LiveDoc.Com Sells For $55K On Sedo.com - The domain name LiveDoc.com just sold on Sedo.com for $55,000 The domain was owned by a Michael Ascher and iMedia Enterprises, Inc., who had an address at the UN Plaza in New York. The Seller just acquired the domain in 2011 from domainer Ted Graham. The sale is pending in Escrow at Sedo.com so we will have to wait to see who the buyer is. However my money is on the company; Text Control GmbH, which owns the site and product known as Livedocx.com   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

Check out these 16 finish user domain buys from a past week - From cocktails to public advocacy, here are 16 recent end user domain sales. Here are 16 end user sales that took place through Afternic and Sedo over the past week. All sales were at Afternic unless noted as Sedo. Lakewood Weightloss and Wellness bought NoDiabetes.com for $1,888. Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. bought Cloud-Computer.org for $1,400. Wine-a-Rita, which sells kits for wine margaritas, bought SimpleCocktails.com for $1,300. Here’s an interesting one. Container ... read more ...

Afternic.com Sells $1.25 Million In Domains - Afternic.com just released its weekly sale, reporting a total of $ 1,285,824 in sales. Reportable sales were led by HealthKick.com at $21,200and 549.com for an even $20K   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

MostWantedDomains.com Brokers The Sale Of JEU.TV For $50K - We are proud to announce MostWantedDomains.com has successfully brokered the domain name Jeu.Tv  for $50,000. Jeu translated from French is the word “Game” Just to be clear this is not a domain we owned but one of the few clients we broker domain names for. According to Legacy Fund the owners of the .Tv domain name  “.TV is gaining a lot of momentum in Europe and other countries outside the US.” “End users and companies are continuing to adopt the extension as a viable method to spread ... read more ...

Google gets RealTimeBidding.com domain [Updated] - Google gets domain name for a key online advertising term. With the Ad-Tech conference kicking off this morning in San Francisco, it’s only fitting to report this morning that Google has acquired the domain name RealTimeBidding.com. For those not in the online advertising industry, real time bidding allows advertisers to bid on advertising one impression at a time, often based on audience data. The domain name RealTimeBidding.com has an interesting history. It was ... read more ...

NameCheap joins Afternic DLS network - Registrar with close to 3 million domains starts syndicating Afternic listings. Domainers who sell their domains on Afternic DLS Premium have a higher chance of sales thanks to a new member of the distribution network: NameCheap. Here’s how your domains will look when a NameCheap customer searches for the exact match: This is a pretty good implementation, although it would be nice if hovering over the “premium” logo explained what “premium” means. In other ... read more ...

First Brannans.com auction now live - Clements brothers start first auction on new site. Brothers David and Toby Clements have started their first ever auction on new siteBrannans.com. Toby previously lead the auction efforts for Rick Latona. Brannans.com uses the same auction provider, Proxibid, that Latona originally used. The auction features 185 domains selected from over 20,000 submissions. Reserve prices range from $300 to $3 million, but half of the domains are under $5,000 and a third of the domains ... read more ...

Frank Schilling sole WheelsUp.com to Marquis Jet owner for $50k, after $500k offer - Marquis Jet founder bought domain for new investment firm, later shuns $500k offer. Owen Frager and Elliot Silver recently discovered that Marquis Jet was somehow related to the buyer of WheelsUp.com, a domain Frank Schilling sold last year. Now we know the exact relationship. Marquis Jet founder Kenny Dichter bought the domain name for a new investment firm he’s part of, Wheels Up Partners, LLC, he told CNBC in an interview today. Purchase price? $50,000 according ... read more ...

I’d buy a lot of domains with my $640 million Mega Millions jackpot - You could buy a lot of great domains with $640 million. If you see me buying a lot of domains at the next domain conference auction, it’s probably because I won the Mega Millions jackpot. That’s what I’d do with a good portion of my winnings. The lottery jackpot is up to $640 million tonight. Of course I wouldn’t get to take that much home. The “cash value” pot is $462 million. Then I assume a couple people will win, so let’s say $231 million. The ... read more ...

What domains Disney and 12 other finish users bought final week - Disney buys a domain on Sedo and other end user domain buys. Disney was among 13 end user domain buyers in this week’s report. All of these sales took place at Afternic unless otherwise noted. Tech Instrumentation, Inc., which owns TechInstrument.com, bought the plural version TechInstruments.com for $2,000. Academy Fire Protection bought ExtinguisherService.com for $1,388. M.D. Anderson Cancer Center bought LivingLegend.org for $1,353.50. The company behind Textbook ... read more ...

Bankrate buys InsuranceAgents.com - Company acquires another insurance lead gen site Bankrate has added to its stable of lead gen web sites with great domain names by acquiring InsuranceAgents.com. The news was reported today by Columbus Business First. The sales price was not disclosed, although we may see it in an upcoming BankRate SEC filing. InsuranceAgents.com helps people find exactly what you’d think it would — local insurance agents. It also has quote comparison tools. I think the Columbus ... read more ...

How is Flippa for shopping and offered domains? - Have you used Flippa for buying or selling domain names? I got a note from Flippa today reminding that their site isn’t just for buying and selling web sites. They have a number of domain auctions, too. Two they highlighted were Better.com — currently at $75,000 — and Links.com — currently at $60,000. The catch is that neither of these domains has hit their reserve. And Flippa doesn’t disclose a reserve range. So it could be that everyone is wasting their ... read more ...

Hot.net is hot! Gets $75,000 bid during Sedo - Hot.net gets a nice bid at Sedo and is now up for auction. The domain name Hot.net has landed a 56,700 EUR bid at Sedo — or about $75,000 USD at today’s exchange rates. The owner of the domain has pushed it to auction with this starting price. According to the listing page for the domain on Sedo, it gets more than 6,000 visits per month. It is currently parked with an adult lander. As best I can tell using the Wayback Machine, the domain name has never been developed. ... read more ...

“Really cool” guys during Digimedia sole Box.com for about $1 million - Box.com sold for about $1 million. Last year file sharing service Box.net bought the Box.com domain name from Scott Day at Digimedia. The purchase price was not disclosed. But now it has — just shy of a million bucks. CNET writer Rafe Needleman discussed the domain name with Box CEO Aaron Levie. The net-net: the company bought the domain for between $900,000 and $999,000. About the negotiations with Digimedia, Levie said the Digimedia guys were “really cool”. ... read more ...

Even .com registry Verisign has to buy an aftermarket domain each once in a while (end user sales report) - VeriSign among domain buyers this week. I’m a bit behind on getting the end user sales report out this week, but there are some good ones in here. One notable purchase is by .com registry VeriSign, which bought a .org domain to match one of its existing .com’s. All of the sales on this list took place at Afternic except for SharedValue.org, which sold at Sedo… New York cleaners Fine Line Cleaners found a short domain name with FLC.co for $1,088. Non-profit ... read more ...

Domain sales are going up. Way up. - Just ask the company that handles a good portion of the private transactions. Afternic and Sedo release weekly sales reports that are reported by a number of domain blogs. DNJournal aggregates reports from these sources and others. But at the end of the day, public sales figures probably account for about 10% of the domain sales market. A lot of private sales take place with the help of Escrow.com. The majority of domain transactions the company handles are with end ... read more ...

Sedo.com Sells Channel.com For $125,000 - Just crossing the Sedo.com sales wire is the domain name Channel.com which just sold for $125,000 The domain was owned by the Web Technology Group of London and the domain is pending transfer at Sedo. As to whom the new owner maybe, it could be any number of TV or broadcasting companies around the world, but to make a wild guess, I would go with Channel Television Limited of St Helier, Jersey, also of the United Kingdom which brought and lost a UDRP last year for the domain name Channel.Tv We will ... read more ...

Did Salesforce.com acquire Work.com domain name? - A bunch of signs point to “yes”. Last week I spotted a change in the whois record for work.com that makes me think Work.com has sold and changed hands. Now there may be a clue about the buyer. On March 9, I discovered that the whois for Work.com changed from Business.com (the old? owner) to a whois privacy service. Normally no big deal, except that the domain name had been listed in Moniker’s last live domain auction. Today it surfaces that Salesforce.com ... read more ...

Network Solutions pitches AfternicDLS domains to registrants of identical domains - Email promotion puts your AfternicDLS domains in the spotlight. If you have domains on AfternicDLS at the Premium level, your domains might be getting a bit more attention in a promotion right now. Just minutes ago I received an email pitch from Network Solutions for a premium domain similar to an existing domain I have registered at Network Solutions: The domain name offered for sale is the .org equivalent of a .com I own. The email advertisement tells me I can ... read more ...

What domains Heineken, Shopzilla, and a claimant for a Wisconsin governor’s bureau bought final week - 19 end user domain sales from the past week. From beer to shopping to politics, here are 19 domain sales to end users from the past week. All sales took place at Afternic unless otherwise noted. Heineken bought Sol.com for its Sol beer brand for 98,000 EUR at Sedo. ECPI University bought AcceleratedNursingDegree.com for $1,088. Another educational institution — Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, paid $2,880 for LiveGreater.com. Event registration and survey ... read more ...

Why we should specify your domains and an easy approach to do it - 3x sales? Yes, please. But make it easy on me. Domain sales sites suggest that you categorize the domain names you list on their web sites. Categorizing your domains helps them sell. According to Afternic, the sales velocity of categorized domains is 3x that of uncategorized domain names. It makes sense. Although many domain buyers search based on keyword, others sift through categories. Let’s face it. Categorizing can be a pain. Sedo offers an auto-categorization ... read more ...

Afternic Sells $ 1.1 Million In Domains - Afternic just reported its weekly sales selling  $ 1,131,508 in domain names The highest sale was fromragstoriches.com a well known phrase followed by a nice call to action type of domain, getmoneyfast.com Here are all the reportable sales:   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

Sedo.com Sells Sol.com For $130,000 To Sol Beer; Frank Schilling Sells SlotCity.com For $56K + More - Sedo.com is on fire this morning posting several sales The domain name Sol.com just sold on Sedo.com for 98,000 Euro’s or around $130,000. Of course Sol means Sun in Latin and some other languages. The buyer of the domain is Sol Beer and the domain name is already being forwarded its official site at  sol-beer.co.uk Sol Beer is owned by Heineken. The seller appears to have been a Riccardo Barbieri of Spain. In another sale coming through this morning, Frank Schilling Name Administration sold the ... read more ...

16 good finish user domain sales, including WebmasterWorld - From WebmasterWorld to (RED), here are some end user domain sales from the past week. Here’s a look at 16 end user domain sales from the past week. All sales took place at Afternic unless otherwise noted. Health Partners of Philadelphia bought ActiveHealthPartners.com for $3,088. AquaWaterEau Corporation paid $X for WebAqua.com for $1,150. (RED), an organization trying to eliminate AIDS, paid $X for RedRush.com for $2,000. Senior care company Great Lakes Caring ... read more ...

Afternic.com Sells $1.2 Million In Domain Names - Afternic.com just published it weekly report of domain name sales reporting $ 1,223,938 in sales. The weekly sales were led by CityCompass.com selling for $13,654 Here are the reportable sales:     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...