Tag Archives: sales

Tue 29th May 2012
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Afternic.com Sells $1,040K in Domains Led By BathroomIdeas.com For $29,400 - Afternic just published its weekly report of sales. Total sales summed to $ 1,037,139 The high sale for the week was bathroomideas.com At $29,400, The domain was sold by BuyDomains.com own inventory and the buyer appears to be Nokta.com Here are all the reportable sales:   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Fri 25th May 2012
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What domains Kanye West and others bought this week - Kanye West buys domain name for new short film. Kanye West has made some interesting naming decisions in the past. So let’s give him credit for buying CruelSummer.com for $3,000. Cruel Summer is the name of his new short film. Here are some other end user domain buys from the past week. All sales took place at Afternic unless otherwise noted. Forbes writer Rich Karlgaard, who has written about the “Power of Pairs”, paid $1,595 for PowerPairs.com. I wrote about ... read more ...
 
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Hipsters.com for sale: Afternic teams adult with SnapNames for auction and .Me kicks off during Sedo - Where are my black framed glasses? SnapNames just started its “Summer Kick-Off Auction“, run in conjunction with Afternic. Although most of the domains in the auction are owned by Afternic or an affiliate company, some of the domains appear to be owned by the company’s larger clients. Compared to recent auction lists, this one looks to be a winner. My personal favorite: Hipsters.com for under $10,000. That’s a great domain. Ambitious.com $10k-$25k Authorization.com ... read more ...
Thu 24th May 2012
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Warner Bros buys Injustice.com for $7500 – a new online game? - Movie studio buys domain Injustice.com — for a new online game or movie? Movie studio Warner Bros. has purchased the domain name Injustice.com for $7,500 through Afternic. This is one of those domains with many uses, but that the owner must have known could end up being the title of a movie or game. It’s kind of like Invasion.com, which is in Sedo’s Great Domains auction this week. However, Injustice.com has a lot more commercial uses than Invasion.com. It ... read more ...
Tue 22nd May 2012
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Afternic.com Sells $942K in Domain Names - Afternic.com just released it weekly report, selling $942,375 in domain names. Sales where lead by Summon.com which went for a very reasonable (IMHO) $17K Also like Adopted.com which sold for $15,500 On the other hand Instantly.net for almost $17K seems less of a bargain. Here are the reportable sales:   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Sedo.com Sells $2.2 Million In Domains - Sedo has just published it weekly report of sales and in all, 877 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $2.2 million. 39% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .com: kindred.com at 50,000 USD ·         Top ccTLD: interest.me at 80,000 USD ·         Top “other” TLD: amara.org at 25,000 USD Here are the reportable sales: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Mon 21st May 2012
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My picks for Sedo’s Great Domains auction - Great Domains auction ends Thursday. Here’s what I like. This month’s Great Domains auction at Sedo ends on Thursday. The lineup doesn’t include as many big ticket domains as usual; there’s only one domain with a reserve over $25,000. But that’s OK, there are some good domains worthy of attention. Here are ones that popped out to me: Reconnect.com – With a reserve range $10k-$25k, this would be good only if you have a plan for the domain. I can think ... read more ...
 
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Viacom association buys Film.com - NextMovie picks up Film.com. MTV Networks site NextMovie has acquired Film.com, the company announced last week. MTV Networks is part of publicly traded Viacom. This was not a domain name purchase; it was a full fledged web business. Film.com has a U.S. Quantcast rank of about 15,000. Still, it’s always noteworthy to see web sites built on fantastic domains like this change hands. I searched Viacom’s SEC filings and can’t find any information about the acquisition. ... read more ...
Sat 19th May 2012
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Did Google only buy G.me? - G.me now registered to brand protection company. The whois record for the domain name G.me recently changed to DNStination Inc., which is the proxy service for brand protection company Mark Monitor: The change was just triggered on DomainTools yesterday, although the record shows it was altered on April 20. The domain name was previously a registry reserved domain name. Although nothing is definitive, there’s a good possibility that Google is the new owner. Google ... read more ...
Thu 17th May 2012
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MLB buys Athletics.com domain name - Major League Baseball makes another big domain acquisition. Just a couple days ago I was revisiting a post I wrote in 2010 about Major League Baseball’s domain names. The only change to the list since I posted was MLB picking up Angels.com. But this week MLB picked up another one. Jamie Zoch of dotWeekly discovered that the league just bought Athletics.com. That leaves just five teams that MLB doesn’t own the “exact” domain name for. Of the remaining domains, ... read more ...
 
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Moniker Spring auction results - Moniker auction nets close to $20,000 in sales. The Moniker Premium Spring Auction at SnapNames just concluded. Here are the (unofficial) results: drivinggloves.com 6450 – this is a recently developed site. Auction included Facebook page (with 2,000+ likes) and Twitter handle. florists.info 3050 – good keyword, but not a bad price given how marketplace for secondary TLDs like this will change in coming years. loaninterestrates.com 2000 obese.net 1650 – 5 bidders ... read more ...
Wed 16th May 2012
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Intuit buys Apps.net for 24,100 EUR among 25 finish user domain sales - Intuit picks up Apps.net domain name and other notable domain purchases. The biggest name on this week’s end user domain sales report is Intuit. The company (of Quicken and Quickbooks fame) bought Apps.net for EUR 21,400 at Sedo. It already owns Apps.com. It offers Intuit Apps for many of its products. Here are other domain name purchases by end users over the past week. Sedo Ad network Multi-View, Inc. made this week’s big $112,000 purchase of AHHA.com. Travel ... read more ...
Tue 15th May 2012
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Zimbabwe.com seller takes outrageous loss - Zimbabwe.com sells for a fraction of what it sold for in 2007. We always hear stories about people who bought domains and flipped them for many times their purchase price. But the opposite also happens. Take the case of Zimbabwe.com, which just sold for $42,500 at Sedo. The last time this domain (reported) sold was in 2007. Purchase price: $130,000. It’s possible the domain also changed hands in 2008. Regardless of if it has changed hands since 2007, the domain ... read more ...
Mon 14th May 2012
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Purchased For Less Than 4K Last Year, FreeBookings.com To Become The US Arm Of A Company That Raised $62M - TechCrunch.com just covered the site Live Bookings which TechCrunch referred to as the Opentable.com of Europe. The company just picked up $24 Million more in funding bringing it total capital raised by the company to $62 Million dollars. The London based company, in a Press Release clearly laid out its plans to use the domain name FreeBookings.com in the US for its online reservation system or the equivalent of its Live Bookings site in the Europe Live Bookings bought the domain name FreeBookings.com ... read more ...
 
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The inside story of Mama.com - Mamma.com owner selling Mama.com. I was originally a bit surprised to see mama.com in Moniker’s Spring Auction ending this week. Then I realized the domain on auction is actually a typo of the once popular search engine Mamma.com — not the search engine itself. Well, sort of a typo, as I later found out. I reached out to the founder of Mama.com owner Empresario, Omar Solis. As it turns out, his company bought the Mamma.com search engine in a deal completed in ... read more ...
Thu 10th May 2012
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Jewelry.co gets $24,000 bid on Sedo - .Co domain gets a big bid and other notable Sedo domain auctions. Here are some Sedo auctions worth checking out. The owner of Jewelry.co has sent the domain name to auction after receiving a $24,000 offer. The auction ends May 12. Crackon.com also has a strong bid of $11,500. The auction for Crackon.com ends May 15. Another interesting auction is for RealityWife.com. The site used to be a porn site. When it was active in 2007 and 2008 the site had revenue of over ... read more ...
Wed 9th May 2012
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Vertical Axis Puts Attorney.com Up For Sale With A Minimum Reserve Price of $2.25 million - Vertical Axis Inc is selling the category killer domain name Attorney.com The domain is under exclusive brokerage DomainHoldings.com with a  minimum reserve price for the name at $2.25 million. According to a press release out this morning: “Legal is among the more competitive verticals with hundreds of millions of dollars spent on online advertising annually,” Domain Holdings CEO Jason Boshoff said. “Owning this name provides any entity with interests in the space with a unique positioning ... read more ...
 
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Sedo.com Sells Apps.net For $32K & W.TO For $52K - Two interesting sales from Sedo this morning The domain name Apps.net just sold for 24,100 Euro’s or about $31,330. The seller was Branchenpresse Verlag GmbH, and the buyer is showing as the brand protection company Marksman, no doubt on behalf of a client. The other interesting sale today is the single letter domain name of W.TO which just sold for a whopping $53K. Back in February the domain name K.TO sold for $40K .To is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) of the island kingdom ... read more ...
 
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12 engaging finish user domain sales from a past week - These domain names will be put to goo use. DNW’s weekly end user sale report is back. Most notable on this week’s list are purchases by a publicly traded REIT as well as Ziff Davis. All sales took place at Afternic except RoyalKey.com at Sedo. Austin based student housing REIT American Campus Communities bought AvalonHeights.com for $6,200 for one of its apartment complexes. Florida home builder Neal Communities paid $1,395 for LiveGrand.com. That’s a great ... read more ...
Tue 8th May 2012
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Afternic Sells $1Million In Domain Names Led By REITS.com For $30K - Afternic just reported its weekly sales reporting $1,010.00 in sales The reportable sales were led by REITS.com a really nice name for $30K REIT stands for Real Estate Investment Trusts and back before the real estate crash I would say would have sold for a few times more. SmartCamera.com was the 2nd highest sale of the week selling for almost $30K and then one of ours HireaNanny.com sold for $15K Congrats to all Sellers and Buyers.   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Sells $1.6 Million In Domains - Sedo just issued its weekly report. In all 845 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace, totaling over $1.6 million. 41% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .com: drill.com at 50,000 USD ·         Top ccTLD: lampa.pl at 12,000 EUR ·         Top “other” TLD: hotspot.net at 9,000 EUR Here are all the reportable sales:   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Frank Schilling’s Name Administration Sells OnlineFreeGames.com For $90K At Sedo - Frank Schilling’s company NameAdminstration just sold the domain name OnlineFreeGames.com for $90,000 on Sedo. The buyer is Sergey Eliseev of Switzerland. It’s another in a long line of sales for Frank who has dominating the week sales chart over at DNjournal.com. Its also another big sale of a gaming domain. This three word name will become tied for the 22nd highest domain name sale of the year based off of last week’s DNjournal.com year to date chart Congrats to Frank and the buyer. Google+Michael ... read more ...
Mon 7th May 2012
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Escrow.com rigourously launches attorney tool - Broker tool released to all Escrow.com customers. I’m a bit behind because of a hosting change at the end of last week, but the latest news from Escrow.com is worth writing about even a couple days late. Escrow.com formally launched its broker tool last week. I wrote about this tool back in January when it was in limited release. The new offering allows brokers to be involved with transactions at Escrow.com. The broker can set up the escrow transaction and also ... read more ...
Fri 4th May 2012
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Marchex Reports Earnings & Sells 2.6 Million in Domains - Marchex, Inc. (NASDAQ:MCHX) today reported its results for the quarter ended March 31, 2012 and reported that year to date, including April 2012 has sold $2.6 Million in domains. According to the earnings report Marches sold $1.5 Million January-March and another $1.1 Million in April. Overall Marchex basically matched there year ago results which were in line with market expections and the stock remained basically unchanged in trading right about at its 52 week low Here are the rest of the results First ... read more ...
Thu 3rd May 2012
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Sedo Market Report For 1Q: 19.6 Million In Sales; & For The 1st Time BIN Sales Led The Way - Sedo  announced the results of its Q1 2012 Domain Market Study. During the first quarter, Sedo powered more than 10,000 domain transactions accounting for $19.6 Million in sales. The number of Buy Now sales surpassed offer-counter offer sales for the first time, becoming the most popular type of transaction. IDNX, the first standardized pricing index for the domain market, reached record highs in March 2012 after five months of consecutive growth. This suggests that the domain market has rebounded ... read more ...