Tag Archives: sales

Wed 30th January 2013
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Sedo finish user domain sales report - Lawyers, watch company, and a university buy domains on Sedo. This week’s Sedo end user sales report is a little light. There are a lot of domains still in escrow and a bunch of big sales that have whois privacy. Watch company UHR, which recently paid 990 EUR for UHR.biz, bought UHR.tv for 700 EUR. WISE International — that stands for World Institute of Scientology Enterprises — bought Prosperity.tv for $10,000. LibertyBell Law Group in Burbank bought AttorneysInLosAngeles.com ... read more ...
 
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17 finish user domain sales during Afternic - Law firm’s $17,500 purchase of TrafficLaw.com among Afternic’s end user sales last week. Afternic had a relatively slow sales week by dollar volume last week. But it had some notable end user sales, including the sale of TrafficLaw.com. St. Louis area pharmacy Elliott Pharmacy bought ElliottPharmacy.com for $1,477. Construction company Skilled Trades bought SkilledStaffing.com for $2,088. Fashion designer John Varvatos picked up Varvatos.com for $1,000. Better ... read more ...
Tue 29th January 2013
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Afternic Sells $885K in Domain Names Led By Trafficlaw.com For $18.5K - Afternic’s just issued its weekly domain sales for the week of 1/21/12 – 1/27/13. Total domain name sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $ 886,564. Trafficlaw.com sold for $18,500 to lead the pack. TheWindows.com sold for $11K (although the domain is still pointing to BuyDomains.com) Here are the reportable sales of domains:     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.4 Million Led By Frank Schilling’s $60k Sale Of Salledebain.com - Sedo.com just published its weekly report and in all 715 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.42m. Just under 43% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. The high sale of the week was Frank Schilling’s Name Administration sale of  salledebain.com (bathroom in French)for $60k Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .com: salledebain.com at 60,000 USD ·         Top ccTLD: connect.tv at 25,000 USD ·         Top ... read more ...
 
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Which Webfest auction domains are best? - Webfest auction is small but packed with great domains. Last week I previewed some of the domains that were added to the Webfest auction taking place next week in Santa Monica. Now that the list is finalized, let’s take a look. The first piece of good news: there are only 55 domain names in the auction. That means no mammoth auction that takes five hours to complete. The other good news: there are some great domain names in this auction. Of course, that doesn’t ... read more ...
Fri 25th January 2013
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The Age aged Question Is Answered: Sin.net Sells For More Than PointSpreads.com - For thousands of years people have argued about things like, Sin and gambling? Now at least in domain name terms we have an answer, not as to which is worse, but to which is more valuable. The domain name Sin.net just sold on Namejet.com for $16,587 The domain name PointSpreads.com got purchased for a mere $12,877. Here are a few other notable sales from NameJet.com: Owl.net just got sold for just $2K Better to be a sinner than a wise Owl I guess. Chaz.com sold for $8,500, the only Chaz I’m aware ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy.com .info auction ends today, Social.info over $7,000 - Auction of over 100 domain names is led by Social.info. An auction of 135 registry-held .info domain names ends today on GoDaddy.com. The top domain so far is social.info, which has 80 bids and is up to $7,305. (Social.com sold for $2.6 million in 2011.) Home.info, Computer.info, Fashion.info, and Test.info have all been bid up over $5,000. In a previous .info auction the top sales were cancer.info (which sold for $16,005 to an Arizona home care agency) and loans.info ... read more ...
Thu 24th January 2013
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Should domain marketplaces boost smallest bid requirements? - Is $60 or $250 too low for a minimum offer? Should you be forced to set something higher? It seems that Go Daddy’s inclusion of non-priced domains from Sedo set off the latest round of discussions about minimum offer prices, but it’s a discussion that’s been going on for years. Sedo has a minimum offer price of $60. The minimum commission is $50, but may be waived if you park your domain with them. Afternic has a minimum offer price of $250. Its minimum commission ... read more ...
Wed 23rd January 2013
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Sedo finish user sales: SocialismSucks.com, Torrents.com, and more - Sedo’s end user sales include Torrents.com at 84,700 EUR. This week I’m trying something a little different with my end user sales lists: I’m breaking Sedo and Afternic into two separate posts. Keep in mind that these end user reports have only a subset of the end user sales for the week, even a subset of what each marketplace sold that is public. In order to be included it has to be an obvious end user sale. Many sales are still in escrow or protected by whois ... read more ...
 
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What domains Target, CareerBuilder, and others bought on Afternic this week - Target, CareerBuilder, and the franchisor for TCBY stores make domain purchases. As promised, here’s the Afternic sales report for the past week. Some big name buyers picked up domains through the Afternic network. Retail giant Target bought TargetScholarships.com and TargetScholarship.com for $1,477 each. Nationwide Structured Cabling bought NationwideSupport.com for $1,500. Sales consulting company Cohen Brown Management Group bought the killer domain CrossSelling.com ... read more ...
Tue 22nd January 2013
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Afternic Sells $1 Million In Domain Led By Everclear.com For $18K - Afternic.com just released it sales for the week  of 1/14/12 – 1/20/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $ 1,014,103. Here are the reportable sales led by Everclear.com for $18K If you think you have heard that term before, you have, and you can refresh you alcohol saturated brain over at Wikipedia, to recollect why you heard of it. We don’t know who they buyer is as the domain is under privacy and going to a Godaddy Placeholder Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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Sedo.com Transactions Total $1.6 Million - Over the past week, 1076 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling just under $1.6m. Over 42% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .com: torrents.com at 84,700 EUR ·         Top ccTLD: compare.to at 17,650 EUR ·         Top “other” TLD: eir.org at 9,888 USD   Here is a list of the reportable sales:     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Bali.com, JF.com, and Message.com combined to Webfest live auction - Big names added to live Moniker domain name auction. The list of domains for next month’s live auction during Webfest is growing. Bali.com has been added with a reserve range of $750,000 to $1,000,000. The site is owned by a Bali travel company. According to it’s about page, it has been operating as Bali.com since 2000. There are two 2 letter .com domains in the auction: xu.com and jf.com. The former has a reserve of $100,000-$250,000 and the latter has a reserve ... read more ...
Thu 17th January 2013
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Trailers.net gets $15k bid and Great Domain Auction starts - Plenty of action at Sedo this month and a wide range of TLDs in Great Domains auction. Sedo’s monthly Great Domains auction has started and will run through January 24. The auction includes 199 domain names and all but 8 have reserves under $/EUR/GBP 10,000. This month’s auction includes a number of country code domain names and .nets — a lot more than I’m used to seeing. Some of the ccTLDs are crisis.co.uk, wireless.co.uk, gay.es, and the ironic Russia.it. While ... read more ...
Wed 16th January 2013
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Rachael Ray buys her husband’s name and 28 some-more engaging domain purchases - 29 end user domain sales including some big names. Memo to Rachael Ray’s husband: she owns you. This week’s end user domain sales report includes Rachael Ray buying her husband’s (domain) name, Hubspot, Taser, and more. Afternic Better Bathrooms UK Limited paid $3,388 for BetterLights.com. Animal Finders, a new service designed to help connect lost animals with their owners, bought PetsReunited.com for $1,600. It operates in the UK at AnimalFinders.co.uk; I ... read more ...
Tue 15th January 2013
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Afternic.com Sales Total $970K - Afternic.com just reported its sales for the week of 1/7/12 – 1/13/13. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $ 967,502. My favorite of the week is TuitionPaymentPlan.com which sold for $5k Here are the reportable sales: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.8 Million Led By Wolfgangs.com during $50K - Sedo.com just issued its weekly report and in all 1,055 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1.78m. The domain name Wolfgangs.com led the way selling at $50,00o No it wasn’t Wolfgang Puck who bought the domain nor was it Wolfgangs Steakhouse (who really could have used the domain as well since they don’t even have a .com) The domain is now forwarding to its new owners, wolfgangsvault.com Over 46% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights ... read more ...
 
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Using live discuss to sell domain names - Live support chat can help sell domain names if executed well. Have you ever been on an e-commerce site when a window pops up asking you if you need help? Live chat on e-commerce sites is a critical component of pushing sales and reducing cart abandonment. So I was delighted this morning to see Sedo doing this on their domain listing pages. I had a domain listing on Sedo.com open in my browser for a while. Next thing I know I see a friendly young lady asking if I ... read more ...
Fri 11th January 2013
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Why $1.2 million for Rockies.com didn’t pass my spot test - Major League Baseball is denying that it paid $1.2 million when it bought Rockies.com. That doesn’t surprise me. This week you may have wondered why I didn’t cover the purchase of Rockies.com by Major League Baseball. After all, I’ve chronicled MLB’s quest to acquire the domain names of each of its 30 teams. I believe I was also the first to write about Rockies.com going up for sale. Here’s why I didn’t cover it: I didn’t believe it. Well, I believed ... read more ...
Wed 9th January 2013
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What domains Reader’s Digest and 23 others bought final week - Reader’s Digest buys a .net and other end user domain sales. This week’s end user sales report includes big names like Reader’s Digest and the UAW. Also note the handful of companies that bought the .net equivalent of one of their .com domain names. Afternic The owner of Audioteka.pl bought Audioteka.com for $12,000. Vancouver Laptop, a laptop repair shop, paid $1,499 for ReplacementScreen.com. It already owns VancouverLaptop.com and VacouverLaptops.com. Sign ... read more ...
Tue 8th January 2013
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Afilias and Go Daddy to reason second .info auction - Second “sunrise” auction features 135 .info domain names. Afilias and Go Daddy are teaming up for a second .info auction consisting of domain names originally reserved in the .info sunrise period in 2001. The auction includes 135 .info domain names that were claimed as trademarks in the sunrise period, but the sunrise applications were later deemed invalid. The previous auction of over 100 domain names included cancer.info (which sold for $16,005 to an Arizona ... read more ...
Fri 4th January 2013
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Afternic Sells Over $1.8 Million In Domains Led By TreadMill.com $81K & WeWatch.com $65K - Afternic.com published a combined weekly report for sales from 12/17/12 – 12/30/12 today reporting total sales of $ 1,815,304, led by Treadmill.com at $81,250 and WeWatch.com at $65,000. The owner of WeWatch.com is uncertain at this point but the domain is registered to Brand Protection company MarkMonitor.com bitcoin.us led all non-com sales at $17,500 $7,500 for ahhhhhhh.com seemed like a nice price Here are the reportable sales: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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First demeanour during Webfest auction, and Mike Mann auction on SnapNames - First dozen domains from Webfest auction released and Mike Mann’s DomainMarket.com teams up with SnapNames. Pre-bidding has opened for the Webfest Live Auction taking place next month at Webfest Global (formerly DOMAINfest). Only a dozen of the domains have been listed so far, but that list will grow between now and February. Thin.com, Twin.com, and Wrestlers.com are among the domains on auction. One domain – briskets.com – already has a bidder. In other SnapNames ... read more ...
Thu 3rd January 2013
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Sedo holiday finish user sales report - A slow couple weeks but some good end user domain purchases. Domain sales typically slow during the holidays, and that’s evident in Sedo’s year end sales report. The company turned in $1.38 million in sales over two weeks. It typically sells that much in one week. I’m still waiting on Afternic’s year end sales. For now here are the end user sales I found on Sedo’s report, including a sale to Warner Music. Everest Reinsurance Company bought SpecialtyInsuranceGroup.com ... read more ...
Wed 2nd January 2013
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Go Daddy Auctions sole 32,767 domains in December, led by $50k Marchex deal - Travel domain sells for $50,000 to lead Go Daddy sales last month. Go Daddy Auctions is reporting 32,767 domain names sold in December. The top sale was VisitSanFrancisco.com, a domain sold by Marchex. The $50,000 purchase was made by San Francisco Travel Association, which owns SanFrancisco.travel. Other top sales include: league.com $40,005 zodia.com $35,421 silvergate.com $22,000 – purchased by Silvergate Bank in Southern California. The bank’s site is SilvergateBank.com. beats.us ... read more ...