Tag Archives: sales

Sat 19th September 2015
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George Hong of Guta.com Brokers DD.com Domain Name Sale - In what very likely is another strong 7 figure domain name sale IMO, the domain name DD.com has been sold. Two letter .com domain names are rare with only 676 of them but Double repeating two letter .com’s are even more scarce with only 26! I reached out to George Hong, founder of Guta.com and he has confirmed the sale of DD.com but was not able to share any details of the domain name sale due to a non-disclosure agreement. Guta.com was the exclusive broker of DD.com, which was owned by WebMagic ... read more ...
Fri 18th September 2015
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End User Stories: How Parachute bought Parachute.co - Delivery service decided .co was better than a longer .com domain name. College campus delivery service Parachute recently acquired the domain name Parachute.co. In our continuing series on end user domain name purchase stories, Parachute co-founder Zev Lapin explains why his company selected Parachute.co and how it bought it. DNW: What is Parachute? Parachute (formerly CourseLoads) is a last mile delivery layer within college campuses. We make it simple for students to get what they need, delivered ... read more ...
 
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ZenPayroll.com Rebrands To Gusto.com! Secures Domain 8 Days Prior To Launch - Early last week (about September 9, 2015) I started noticing “Gusto” domain names on the move from MarkMonitor to GoDaddy under whois privacy but I was holding off announcing anything because I simply wasn’t sure the reason behind the movements. I felt they likely changed ownership but didn’t have any confirmation or who the potential buyers were. Well, on September 17, 2015 ZenPayroll.com made an official announcement that they were changing names to Gusto.com and now offering health benefits ... read more ...
Wed 16th September 2015
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Sedo has some inestimable Marketplace auctions right now - Buyers are bidding up four character domain names at Sedo. It’s not every day that Sedo Marketplace auctions have intense bidding wars, but this week seems to be an exception. You might want to take a look. Much of the excitement is a rush on four letter .com domain names. FFRR.com just closed at $5,500. Names including bhxj.com, kgld.com and xqym.com all have multiple bidders and prices over $600. There are many other four letter domain names also on auction, presumably being snapped up by Chinese ... read more ...
 
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Rick Schwartz Sells 899.com For $801,000: Now Has 1st & 3rd Largest Reported Sales Of 2015 - Rick Schwartz, the Domain King, has sold the domain name 899.com for $801,000 which becomes the 3rd largest reported domain name sale of 2015.  (DnJournal. com is the official keeper of all reported domain name sales) Earlier this year Rick sold the domain name Porno.com for $8,888,888 which is the highest reported domain sale of 2015. The 2nd highest reported domain sale is PX.com which was sold by MediaOptions to ReviMedia for $1 million just last week. Before the PX.com sale the 2nd highest sale ... read more ...
 
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Wine.co for $25,000 and other finish user domain name sales - Wine.co tops list of public domain name sales at Sedo for the week. Sedo handled $1.4 million worth of domain name transactions last week, with 56% of them resulting from “buy now” sales. The top public sale was Wine.co, purchased by the wine store at Wine.com.br, for $25,000. A lot of interesting sales are still in escrow. I’m curious who paid $2,000 for nepotism.org and $12,500 for CloudStore.com. Here’s a look at end user domain name sales from the psat week: (You can view previous lists ... read more ...
Tue 15th September 2015
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Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.4 million led by Wine.co during $25,000 - Sedo completed 512 transactions on their marketplace and via SedoMLS. The total of all transactions was  $1.4m. 56% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.  .Co topped all sales this week with Wine.co selling for $25,000  Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: weplus.com at 20,000 USD Top ccTLD:  wine.co at 25,000 USD Top “other” TLD: bb.org at 15,500 EUR New gTLD sales: vaticancity.club 1,492 USD wetten.jetzt 1,100 EUR vinci.casa 789 EUR     ... read more ...
Fri 11th September 2015
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Veo.com Purchased By TD Ameritrade For $36K on NameJet.com Auction - Three letter domain name Veo.com has been acquired by TD Ameritrade, a domain name that was recently owned by New Ventures Services Corp according to whois records, prior to it selling for $36,100 on Namejet.com A company by the name of Veo International owned the domain name dating back to 2005 according to whois records and the past owner allegedly claims that he had his account “frozen from 2008 when i try to renewal i can’t, they tell me for reason security i do not know why, i try more time ... read more ...
 
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Making Progress: Why Progress.ly bought Progressly.com - “Github for business people” bought a new domain name to make it easier for people to discover its service. This is the second in a new Domain Name Wire series covering end users that buy domain names. Nick Candito is founder of Progressly, a company on a mission to improve business processes. The company started with the domain name Progress.ly, a popular domain name extension for startups. It’s actually Libya’s country code domain name. This past week, the company paid $8,750 to secure ... read more ...
 
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HIGH Movements Of 2 Letter .com Domains, Including FF.com And More Sold? - There have been A LOT of movements on 2 letter .com domain names the past two days starting on September 10, 2015 and continues into today, September 11, 2015, so I wanted to make you aware of the movements as some may be sold. The majority of movements detected include a “status” update in whois records, and this can indicate a domain name may have been “unlocked” for transfer and this can be an early indicator to a potential sale. FF.com, a domain name owned by Bank Of America has had a ... read more ...
Wed 9th September 2015
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17 finish user sales including a .XYZ domain name - Sedo sold $1.1 million of domain names last week, including these end user sales. Sedo handled a higher-than-usual 647 domain name transactions last week totaling $1.1 million. 56% — slightly hire than usual — were “buy now” sales. Among the end user buyers were a site that connects bands to wedding gigs, a food sustainability organization, and some guy named Paul who bought Paul.xyz. (The abc.xyz effect continues!) Here’s a look at 17 end user purchases that took place at Sedo over the ... read more ...
 
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How can we move liquidity to a domain name business? - Is there a way to make domain names a more efficient market? Domain name investing is an incredibly inefficient and illiquid business compared to many markets. There have been times and certain segments when domains were liquid, such as traffic domains sold at multiples and the current three letter .com craze. But for the most part and for most domains, there’s a complete lack of liquidity. Inefficient markets create opportunity, but they also make it difficult for market participants. A more ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.1million led by SGJ.com during $31,500 - Over the past week, 647 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.1m. 56% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.    Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: sgj.com at 31,500 USD Top ccTLD:  jj.de at 7,521 USD Top “other” TLD: 238.net at 9,130 USD New Gtld sales for the week: paul.xyz    1999    USD hallo.taxi    1150    EUR money.solutions    1000    USD A couple of repeating themes from last week, aa1122.com sold for 2,495 ... read more ...
Tue 8th September 2015
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Namejet Publishes Almost $400K In Domain Sales In August -

Namejet.com released a reportable sales for Aug totaling $393,859.

Only those domain names that sole and were paid for by a finish of Aug 2015 are enclosed as good as usually domain name that sole for $2,000 or more.

Here are a domains and a sales prices for August:

 

Via: thedomains.com

 
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Trump is still trending…in .com - Trump, Alphabet were hot keywords in domain name registrations last month. At some point, Donald Trump will flame out of the presidential race. Until then, The Donald is giving .com registry Verisign a bit of a bump. For the second month in a row, “trump” made the list of Verisign’s trending keywords in .com registrations. That’s impressive since the list is created by looking at the jump the keyword made over the previous month. And if you think Verisign completely lost out on Google’s ... read more ...
Sun 6th September 2015
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Breaking: Rick Schwartz Sells a NNN.com Domain Putting Him 2nd on The YTD Sales Chart - Rick Schwartz wrote to me today to tell me he sold an NNN.com domain name for an amount which will  land him as the 2nd highest reported sale of 2015 per DnJournal. The transaction is still in  Escrow,  so the Domain King will not reveal what the domain is or what the purchase price was until the escrow transaction is closed. Rick,  like RightoftheDot.com/4.CN auction is using 4.Cn escrow’s service to handle the transaction. Mr. Schwartz already has the highest domain sale of the year with ... read more ...
Fri 4th September 2015
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Did Premium 2 Letter Domain Name TN.com Sell? - This morning, the premium 2 letter .com domain name TN.com has transferred out of domain name registrar Fabulous.com to GoDaddy.com. This movement can indicate a domain name has sold. What we know. Back in 2011, whois records showed the domain name was owned by Vertical Axis, Inc. The domain name has been under whois privacy ever since but the domain has been using Mark.com name servers recently, which is common with Vertical Axis, Inc. owned domain names. The domain name was using DomainNameSales.com ... read more ...
Thu 3rd September 2015
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eBay during 20 and a problem of building a market - Building a marketplace is hard, even in the domain name business. It’s crazy to think that it’s been 20 years since the first auction on eBay (then AuctionWeb). 20 years! So much has happened since then when it comes to the internet. eBay created a market of buyers and sellers, much like the two predominant domain name marketplaces (Sedo and Afternic) did. Here are a couple take-aways from this: 1. Creating a market is hard. A lot of people gripe about paying 20% commissions to Sedo and Afternic. ... read more ...
Wed 2nd September 2015
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What domains Under Armour and other companies bought final week - Under Armour wants you to Rule Yourself. Under Armour is getting ready to move into its new Austin office. It also has a new domain name in its portfolio. The company was one of many that bought domain names at Sedo this past week, led by Zoff.com at $25,000. Read about these domain name purchases and others in this week’s DNW End User report. Here’s the list: (You can view previous lists like this here. If you’d like to learn how to sell your domain names like these on Sedo, download this ... read more ...
Tue 1st September 2015
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Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1Million led by Zoff.com - There were 480 transactions on Sedo’s marketplace and SedoMLS, totaling $1m. 55% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: zoff.com at 25,000 USD Top ccTLD:  easy.eu at 6,500 EUR Top “other” TLD: anzeigen.info at 6,000 EUR It was a slow week for other gtlds, no new gtld sales this week. Mike’s Bargain of the week is MedicalOffice.com which someone picked up for a whopping $700. ... read more ...
 
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FireHost Rebrands As Armor.com After Purchasing The Domain Name - On August 23, 2015 I had detected that the domain names Armor.com and Armour.com had likely sold and questioned if Under Armour may have purchased the domains from the past owner, Chris Poor who had owned them since they were created back in 1995. Well, a company by the brand name of FireHost sent out a  press release yesterday, August 31, 2015 announcing a rebrand to Armor and revealed they were the buyers of Armor.com. I spoke to Chris Poor today on the phone and he was unable to provide comment ... read more ...
Thu 27th August 2015
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Thomson Reuters Acquires Premium Domain Name TR.com - According to whois records, MarkMonitor’s parent company, Thomson Reuters has acquired the premium two letter domain name TR.com from Wolters Kluwer US. Wolters Kluwer has owned TR.com since August 2005 and was using the domain name for Telecommunications Reports under the business name CCH Incorporated. Thomson Reuters Corporation is a major multinational mass media and information firm founded in Toronto and based in New York City and Toronto according to Wikipedia. Thomson Reuters is a publicly ... read more ...
Wed 26th August 2015
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18 finish user domain name sales including a .Science domain name - End user domain name sales from the past week. You are getting sleepy…very sleepy…you will visit Domain Name Wire several times a day and visit the advertisers’ sites… Oh, excuse me. I’ve gotten carried away after writing about Hypnosis.science selling for $3,000 to an end user this past week. Sedo had a great week, selling $1.7 million worth of domain names. That total must include a big one that isn’t disclosed. As for what’s disclosed and was purchased by an end user, here’s a ... read more ...
Tue 25th August 2015
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Sedo Weekly Transactions Total $1.7million led by H123.com - Sedo had 474 transactions take place on their marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.7m. 56% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.    Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: h123.com at 21,500 USD Top ccTLD:  nachbarschaft.de at 12,700 EUR Top “other” TLD: hypnosis.science at 3,000 USD New GTLD sales: hypnosis.science    3,000    USD carsharing.wien    850    EUR Names like NeckWallets.com or 001mm.com show you how random the name game can be. ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Talks Domain Values and Market Data on StartUpStud.com - StartupStud.com conducted an interview with Sedo, on topics such as what determines a domain’s value, how should an entrepreneur go about getting the best domain ? .Com vs new gtlds when it comes to value and sales data. A couple questions from the interview: StartupStud.com: What are the primary factors that determine a domain’s value? Sedo: A few of the major categories we take into consideration when placing a value on a domain are the TLD, length of the domain, linguistic suitability, and ... read more ...