BuyDomains Days Ago On Afternic For $2K Winds Up WIth Blackstone Who Has Over 28 Billion In Assets - The domain name BXSP.com which sold just a few days ago and was listed on Afternic weekly report we published on Tuesday, wound up in the hands of one of the largest investment firms in the world, The Blackstone Group of Park Ave New York. In 2012, The Blackstone Group had revenues of Over 3.6 Billion  and had assets of over $28 Billion. I guess it would not be an understatement to say the domain holder may have left a few dollars on the table. The seller in this case was BuyDomains.com itself ... read more ...
 
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Marchex sells TheRack.com, substantially to Nordstrom - Mark Monitor group acquires retail domain name. Based on whois records, it appears that Marchex has sold the domain name TheRack.com. My money is on Nordstrom buying it for its Nordstrom Rack outlet stores, sometimes called “The Rack”. Although the whois information for the domain shows Name Advisers Inc. as the owner, Name Advisers is affiliated with brand protection registrar Mark Monitor. Nordstrom uses Mark Monitor for its domain names. So why is this interesting? ... read more ...
Thu 18th July 2013
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.Info and .LA auctions finish this morning - Sedo and GoDaddy auctions end today starting at noon EDT. Two top level domain name-specific domain auctions end today. Sedo is auctioning off 50 .info domain names, all with reserve prices under 500 euros. The auction ends at noon EDT today. At the time of posting (10:30 AM PDT) 42 domains have bids and seven domain names have hit their reserves. The top domains so far are: Survival.info 605 EUR Reseller.info 559 EUR Nuts.info 499 EUR Souvenirs.info 499 EUR Grooming.info ... read more ...
Wed 17th July 2013
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Nokta Domains sole 44, leased 7 domain names in June - Company publishes list of June domain name transactions. Domain name seller Nokta Domains closed a total of 51 public transactions in June, according to the company’s blog. It leased 7 domain names and sold 44. The leases range from $10 to $150, which suggests that most lessees wanted to buy the domains, but simply couldn’t afford them even at relatively low prices. The top sale was AltinFiyatlari.com for $17,600. The second highest was BeachVillas.com for $15,000. ... read more ...
 
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Body.com seller took a loss, and Neustar buys a .com - Body.com sold for a loss, plus the .biz registry buys a .com in this week’s Sedo end user sales roundup. Sedo’s big sales week was led by the $380,000 sale of Body.com. The domain was sold through Sedo’s partnership with GoDaddy. This is the second time Sedo has cashed in selling the domain. In 2009 it sold the domain name for $400,000 on behalf of Live Current Media. It looks like the buyer back then is the seller today, which would be the domain has lost value ... read more ...
 
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Sedo information uncover clever .co aftermarket - Median sales price this year second only to .com. Sedo released a report today with statistics about the .co aftermarket. The report is timed to coincide with the three year anniversary of .co being relaunched as a global generic domain. The results (pdf) look very strong. Since .co’s relaunch, Sedo has been involved with $2.6 million worth of .co domain name sales. For the first half of 2013, the median .co selling price on Sedo was $570. That’s second only to ... read more ...
 
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What domains Jerry Bruckheimer, Papa John’s, and 27 others bought final week - Movie and TV producer among end users buying domain names last week. Afternic sold over $1 million worth of domains last week, and many of the sales were to notable buyers. Let’s start of with Highmark, which bought AHN.org for $50,000. I wrote about this sale yesterday. The next four sales are what I’d call “global upgrades”. These are sales where a company already owns the matching ccTLD and bought .com: Ascent Labs Ltd., which uses AscentLabs.ie, bought ... read more ...
Tue 16th July 2013
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Frank Schilling’s DomainNameSales.com Announces $5.5MM Of Domain Sales For 1st Six Months Of 2013 - As reported by TNTnames.com, Frank Schilling’s DomainNameSales.com, released its reportable sales for the first six months of 2013. Total combined sales were $5,502,211. This total includes $4,658,329 worth of sales from Frank Schilling’s Name Administration inventory which is  their privately owned inventory, as well as $843.882 of partner sales. The highest domain sale was BoatsForSale.com for  $162,500 followed by shelves.com for $83,000. Both were from their privately held inventory. Here ... read more ...
 
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Healthcare association spends $50,000 on .org domain name for sanatorium chain - Tucows sells AHN.org for $50,000 to hospital system. Healthcare provider and insurance company Highmark spent $50,000 for the AHN.org domain name, topping Afternic’s list of reportable sales for last week. The domain name is the acronym for Allegheny Health Network, which Highmark announced in April as the new name for a Pittsburgh hospital system anchored by West Penn Allegheny. The health insurer bid $1.1 billion to buy the West Penn Allegheny Health System. Tucows ... read more ...
Fri 12th July 2013
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Domain upgrades and other finish user domain sales during Afternic - A company upgraded for .net to .com for just $1,000 and other end user sales at Afternic. Last week was a slow week at Afternic thanks to the U.S. Independence Day holiday, but the company still managed to sell almost $700,000 worth of domains. Here are some of the end user sales. Easysmart Technology Limited in Shenzhen, China bought EasySmart.com for $3,088. Online advertising company CPX Interactive bought CompleteInteractive.com for $1,488. Publisher Swift Communications ... read more ...
 
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Amazon picked adult domain names for new Jet City Comics impress in March - Company hand registered one domain and acquired the other. Amazon.com’s publishing division acquired the domains for its new Jet City Comics imprint in March. Symposium is one of the first releases under the imprint.Amazon.com announced its new Jet City Comics imprint today. The imprint features works by Hugh Howey, George R.R. Martin (Game of Thrones), Neal Stephenson, and Christian Cameron. Amazon.com hand registered the JetCityComic.com domain name in March. ... read more ...
Thu 11th July 2013
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Body.com Sells On Godaddy.com For $380,000 - The domain name Body.com just sold on GoDaddy’s aftermarket for $380,000. This was listed via Godaddy’s partnership with Sedo and sold from GoDaddy.com as a make offer listing. The seller appears to have been Red Trend Limited out of Hong Kong. The domain was last sold back in 2009 for $400,000 by Live Current Media on Sedo’s Great Domains site. This is the 2nd highest domain sale ever recorded  by Godaddy.com The highest sale recorded at Godaddy.com is HomeOwnersInsurance.com which sold for ... read more ...
Wed 10th July 2013
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18 finish user sales from $750 to $17,500 - Four letter domain sells to end user for $17,500. Sedo sold $1.04 million worth of domains last week despite the U.S. holiday. Here are some of the end user domain sales. A company called Information Resources Online, which owns IRO.com, bought ORIO.com for $17,500. NIBC Bank N.V. paid 10,000 GBP for Dubank.com. Veda Advantage Limited, a credit risk company, bought FreeCreditScore.com.au for $2,500 USD. Career Cafe Ltd paid 1,500 GBP for 360degrees.co.uk. Spraying ... read more ...
Sat 6th July 2013
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Comcast / NBC Sports Sells Versus.com For Six Figures to Startup Versus.io - The domain name Versus.com the former name of the NBC Sports Network has been sold by Comcast/NBC Sports for a “six figure sum” According to a story in VentureVillage.eu, The buyer is startup company that upgraded  from the domain Versus.io According to the story, Versus IO acquired the domain name “after closing a Series A round recently and garnering reportedly 3.8 million visitors last month, Versus CEO and founder Ramin Far decided it was time take the startup to the next step with the ... read more ...
Wed 3rd July 2013
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A BIG finish user domain name sale during Sedo - A company who’s initials are BIG paid $22,500 for a domain last week at Sedo. Sedo’s public sales list from last week was led by a domain purchased by a new personal care products company. Here are details on that sale and other end user sales at Sedo. A new personal care company called Beauty Innovations Group LLC (BIG for short) bought BIGBeauty.com for $22,500. Sprinkler Warehouse, Inc. in Houston bought DripStore.com for $9,900. Imagings Solutions AG in Switzerland ... read more ...
 
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38 some-more finish user domain sales including some tangible brands - 20th Century Fox among domain name buyers. Some recognizable brands made domain name purchases at Afternic last week. Here’s the end user sales list. IMF.com sold for $27,000. Although the whois is protected by a privacy service, the domain now forwards to imf-formacion.com, the web site of Instituto Madrileo de Formacin. PayHere Payment Services Ltd bought PayHere.net for $3,900. The domain was sold by Tucows’ YummyNames. Marchex owns the .com version. A guy ... read more ...
Thu 27th June 2013
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VC changes name to Upfront with a assistance of dual domain name companies - DigiMedia and Name Ninja help Upfront Ventures get Upfront.com domain name. TechCrunch is reporting today about venture capital firm GRP Partners raising a fresh $200 million round and changed its name to Upfront Ventures. Smartly, the VC firm also picked up the domain name Upfront.com as part of the rebrand. I hadn’t heard about the domain name changing hands, so I started digging into DomainTools’ historical whois records to find out the backstory. It turns ... read more ...
 
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New domain marketplace DNX.com rigourously launches - DNX.com facilitates reverse domain name auctions. DNX.com (Domain Name Exchange) has formally launched in beta. The domain marketplace is a joint venture between Media Options and Internet Media Pty. DNX runs reverse domain name auctions, meaning the asking price for the domain name continually drops until someone buys it (or it hits the reserve). Media Options is using DNX to help sell domains that it can’t sell through its normal channels. Here’s how the company ... read more ...
Wed 26th June 2013
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24 finish user domain name sales adult to $28,000 - Raw materials company paid $28,000 for shorter domain name. Afternic had another good sales week. Here are 24 end user domain sales the company facilitated. Emeraude International, a plastics raw materials company, shortened its domain name to merely Emeraude.com for $28,000. Luxury retailer Paris Gallery (which is actually located in the Middle East) bought LuxuryClub.com for $25,000. Pharma company Pro Medico bought Promedico.net for $1,188. It uses Promedico.at, ... read more ...
 
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Major League Baseball buys an “outstanding” domain name - MLB among companies buying domain names last week. Major League Baseball turned to Sedo last week to buy the domain Outstandings.com. I’m not sure what it plans to do with it, although it does award a lot of “outstanding” player awards. Details on that purchase (and other end user domain name purchases on Sedo) are below. Osa Family Clothing Co. Ltd. went global with OSA.com at $20,000. It had been using OSA.hk. Agni Travel Ltd in the UK bought BeachVillas.com ... read more ...
 
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SnapNames gets Japan Registry, Afternic and NameJet get .buzz business - Domain marketplaces get a couple notable client wins. There were a couple unrelated “client win” announcements this morning coming from major domain name marketplaces. First, SnapNames announced that it has inked Japan Registry to an expired domain deal. Japan Registry, part of GMO Internet Group, will send its expired domain stream to SnapNames in an exclusive deal. GMO holds a 90% share of the gTLD market in Japan. Second, Afternic and NameJet announced a deal ... read more ...
Tue 25th June 2013
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Afternic Sells $1.6 Million In Domains Led By Emeraude.com $28K/ LuxuryClub.com $25K -   Afternic.com reportable weekly domain sales report for the week of 6/17/13 – 6/23/13 is out total sales including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $1,157,605. All sales were led by Emeraude.com which is the French word for Emerald and yes I had to look it up. The seller of the domain was Tucows. The second highest sale of the week was LuxuryClub.com, which was sold by Mike Mann’s Domain Asset Holdings. In non-.com sales Jasmin.Tv led the way at $12,000 I have an email out ... read more ...
 
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Sedo.com Transactions Total $1.57M Led By OffMarket.com For $41K - Sedo.com just released their domain transactions for the week 06/16/13 – 06/23/13 totaling $1.57M. The highest priced transaction was offmarket.com at $41,000 followed by meaning.com and OSA.com which sold  for $20,000 each. OffMarket.com was sold by Garry Chernoff. In all, 829 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS. Just under 35% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .coms: offmarket.com at ... read more ...
Sat 22nd June 2013
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Brand.com Is Sold & Brands.com Is For Sale (Bring A Big Checkbook) - According to TechCrunch.com last night and later covered by Morgan Linton, The domain name Brand.com sold for six figures to  Reputation Changer online reputation management company. Seems like a Bargain and great domain. Today it seems the domain name Brands.com is for sale as well. But forget about paying six figures for that domain as the site prominently says: “”For The First Time Ever – Brands.com Is For Sale”” “”Only 7 figure (USD) offers will be considered, if your maximum offer ... read more ...
 
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XM.com Purchased By XEMarkets, A Brand of Trading Point - Trading Point of Financial Instruments Ltd of London, has acquired the  two-letter domain name XM.COM as the short name for XEMarkets for an undisclosed amount. This marks the two letter .com to have sold in the past month as IG.com traded hand to another UK based financial services company.  Although the terms of that deal were no announced the buyer said it was the second highest amount ever spent on a two letter .com next to Facebook acquisition of FB.com at $8.5 Million. XM.COM is the short ... read more ...