Tag Archives: sales

Tue 7th August 2012
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Go Daddy sells 32,766 domains led by JustWink.com during $65,000 - Go Daddy Auctions sales from July include a big end user sale. Last month Go Daddy sold 32,766 domain names through its Go Daddy Auctions platform. That’s about the same number as it sold in the previous month. The top sale was for JustWink.com at $65,000, and it had a big name buyer: it was purchased by American Greetings. Here are other top sales on the site in July: lasvegasbailbonds.com $22,005 naq.com $20,000 reducereadmissions.com $20,000 oversite.com $19,000 ... read more ...
Thu 2nd August 2012
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Meet a lady who bought a domain name instead of a house - Business founder spent house deposit on a domain name. I got a kick out of an article in the Sydney Morning Herald today. The story features Posse.com founder Rebekah Campbell. Campbell bought the Posse.com domain name with $28,000 of her savings. “My mother was upset with me about that,” says Campbell. “She had found me a house to buy and I told her: ‘I can’t buy it. I just bought a domain name.'” The domain name, normally a very cheap purchase, was ... read more ...
Wed 1st August 2012
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End user sales news and a warning to TED - End user domain purchases from the past week. Before we jump in with this week’s end user sales report, I have a warning for the famous TED conferences: be careful with your new domain. TED bought xNetwork.org for $1,788. I’m not sure what it plans to use it for, but it should think twice before using this domain. The problem is that xNetwork.com is owned by an adult entertainment company offering “free legal images” for webmasters. Although the site’s homepage ... read more ...
Tue 31st July 2012
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Afternic.com Reported Just Under $1M In Sales Led By 1rc.com For $14,200 - Afternic just reported sales for the week ending July 29th. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to $ 996,285. Here are the reportable sales:   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Weekly Report Totals $1.3 Million - Sedo just posted its weekly sales report which includes transactions which they acted as escrow agent. In all, 823 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1.3 million. 42% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .com: expecting.com at 49,999 USD ·         Top ccTLD: gr.ee at 21,000 EUR ·         Top “other” TLD: finances.net at 10,500 EUR Here are all the reportable ... read more ...
Mon 30th July 2012
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Sedo Issues 2Q 2012 Domain Market Study: $17.5 Million In Sales, 42% BIN, Ave Price Of .Net Exceeds .Com - Sedo.com announced the results of its Q2 2012 Domain Market Study,(pdf) which reveals domain industry trends and changes based on transactions in its marketplace. During the second quarter, a total of 9,049 domain transactions took place through Sedo, accounting for $17.5 Million in sales. By comparison in the 1st Q of 2012 there were 10,133 domain transactions totaling $19,641.75 so a decline of around 10% in both the number of transactions and the total price of transactions from Q1 2012 to Q2 ... read more ...
 
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Sedo sales down 29% in Q2 compared to final year - Overall sales numbers down but trend toward fixed priced domains continues. Sedo’s domain sales in the second quarter were down significantly on a year-over-year basis, the company disclosed today in its quarterly report (pdf). Domain name transactions totaled $17,415,345 in the quarter ending this June. That’s down 29% compared to Q2 2011 and 19% compared to Q2 2010. Quarter-over-quarter sales were down 11%. Summer months are typically a bit slower for domain ... read more ...
 
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Salesforce.com buys Work.com domain name - Another confirmation that Salesforce.com bought Work.com domain name. In March I put together a fairly convincing argument that Salesforce.com had purchased Work.com. Now we have another good confirmation: the nameservers on Work.com have changed to Salesforce.com. Here are the nameservers currently on the Work.com domain name: In March I wrote about how all signs pointed to Salesforce having purchased the domain name. The whois record and brand protection company ... read more ...
Fri 27th July 2012
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Yep, Google bought G.me and it now forwards to Google+ - Google adds another one letter domain name to its collection. In May I wrote about how Google may have purchased the domain name G.me. The domain name was registered to Mark Monitor’s DNStinations, which often times registers domain names on behalf of the company. Now it’s official: Google was the buyer. The nameservers for the domain also point to Google.com now. Type g.me in your browser and you’ll be forwarded to the plus.google.com. The domain name was ... read more ...
Thu 26th July 2012
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20 finish user domain sales from a past week - Fox Broadcasting Company among end user buyers this past week. Here’s Domain Name Wire’s weekly wrap of end user domain name purchases from Afternic and Sedo. Afternic Fox Broadcasting Company bought MidnightBlack.com for $3,588. Any ideas what it’s for? The owner of IrishCityTours.com bought eatplaystay.com for $1,350. This is a great domain and I see variations on this “slogan” from time to time. The only challenge is remembering the word order. Machines ... read more ...
Wed 25th July 2012
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Expecting.com Sold For $50K On Sedo - The domain name Expecting.com just crossed the Sedo sales wire at $49,999. The domain was owned by Kron Studio of  Miami Beach, Florida who seems to have owned the domain since at least 2001, although the original registration date is May 1996. The domain is still in escrow at Sedo so we don’t know who the buyer is yet, but it certainly would be a great domain for a site for soon to be mothers. If you love the idea but just missed this domain,  it looks like expectingmoms.com is for sale over ... read more ...
Tue 24th July 2012
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Recruiter Harry Joiner strikes again with dual some-more domain buys - Recruiter finds strong value in descriptive domain names. I’ve written about headhunter Harry Joiner and his domain name purchases many times. That’s because he’s amassed a great portfolio of quality descriptive domain names for his business. He’s back again… Joiner just completed purchases of ContentJobs.com and CIOsearch.com. I also wrote recently about his purchase of eTailJobs.com through Afternic. Joiner has been acquiring top quality job recruiting ... read more ...
Fri 20th July 2012
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Sedo Report: Total .Co Domain Name Sales $1.64 Million & Average Price of $1,800 is Only 2nd To .Com - Sedo,  on the 2nd anniversary of .Co, unveiled a report that highlights the success of the .co extension since its introduction two years ago today, on July 20, 2010. Here are some of the highlights: The total value of .Co sales at Sedo since July 2010 is 1.64 million USD; .Co was the 9th most frequently sold TLD at Sedo in 2011; Since its introduction, .Co has held a strong average sales price above 1,800 USD, and is currently second only to .com in mean average sales prices; The top .co sale at ... read more ...
 
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End user sales report, Friday edition - 19 end user domain name sales. I’m back in Austin after attending HostingCon (more on that later), so here’s the belated end user domain sales report for this week. In case you missed it, I visited both Afternic’s and Sedo’s offices this week. Afternic Washington Jesuit Academy bought edSolutions.org for $1,000. Actress casting company BubbleGum Casting bought AmateurModeling.com for $2,488 and ModelingGigs.com for $2,000. Global Business Travel Association ... read more ...
Wed 18th July 2012
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Moniker auction ends tomorrow and Sedo gets AT.com exclusive - Auction has numerous bids but most are under reserve while Sedo lands a whale with AT.com brokerage deal. Moniker’s International Premium ccTLD Auction ends tomorrow, and so far the names getting attention are neither ccTLDs or international domains. The top bid is for MovieGuide.com, although the $71,000 bid is below the $100k-$250k reserve range. Other domains with bids above $10,000 but below reserve are PartyLine.com and Trash.com. So far one domain, Smokers.co.uk, ... read more ...
Tue 17th July 2012
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Afternic.com Sells Just $817,414 In Domains - Afternic.com just reported $817,414 in weekly sales. Like Sedo.com this well might be the lowest weekly total for Afternic.com this year. Sales were led by etrol.com which sold for $9,500. Not sure how long its been since the highest domain sale was under $xx,xxx. Here are the reportable sales:   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Sells $1.2 Million In Domains Led By SSM.com during $25K - In what maybe the lowest weekly total for Sedo.com this year, they just reported just $1.2 Million in sales. 44% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. As we know BIN listings tend to be lower priced so the combination of only $1.2 Million in sales with what I think maybe a new high for 2012 of 44% BIN priced domains give support to my Domaining 6.0 post of a week ago. Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .com: ssm.com at 25,000 USD ·         Top ccTLD: ... read more ...
 
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Boston: a core of a domain name aftermarket - Two companies in Boston handle the bulk of the domain name aftermarket. I’m up in Boston for HostingCon, and spent my Monday visiting two of the largest and longest running domain name aftermarkets: NameMedia (Afternic) and Sedo. The two are separated by just a fifteen minute drive, so it’s fair to call Boston the center of the domain name aftermarket. My first stop was NameMedia’s office in Waltham. Signage outside NameMedia’s office in Waltham, MA. NameMedia’s ... read more ...
Wed 11th July 2012
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50 finish user domain sales over a past dual weeks - From sports to health, fifty end user domain sales from the past two weeks. With the U.S. holiday last week I postponed the end user sales report. That means two weeks of data this week — and about 50 sales to report. Here goes… Afternic The Sportsman’s Guide, Inc. picked the UK version of its name, SportsmansGuide.co.uk, for $2,000. A Beautiful California Florist bought ABCFlorist.com (get it, ABC?) for $1,500. Sand Source Services shortened its web address ... read more ...
Tue 10th July 2012
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Afternic.com Sells $2.5 Million In Domain Names - In a double report for two weeks and including a Snapnames Afternic.com domain name action, Afternic.com reported just over $2.5 Million in sales “Total domain sales for the week, including confidential sales and sales under $1000, summed to: ·         $ 1,723,546 for the week of 6/25/12 – 7/01/12 ·         $ 838,752 for the week of 7/02/12 – 7/08/12 Total of $ 2,562,298 for the past two weeks” Here is the reportable sales   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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What Afternic’s stretched understanding with Go Daddy means for domainers - More eyeballs and more sales. This morning Afternic announced an expanded deal with Go Daddy to distribute its non-fixed price domain sales listings through the registrar. Here’s what this means for you… The Afternic deal will help you get more of your domain names on to the most valuable end user shelf space in the world: Go Daddy’s registration path. “Registration path” basically refers to the search results page when you search for a domain at GoDaddy.com. Before ... read more ...
Mon 9th July 2012
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NameJet.com Reports $500K In Sales In June - Namejet.com just released it reportable sales $2K and over for June and they totaled just under $511,000 in sales lead by SportsPicks.com $25,660 Here are the domains: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Fri 6th July 2012
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Go Daddy Auctions Jun sales down (but that doesn’t meant a downturn in a market) - Aftermarket domain sales robust despite lower numbers on Go Daddy Auctions. Last month Go Daddy Auctions sold 31,896 domain names. That’s down from 35,094 in May. The number of domains sold on the platform has been on a downward trend for several months. I reached out to Paul Nicks, Director – Domain Name Aftermarket at Go Daddy, to find out what’s behind the decline: Seasonality is a factor during summer months. We’ve also seen a direct correlation with an ... read more ...
Mon 2nd July 2012
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One domainer’s fascinating 15 year income statement - The ups and downs of the domain name business. Domain investor and web site creator Eric Borgos just published a list of the domains he has sold in the first half of the year. It’s quite interesting and worth a read. But I want to draw domainers’ attention to another page on Borgos’ site that has always fascinated me. He publishes his revenue and net profit by year dating back to 1997. To be clear, Borgos develops web sites on many of the domains he owns. But ... read more ...
Fri 29th June 2012
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1886.com Sells for $9,100 On NameJet.com and 15 More Three Letter .Com’s Sell - The domain name 1886.com sold for $9,100 on Namejet.com and 15 more  three letter .com domain name auctions  15 domain names selling between $3,400 and $4,600. Here are the sales:   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...