Tag Archives: sales

Wed 15th June 2011
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Moniker Auction Sells Another 5 Domains Plus Data.com - Houses.co.uk leads premium domain name auction. Moniker’s “make up” auction from last week’s Barcelona conference has found a home for five more domains on top of the multi-million dollar sale of Data.com to Salesforce.com. Data.com was pulled from the auction after Salesforce.com made a significant offer on the domain name. The sales included: Houses.co.uk $50,870 Gado.com $3,000 SEMexpert.com $600 SEOagencies.com $900 Pilsners.co.uk $300 It’s worth noting ... read more ...
Tue 14th June 2011
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Afternic.com Sells $700k In Domains Led By Chop.com For $60k - Afternic.com just released its sales for the week ending Sunday June 12th. All reportable domain sales $1k and over totalled $701,219. The top seller of the week was Chop.com at $60,000 followed by Antonio.net at $11,000. Here is the complete list:     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Oversee.net Sells Chop.com for $60,000 - No price chopping with Chop.com. Oversee.net has sold Chop.com from its owned and operated portfolio with the help of Afternic. A UK company that appears to be a battery importer purchased the domain name for $60,000. As of right now the domain name still resolves to a DomainSponsor parked page. Chop.com was by far Afternic’s biggest sale of the week, although it has the usual strong list of four figure domains. Here are some of the top ones: antonio.net $11,000.00 netstars.com ... read more ...
 
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My Picks for Moniker Premium Auction Ending Wednesday - Some picks — including some big ones — for Wednesday’s auction. Moniker’s premium domain name auction, which was moved to an online-only event after technical problems in Barcelona last week, ends on Wednesday at 3:15 PM ET. As with recent auctions, I think some of the activity will take place outside the auction. We’ve already seen the monster sale of Data.com to Salesforce.com before the auction even started. All we know for sure is that the sales ... read more ...
Mon 13th June 2011
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Go Daddy Triples Auction Fees to 15% - Auction fees go up as domains get more exposure. Go Daddy Auctions has increased its sales commission three-fold from 5% to 15%. This change was noticed by Hybrid Domainer earlier today. The auction price increase makes sense given that auction listings now show up in the registration path when someone searches for the exact domain name on Go Daddy. A Premium Listing carries a 30% commission while the typical auction listing only cost 5% until now. This is steep ... read more ...
Sat 11th June 2011
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Gary Chernoff Sells AdNet.com for $60,000 - Chernoff strikes again. Gary Chernoff has made another big domain name sale with AdNet.com for $60,000. The updated whois information shows that RevNet bought the domain name. RevNet bills its business as the “Worlds 1st On-Demand Data Monetization Platform for businesses and publishers.” The company owns another “net.com” domain, CallNet.com. It’s clear RevNet understands the importance of domain names. Two of its other domains are monetization.com ... read more ...
Fri 10th June 2011
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MediaOptions.com Brokers Adventure.com For $200K & Has Brokered $17 Million in Domains In The Last 18 Months - MediaOptions.com just brokered the sale of the domain name Adventure.com for $200,000 The buyer of the domain is Eric Borgos who as we noted a few weeks ago is on a bit of a shopping spree. Eric has purchased Physical.com for $42,500, Humidifiers.com for $50K, Pastries.com for $12,500 and AdvertisingAgency.com for $33,000 all within the last month or so. The Seller was Knowledge Adventure Corporation a children’s educational games company. The broker of the deal, MediaOptions.com continues to have ... read more ...
 
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Did Google Buy Wallet.com? - Domain name changes hands; Google is a possible buyer. Did Google buy the domain name Wallet.com for its new Google Wallet service? [Update: yes, it did.] World Media Group, LLC owned the domain name until the end of March. Then on April 1 the domain name was registered under privacy protection but at CSC, a corporate brand management firm and domain name registrar. Yesterday the whois information for the domain name changed to DNStinations, a group that frequently ... read more ...
Wed 8th June 2011
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hongwang.com Sells For $16,400 On NameJet.com - The Domain name hongwang.com sold for $16,400 on NameJet.com today. There are 983,000 direct reference on Google to the name Hong Wang which seem to be a popular name in the Asian culture but $16K? In all 112 people were in the auction with 13 people bidding $1K or more and 4 bidding $7,500 or more. In other recent NameJet.com sales: Glutamine.com sold for $9,400 Glutamine is a amino acid ChimneyCap.com Sold for $4,700 BathTowels.Net sold for $4,600 Pov.net sold for $2,100       Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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Mike Mann Sells Women.co For $25,000 & Another .Com He Bought A Month Ago For $69 For $13K - According to Mike Mann Facebook page his company just sold Women.co for $25K Also according to his Facebook page Mike sold the domain name ChinaDiscovery.com for $13,000, a domain he just acquired on May 2, of this year; yes just about a month ago for $69. In what other business can you turn $69 into $13K in a month? Congrats to Mike and his team     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Technical Problems Postpone Moniker Auction - Auction postponed after web sites go down. If you tried to reach most of Oversee.net’s web sites this morning — Oversee.net, SnapNames, or Moniker — you probably ran into difficulty. The timing couldn’t have been worse for the company, which was scheduled to run a live domain name auction from Barcelona this morning U.S. time. The company has officially announced that the auction will be postponed, but the new date hasn’t been set. This isn’t the first ... read more ...
Tue 7th June 2011
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Data.com Sold For An Amount “Significantly In Excess Of The $1.5 Million Reserve” - I just got an email from Oversee saying that the domain name Data.com, which was scheduled to be in tomorrow’s DomainFest live auction sold privately today. The domain name Data.com was one of our picks to sell at the auction. The domain had a reserve range of $1M-$5M but according to the announcement the actual reserve was $1.5 Million. The actual selling price was not disclosed. The domain was purchase by SalesForce.com a publicly traded company (NYSE: CRM) with a market cap of almost $19 Billion ... read more ...
 
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Breaking: Salesforce.com Buys Data.com Domain Name - Salesforce.com pays seven figure sum for Data.com domain name before it can be auctioned off. Salesforce.com has purchased the domain name Data.com from publicly traded media company UBM plc for an undisclosed price. The domain name was listed in this week’s Moniker auction with a reserve range between $1 million to $5 million. Usually when a domain name is taken out of auction early the buyer agrees to pay a premium above whatever the reserve price was. I think ... read more ...
Mon 6th June 2011
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Is ETF.com Worth $9.5 Million? - A big market but a big price tag. From a Covestor today comes this sales pitch for ETF.com. Asking price: $9.5 million. The domain is being brokered by a Seattle outfit called Broadmoor Associates. I’ve never heard of them before, and they don’t list any names on their web site, but apparently they’ve been the exclusive broker of some good names (and some rather poor names) in the past. A Reuters blogger takes issue with the valuation methodology in the ... read more ...
Thu 2nd June 2011
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Lawsuits.com Goes Up For Sale - Premium legal domain name now for sale. Andrew Miller, well known in the domain name community for his role at Internet Real Estate Group, is brokering the sale of Lawsuits.com through his company ATM Holdings, Inc. The asking price seems reasonable at $275,000. The domain name is owned by a New Jersey man. Lawsuit.com (singular) is already a lead generation site for lawyers. In this case I’m not sure if the singular or plural is better. I’ve been keeping my ... read more ...
Wed 1st June 2011
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Mike Mann’s DomainMarket.com Sells 4 More .Co Domains Totaling $85K - Mike Mann just posted on his Facebook page a few recent sales from DomainMarket.com and topping the list were 4  .Co domain names totaling $85,000 in sales. In all according to his Facebook, DomainMarket.com posted over $110K in sales in the last two weeks, including the 4 .Co domains “which were a package deal”. Congrats to Mike and his team Here are the domains Mike listed as recent sales:   finance.co $25,000.00 automotive.co $20,000.00 cigar.co $20,000.00 ski.co $20,000.00 greenbusiness.org ... read more ...
 
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WebsiteHosting.com Purchased For $190K In Jan Just Sold For $415,000 - A blogger, Mike Jackness, has just written a post about how he just sold the domain name WebSiteHosting.com which he purchased in just January of this year for $190,000 for a whopping $415,000. Since acquiring the domain, he turned down in a style that would make even the Domain King proud offers of $250K and $300K and $401,000 before agreeing to sell the domain for $415,000: “Shortly after I purchased WebSiteHosting.com I received an offer of $250,000 for the domain. ” “Then, about 2 weeks ... read more ...
Tue 31st May 2011
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Afternic Sells $850K In Domains Led By One Of Ours; TheFit.com during $31K - The top seller of the week was one of our domain names, TheFit.com, that sold for $30,900. QIS.com was a close 2nd at $27,000 with glggroup.com selling for $14,800. Non-com’s had a pretty good week as well, with Loan.cc selling for $13,500, Pronto.Net selling for $12,500 and Cfl.org selling for $12K. Here is the entire list of reportable sales: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Fri 27th May 2011
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Internet.Co Sells For $40,000 On Sedo.com: Whiskey.Co Sells For $14K & Becomes a Latest In A String of Alcohol Related .Co Sales - The domain name Internet.co has become the latest .Co domain to sell on Sedo.com The domain name Internet.Co sold for $40,000,  the second highest recent sale to Mike Mann sale of Business.co for $80,000 a few weeks ago. In my opnion a pretty nice sale for an extension less than a year old, by contrast I got Internet.biz on the original allocation back in March  2002 and since have less than 5 offers on the domain and nothing close to the $40K that the .Co just sold for. Also selling today was ... read more ...
Wed 25th May 2011
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OrangeJuice.com Sells For $44,800 On NameJet.com - The much hyped no reserve auction just ended at NameJet.com for the domain name OrangeJuice.com with a winning bid of $44,800. Although there were 517 people in the auction only 7 were willing to bid $20K or more for the domain. The domain was advertised on the front page of NameJet.com with a banner ad for a few weeks and I even received an email from Network Solutions (a NameJet.com partner) promoting the auction. The winner of the auction goes by the handle of pertevniyal. We have been running ... read more ...
 
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Cupid.com Buys The Domain Name Cupidon.com For $280,000 - According to an article in business7.co.uk, Cupid.com a company located in Scotland just acquired the domain name Cupidon.com for £175,000 which coverts into $280,000 Dollars. Cupidon is the French equivalent word for cupid. In Feburary of this year Cupid acquired the operating site  IndianDating.com for $200,000. IndianDating.com, had around 600,000 members at the time of acquisition. According to one of the articles,  the parent company Cupid is generating  £4 Million a month or $6.5 million ... read more ...
Tue 24th May 2011
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Publicly Traded UBM Adds Data.com to Moniker Auction - Data.com to highlight upcoming live domain name auction in Barcelona, Spain. [Update: Salesforce.com bought the domain name ahead of the auction.] Publicly traded media company UBM plc has added its Data.com domain name to Moniker’s upcoming live domain name auction in Barcelona. The reserve price is between $1 million and $5 million. This is a fantastic domain name, especially with the “Big Data” trend in enterprise business. Although the domain names are ... read more ...
 
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TheHotList.com Buys HotList.com From Microsoft - Startup pries domain name loose from software giant. When your startup wants to upgrade its domain name, it’s never a good sign when the domain you want is owned by one of the biggest companies in the world. That’s what happened recently with “social discovery engine” The Hotlist. The company uses TheHotlist.com as its main domain name. As any domain investor will tell you, this means a lot of people tried to find the site at Hotlist.com. (Remember how ... read more ...
 
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Afternic and Sedo Combine for Over $1.5 Million in Domain Sales - Strong sales week but no six figure transactions from top marketplaces. The two largest domain name marketplaces, Afternic and Sedo, combined for well over $1.5 million in announced domain sales over the past week. Sedo led the way with Bills.org, while Afternic had a very strong sale with FunChat.com at $40,000. Here’s a list of notable sales above $5,000 (Afternic sales denoted with “Afternic”, others are Sedo): .com humidifiers.com 50000 USD funchat.com ... read more ...
Sat 21st May 2011
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Physical.com Sells On Sedo.com For $42,500 As Eric Borgos Goes on A Shopping Spree - Eric Borgos of Impulse Communications, Inc, seems to be going on a domain name shopping spree. After buying Humidifiers.com for $50K yesterday it looks like he just purchased the domain name Physical.com for $42,500 on Sedo.com The domain has most recently been listed under privacy at Moniker.com Congrats to Eric on another nice pickup.     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...