Tag Archives: sales

Fri 2nd November 2012
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Marchex’s Sales Prove It: Estibot Appraisals Are Worthless - As a domain owner there is nothing more frustrating than having someone argue that the asking price of your domain is too high because its over “Estibot Appraisal” (unless your price is lower) then they hit you with the “its only worth what someone willing to pay for it” line. Estibot.com for those who don’t know is a tool that attempts to appraise domain name on a bunch of statistical information. For years I have argued that since the tool is not intuitive and only relies on statistical ... read more ...
Thu 1st November 2012
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$24 Million In Domain Sales To Be Added To DnJournal.com - In its announcement splitting Marchex into two separate companies and releasing over 500 domain name sales previously not reported, we reached out to Ron Jackson of DnJournal.com who has served as the “official” record keeper of domain sales to see how he would be handling these sales. In all we count over $24 million dollars in domain sales which took place between 2008-2012 by Marchex. In  answer to our question of whether and how Ron Jackson would be reporting these sales of Marchex on DnJournal, ... read more ...
 
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Marchex’ tip 500 domain sales of all time - Marchex releases a sales data treasure trove. With Marchex’ announcement today that it is spinning off its domain business into Archeo, the company released a treasure trove of data about its domain operations. The biggie: a list of its top 500 domain sales of all time. Many of this (most?) have never been reported. Which means Ron Jackson might be very busy, should he decide to go back and figure out when these domains were sold so he can add them to the charts. Here’s ... read more ...
Wed 31st October 2012
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Two thoughts on $500,000 webhosting.co.uk sale - A mammoth ccTLD sale. Yesterday Sedo domain broker Dave Evanson announced that he had brokered the sale of webhosting.co.uk for $500,000. The buyer, Pawel Ciszewski, doesn’t appear to be new to the webhosting comparison site business. His LinkedIn profile links to a similar site FindMyHosting.com. So Cisznewski knows what he’s doing; he knows what the traffic to the domain and the keyword domain can do. I have two thoughts on this sale. First, congrats to Dave ... read more ...
 
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Sedo .uk auction ends tomorrow - Auction timing is a mixed bag. Sedo’s .uk domain name auction featuring 30 .co.uk and .org.uk domain names ends tomorrow. So far three of the thirty domains have received bids and met their reserves. The top domain is moviedatabase.co.uk at 210 GBP. I spot checked five domains and they were all owned by Sedo subsidiary DomCollect, so this appears to be a house auction. On one hand, the timing for the end of this auction couldn’t be better. The company announced ... read more ...
 
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33 finish user domain sales: TrendMicro, Tufts, Shutterstock, and more - Big companies, small companies, and universities make domain purchases. A broad mix of end users made domain purchases this past week. Afternic The proprietor behind the BetterBaseball.com baseball equipment site expanded with BetterVolleyball.com for $1,250. Home decor company Rowley Company paid $1.888 for InternationalHomeDecor.com. The company behind LocalEats.com, a directory of local (presumably independent) restaurants bought TryLocalFirst.com for $1,000. I ... read more ...
Tue 30th October 2012
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Pizza.At Sells For Almost $100,000 - In what’s going to be a head scratcher for some domainers, the domain name Pizza.At sold for 75,000 Euro’s or just over 97,000. .At is the ccTLD for Austria. We will have to check with Ron Jackson to see if this is a record price paid for a .At Domain The domain name sold at Sedo.com   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Wed 24th October 2012
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40 finish user domain sales - 40 end user domain sales from the past week. It was a busy week for end user domain sales: A university bought the name for its new mascot, a rehab center spent $30k on a category defining domain name, and a company bought a three letter .com as an acronym that likely cost less than it would have paid to get its longer name. Afternic Recruitment company Bernard Hodes Group bought BaptistHealthJobs.net for $1,477. It doesn’t own the .com version. International Pharmaceutical ... read more ...
 
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Cognac.com sells for $140,000 - Cognac.com changes hands again in $140,000 sale. Dallas company Weblabcenter has sold Cognac.com for $140,000, Domain Name Wire has learned. Weblabcenter bought the domain name in a Sedo GreatDomains auction in 2008 for $88,000. That’s nearly a 60% return in about four years. Nhatvi Nguyen of Weblabcenter told me that the company started a blog on the domain name after buying it, but it never amounted to much. The buyer of the domain name is anonymous for now. The ... read more ...
 
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Domain sale roundup: Bankruptcy auction, .xxx, GreatDomains, and SnapNames - Some interesting domain offerings and auctions are on tap over the next 30 days. I’ve received a number of recent announcements regarding domains sales and auctions, and some of them are rather interesting. First, there’s a bankruptcy auction for two portfolios of domain names. One is of 3,000 premium domain names and the other a portfolio of 150,000 domains. There is significant traffic in this portfolio. The auction is result of a long and intriguing battle. ... read more ...
Tue 23rd October 2012
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Afternic.com Sells $1,042,000 In Domains Led By SixPackAbs.com For $58K; Sobriety.com For $30K - Afternic.com just released its weekly report and its quite nice to see some higher dollar transactions on the list. SixPackAbs.com a really nice domain name that was sold by Frank Schilling’s Name Administration Inc led all sales at $58,000. Frank’s Name Administration scored again with the third highest sale of the week vetonline.com for $20K Tucows.com owned names took 2 of th eother 4 spots selling Sobriety.com for $30,000 and HotelBedding.com for $10K Peoplefinders.net was the highest non.com ... read more ...
Fri 19th October 2012
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That offer we only got for your domain is a top you’ll ever get - Ever reject an offer that you wish you would have accepted? Have you ever turned down an offer on one of your domain names only to kick yourself later? Domain investors often talk about “domain sales regret“, when you sell a domain that ends up selling for more later. But I think the opposite is more often the case. You turn down an offer on a domain, only to wish later that you would have accepted it. I can think of a couple cases off the top of my head. One ... read more ...
Thu 18th October 2012
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Monte Cahn on ROTD, Televisions.com, and more - Right of the Dot founder discusses his company’s latest brokerage deal and more. A couple weeks ago Right of the Dot, a company formed by Monte Cahn and Michael Berkens, announced that it was the broker for Televisions.com and related domains. I reached out to Cahn to understand the latest on why Right of the Dot is selling left of the dot, how much the domains might sell for, and more. DNW: I understood what sale.com had to do with “right of the dot” since ... read more ...
Wed 17th October 2012
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20 some-more finish user domain sales - 20 more end user domain sales to report. It’s bonus week for Domain Name Wire readers…two end user sales reports in one week! OK, maybe it’s not that exciting. But there are a couple big names on this week’s list, including Starwood (not it’s first trip to the aftermarket) and The Guardian. Afternic Atlantic Central Bankers Bank bought ACBB.com for $4,999. Its web site is Atlantic Central. Starwood Hotels Resort bought AlohaGuide.com for $2,688. Idealshape, ... read more ...
Tue 16th October 2012
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SnapNames Oct no haven auction ends tomorrow, .ca auction kicks off today - Two auctions worth a look. SnapNames has an “October Deals” auction that ends tomorrow, and I think it’s worth a look. There are 61 domains and it appears none of them have a reserve — just a minimum bid of $199 or more. Many of the domains are ones that you might see sell for $1,000-$3,000 to the right end user, such as AllMBA.com, DebtReductionService.com, DietLogs.com, and SoccerLounge.com. So far 12 of the 61 domains have bids. LBS.org leads the pack with ... read more ...
Fri 12th October 2012
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Poll: How most will 1 and 2 minute .org domains sell for? - What will domains sell for at auction? This week Public Interest Registry, the non-profit that runs .org, announced auctions for 85 one and two character .org domain names. The domains will be auctioned through Go Daddy and eNom in what the company dubs “Project94″. Although basically anyone can bid on the domains, PIR’s pitch to ICANN to release the short domains said that bidders will have to be “committed to building out the domain name with a sound marketing ... read more ...
Thu 11th October 2012
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RH.com Sale: The Buyer is Restoration Hardware & They Paid $304,000 - Yet another find by George Kirikos, the domain name RH.com which was recently purchased Restoration Hardware and reported by Elliotsblog.com a month ago, was bought for $304,000 The finding is from a Sec filing by the company. According to the filing  “In July 2012, the Company purchased the domain rights to the web address “www.rh.com” for $0.3 million” In the cash flow statement its shown as  (304) (in thousands), so that’s $304,000 A real bargain for a two letter domain name especially ... read more ...
 
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Vogel.com Sells For $75,000 - The domain name Vogel.com just sold for $75,000 on Sedo.com Vogel is the dutch word for “bird” The domain name was owned under privacy and is still owned on privacy. Typically you will see domain names at this point into Sedo escrow which it’s not. We will keep our eye.   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Wed 10th October 2012
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Afternic.com Weekly Domain Sales Total $895K Led By DemocraticCapitalism.com At $20K - Afternic’s just issued its reportable weekly domain sales for the week of 10/01/12 – 10/07/12. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $ 894,408   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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TRAFFIC domain auction was a many sparkling in years - Auction was high energy despite low sales prices. If you didn’t attend the domain auction Monday at TRAFFIC, you’ve probably read a bit about: The domains didn’t sell for much. Some people lost money selling domains for less than they bought them for. One of the auctioneers couldn’t read or pronounce most of the domains. A lot of 100 domains sold for below registration fee. These are all true. But there’s something else: This was the most exciting TRAFFIC ... read more ...
 
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PIR taps Go Daddy to auction 1 and 2 impression .org domain names - .Org registry teams with Go Daddy for auction of short domains. Public Interest Registry (PIR) will auction 42 one and two character .org domain names through Go Daddy, the companies announced today. [Update: it appears eNom is involved as well for a total of 94 domains to be auctioned.] The release of these previously reserved domain names was made possible by a registry amendment and plan approved by ICANN earlier this year. Unlike some other top level domains that ... read more ...
Tue 9th October 2012
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Live From The Big Reveal Of The DomainNameSales.com App Now Live on iTunes Store - Frank Schilling just presented his new DomainNameSales.com App at the TRAFFIC conference. First the bad news is the APP its not available for an Android device. The Good news is it is available on the iTunes.com store now. The App “gives you power like no other platform”” said Frank Schilling Some interesting facts from the presentation “85% of all leads comes through link on top of landing page.” This is not news to us at MostWantedDomains.com as we have had a link to our offer form on ... read more ...
Mon 8th October 2012
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FAHRRAD.COM (Bicycle In German) Sells for $117K - The domain name Fahrrad.com just sold on Sedo.com for 90,000 Euro’s or about $117,000 Fahrrad is the German word for bicycle. I would not be surprised at all if the buyer of the domain winds up being the owner of  fahrrad.de     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Afternic scores outrageous domain sales partner with Endurance - Endurance joins Afternic domain sales network. Afternic officially announced today that Endurance International Group has joined the company’s AfternicDLS program. That means customers of Endurance’s various businesses will now see AfternicDLS domain inventory when they search for domains. They’ll also be able to list their domains in Afternic’s system. Endurance is one of the biggest shared hosting and domain registration companies in the world, but it’s ... read more ...
Fri 5th October 2012
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See The Video On How The InternetTraffic, DomainNameSales.com App Works (it’s Cool) - InternetTraffic.com just posted a 2 Minute video on how their new patented DomainNameSales App works. To see the video click here. The product looks very cool, and I can’t wait to get my hands on it to try it out. Basically it lets you in a very simple App format Sell domains, handle offers, negotiate price without the hassle of emails. The App will send the emails to the buyer for you. The App also lets you select one of several brokers if you want them to handle the sale for you. Sales can be ... read more ...