Afternic.com Sells Almost a Cool Million In Domain Names This Week Led By 2 Emergency Domains - Afternic.com just released its sales for the week ending on October 2, 2011 All totaled Afternic.com sold almost $1 Million dollars in domain name  led by emergencyshelter.com   emergencyhousing.com which sold for $50K each followed by  picked.com at $35K and  inject.com at $27,000.00. For those non-.com lovers netshoes.net sold for $16,200 If you love a domainer hide the shoelaces and belts before you read through the list: .com Sales $2K emergencyshelter.com $50,000.00 emergencyhousing.com ... read more ...

Sedo Sells $780K in Reportable Sales: $1.7 Million Overall - Sedo.com just released their list of domain name sale for the week totaling $780K in reportable sales led by 3gstore.de which we reported earlier today and memes.com at $30K. In all Sedo.com sold 824 domain names totaling $1.7 million. Earlier today Dave Evanson one of Sedo.com broker announced on this Facebook page he brokered a domain name for $700K which could not be reported, which could be part of the difference. Here is the list of reportable sales:   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

WOW: 3gStore.de Sells for $180,000 Dollars & Name Administration Sells BreakdownCover.com For $25K - A huge sale just announced by Sedo.com,  the domain name 3gStore.de sold for 135,000 Euros or just about $180,000 dollars. The buyer appears to be a company out of Berlin called Teebik Inc Certainly a very strange sale when the world is waiting to switch over to 4g phones why would someone would spend this kind of money on “old” technology? Even if it was “new” technology domain,  Who amongst you would spend $180,000 for 4gstore.com (no we don’t own it) and no we wouldn’t pay $180,000 ... read more ...

Frank Michlick Joins Sedo - Michlick joins domain name marketplace. I caught word earlier this week that domain name industry veteran Frank Michlick had joined Sedo. I emailed him yesterday for the story and today Sedo released a press release about it. Michlick will be working with the SedoMLS team at Sedo. SedoMLS is its domain sale syndication platform. He has been in the domain industry for years, including a stint of 5+ years at Tucows. He is also the main contributor to Domain Name News. He ... read more ...

What Do You Think of a TRAFFIC Auction Lineup? - What do you think of the names and reserves in this auction? This year’s (only) TRAFFIC conference takes place in just a couple weeks in Fort Lauderdale. It will include the first auction run exclusively by TRAFFIC without an outside domain sales company. The list of domains is still fluid, but it seems that Rick Schwartz is delivering on his word to keep reserves relatively low. That doesn’t mean the domains will sell, though. Ultimately an auction is pretty ... read more ...

British Airways, Financial Times, and Virgin Sidestep .co.uk Auctions - Some companies get short domains through sunrise instead of auctions. While some businesses paid hefty sums to win auctions for one and two character .uk domains recently — £3m in total — a few businesses took a cheaper route. British Airways, Financial Times, and Virgin Enterprises each got their short domain names through a trademark sunrise period. The airline picked up ba.co.uk and the financial pub grabbed ft.co.uk. Virgin scored a major coup by grabbing ... read more ...

Automated Domain Selling Fail - Make sure your system works so you don’t embarrass yourself. If you’re going to use an automated or semi-automated system to reach out to potential buyers of your domain names, please make sure the system works. I’ve received several off base emails “I see you own this domain, would you be interested in also owning this (unrelated) domain? This one today takes the cake: Hello, I would like to know if you are interested in purchasing the domain name famouscharities.com. ... read more ...

Mike Mann’s Domain Asset Holding Sells Stepout.com For $30K To Ignighter, Inc A Group Dating Company - Mike Mann’s company Domain Asset Holding just sold the domain name Stepout.com for $30,000 through Sedo.com The buyer of the domain is a company called Ignighter, Inc out of New York which seems to be a pretty big company in the Group Dating space. The site is already up and running pretty much going to Ignighter.com main site As for what group dating is Let’s be honest, 90% of the time meeting someone one-on-one is more awkward than a junior high dance. You’re both too nervous thinking about ... read more ...

Sex.co Gets Close to 11k Visits Per Month - Domain up for auction gets solid traffic. About a year ago the owners of Sex.co put the domain up for sale on Sedo and started parking it there, too. Now that the domain name is up for sale in next month’s TRAFFIC auction, I figured I’d check in on the domain to see what sort of traffic it gets. According to the Sedo listing page, the site got about 10,800 visits over the past 31 days. Given the number of visits to the Sedo listing page you have to wonder if some ... read more ...

What Domain KPMG, Clemson University, and Others Bought This Past WE - A weekly round up of end user domain name purchases. Here’s a look at domain names end users bought through Afternic last week. Entrepreneur.com bought ClubEntrepreneur.com for $5,000 one week after picking up EntrepreneurAwards.com for $2,088. KPMG Meijburg Co bought TaxControl.com for $2,388. You know how cute spellings of your name create confusion? It looks like Xpert Auto Repair Inc., which owns xpertauto.net, figured that out. It bought ExpertAuto.net for ... read more ...

Exit Strategy for Domainers: How to Sell Your Portfolio in a Hurry - How to sell your portfolio in a hurry. A reader emailed me the other day asking if I’ve ever written about exit strategies for domainers. I don’t think I have, but it’s a good idea. So here it goes. The problem with exiting the domain industry. Most domain names aren’t very liquid. They can be sold quickly but not at full market value. A good portfolio of non-traffic generics turns over about 2% to 3% a year without pushing the sales out. You can achieve ... read more ...

Frank Schilling Sells SiteWeb.com For $100K On Sedo - Frank Schilling NameAdministration just sold The domain name SiteWeb.com  for $100,000 on Sedo There are certainly going to be mulitple applications in the new gTLD program for .web which may have been the impetus for a sale. It looks like the transfer to the new owner has completed and the domain is under privacy at Godaddy going to a Godaddy Placeholder. Congrats to Frank on another great six figure sale.   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

Another Day & Another Bargain For A Public Company That Grabs Buckingham.com For Just $10K - Yesterday we told you about a public company that got a deal, maybe the deal of the decade when it purchased RealEstate.com and 400 other domain names for just $8.25 Million. Today comes news that another public company, Buckingham Exploration Inc. (OTCBB: BUKX) announced today that it has  purchased the domain name Buckingham.com for just $10,000. The seller of the domain Mr. Robin Relph, however is an insider of the company,  and is not only a director but chairman of the board. “””The ... read more ...

SilverCoins.com Sells On Sedo For $100K, MyLooks.com Sells For $50K + Another Game Domain For $25K - Two more nice domain sales just crossed Sedo.com sales wire. The domain name SilverCoins.com was purchased for $100,000. The domain name is and has been under privacy for the past several years. There haven’t been much hotter investments in this horrible recession than Gold and Silver making this IMHO a good purchase. MyLooks.com also sold today on Sedo.com for $50,000. The seller appears to be Modern Empire Internet Ltd. of Hong Kong. Both domain names are still pending in escrow at Sedo. A third ... read more ...

RealEstate.com Purchased For $8.25 Million - According to TechCrunch.com in what may well be the buy of the century in the domain name world, Market Leader, (NASDAQ: LEDR) a provider of online marketing and technology solutions for real estate professionals, this morning announced the acquisition of RealEstate.com. A Market Leader spokesperson informed TechCrunch.com  that the purchase price was $8.25 million. At that price, IMHO it certainly one of the best buys in the last 5 years in the domain space. Considering that not only did Market ... read more ...

End User Domain Buys from Washington Post and Entrepreneur - Two large publishers buy domain names. The Washington Post Company and Entrepreneur Media both bought domain names this week. Here’s a look at these and a handful of other end user sales at Afternic over the past week. The Washington Post bought expressnow.com for $1,188. After buying FullBeauty.com for $4,290 two months ago, Redcats USA picked up FullBeauty.NET for $1,856.80. Online document signing solution RightSignature bought pleasesign.com for $1,000, signatureonline.com ... read more ...

Vertive Buys CouponCodes.com Domain Name - Austin company buys another killer domain name. Austin, Texas online savings company Vertive has acquired the domain name CouponCodes.com for an undisclosed sum. Vertive is now stranger to the power of domain names. It operates Offers.com (it also owns Offer.com) and company founder Steve Schaffer sometimes attends domain name conferences. According to an article in The Austin American-Statesman, Schaffer has been pursuing the domain name for several years. The seller ... read more ...

Soci.al Domain Hack Sells for $50,000 - Soci.al sells to Mark Monitor client. The domain name hack Soci.al has sold for $50,000 according to host.al, which provided a screenshot of the Escrow.com transaction to Domain Name Wire as proof. The Albania country code domain name now sits on brand protection company Mark Monitor’s name servers, although it does not resolve. Moniker sold Social.com for $2.6 million in June to an undisclosed buyer. The domain name may now belong to Salesforce.com, although a ... read more ...

IP Property Of Borders, Including Borders.com Sells for $15.8 Million & Barnes & Noble Among Purchasers -  A couple of weeks ago we told you that the IP assets of Borders would be shortly sold off at a Bankruptcy Court auction. According to Detroit News.com, Barnes Noble were among the bidders that bought the intellectual property Borders Group Inc. bookstore chain for $15.8 million in a bankruptcy auction including the domain name Borders.com held yesterday. The company handling the auction, “Hilco Streambank did not identify which parts of Borders that Barnes Noble purchased, but the liquidators ... read more ...

Gaz.com Sells for $55K on Sedo: Is The Russian Automaker The Buyer? - The domain name GAZ.com just sold on Sedo for 40,000 Euro’s or around $55,000 on one bid in an auction that just ended My pick as the buyer of the domain, but just a guess is Gaz automotive group out of Russia According to their site, “GAZ GROUP IS RUSSIA’S LARGEST AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING HOLDING” company. You can read more about this company here If it is the Russian automaker then its a steal. If not the Russian company than there are some gaming related uses for the term Gaz so it could ... read more ...