Tag Archives: sales

Fri 20th May 2011
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Sedo.com Sells Undergraduate.com & Sava.com For $22K; market.de Sells For $30K & The gameofthrones.com Sells But Not to HBO - A few nice sales at Sedo.com yesterday and today The domain Undergraduate.com sold for $22K, a nice education domain but also a possible social networking site. Sava.com was purhcase for $21,250 by SAVA Transmedia Inc o Montreal. There are quite a few companies using Sava in their name so this was a nice end user acquisition. Market.de sold for $30K, which considering that Television.de sold for only 3,300 euro’s or around $5K Finally, gameofthrones.com the name of a Tv series currently airing ... read more ...
 
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DomainAdvisors Completes Record Breaking Domain Sale With 33.com - Domain broker reports record two digit domain name. DomainAdvisors, a division of PPX International, just announced a record sales price for a two digit domain name. The group brokered the sale of 33.com for $358,000. I searched a couple databases and cannot find any two digit domains that have sold for more, although there are some two letter domains that have eclipsed this amount. Tessa Holcomb, Group General Manager for PPX International, says that the company ... read more ...
Wed 18th May 2011
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Sedo Sells Bills.Org For $70K and Humidifiers.com For $50,000 - Sedo.com has just sold two nice domains. Bills.org just sold for $70,000. The domain is still pending transfer in Sedo escrow but it looks like the seller is Lonnie Borck The domain name Humidifiers.com sold for $50,000. Eric Borgos of Impulse Communications, Inc. seems to be the buyer of Humidifiers.com and Blue Ridge Net Publishing, Inc. appears to be the Seller. Both are nice sales Congrats to both the Sellers and Buyers. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Afternic.com Sells $625k In Domains Led By CeramicTiles.com For $40k - Afternic.com just released its sales for the week ending Sunday May 15th. All reportable domain sales $1k and over totalled $624,561. The top seller of the week was CeramicTiles.com at $40,000 followed by BollywoodLife.com at $34,000. Here is the full list:     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Tue 17th May 2011
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Sedo Sued for $10 Million for Failing to Enforce Women.com Transaction with NBC Universal - Domain broker added to suit over failed Women.com transaction. DONE! Ventures has added domain name broker Sedo to its lawsuit over a failed transaction for Women.com. DONE! sued NBC Universal last year after it alleged the media giant failed to follow through with a transaction to sell Women.com and Women.net for $1 million. According to the suit, NBC Universal’s CEO at the time Jeff Zucker vetoed the deal after it had been agreed to. Sedo broker Jeff Gabriel ... read more ...
 
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“Cooking Games” in Spanish Sells for $90,000 on Sedo - Spanish domain name is top sale for the week at domain broker. Domain broker Sedo didn’t turn in any six figure sales this week, but they still have some good ones worth mentioning. First, they sold juegosdecocina.com — which means “cooking games” in Spanish — for a nice $90,000. Last year CookingGames.com sold for $350,000. Just behind that was the three letter domain ese.com for $85,000. Solar Power company Cleanergy.com paid a hefty $50,000 to upgrade ... read more ...
 
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.Co Scores Another Big Win With Amazon.com - Registry sells four premium domains to giant etailer. Amazon.com has purchased a.com, z.co, k.co, and cloud.co from the .co registry, TechCrunch reported this evening. .Co Internet has previously sold other one letter domain names, including o.co (sold to Overstock for $350,000) and e.co (auctioned off for $81,000 in a charity auction). Other allocated one letter domains include t.co for twitter and x.co for Go Daddy. I wouldn’t be surprised if Amazon uses a.co ... read more ...
Mon 16th May 2011
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Google Acquires ChromeBook.com and ChromeBooks.com Domain Names - When company acquired domains is unknown; neither domain resolves yet. It appears that Google has purchased the domain names ChromeBook.com and ChromeBooks.comm but for some reason they aren’t using the domains yet for their recently-announced product. On May 15 both domain names’ whois records switched to DNStination, Inc., an affiliate of brand protection company MarkMonitor. Google has used DNStination in the past for domain name registrations it wanted to ... read more ...
 
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How Much is a One Character .CM Domain Name Worth? - We’re about to find out. Just how much is a one character .cm domain name worth? We’ll get a pretty good idea within the next few days. Sedo is currently running an auction consisting exclusively of these short .cm domain names. .Cm is the country code for Cameroon. It was made famous by Kevin Ham’s deal with Cameroon to wildcard the domain in an effort to monetize typos of .com domain names. Then Cameroon decided to sell the domain names off to anyone. ... read more ...
Thu 12th May 2011
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Go Daddy Starts Featuring Auctions in Registration Path - More exposure for domains listed on Go Daddy Auctions. Go Daddy has started to show domain names that are listed on its auction platform to users searching for available domain names. For example, if you try to register Branson365.com, you’ll see this: This will drastically increase the exposure domain names on the Go Daddy Auctions platform receive. Not all of the domains I checked that are on Go Daddy Auctions showed up when I searched for the exact domain ... read more ...
 
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Priced Domains Can Sell in Go Daddy Auctions, Too - Premium Listings can also sell within Go Daddy Auctions — and at a lower commission. I recently received a sale notice for one of the domains I listed at Go Daddy as a Premium Listing. I assumed it was a standard sale through Go Daddy’s registration path. But a couple days later I got another email and realized the sale was actually on the Go Daddy Auctions site. It was still a fixed price sale based on my Premium Listing price, but occurred through the auction ... read more ...
Wed 11th May 2011
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Sedo.com 1Q Report: “Strong and Steady Growth Domain Sales, While .Co Becomes a Rising Star” - “Strong and Steady Growth in Internet Domain Sales in Q1 2011 with Continued Strength in .com Sales while .co Becomes the Rising Star in the Online Domain Marketplace” During the first quarter of 2011, 10,608 domains changed hands via Sedo’s marketplace, accounting for $21 million in sales. “Average sales prices across all Top Level Domains (TLDs) held strong in comparison to previous quarters and for the first time, the .co extension entered the ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Reports Strong Sales Including Closing of Gambling.com for $2.5 Million - A big week with a seven figure sale. Sedo had a strong sales week, headlined by officially closing Gambling.com for $2.5 million. But this sale wasn’t the only one the company had to cheer about as the week included many good five figure sales. One highlight is POW.com, which was sold to Internext Media Corp. for $75,000. Internext Media Corp. is a major search engine advertising company that owns Advertise.com. Here are other notable sales for the week: .com tiempo.com 41900 USD isu.com 23000 USD personalica.com 20000 USD playaresorts.com 12500 USD prfirm.com 12111 EUR absbelt.com 10000 USD svenska.com 10000 EUR cloudstack.com 10000 USD weico.com 10000 USD asztalos.com 9500 EUR inmold.com 7000 USD mutou.com 7000 USD mobile360.com 7000 EUR gamutnews.com 7000 USD kuza.com 6300 USD technosat.com 6000 USD teamtop.com 6000 USD artpix.com 5940 USD renewableelectricity.com 5500 USD safeoffsite.com 5250 USD machiavelli.com 5226 USD aism.com 5000 USD interracialpicture.com 5000 USD cieloazul.com 5000 USD brica.com 5000 USD ccTLDs t.ag 60000 USD want.it 26500 USD poker.org.uk 25000 GBP walk.co.uk 9999 GBP properties.co.nz 8000 USD apostas.pt 6000 EUR gowrings.co.uk 6000 GBP anz.kr 6000 USD recipes.co 5600 USD af.ro 5000 USD employment.de 4750 EUR melrose.co.uk 4450 GBP haier.nl 4425 EUR Other sanfrancisco.net 20000 USD cloudstack.org 7500 USD snakes.net 4999 USD diabetes.pro 4500 USD kfz-versicherungen.net 4500 EUR ... read more ...
Tue 10th May 2011
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Puzzle.com Sells For $500K Leading Afternic’s $1.1 Million Dollar Week In Sales - After a couple of slow weeks, Afternic.com came roaring back with a huge week reporting over $1.1 million in reportable sales. The big sale of the week was Puzzle.com which sold for $500,000. The new owner of Puzzle.com appears to be Rules Holding of Amsterdam which is listed as a Financial holding company It marks yet another big sale of a gaming related domain name. The 2nd highest sale of the week was a three letter .com, EJU.com which sold for a whopping $96,000. This is the 3rd nice LLL.com ... read more ...
 
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Puzzle.com Domain Name Sells for $500,000 - Another big domain name sale to report. Domain name marketplace Afternic has completed the sale of Puzzle.com for a whopping $500,000. It’s unclear if the sale was handled on behalf of a third party seller or Afternic’s parent company. The old whois information for the domain included a Waltham, Massachusetts (the same city where the company is located) post office box and an email address for the BuyDomains brokerage. The buyer is based in Amsterdam. Puzzle.com ... read more ...
Mon 9th May 2011
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MNS.com, Sells For “Well In Excess Of Six Figures” - According to an article in TheRealDeal.com, the domain name MNS.com was recently purchased by a large real estate developer in New York, formerly known as  TDG/TREGNY (the company that resulted from the merger of the Developers Group (TDG) and the Real Estate Group New York (TREGNY) and which is rebranding itself as MNS which stands for “Marketing and Sales”. The article goes on to quote the CEO of the newly named MNS, Andrew Barrocas, as saying about the acquisition of MNS.com: “But the ... read more ...
 
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Another Domain Hack, Want.it Sells For $26K and Another 3 Letter, Mai.com Sells for $115K on Sedo.com - A couple of new sales just hit Sedo.com. The hack of Want.it sold for $26,500 Last week we wrote about another domain hack T.ag which sold for $60,000 Also hitting the wire today is the sale of MAI.com which sold for 80,000 Euros, which at today’s exchange rate is about $115,000 USD. A couple of days we wrote about another three letter .com sale when POW.com sold for $75,000 There are a ton of possible things that MAI stands for and you can see some of them here. Congrats to all Buyers and Sellers. .It ... read more ...
Sat 7th May 2011
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Sedo.com Takes No Prisoners as POW.com Sells For $75,000 - Sedo.com has just brokered the sale of the one of the most recognizable three letter domains POW.com for $75,000 Frank Aiello brokered the domain on behalf of Sedo Congrats to the buyer and seller and Sedo   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Fri 6th May 2011
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Rick Schwartz Buys Deathers.com from Mike Mann - Schwartz buys domain name related to Osama bin Laden’s death. Now that the “birthers” conspiracy theory of Barrack Obama not being born in the U.S. has hopefully been put to rest (seriously, it should have been put to rest a couple years ago), here come the “Deathers”. Deathers believe that Osama bin Laden didn’t really die in the raid this week. Seriously. Out of curiousity I looked up who owns the domain name Deathers.com and was surprised to see “Domain ... read more ...
Thu 5th May 2011
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Hack t.ag Sells For $60,000 on Sedo.com - The domain name t.ag which is a hack for tag, just sold on Sedo.com for $60,000 Probably a record price for a .Ag domains (DnJournal.com will have to confirm). .Ag is the country code for Antigua and Barbuda (Yes I had to look it up). The domain was first registered in 2000. The domain is registered under privacy at Network Solutions but for some reason it showing the owner of the domain anyway and it is listed as  Kinetic Fin. I found a linkedin page for the company which describes itself as: “Kinetic ... read more ...
Wed 4th May 2011
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Pizza.Co Becomes Latest Sedo Sale during $15K - The domain name Pizza.Co just sold  for $15,000 adding to the recent string of .Co sales on Sedo.com Before you attack these are smallist sales the domain name attorneys.info just sold on Sedo.com for only $13K So in comparision to an extension which has been around for many years, these .Co sales are pretty impressive having been launched less than a year ago We have been tracking other .Co domain sales on another post, which include: Shop.co $22,000 CreditCard.co $17,000 Tequila.CO $14,500 Vodka.co ... read more ...
Tue 3rd May 2011
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SedoMLS Opens to All, But Limited Registrar Partners - Distributed listings and instant transfer service now available to all domain name owners. Sedo has opened its SedoMLS program to all customers. The beta was previously only available for large customers. SedoMLS is similar to AfternicDLS, which lets you syndicate your domain listings to multiple registrars. When the domain sells, it is instantly transferred to the new buyer. All domain names must be listed at a fixed price to qualify. In order to use the service ... read more ...
 
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ProForma: Why Build a Brand When You Can Buy One? - Domain broker files trademark application for a great slogan. Domain name broker ProForma Inc has filed a trademark application for a nifty slogan: Why Build a Brand When You Can Buy One? ProForma handles domain name brokerage for “some of the world’s largest portfolios of premium, generic domain names.” Anyone who has ever visited a domain owned by Frank Schilling’s Name Administration is familiar with ProForma, as Schilling uses ProForma for domain inquiries. The ... read more ...
Sun 1st May 2011
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Dispensaries.com Sells For $32K On NameJet.com - May started off with a bang as the domain name Dispensaries.com just sold for a whopping $32,600 on NameJet.com There were 4 bidders over $10K battling it out for this domain. The domain was a drop domain rather than an owned domain meaning that someone let go a very valuable domain. Legend.net also sold today for just shy of $7K at $6,937 Aibuy.com sold for $1,612, whatever that means.   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Sat 30th April 2011
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Another Great Domain Snapped Up By End User: Refi.com - According to a press  release, another good short .com just got gobbled up by an end User. The domain name Refi.com was just acquired by Semper Home Loans, an Inc. 5000 company,  for an undisclosed sum . “The Refi.com website will be a customer-focused site, where potential homebuyers can learn more about mortgages, real estate market trends, new legislation affecting real estate finance, and web-based mortgaging, according to a spokesperson at Semper. Integrated social media, including ... read more ...