Tag Archives: sales

Tue 12th July 2011
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Amazon.com Buys CloudPlayer.com Domain Name - Company gets domain name for its new music service. When Amazon.com announced its music-anywhere service and corresponding Cloud Player a few months ago, it was missing a key ingredient — the domain name CloudPlayer.com. It has belatedly fixed that problem. On July 11 the whois record for CloudPlayer.com transferred to Amazon. It hasn’t yet started forwarding the domain name to its product page, however. Cloud Player is the application to access your Amazon ... read more ...
 
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Latona’s Adds Expense Details to Latest Web Sites for Sale - More web sites for sale, this time with hard costs data. Rick Latona has released a new batch of developed web sites for sale. This time around he has added expense details so you can get an idea of how much it costs to operate the site. Still, the expense details don’t seem to take into consideration how much time the site operators spend on the site. You’ll want to find that out before placing an offer. Included are two insurance lead generation sites. One ... read more ...
 
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Branding Lesson: Cloud.com Was Much Better Than VMOps - Domain name boosted VMops in the hot cloud market. “Citrix Buys Cloud.com for more than $200 million” That sounds much better than what the headline could have been: “Citrix Buys VMOps” Cloud.com started its life as VMops. But when Meetup.com’s founder put Cloud.com up for auction, VMOps took notice. In February 2010 the company acquired the domain name on the heels of a $17 million funding round. I caught up with Cloud.com VP of Business Development ... read more ...
Mon 11th July 2011
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NameMedia Expands With London Office - Company expands European footprint. NameMedia is expanding its European footprint with a new office in London. The company will announce the expansion today. The domain seller, which operates Afternic and BuyDomains, has hired Nadya Morozova as its European Business Development Manager. Morozova was previously Director of Community Outreach for the .tel registry. Afternic is well known for its sales prowess through the U.S. registrar channel. But earlier this year ... read more ...
 
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How To Quickly Get Your Domain Names on Afternic Premium - Here’s the simplest way to bulk upload domains to Afternic’s Premium level service. Listing domain names on services that offer syndicated, instant-transfer listings can be a bit of work. It takes more than just uploading your domain names; at a minimum you need to set prices and often times add categories. Today I updated my Afternic Premium Promotion list by adding a couple hundred more domains that were in my Moniker account. Some of these were in my Afternic ... read more ...
Sat 9th July 2011
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Disc Golf Associations Buys DiscGolf.com Domain Name - Company that “founded” disc golf buys DiscGolf.com. Go to any major park in Austin during the day and you’ll see people “throwing plastic”, a.k.a. playing disc golf. If not trademark attorneys are around you might also call it “frisbee golf”. It’s like golf but cheaper and less pretentious. Heck, the church down the street dedicated much of its green space to an 18 hole disc golf course designed by a famous course designer. So apparently God approves ... read more ...
Wed 6th July 2011
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WindowFilm.com Sells For $17K On NameJet.com - The domain name WindowFilm.com sold on NameJet.com for $17,100. The auction had 3 bidders over $10K. In some other auctions: 9091.com sold for $3,008 chafen.com sold for $4,509 wqv.com,  mxv.com and alf.net all had bids over $4K each but did not hit reserve and therefore did not sell       Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Sedo.com Sells Fr.cc for $50K Wow - Maybe lost in the Sedo.com sales report this week was this stunner; FR.cc sold for $50,000. By far the largest .cc domain sale I can remember for a very, very long time. The domain is still pending transfer so its unclear who the buy is but its quite a price for a two letter .cc as two letter .net’s and org’s have sold for much less.   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Tue 5th July 2011
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Domain Names End Users Bought This Week - 8 examples of end users buying generic domains for their businesses. As I did with last week’s sales report, I’m taking a look at some of Afternic’s sales to end users for the week. Laser Spine Institute bought GoodbyeBackPain.com for $2,880. Goodbye back pain, but also a “good buy”. JS Tour and Travel, which specializes in tours to the Caribbean, Hawaii and Mexico bought cancunfishing.com for $2,588. Andover, Massachusetts jewelry and watch store Royal ... read more ...
Fri 1st July 2011
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Sedo Ups Commission Rates - Typical sales will see a 5% fee increase. Sedo has increased its commission rate on most transactions occurring directly on its site. The typical sale on Sedo.com will now carry a 15% commission, up from 10%. The commission is still 10% if the domain is parked at Sedo and it is sells through a fixed price. Sales on Sedo’s MLS system carry a 20% fee. These commissions seem directly in line with Sedo’s biggest competitor, Afternic, with a couple differences. Afternic’s ... read more ...
Thu 30th June 2011
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Domain Investor Brian Wick Sells Minus.com For $115,000 - Domain investor Brian Wick has sold the domain name, Minus.com for $115,000. Brian said he acquired the domain in January 2007 at a Network Solution pre-drop auction for $8,100. So basically a 15x return in just 4 years, in a horrible economy. The buyer according to Mr. Wick is the buyer is a “math educational non-profit startup” but the whois record has the domain under privacy. In any event its a nice price for that domain and a hell of a return. Congrats to the Brian and the Buyer.     Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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Domaining.com’s CAX.com to Start Rewarding Bidders - Early bidders will earn cash back. Francois Carrillo, the guy behind Domaining.com, is getting ready to launch a new cash back program for bidding on his CAX.com domain marketplace. The program will reward both the initial bidder in an auction and the second highest bidder with 2% of the sales price. For example, if you are the first bidder and three people bid in an auction but you don’t win, you’ll get 2% of the sales price. If you’re the first bidder in an ... read more ...
Wed 29th June 2011
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Sedo.com Clarifies The Sale Of WellnessFinder.com Sold For 300,000 Euro’s; But It Was A Site Not A Domain - As previously reported the Sedo.com the brokered the sale of WellnessFinder.com for 300,000 euro‘s Sedo.com own site as late as today was still showing the sale at 150,000 Euro’s. Last week I wrote about the domain selling for 150,000 Euro’s but when the weekly Sedo report came out the other day the price was listed as 300,000 Euro’s So I reached out to Sedo.com who clarified that the sales price was indeed 300,000 euro’s, but that what was sold was a website not just a domain name, so ... read more ...
Tue 28th June 2011
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What Domain Names Bain and Other End Users Bought from Afternic This Week - A look at end user domain buyers from the past week. Afternic’s extended network of domain name sales sites brings in end users. I thought it would be interesting to take a look at some of the company’s $600,000+ in domain sales for the past week and who the buyers were. Consulting firm Bain bought Repeatability.com for $4,000. Sounds like a strategic consulting name to me! Monarch Mortgage upgraded its domain name from MonarchMtg.com to MonarchMortgage.com ... read more ...
 
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School Equipment Company Buys MarkerBoards.com and Other Sedo Sales - A review of this week’s domain sales at Sedo. Apparently my review of Afternic sales earlier today in which I showed who the buyers were struck a chord. I’d like to do the same thing with Sedo’s results, except that most of the domains are still in escrow whenever they send out their list. But I’ll try, and perhaps sometimes I’ll go back and pull in some sales from the previous week that now have updated whois information. Here’s a match made in heaven: ... read more ...
Mon 27th June 2011
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Sedo.com Sells Wellnessfinder.com For $210K - Sedo.com just sold the The domain name Wellnessfinder.com for a whopping 150,000 Euro’s or around $210,000. The domain is already going to a site with a trademark up on it for the term Wellness Finder. The domain was owned by a company Wellnessfinder e.K. in Germany and the buyer is TOP International Hotels GmbH. It would be interesting to know if the sale included the trademark. In any event its a huge price for that domain name. It also looks like the buyer of the .com owned the .de version ... read more ...
Sun 26th June 2011
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Microsoft Lists Over 100 Domains For Sale on Sedo - Company gets proactive with domain sales. Yesterday I wrote about Microsoft’s sale of Do.com. Last month Microsoft finally relented and sold HotList.com to startup TheHotList.com. But it appears that Microsoft might also be proactively selling some of its domain names. Abdu Tarabichi noticed that the software giant has listed over 100 domain names for sale on domain marketplace Sedo. If you type any of the domains into your browser, they’ll forward you to a ... read more ...
Sat 25th June 2011
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Microsoft Sells (or Places for Sale) Do.com - Domain name transfers to IP protection company. An old Microsoft domain name has changed hands. The whois record for Do.com changed yesterday from Microsoft to Glendale, California company Marksmen. Marksmen is an intellectual property company that often helps companies acquire domain names. But it also owns NameQuiver, a domain name brokerage that sells domains on behalf of other companies. NameQuiver was the seller broker for the now complete $2.6 million Social.com ... read more ...
Thu 23rd June 2011
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Social.com Domain Name Transfers to Buyer’s Broker - Looks like the payment went through for Social.com. Social.com, which Ron Jackson says is under contract to sell at $2.6 million, has an updated whois. As of today, the whois record at Network Solutions says the owner is New Yorker Kevin Bingo. However, the whois record is not complete with an address nor does it have a valid phone number. Furthermore, it appears this is the buyer’s broker for the domain name, not the buyer. Kevin Bingo’s twitter account looks ... read more ...
Wed 22nd June 2011
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Has Men.com Sold Again? - Curious changes at Men.com. Has Men.com, which Rick Schwartz sold for seven figures nearly a decade ago, changed hands again? That’s a rumor I’m chasing down. If you have any other information, please comment on it. [Update: I’ve confirmed the domain has sold. Men.com, LLC had two managing members left as of the company’s latest annual report with Florida.] Here’s the deal. In early April the administrative contact for the domain changed from Men.com, ... read more ...
Tue 21st June 2011
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“I Want To Be A Billionaire” Sedo.com Sells Billionaire.com For $215k - What’s better than a million dollars, a billion dollars; so the line from the move goes, or it you prefer line from A song “I want to be a billionaire” Well Sedo just brokered the domain name Billionaire.com for a lot less than that $215,000 to be exact. The broker on behalf of Sedo was Frank Alello. The Buyer is under privacy and so is the Seller. The domain seems to have switched hands twice recently once back in early 2010 and once in late 2010. Its a highly brandable domain I think for ... read more ...
 
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How Much is a .Eu Domain Worth? Find out on Sedo Today - Hundreds of .eu domains being auctioned at no reserve. About 400 .eu domain names are up for grabs on Sedo today, all at no reserve. The auctions end starting at 12 pm EDT. Some of the top keyword domains include Gin.eu, treasure.eu, soda.eu, junk.eu, razor.eu, sociology.eu, labor.eu, repair.eu, dermatology.eu, easter.eu, and horoscopes.eu. There are also many 3 and 4 letter domains. So far the auction looks more like a .ws auction than .eu given the prices — ... read more ...
 
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My Picks for a Moniker Extended Auction Ending Wednesday - The good and the bad in auction ending tomorrow. The DOMAINfest Barcelona extended Moniker domain auction on SnapNames with nearly 500 domain names concludes Wednesday. Domains range in price from no reserve to nearly $6.5 million for WorkatHome.com. Intriguingly missing from the auction is Social.com, which received a $2.5 million bid during the live auction. Some of the notable low six figure domains include Invites.com, Frame.com, Skills.com, Dorms.com There are ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Has a Million Dollar Week with Two Six Figure Sales - A big domain sales week thanks to two six figure transactions. Sedo closed over a million dollars worth of domain transactions last week — in .com alone. The biggest sale was the closing of DataCenter.com, which Elliot wrote about a few weeks ago. In second place was Billionaire.com at $215,000, which Michael wrote about yesterday. Both domains’ whois records are protected by privacy services. The top ccTLD sale of the week was Finance.co at $45,000. It’s ... read more ...
 
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$2.6 Million Social.com Sale Could Make Moniker Auction a Big One - Pending sale would give Moniker one of its biggest auctions ever. I’ve been tracking the potential sale of Social.com for a couple weeks now. The domain name was listed in Moniker’s live domain name auction for Barcelona (which actually ended up taking place online only last week). A legitimate $2.5 million dollar bid was placed in the auction, and sources tell me there may have been other interested parties. Then the domain was omitted from the extended auction ... read more ...