Tag Archives: sales

Tue 11th September 2012
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Sedo Transactions For The Week Total $1.1 Million - Sedo just reported that  754 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1.1 million for last week. 43% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .com: ecapital.com at 30,000 USD ·         Top ccTLD: portalinmobiliario.pe at 7,000 USD ·         Top “other” TLD: saintfrancis.org at 11,000 USD Here are the reportable sales:   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Sun 9th September 2012
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Frank Schilling to launch upgraded domain sales height subsequent month - Schilling says it “exceeds the best sales platforms available”. Frank Schilling has already rocked the domain parking industry with his Internet Traffic service. Now he hopes to shake up how you sell your domain names. In a blog post titled “Lobster“, Schilling explains the current state of domain name investing business as he sees it. Shilling views domain sales as a key part of a balanced approach to making money in the domain name business. Although he ... read more ...
Wed 5th September 2012
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AOL bought a new code for $3,300 and AFL-CIO PAC buys a debate domain name - End user sales report includes some big names. This week’s end user domain name sales report includes a purchase by AOL that’s likely for a new site and the Workers Voices PAC picking up a domain name for the upcoming campaign. Afternic The Hangout, a restaurant in Gulf Shores, Alabama, bought TheGulf.com for $4,479. The owner of EdHelper.com bought EduHelper.com for $$21,288 and ExHelper.com (a typo) for $1,245. The EdHelper.com sale must have been through Afternic’s ... read more ...
Tue 4th September 2012
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Sedo Transactions For The Week “Total Over $1 Million” - Sedo.com just reported its weekly transaction list. 699 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1 million.  (no exact number was furnished) 42% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .com: indotogel.com at 33,000 USD ·         Top ccTLD: runway.ca at 19,000 USD ·         Top “other” TLD: shp.net at 10,000 EUR Here are the reportable sales my favorites were inspirational.com ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy Auctions sells 31,481 domains in August - TeachingJobs.com heads list of domain name sales. The monthly Go Daddy Auctions Domain Market Report is out, and the headline number is 31,481 domain names sold during August. That’s lower than July’s 33,373 domains. The top sale for August was TeachingJobs.com at a strong $89,250. The domain name appears to have been previously developed or used as a lead gen site. Here are the top ten reported sales for the month: teachingjobs.com $89,250 curio.com $60,000 ced.com $60,000 ffun.com $25,000 eduhelper.com $21,288 myeyes.com $19,777 mrcglobal.com $15,000 southernrecycling.com $13,100 officerentals.com $12,500 livecasinotv.com $12,000 Go ... read more ...
Sat 1st September 2012
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ElectricCompany.com Bought Less Than A Year Ago For $8K Sells For $85K A 10X Return - Back on September 4th, 2011, the then seller of the domain name Electriccompany.com reported they just sold the domain name on NameJet.com for $8,321. DnJournal.com reported on the sale of ElectricCompany.com for $85,000 on July 25th, giving the buyer of the domain in September 2011 and better than ten times return on his money in just 10 months, in one of the worst economic times we have ever experienced. This is yet another example of how opportunities are still around to in the domain name industry ... read more ...
Wed 29th August 2012
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19 intelligent finish user domain buys from a past week - From governments to app developers, here are 19 end users that bought domain names over the past week. I’ve nineteen end user sales on the list this week. Enjoy. Afternic Direct response marketing company Ontel Products Corporation bought SoundSleepers.com for $2,088. I don’t see the product on its products page, so maybe it’s a new one. Another business I never thought of: Bar Codes Talk, which lets you create bar codes for your products and instantly print ... read more ...
 
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Do programmed appraisals work? - Sometimes, but there are notable limits. It’s one of the great debates in the domain name industry: do automated domain name appraisals work? Are any domain appraisals (even from humans) accurate? I thought about this again today as I put together the end user sales report. People usually comment that certain domains were priced really low. So I decided to run a non-scientific sample from Afternic’s sales this past week, starting with the top 15 reported sales. ... read more ...
Tue 28th August 2012
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.1 Million Led By MaidService.com For $49,500 - Sedo.com just issued its weekly report. In all 690 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1.1 million. 42% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .com: maidservice.com at 49,500 USD ·         Top ccTLD: rocket.co at 16,000 USD ·         Top “other” TLD: seniorcare.org at 12,000 USD   Here are the reportable sales:   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Mon 27th August 2012
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Your domain names are value reduction than we think - You probably want more money for your domain names than they’re worth. This weekend I was at the mall waiting “about an hour” for my new eyeglasses. With time to kill, I turned to Twitter and saw this tweet from Elliot Silver: Elliot is not one to be over critical, so I had to click through to see what all of the fuss was about. Here’s the background. Recently Elliot started doing a weekly post with a handful of top listings from various domain brokers. ... read more ...
Thu 23rd August 2012
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Possible.com Sells On Afternic.com For $150K - A reader sent me a screen shot showing that the domain name Possible.com sold back on August 6th for $150,000. Afternic.com has not yet reported the sale in its weekly report. DomainTools.com confirms the changed in ownership.   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Wed 22nd August 2012
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.TV and .Me among dual dozen finish user domain sales this week - .tv, .me, and a slurl. This week a .tv and a .me domain were amongst the best end user domain name sales. But before we get into this week’s normal end user sales report, I want to call out a Slurl. Divorce Detox bought the domain name divorcetherapist.com for $995 at Sedo. Now, maybe it’s because of all the media attention to “legitimate rape” this week, but the first thing I read was “Divorce the Rapist dot com”. Therapist is a common slurl word, but ... read more ...
 
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At slightest 38 domains will sell in Dotster auction finale tomorrow - Nearly half of domains in auction have already hit their reserves. It’s genuinely refreshing to see a domain name auction with good quality mid-market domain names and reasonable reserves. That’s how I’d describe the current Dotster auction on SnapNames. With just 24 hours to go, the auction looks like it will be a big success. I count 38 domain names that have met their reserve already. That’s nearly half of the 81 listings. This shouldn’t come as a huge ... read more ...
Tue 21st August 2012
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Afternic.com Sells Almost $1.1 Million in Domain Names - Afternic.com just reported it sales for the week ending August 19th 2012 and recorded sales of $1,072.90. Sales were led by medilert.com for $15,800 which was a domain owned by BuyDomains.com. Here are all the reportable sales:     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Visiting Flippa in Melbourne, Australia - Behind every internet company there are some bricks and mortar. Here’s where Flippa lives. My wife had one rule during our trip to Australia over the past two weeks: no business meetings. Unfortunately for her (but good for me) I had already scheduled one before she put the rule in place. So last week I rode the train to just north of downtown Melbourne to visit Flippa. For the uninitiated, Flippa is to the web site selling business as Sedo and Afternic are to ... read more ...
Mon 20th August 2012
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30 finish user domain sales including Microsoft and America’s Cup - Domain Name Wire’s end user domain sales report. It’s difficult to compile the end user sales report while traveling. It requires bulk whois lookups, yet many registrars rate limit how many whois searches you can run within a time period. When I’m in the office I have a whitelisted IP for lookups at the largest registrar. But when I’m out of the office a lot of whois searches are blocked. Why does this matter to you? Well, I’ve been out of the office for ... read more ...
 
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SportsRantz fixes the “z” problem - Online sports fan site acquires a key domain name for its branding. Now that I’m back from vacation I’m compiling the end user sales report for the past two weeks. As I was researching the purchase of SportsRants.com for $1,415 on Afternic by SportsRantz.com, I found that the buyer had posted a blog entry about why he bought the domain. Most domainers know why already: using a ‘z’ instead of ‘s’ in the domain name was sure to cause problems. It’s called ... read more ...
Thu 16th August 2012
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Invest.com Which Sold For Over $1 Million In 2008, Is Back on The Market - According to a press release out today the domain name Invest.com is back on the sale block. The domain sold in 2008 for $1,015,000. No price is mentioned in the release. Here is the press release: “‘DigitalDNA, a leading digital advisory firm, has been engaged to conduct a private sale process for one of the world’s most valuable domain names, Invest.com. “Due to recent trends in the evolving financial services industry, the timing is now optimal for the right company to acquire this rare ... read more ...
Tue 14th August 2012
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Sedo Reports $1.9 Million in Domains Led By Bra.com For $165K - Sedo just reported  782 transactions took place on its marketplace for last week and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1.9 million. 40% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .com: bra.com at 165,000 USD ·         Top ccTLD: msg.me at 25,000 USD ·         Top “other” TLD: included.org at 4,513 EUR Here are the reportable sales:   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Tucows sells $1.1 million in domains, credits improved classification for increasing sales - Categorization leads to strong aftermarket domain name sales. Last night Tucows reported earnings for the second quarter including $1.1 million in domain name sales from its own portfolio. Revenue from domain sales and parking totaled $1.6 million. Tucows CEO Elliot Noss credits two marketing initiatives for the strong aftermarket domain sales, but it can be summarized in one word: organization. Here’s how he explained it on the investor conference call last night: In ... read more ...
Thu 9th August 2012
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Escrow.com: domain and web site exchange adult 21% - Escrow.com sees transaction growth yet again. How’s the domain name market doing? Quite well, thank you very much. I reached out to Brandon Abbey, president of Escrow.com, to find out how business is this year. Abbey says that Escrow.com’s transaction volume for domain names and web sites was up 15% in the first half of 2012 compared to the same period in 2011. The dollar volume for these transactions was up a whopping 21%. Keep in mind that 2011 was also a record ... read more ...
Wed 8th August 2012
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Sedo Sells XINJIANG.COM For $55K & MSG.Me For $25K - Two sales just crossed the Sedo sales wire, XINJIANG.COM For $55K and MSG.Me For $25K. MSG.me was owned by StartNow International Limited of Great Britain. I’m going to say the buyer was the owner of message.me, although the domain is still in escrow at Sedo.com Message.me just sold at Sedo in June for $20K. Message.me is a partially developed site which is also showing as Sedo as owner at the moment. Here is what Message.me says on their site: “”What is message.me? message.me allows you to ... read more ...
 
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What domains Princeton and others bought this week - Princeton and others make end user domain purchases. Before jumping in to the regular report, Jason Davis brought my attention to a sale that recently closed at GoDaddy. Jobing.com, which owns Recruiting.com, bought Onboarding.com for $20,000. The sale took place at GoDaddy. Afternic Concierge Auctions, LLC bought RanchAuctions.com for $2,088. K. Simon Construction, a roofing company, bought DallasRoofingContractors.com for $2,488. All Generations Home Care dropped ... read more ...
Tue 7th August 2012
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Afternic.com Sells $921K in Domains Led By GlobalCareer.com At $29,600 - Afternic.com just posted it results for the week ending August 5th and totaled $921K in sales. Sales were led by globalcareer.com for $29,600 which was an owned and operated domain of Buydomains.com as was the second highest sale of gobstopper.com for $16,500. Here are the reportable sales:   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Sedo.com Reports $1.4 Million In Transactions - Sedo.com just issued its weekly report. In all 763 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1.4 million. 42% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .com: designers.com at 118,000 USD ·         Top ccTLD: hoteles.es at 275,000 EUR ·         Top “other” TLD: teh.org at 4,000 USD Here are the reportable sales: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...