9 Domains Hit Reserve with 4 Hours to Go in Moniker Auction - Moniker’s Year End Auction ends today. At least nine domain names will sell in Moniker’s Year End Auction, which ends at 12:15 PM PST today. Nine domains have hit their reserve, ranging from MosquitoWipes.com at $300 up to PaternityTest.com at $21,500. The latter has six bidders. A number of other domains are active and close to hitting reserves. QX.com is at $82,500 and has a reserve of up to $100,000. APW.com is up to $12,999 with a reserve range of $10,000-$25000. Altogether ... read more ...

Sedo Releases Updated IDNX with Other TLDs - Domain price index now includes data for ten top level domain names. Today Sedo and its research partner (now an employee) released an updated version of the IDNX, a price index for domain names. Included in the latest refresh are sub-indices for 10 different top level domain names. Top level domain options now include .com, .net, .org, .biz., .info, .mobi, .eu, .de, .co.uk, and .es. With the TLD analysis, Sedo draws two key conclusions that are relevant to companies ... read more ...

After Passing On Flowers.Mobi, 1-800-Flowers Grabs Flowers.Me - In the Sedo.com report for the week the domain name Flowers.Me sold for $9K Thanks to the quick eye of a reader to theDomains.com 1-800-Flowers.com which passed on buying Flowers.mobi when it was at the TRAFFIC auction just picked up Flowers.Me for $9K when it was put up for sale on the .Me registry auction that ended last week. Great end user purchase. Congrats to the buyer and registry that sold the domain Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

Sedo.com Sells Almost $2 Million In Domains Led By Talk.Tv At $40K - Sedo just released its sales for the week ending November 13th 2011 selling almost $2 million in domains. In all 979 sales domain names sold. The reportable sales, which totaled over $700K were led by a non-.com Talk.tv sold at $40K Top .com’s of the week were Roller.com and Amati.com which both at $20k.   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

Afternic.com Sells $1,080,850 In Domains Led By IronWorkers.com At $17K - Afternic.com reported total sales of $1,080,000 for the week with $570K in reportable sales The reportable sales were led by IronWorkers.com  $17K and SwingTown.com $12K   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

What Domains American Express and Others Bought this Week - AMEX and The Georgia Department of Agriculture buy domain names. Here’s a look at end user domain purchases from Afternic over the past week. Switzerland’s Deesse AG, which operates web sites at Deesse.de and Deesse.com, bought Deesse.net for $1,688. The Broadway Consortium, which produces and invests in a variety of theater projects, bought BroadwayRecords.com for $1,200. Sevier County Electric System bought SCES.net, its acronym, for $1,316. Salt River Materials ... read more ...

GoDaddy Auctions Now Autotransferring and Paying in 5 Days - Easier transfers and faster payments. I sold the domain name EnglishDesk.com on Go Daddy a week ago, and have benefited first hand from changes made to GoDaddy Auctions. Domain Name News first wrote about the changes a few weeks ago. For a domain name sold through GoDaddy Auctions that is also registered at GoDaddy, the domain is transferred and payment processed within five days. I listed the domain with Go Daddy Premium Listings. This let’s people buy a domain ... read more ...

Citrix Assigns $18 Million Value to Cloud.com Domain Name - Company puts domain name on the books at a huge sum. How much is the cloud.com domain name worth? According to Citrix’s accountants, it’s $18 million. The company acquired Cloud.com (the business) for $200 million plus earlier this year. George Kirikos just noticed that the company is amortizing the domain itself with a value of $18 million. Now this is just an accounting number, so I’m not sure the domain was worth that much when it wasn’t attached to a business. ... read more ...

MostWantedDomains.com Brokers The Sale Of Meet.Me For A World Record Price Of $450,000 - I’m proud to announce that MostWantedDomains.com has successfully brokered the sale of the domain name Meet.Me for $450,000 in what we believe is a world record price for a .Me domain name. The Domain was jointly owned by My company, Worldwide Media, Inc., Rick Schwartz and Ammar Kubba. The domain name was acquired at the silent portion of a TRAFFIC auction for $5,890 back just over three years ago. The domain will become the 7th highest sale of the year on DnJournal.com YTD chart and the 3rd highest ... read more ...

Afternic.com Sells $1.086 Million In Domains Led By Strapless.com For $16K - Afternic.com just sent out it  sales for the week ending November 4th. Afternic is now reporting total sales including those not reportable and those under $1K. Total domain sales for the week, including confidential and sales under $1000, totaled  $1.086 million. Afternic.com reportable sales over $1000 totaled $549k. Here is the list of reportable sales: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

Sedo.com Sells 835 Domain Names For $1.32 million - Sedo.com just reported its sales for the week. In all 835 domain names sold for $1.32 million led by edublogs.com and Lanyard.com both at $18K. Here are the reportable sales of these: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

Local.ly Sold For $100,000 To Set a Record Price For A .ly domain - According to TechCrunch.com the domain name Local.ly just Sold For $100,000. Unofficially I think its a record for a .ly domain but we will leave it to Ron Jackson to call it. According to TechCrunch.com the seller of the domain is “Hadi Naser of domain name registration and professional services company Libyan Spider, apparently owns several hundred such ‘premium’ .ly domains and  runs a domain name brokerage service at domains.ly.”” Certainly a nice sale congrats to the buyer and seller Google+Michael ... read more ...

Domains New York Life and Others Bought This Week - New York Life and art college make domain name purchases. It’s time for he weekly end user domain sales report. It’s a little short this week, which gives me the chance to discuss one crazy sale at Afternic this past week: dam.com. This domain sold for just $6,500. Is it just me, or is that crazy cheap for a good three letter dot com? OK, on with the end user sales at Afternic… Business broker BizMatch, Inc., which owns biz-match.com, bought BizMatch.net for ... read more ...

StumbleUpon Buys Stumbled.com - Social sharing web site buys another variation of “stumble”. First StumbleUpon bought Stumblers.com, now it has picked up Stumbled.com. Stumbled.com currently has MarkMonitor company DNStinations as its owner in whois. This was the same company that helped the social sharing site purchase Stumblers.com for $6,000 back in September, so it’s highly likely that StumbleUpon is the buyer. The domain name is currently listed for sale on Sedo for $8,000, so I suspect ... read more ...

Australian Domain Market Sees Volume from Yield Media Sales - Some big ticket sales in .com.au. The Australian domain name market is seeing some sales volume lately thanks to a 1,500 domain portfolio being put on the market. The portfolio belonged to Yield Media, owned by the same company that owns domain name registrar Fabulous. It’s being brokered by Ned O’Meara of DNTrade.com.au. Thanks to marketing on his forum he’s managed to sell 384 of the domain names over the past few weeks. The top sale: MoneyBuddy.com.au at ... read more ...

IRA.com Sells For Seven Figures - Michael Jackness reports on his blog today that he has purchased the domain name IRA.com for any amount into the seven figures. Michael writes on his blog today: “”Our agreement prohibits us from talking about the exact deal points of our arrangement. The best I can say is take a look at estibot.com. This is one instance where I think their valuation is at least in the right ballpark. It’s unquestionably a 7 figure domain name.” According to Esibot.com the domain name IRA.com has a value ... read more ...

BMC’s Former Domain Name Identify.com Is In Development - Owner of Identify.com files trademark applications. A recent trademark filing tipped me off to an unannounced sale of a great domain name: identify.com. Brand Enforcement Services Limited of Hong Kong just filed two “intent to use” trademarks for Identify and Identify.com with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The trademark is for “Providing a website featuring information about the management of intellectual property; Advertising; Business management; Business ... read more ...

Sedo Sells $1.3 In Domains; Over $700K in Reportable Sales Led By Solo.com At $133K & Frage.de during 50K - Sedo released their sale for the week and they sold a total of 754 domain names sales totaling $1.31 million. Out of those over $700K were reportable led by Solo.com which sold for $133,000 and Frage.de at 35,000 Euro’s which is about $50K. Here is a list of all the reportable domains for the week:   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

Sedo Releases “Sell Now Assurance” Feature - Feature verifies ownership before allowing fixed price sale. [Update: read comments from Sedo for clarification of domains this covers.] Sedo has announced a new feature called “Sell Now Assurance” for domain names on its site listed with fixed prices. The feature will verify that the seller still owns the domain name before a buyer can complete a “buy now” purchase. If Sedo is unable to verify ownership then then only a “make offer” sale will be possible. ... read more ...

Sedo: Sales Fall But Fixed Price Sales Strong - Sedo sees decline in domain sales revenue but continued strong performance of fixed price domain sales. Sedo just released its Q3 Domain Market Study (pdf), showing a drop in sales compared to the same quarter last year but strong sales of “buy now” transactions. Sales for the quarter of 9,778 domain names totaled $19.3 million compared to $20.5 million for the same quarter in 2010. Q3 saw the lowest total sales for Sedo for the year. Buy now sales accounted ... read more ...

122 .Me Domains Have Bids in Sedo Auction - Sedo auction for .me domain names is seeing a lot of action. Sedo’s latest .me domain name auction ends tomorrow and is seeing a lot of action. 122 domain names have bids as of right now. I count 23 that have met their reserve with about 24 hours to go. The most active domains are VIP.me and Job.me, each with 16 bids. VIP.me is at $2,450 and Job.me is $1,499. Both domains have met their reserve prices. Detox.me leads with a $2,500 bid but has not met its reserve. The ... read more ...

Marchex Sells $2.5 Million in Domains in Q3 - Company continues to sell non-strategic domain names. Marchex reported earnings after the bell today, including the sale of $2.5 million of “non-strategic” domain names during the third quarter. Revenue was $39.9 million for the third quarter of 2011, compared to $24.2 million for the same quarter in 2010. Marchex credits its burgeoning pay-per-call business for driving its growth. GAAP net income was $1.2 million for Q3 2011 compared to a loss of $547,000 in ... read more ...

Look.com Sold By Banks.com - Banks.com has just announced that they have sold the domain Look.com The buyer appears to be Quidsi, Inc. of Jersey City New Jersey. It was just earlier this month that we wrote about the domain name Look.com going up for sale. The purchase price was not disclosed. The domain was up in a Sedo.com auction earlier this year with a reserve range of $500K-$999K but did not sell. Here is the press release: “Banks.com, Inc. (NYSE Amex: BNX), operator of leading financial services focused online media ... read more ...

IBM, Match.com Make Domain Purchases - Special edition of the end user domain sales report. Here’s a special Monday morning edition of the end user domain sales post. This will cover some recent Sedo sales as well as non-reported sales. On the non-reported side, I have a big company to report: IBM has purchased SmarterCity.com and SmarterCities.com from Justin Godfrey of Domain Investment Services for $15,000. Godfrey also sold MallPlaza.com sold to MallPlaza.cl for $10,000 through Afternic. Here are ... read more ...

Solo.com Sells on Sedo.com For $133,000 - The domain name Solo.com just sold for $133,000 on Sedo.com The domain name originally registered in 1994 has been under privacy for years. Back when it was not under privacy the  W7 Media Inc was the registered owner of the domain back in 2007 according to DomainTools.com According to their site: “W7 Media invests heavily in intellectual property, namely domain names and provides a number of IP related services to its corporate clients.” They are located in Blaine, WA So they could be the seller The ... read more ...