Tag Archives: sales

Thu 21st February 2013
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Brand.com goes on a market - This domain name doesn’t need branding. For the first time since it was originally registered in 1995, the domain name Brand.com is up for sale. [Update: it has sold.] Chuck Pettis registered the domain name in 1995 and used it for his company BrandSolutions. BrandSolutions has advised a who’s who of major brands on their branding strategy over the years. He’s been reluctant to part with the domain name, which has been closely tied to the business. “I’ve ... read more ...
Wed 20th February 2013
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What domains Yelp, Bayer, and 16 others bought this week - Sedo brokers domain to Yelp and 17 other end user buyers. Sedo had a fairly strong week for end user domain sales, including selling a .ph domain to Yelp. Here’s the list: Harley Street Health Checks UK Ltd picked up HealthChecks.co.uk for 1,051 GBP. Reviews site Yelp bought Yelp.com.ph, the country code domain for the Philippines, for $4,000. Domainers.eu sold for 789 EUR. Regardless of whether it was bought for business or as an investment, it qualifies as an ... read more ...
 
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25 More End User Domain Sales - CarMax and United Way among buyers at Afternic last week. Here are 25 end user domain sales from Afternic last week. Young Americans United, which is part of American Association of Young People, bought YAU.us for $3,200. A CSC client bought Skytouch.net for $1,000 Carbon Credit Solutions Inc. went global with CarbonCreditSolutions.com for $2,500. It already owns CarbonCreditSolutions.ca. Barry L. Cohen Associates paid $1,088 for CohenLaw.net. United Way of Metro ... read more ...
Tue 19th February 2013
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Sedo.com Transactions for The Week Total $1.2 Million - Sedo.com just reported its weekly transactions, in all 763 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling just under $1.2m. Over 45% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .com: partners.com at 125,000 USD ·         Top ccTLD: videoshop.tv at 14,000 EUR ·         Top “other” TLD: assurance.org at 16,500 EUR All sales were led by Partners.com at $125K. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Afternic Sells $1.1 Million In Domains Led by DiscountLoans.com At $39,000 - Afternic.com just published it reportable weekly domain sales for the week of 2/11/13 – 2/17/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $1,083,230 Sales were led by DiscountLoans.com at $39,000 and Clearwireless.com which sold for $12,000 probably to clearwire.com although the whois hasn’t updated yet. Non-.com’s were led by Hey.co which sold for $7,400.   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Get your one-year-old reward domains right here, folks! - A strange pitch for a domain name. I receive a lot of funny emails pitching domain names for sale. From the completely-unrelated-domain pitch: “Because you own HonoluluNannies.com, we thought you might like the domain SuperFastSportsCarsDepot.com” to the WTF would anyone do with that domain? pitch: “LasVegasCruises.com is now for sale!” (that was a real pitch I got last week). This week’s selling point? That a domain was one year old. I received two emails ... read more ...
Mon 18th February 2013
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eHow: “How to Become a Domain Broker” - …in six simple steps. eHow is owned by Demand Media, which owns the world’s second largest domain name registrar, eNom. These guys know a lot about domain names. Unfortunately you can’t say the same thing about eHow’s writers. A Domain Name Wire reader sent me this humorous article “How to Become a Domain Broker”. The good news is all you need to become a domain broker is a credit card or PayPal account, according to the author. Once you read through the ... read more ...
Sat 16th February 2013
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Dear Miami Beach: save yourself some difficulty and don’t buy this domain - City is apparently spending internal resources looking at a domain it shouldn’t bother with. Today’s Miami Herald reports about the domain name CityOfMiamiBeach.net. The article explains that the husband of a Miami Beach Commissioner is brokering the sale of the domain name. It goes on to discuss the city’s ethics rules and the problems of having a commissioner’s husband broker the sale. The broker said he’d hand negotiations over directly to the seller ... read more ...
Thu 14th February 2013
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ICM Sells 25 Domains Including Singles.xxx, SexVideos.xxx, AdultChat.xxx For $185K - ICM Registry, the registry operator for the .XXX top-level domain announced today in a press release  that “IRIS SARL, based in Luxembourg, has secured an additional 25 Premium Domains in a deal worth $185,000″. “This is the second significant order from IRIS who previously acquired $650,000 of premium names back in September 2012.” The new .XXX names include singles.xxx, sexvideos.xxx, adultchat.xxx and many more popular niche sectors of the adult market”. “The Chairman of IRIS commented.” ... read more ...
 
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Tucows: fewer large domain sales, though good numbers on reduce labelled domains - Tucows generates less revenue from its portfolio but sales of $2,000-$3,000 domains still strong. Tucows reported earnings yesterday, which should give domainers some insight into how large domain portfolio holders are doing. The headline number is that sales from Tucows’ domain portfolio in Q4 2012 were $300,000 less than the same quarter of 2011. But a lot of that has to do with the lumpiness of high dollar domain sales. Here’s how Tucows CEO Elliot Noss explained ... read more ...
 
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BuzzFeed buys BuzzFeed.co.uk - BuzzFeed gets a country code domain and other end user domain purchases. There aren’t a lot of end user domain purchases from Sedo to report this week. A lot of domains that are probably end user sales are still in escrow. But there are a couple big names on this week’s list, including BuzzFeed and Eli Lilly. Swiss company HRsolution International AG bought HRSolution.co.uk for $1,300 BuzzFeed bought Buzzfeed.co.uk for 2,150 GBP. It is forwarding the domain name ... read more ...
Wed 13th February 2013
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Sports.TV Sold to Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios - The domain name Sports.TV has been sold to Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios of Los Angeles California. The price was not disclosed. The domain was listed for sale back in November of 2012 in a Domainstore.TV newsletter for $650,000. The sale is under NDA so we don’t know what the purchase price of the domain is, but we do know that the buyer of Sports.TV owns one of the best .TV domain portfolios in the world. We covered Bryon Allen’s company back in October 2010 and we noted at TheDomains.com ... read more ...
 
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23 finish user domain name sales - Buyers include two public companies. Here is a list of end user domain sales through the Afternic platform last week. Onesta Restaurant Consultants paid $1,488 for RestaurantAdvisors.com Ottawa landscaping company Instant Lawns bought InstantLawns.com for $3,500 to go with its InstantLawns.ca domain name. Online fundraising service YouCaring.com paid $1,500 for HeroPages.com Event and travel company Wyndham Jade bought RoomLogic.com for $1,500. Documentary film maker ... read more ...
Tue 12th February 2013
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Afternic Sells $1 Million In Domain Names - Afternic.com just published its reportable weekly domain sales for the week of 2/4/13 – 2/10/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $ 1,015,525. A pretty unimpressive list of domains, but congrats to all Sellers and Buyers. Here are the reportable sales:   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Mon 11th February 2013
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AdExchange.com and other finish user domain sales - An ad exchange buys AdExchange.com and more end user domain sales. I was at Webfest all last week so I’m behind on end user sales reports. Here’s last week’s Sedo end user report. Think Money Group Limited in the UK bought InvestmentsDirect.co.uk for 1,000 GBP. TV gaming company NetPlay TV Group Limited paid 7,000 GBP for SuperSports.co.uk. Online advertising company Hi-Media bought the category-defining domain name AdExchange.com for $12,000. Redfinger Trading ... read more ...
 
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Religion drives Afternic’s large sales week - Religious domain names fill the collection plate. Afternic had a big week-before-last, selling nearly $1.6 million worth of domains. It typically sells around $1.0 million, but was aided by several high dollar sales. Two of the big sales were religious — Pastor.com for $45,000 and Pulpit.com for $25,000. The owner of Sermons.com and Clergy.net bought Pulpit.com for $25,000. Although Pastor.com is still in escrow, I’d bet its the same buyer. Another big sales was ... read more ...
Fri 8th February 2013
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Apuestas.com (Spanish For Bet) Sells For 165,000 Euro’s On Sedo.com - The domain name Apuestas.com just sold on Sedo.com for 165,000 Euro’s or $220,000 Apuestas is a Spanish word that translates into “bet” in english. The seller was  Apuestas Limited. The domain has an original registration date of 2001. The domain name has been used as a parked page for many years     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Thu 7th February 2013
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Sedo 2012: Domain Market Study: 36K Transactions; Ave Sale $1,885 - Sedo, the world’s largest domain marketplace and monetization provider, today announced the results of its Annual Domain Market Study with Q4 2012 review, revealing domain industry trends and changes based on transactions in its marketplace. In 2012, Sedo powered 36,181 transactions in its domain marketplace with a mean average price of $1,885 across all sales, and a median price of $600. In the 4th Quarter of 2012 Sedo’s transactions totaled just over 16 Million in domain names. Total sales ... read more ...
 
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Dick’s Sporting Goods buys 3 domain names for $395,000 - Retailer purchases sports-related domain names. Sporting goods giant Dick’s Sporting Goods has purchased three sports related domain names for $395,000. Garry Chernoff sold Runners.com, SportGear.com, and SportsGear.com to the company in a package. The deal was brokered by Andrew Hunovice, who previously helped Chernoff sell BowlingBalls.com for $225,000. You can read about some of Chernoff’s other sales here. Chernoff’s exciting story about getting into the ... read more ...
Tue 5th February 2013
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Afternic.com Sells $1.6M In Domains Led By uLive.com For $75K & Pastor.com For $45K - Afternic’s just issued its reportable weekly domain sales for the week of 1/28/12 – 2/3/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $ 1,585,647. All sales were Led by uLive.com which sold for $75,000 and Pastor.com which was purchased for $45,000 Pastor.com is resolving to sermons.com and was owned by Tucows. uLive.com is now registered to Matt Serlin DNStination Inc. so its a corporate buyer. Also Pulpit.com sold for $25K but seems to be ... read more ...
 
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Sedo.com Transactions Total $1.6 Million Led By Pay.Co For $46K - Sedo just reported that 831 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1.63 Million. Over 44% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .com: isugar.com at 25,000 USD ·         Top ccTLD: pay.co at 46,087 USD ·         Top “other” TLD: itv.org at 26,900 USD Here are the reportable sales:       Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Mon 4th February 2013
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UPDATED: ICM Sells Mobile.XXX For $160,000 - NOTE: We have now gotten confirmation from ICM that the price paid for Mobile.XXX was $160,000, the 350 other domains acquired by the buyers were separate and apart from the $160,000 Paid. The story has now been updated to reflect this information. SexGoesMobile has acquired the domain name Mobile.xxx for $160,000 from ICM Registry the operator of the .XXX domain name TLD. Mobile.XXX will provide live cams, video and dating in 10 languages. ICM Registry said that of the last 5 million visits to its ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy Auctions sells 35,156 in January - Go Daddy has a good month for aftermarket sales. Go Daddy Auctions saw an uptick in sales last month, completing 35,156 domain sales. That’s higher than previous months by about 2,000 domain names. The top 10 sales were: numotion.com $45,750 – purchased by an advertising agency in Albuquerque, New Mexico. discountloans.com $39,000 washingtondcrealestate.com $28,500 – sold by Frank Schilling, hasn’t transferred yet. topapps.com $25,000 – bought by the owner ... read more ...
Fri 1st February 2013
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SnipesShop.de was $50,000 customer of Snipes.com - Company shrinks URL and gets a .com for its online store. In December Afternic reported that it had brokered the sale of Snipes.com for $50,000. I’ve patiently watched the domain as it sat in escrow for a loooong time. The whois record on the domain name just changed to reveal the buyer: Snipes GmbH. The company sells sportswear and skate clothing at SnipesShop.de. It already owned Snipes.de, which it forwarded to SnipesShop.de. Getting Snipes.com is even better ... read more ...
Thu 31st January 2013
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Makeup.com sole for $2 million, Rodeo.com and Karate.com for $500k total - L’Oreal paid $2 million for domain in 2010. I was digging through some SEC filings today when I came across some prices on domain name sales. The sales all involve what is now known as General Cannabis, Inc. (Correction: it changed its name again to SearchCore.) The three big domains were at one time part of the Communicate.com/LiveCurrent fiasco. First, I reported in 2010 that Makeup.com had sold for seven figures to L’Oreal. A March 2011 filing verifies that ... read more ...