My.Net Sells For $75K on Sedo - The domain name My.Net just sold on Sedo for 49,000 British pounds which at today’s conversion rates it equates into over $76,000 Dollars. The domain was owned by Technology Investment Group Limited and first registered in 1995. The domain is pending transfer at Sedo.com. I think its a nice buy especially considering that even with the new gTLD’s looming none will have any two letter domain names. Actually the domain name would be a good one for Verisign which operates the .Net Registry to own. Congrats ... read more ...

Check out what domains Bayer, Enterprise, and a congresswoman bought this week - Big buyers get good deals on domain names. Some notable names made domain purchases this week for smart prices. All of these sales were at Afternic unless otherwise noted. Bayer AG bought ResponsibleUse.com for only $895 at Sedo. It’s a good domain for information about prescription drug abuse. Sharp Design, which had been using SharpDesignWebsites.com, shortened its domain to SharpDesign.com for just $2,000. Representative Marsha Blackburn (R – TN) got MarshaBlackburn.com ... read more ...

Holidays are good time to measure understanding on domain auctions - You might just catch a bidding foe sleeping. Is it possible to catch other domainers sleeping? It’s not easy, but the holidays are your best chance. With many domainers either traveling or taking time off to be with family, expired and regular domain auctions ending over the next couple weeks present your best opportunity to not face the usual competition. This is easier said than done. After all, a lot of home grown systems (as well as publicly available ones like ... read more ...

BestValue.com Sells For $9K On NameJet.com; Blogging.Org For $5K + More - Several interesting auctions closed today on Namejet.com highlighted by the sale of the domain name BestValue.com for $8,913 In all there were 5 people willing to pay more than the reserve price which appeared to be around $7,200. The domain Blogging.org sold for $5K even after hitting its reserve of $4,900. MexicanVacation.com sold for $2,400. Several domains got some nice bids but failed to sell as they failed to meet reserves set by the sellers including CreditLimit.com which got a $7,500 bid; ... read more ...

191 domain .co auction ends today - No reserve auction attracting lots of bidding attention. An auction of nearly 200 keyword .co domain names ends today at Sedo. With just two hours to go over 60% of the domain names in the no reserve auction already have bids. 31 bids have been place for Safe.co, driving the price up to $2,800. Finder.co and Wear.co are each at $1,050. The Spanish language Horoscopo.co, which comes with a web site, has been bid up to EUR 1,050. Some of my favorites in the auction ... read more ...

Major League Baseball and Current TV buy domain names - A look at end user domain name sales from the past week. My list of end user domain purchases for the week is a little bit shorter than usual, but contains big names including Major League Baseball. All sales were at Afternic unless otherwise noted. Major League Baseball bought Justice4U.com for $3,000. MLB.com Executive Correspondent Richard Justice writes a blog at Justice4U.mlb.com. Al Gore’s Current TV bought PoliticallyDirect.com for $4,488. The network has ... read more ...

Afternic.com Sells Over $1 Million In Domain Names - Afternic.com just posted it sales for the week ending December 12th 2011. In all Afternic sold $1,014,045 in domain names. The reportable sales were led by Calculatrice.com which sold for $30,250 (Spanish for calculator) and iBud.com which sold for $25,000   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

Sedo.com Sells $1.53MM In Domains Led By Makassar.com At $40K - Sedo.com just announced it’s weekly sales data for the week ending December 12th. In all $1.53MM of domains were sold. The top seller was Makassar.com at $40,000 USD which we had previously reported. Other domains topping the list of public sales were HeartOfLove.com at €30000 and EasycareOnline.com for $13,000 USD. On the non.com front the domain name Dj.Fm Sold for $10K In all 899 domains were sold. Below is the entire list of publicly reportable sales in their respective currencies:   Google+Michael ... read more ...

Sedo Sells Makassar.com For $40K & HeartOfLove.com For 30,000 Euro’s - A couple of sales hitting the Sedo.com wire this morning. Makassar.com sold for $40,000 Makassar is Geo domain. According to Wikipedia, Makassar, is “the provincial capital of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, and the largest city on Sulawesi Island”.  It has a population of over 1 million. Heartoflove.com sold for 30,000 Euro’s or around $40K as well. A nice price for this domain IMHO. Another domain name topoilfield.com sold for $10,825 today as well Congrats to the buyers and sellers. Google+Michael ... read more ...

Amazon.com buys SmartIsBeautiful.com — a new brand? - What does company plan to do with domain? Is being smart beautiful? And if so, are you smart enough to figure out why Amazon.com just bought SmartIsBeautiful.com? The domain name was owned by BuyDomains until July 21, 2011, according to historical whois records. Richard Law Group of Dallas, Texas bought the domain name. Afternic didn’t report the sale, and that’s probably because it was for under $1,000. It looks like the domain name was listed with a “buy now” ... read more ...

LiveDrive buys LiveCloud.com for $92,000 and 10 other domain sales - An online storage company makes a big splash in the domain market. This week’s top (reported) end user domain name purchase comes courtesy of cloud storage company LiveDrive. It bought LiveCloud.com for $92,000 via Sedo from Seattle based Groupee, Inc. Here’s a look at ten other end user domain purchases over the past week. All sales occurred at Afternic unless otherwise noted. Barrett Distribution bought a perfect domain in FulfillmentCenters.com for $1,500. Cypress ... read more ...

55,367 .xxx domain names purebred in initial 24 hours - Big numbers in latest top level domain release. I just got an email from ICM Registry about .xxx registration results in the first 24 hours. 55,367 new .xxx domain names were registered. That brings total registrations (including sunrise and landrush) to 159,351 as of noon EST today. Many of these domains won’t resolve, of course — they were registered by non adult companies wishing to block their brands from becoming porn sites. High registration prices of around ... read more ...

Sedo.com Sells $1.67 Million in Domain Names Led By LiveCloud.com For $92K - Sedo.com just announced it weekly sales  and in all sold 865 domain names for $1.67 Million dollars led by yet another cloud domain, LiveCloud.com for a nice $92K. In non.com sales krant.nl led the way selling for 35,000 Euro’s or around $40K Here are the reportable sales:   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

Buyer of Rick Schwartz Property.com & Properties.com Buys Location.com - According to a Press Release today, the same company that recently purchased Rick Schwartz domain name Property.com and Properties.com  just purchased another great domain name, Location.com The company, eReal Estate Holdings, LLC, is also the owner and operator of Condo.com, and Houses.com The domain was acquired from domainer Shai Neubauer, who apparently like Schwartz will have some continuing interest in the deal saying: “I am happy to have the opportunity to remain in the deal as a partner.” There ... read more ...

Touch.com Bought For $100K By App Developer In One Of 2011 Best Buys - According to AllthingsD.com the domain name Touch.com was recently purchased for $100,000 by an App developer called Enflick The App formerly known as PingChat has now been renamed Touch. I looks like the domain name was purchased somewhere around June according to DomainTools.com and was formerly owned by a Douglas Beardshaw of Toronto. There has been a lot of sessions held at conferences and chatter of what the effect Apps will have on domain names. I have argued on thedomains.com that Apps are ... read more ...

Tim Schumacher announces depart from Sedo - Longtime domain industry vet Tim Schumacher is moving on. Sedo announced today that co-founder and CEO Tim Schumacher will be stepping down from the company at the end of January. He will transition to the company’s Board of Directors. Schumacher founded Sedo with three others in 2001 and grew it into a domain sales and parking powerhouse with 1.3 million registered users. In 2007, he was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” by Ernst Young Germany. In 2009 ... read more ...

Afternic.com Sells Over $1.5 Million In Domain Names - Afternic.com just posted its sales for the week ending Sunday November 27th and sold $1,545,572 in domain names, led by Looky.com for $37,000. The next highest sale was babychangingstation.com which sold for a very respectable $17,775 With Sedo.com’s weekly report there was almost $3 Million in domain names on a holiday week in the United States. Impressive. Here are the reportable sales by Afternic.com     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

Sedo Sells $1.43 Million In Domain Names - Sedo.com just announced its sales figures for the holiday week and once again they are impressive In all 807 domain sold, totaling $1.43 Million Dollars. Maybe more impressively 31% of all sales where through its “buy it now” listings. Of the reportable sales the unterwaesche.de led the way selling for 39,500 Euro’s or about $52K qcloud.com sold for $39K We sold tradeouts.com for $23K Here is a list of the reportable sales:   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

CheapYellowPages.com Sells Orangefield.com For $75,000 - CheapYellowPages.com, owned by Brian Wick, a domain developer that owns about 6,000 .com, just completed the sale of Orangefield.com for $75K in a private transaction. The buyer did not identify themselves to the Seller as it pretty common and since the DNS has not updated,  we can only guess as to the identity of the buyer There is an Orangefield, Texas, USA but it seems like a very small town with a population of only around 1,000 people. My money is on a company called OrangefieldTrust.com which ... read more ...

Marijuana.com Sold For $4.2 Million - According to TechCrunch.com the domain name Marijuana.com was just purchased by General Cannabis Inc. which owns the popular site WeedMaps, for $4.2 Million dollars. According to TechCrunch,  WeedMaps did over $1 million in gross revenues in July. “”The acquisition includes both the valuable Marijuana.com domain name and the existing site/content, which currently consists of a bulletin forum that centers on cannabis discussion and generates 3.5 million page views per month. “” Also according ... read more ...

SkullCandy, L.A. Clippers, McKesson buy domain names - Big companies by domain names in the aftermarket. Wow! What a busy week for end users buying domain names. Here are some highlights: (all sales via Afternic unless otherwise noted) Headphone company SkullCandy bought SupremeSound.com for $1,375. Pastebin.com, which says it’s the “#1 paste tool since 2002″, bought pastebin.net for $2,500. FutureDontics, the company behind 1800Dentist.com, picked up DentalSaver.com, DentalSavers.com and DentalSaver.net for a grant ... read more ...

Affiliate selling propels expansion during Sedo - Affiliate marketing grows while domain business stagnates. Sedo Holding, parent company of domain name marketplace and parking company Sedo, reported growth in Q3 compared to the same quarter in 2011. The growth was driven by the company’s affilinet affiliate marketing business. Q3 sales were EUR 29.1M compared to EUR 27.3M in the same quarter last year. For the first nine months of the year sales in the affiliate marketing division increased 20.7% compared to ... read more ...

Stocked.com Sells For $11K On NameJet.com & SkiBoats.com Sells For Less Than AsianChat.com + More - Quite a few single word domains sold on Namejet.com this week and non of the prices seemed to high. Stocked.com led the way off of our sheet selling for just $11K. Looks like the recession maybe starting to  hit the wholesale aftermarket in a big way. Here are some of the domain name sales we tracked: Stocked.com $11,005 AsianChat.com $10,600 SkiBoats.com $9,300 organicfruit.com $8,999 Ocan.com $5,100 OperatingSystem $5,099 FirstPrize.com $3,800 obedient.com $3,789 installments.com $3,401 Recommends.com ... read more ...