The Honest Company Is The Buyer Of Honest.com Whose Co-Founder is Jessica Alba - The Honest Company which is located in Santa Monica, California is the buyer of Honest.com which sold through Godaddy In December for $180,000 The company has some big names behind it including actress Jessica Alba and Brian Lee who also co-founded LegalZoom.com and ShoeDazzle.com Our friends at Anything.com Ltd seem to sold the domain. If you don’t know Anything.com, well they have one of the best domain portfolios in the world including domains like xxx.com. You can check out a story the Honest ... read more ...

Shot.com Hits The Market Looking For $500K Or More - According to a press release this morning the domain name Shot.com is now up for sale. Counter to the most companies, the company that owned this domain, decided to lengthen its domain from Shot.com to TechShot.com The company hired not a domain name broker to sell the domain but a lead Gen company LeadJen ( www.leadjen.com ) “”More than 60,000 online searches a month contain the keyword “shot,”  LeadJen will be targeting companies in industries including sports, weapons and gaming.” “Techshot ... read more ...

My favorite Mexican grill only bought Tex-Mex.com - Lupe Tortilla buys Tex-Mex.com and other end user domain purchases. So I was putting together this week’s summary of end user domain purchases when I noticed a familiar name: Lupe Tortilla. This Mexican restaurant serves the world’s best beef fajitas. And it apparently has some domain smarts, too. The company bought Tex-Mex.com $4,300 from Afternic this week. (It’s not TexMex.com, but still a good domain.) The downside to Lupe Tortilla is that I can only visit ... read more ...

Sedo Sells $1.3 Million In Domains NOT including Dudu.com - Sedo just release its sales report for the week and wound up with $1.3 Million dollars in sales NOT including Dudu.com which they said actually sold in December and I guess therefore should be on 2011 report. In all 762 domains sold with 35% sold through buy it now. Here are the reported sales:   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

NameJet.com Sales: US Politics.com; DrivingTest.com; idq.com; tqr.com + More - Noktadomains went on a small shopping spree today at Namejet.com picking up the domain name iqd.com for $6,299 and MusicHits.com for $4,900. The owner of CapitolHill.com added to his collection by picking up UsPolitics.com for $6K. A few other sales for the past couple of days: DrivingTest.com sold for $5,655 TQR.com sold for $5,299 Showerchairs.com sold for $3,900 Cosmonauts.com sold for $2,599 Organicyogurt.com sold for $1,999 Freeexchange.com sold for $1,900 Moonlight.net sold for $1,500 CrowdService.com ... read more ...

The Domaining.com Special Domain Sale Is Live on Cax.com - DnJournal.com wrote a few weeks ago that Francois of Domaining.com was organizing a Domain Sale which would pay back bloggers by sharing the commissions collected and divide and distribute them to the bloggers that help spread the word about the event. We declined to participate since we do not accept money for writing or refraining from writing stories, however I told Francois just to support domaining.com I would publish the list of domains to be sold to help out and to contribute my share of the ... read more ...

Name Adminstration Sells BKAV.com For $100,000 - According to a story tonight in vietnamnet.vn, BKAV, “a well known Vietnamese anti-virus solution provider announced they bought the domain name,  BKAV.com for 2.3 Billion Dong, or $100,000 USD.” The domain name was owned by Frank Schilling’s Name Administration until late October 2011. “BKAV believes that in order to obtain the goal of listing itself in the top 10 leading anti-virus companies in the world, the possession of an international domain name with “.com” is the most important ... read more ...

Samsung Launches App Named After A Domain It Bought On Afternic For $17K in July; ChatOn.com - Several publications are picking up the launch of Samsung’s App name “Chat on” which is available both on Android and as of today on the iPhone as well. According to BusinessInsider.com, “It means that Android and iPhone users can now text each other for free, since these “texts” go over your phone’s data connection.” “ChatON is different from iMessage in a few key ways:” “Unlike iMessage, which automatically works between iPhones inside your Messages app, ChatON is an app unto ... read more ...

Amazon’s Quidsi appears to be operative on Casa.com - Quidsi’s latest store is likely Casa.com. Amazon.com’s Quidsi, which runs Diapers.com, Soap.com, Wag.com, and YoYo.com, appears to be working on something new: Casa.com. The domain name was just transferred to Amazon.com after being protected by whois privacy for years. If you visit the domain you get a message: You have reached an invalid location. Maybe you are looking for http://www.diapers.com, http://www.soap.com, http://www.beautybar.com, http://www.wag.com ... read more ...

Righthaven.com sells for $3,300 - Domain name used by “copyright troll” auctioned off for $3,300. Righthaven.com, the domain name that once belonged to the scourge of the internet, has sold in a public auction at SnapNames for $3,300. The domain name was sold to help cover a court ordered settlement against Righthaven by one of its many victims. Righthaven purchased copyrights and then sued blogs and forums that had posted the copyrighted material, often demanding their domain name to be turned ... read more ...

Sedo Brokers Dudu.com For A Cool Million Proving Once Again You Have To Know Your Buyer - Sedo announced today it brokered the domain Dudu.com for a cool $1 million dollars. The buyer of dudu.com is the Dubai company DUDU Communications. DUDU is a popular social network which uses unique translation technology to allow its users from around the world to communicate with each other in their native languages. The network is currently located at www.godudu.com, and the company decided that investing in a shorter, more memorable name would benefit their business’ growth. “With the purchase ... read more ...

UPDATED: Mike Mann Starts Off His Year With Two More Sales Totaling $37K: Total Cost $87 - According to his Facebook page Mike Mann has started off his new year right selling two domain names for a total of $37,000 Mike UVideos.com for $22,000.00 and Shaparak.com for $15,000.00. Looks like Mike Acquired uVideos.com around February 2009 and Shaparak.com in April of 2011. The total cost to acquire these two domains? $87 According to Mike Mann who answered our question posed to him on Facebook, Uvideos.com was acquired for $79 and Shaparak.com was a hand registered domains at the cost of ... read more ...

Social network buys Dudu.com domain name for $1 million - Dudu.com sells for an incredible $1 million. Wow. Social network DUDU has paid a whopping $1 million for the domain name Dudu.com, upgrading its domain name from GoDudu.com. The site “uses unique translation technology to allow its users from around the world to communicate with each other in their native languages”, according to a press release. The deal was brokered by domain name marketplace Sedo and took three months of negotiations. A press release from Sedo ... read more ...

Go Daddy Sells 39k aftermarket domains final month including Honest.com - Honest.com highlights strong month for GoDaddy’s aftermarket platform. GoDaddy’s monthly “Domain Market Report” is out, and the company reports selling 38,659 domain names last month through its domain aftermarket platform. The top sale was for Honest.com at over $100,000. The seller was Anything.com. Other notable sales include: FirstAvenue.com $25,000 CoolTool.com $18,500 Spacesuits.com $18,000 IndianJewelry.com $16,005 Bizable.com $15,600 (this was on the ... read more ...

Zooz uses 1% of the appropriation to buy Zooz.com - A start-up spends 1% of its recent funding round on a domain name and other interesting domain name purchases. It’s time for the weekly roundup of end user domain name purchases. Let’s start with in-app mobile payments startup Zooz. The company snagged $1.5 million in funding in November. How better to use the money than to buy Zooz.com? Actually, it only had to use 1% of the money to buy the domain for $15,000 at Sedo. The company’s domain name to date has ... read more ...

CAX “blogger” domain sales newsletter deadline is tomorrow - Lots of extra publicity for your domain name in next week’s newsletter. Francois Carrillo, the guy behind Domaining.com, has a cool promotion going on for his next domain sales newsletter — and it’s a win-win for you. The idea is that he’s going to share the commission from sales in his January 9 newsletter with domain bloggers. So why should this be interesting to you, the non-blogger? Well, if you have a name to sell then this next newsletter is the one ... read more ...

Sedo Sells $930K In Domain Names - Sedo Just reported its sales for the week after Christmas that included the New Years Holiday, traditionally a VERY slow week for business In all Sedo reports selling 498 sales totaling over $930,000. Not bad. 33% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Here is the list of all reportable sales     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

Gold.biz attracts 16,000 EUR bid during Sedo - .Biz domain glistens at Sedo. The prices of gold is sky high right now, and a golden domain is about to sell at Sedo. Gold.biz has a 16,000 euro bid and is scheduled to close on January 6. That’s a heck of a price for a .biz domain, regardless of the keyword. At 16,000 EUR gold.biz would be the highest .biz domain name sale since g.biz sold for $30,000 in August. To participate in the auction you’ll need to complete Sedo’s Premium Certification. The top auction ... read more ...

The Marijuana.com Sale For $4.2 Million Only Had A $125K Down Payment & Other Findings From SEC Filings - The sale of Marijuana.com for $4.2 Million got a lot of attention a couple of months ago. The sale was originally covered by TechCrunch.com and looked like an all cash sale for $4.2 Million. Now George Kirikos who dug through some SEC filings has found that the purchase price which was reported as $4.2 million is really $4.25 Million, but the purchase price was not paid in cash. The down payment was only $125,000 The balance is payable under a promissory note for $4,125,000. The promissory note calls ... read more ...

Afternic.com Sells $1.1 Million In Domain Names, $430K of Those Owned & Operated Domains - Afternic.com just posted its sales for the week selling just short of $1.1 Million Afternic.com changed its report of reportable sales this week and broke out the sales of the domains owned by its parent company NameMedia, which they refer to as owned and operated domains, from those domain owned by third parties which were sold in the Afternic Domain Listing Service. Out of the reportable sales about $430,000 were Owned and Operated domain names and $260,000 were sold through the Domain Listing ... read more ...

USDA, NHRA and EverBank put domain names underneath a Christmas tree - Which end users put domain names under the Christmas tree this week? Here’s Domain Name Wire’s weekly list. Before getting to this week’s end user domain sales report, I wanted to report an observation about Afternic. For those that argue that Afternic only sells its own domains, it appears 40% of the reported .com sales this week were sold on behalf of clients. That’s pretty darn high. OK, on to the sales (all sales at Afternic unless otherwise noted)… U.S. ... read more ...

Sedo.com Sells $2.5 Million In Domain Names - Sedo.com just published its weekly sales list and reported selling 706 domain names for $2.5 million dollars. Of the reportable sales Viia.com sold for 45,000 Euro’s, AllYouNeed.com sold for $45k, My.net which we told you about last week sold for 49,000 British Pounds and Pay.Eu at 17,500 Euro’s 32% of all sales were “buy it now” Here is the full list of reportable sales:   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...