Google Buys Plus.me - Google bolsters +1 domain name coverage with .me purchases. Google has purchased the domain name Plus.me, updated whois records show. The domain name was apparently purchased in November of last year, but remained under whois privacy protection until today. The purchase appears to be related to Google’s +1 tool (pronounced “plus one”), as the company also purchase plusone.me at the same time. Plus.me now has Google nameservers but does not yet resolve. The ... read more ...

DogTag.com Sells For $28K on Sedo.com - The domain DogTag.com has just sold on Sedo for $28,000 This seems to be a pretty big topic with many retail sites selling customized dog tags. Mydogtag.com gets over 4,000 visitors a month according to Compete, DogTagsonline.com which gets over 13,00o visitors a month, custommilitarydogtags.com get over 3K visitors a month, armydogtags.com which gets over 1K visits a month. Interestingly DogTags.com the best domain of them all, is the only domain of the ones mentioned herein which does not sell ... read more ...

Did a .Co Owner Just Upgrade? Jexy.com Sells for $40,000 On Sedo.com - Jexy.com a nice LLLL.com just sold on Sedo.com for $40,000. Of course I’m trying to figure out what Jexy is I see a coming soon site under Jexy.co There is also a Facebook page by the same company Jexy which seems to be a Software company in San Francisco. The domain is still in the transfer process so we will have to wait to see who winds up with it. Its another nice sale. Congrats to the Seller and Buyer.   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

ePayments.com Sells For $52K On Sedo.com - The auction for the domain name ePayments.com just closed on Sedo.com with the domain selling for $52,000. The Seller of the domain was David Clements It was a heated auction which went  almost 45 minutes  over its scheduled closing time of noon, with 3 bidders slugging it out from  $30K on. A great domain. Congrats to David and the Buyer.   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

Gambling.com For Just $2.5 Million After Generating $13.2 Million Over Last Six Years & Paying $20 Million - According to a Press Release by the UK Seller of the domain name Gambling.com, Media Corp,  the domain was sold for just $2.5 Million. When the domain was placed under exclusive contract at Sedo.com, reports at the time said the asking price was $9 million. I wrote a post also at the time noting the Seller of the Gambling.com had paid $20 Million for it meaning that this sales price is only about 10% of what the Seller paid. Not often do you see a domain selling for just a fraction of what it previously ... read more ...

Sedo.com Sells Xout.com for $55K, TotalMovie.com for $40K & EKKO.com For $20K - Sedo.com has posted a few nice sales today Xout.com has sold for $55,000 So what is Xout? Seems to be a odor eliminator product sold in Australia so it can well be seen as a upgrade from a com.au domain to a .com TotalMovie.com sold for $40K TotalFilm.com is a frequently visited site with over 65,000 visitor a month according to Compete.com EKKO.com sold for $20K a couple of days ago,  A nice LLLL.com Congrats to all buyers and sellers. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

The Real Story Behind a $700,000 RunningShoes.com Sale - The ups, downs, and persistence of acquiring RunningShoes.com. Some domain name purchases are easy. Others are a series of ups and downs and lengthy negotiations. The latter describes Chesterfield, Mo-based Cat5 Commerce’s purchase of RunningShoes.com for $700,000. The company went head to head with a major sports equipment retailer and negotiated for six months before finally completing the deal. The story starts in August 2010. Cat5 Commerce had a number of ... read more ...

Did Fiverr.com Just Upgrade Its Domain Name to Fiver.com for $70k? - Domain broker sells Fiver.com for $70,000. Fiverr.com — a site where people offer to do a bunch of different things for $5 each — may have just upgraded its domain name for 14,000 $5 bills. The popular site has a cool idea but a bad domain name, Fiverr.com with two ‘r’s. But someone just bought Fiver.com with one ‘r’ through domain broker Sedo for $70,000. The new owner’s information is protected by whois proxy and the domain name is just pulling up ... read more ...

Afternic.com Sells $635k In Domains Led By ringer.com For $40k - Afternic.com just released its sales for the week ending Sunday April 17th. All reportable domain sales $1k and over totaled $635,000. The top seller of the week was Ringer.com at $40,500 followed by videosonline.com at $18,000. I think Ringer.com is a nice brandable domain and a god deal at 1/3 of last weeks highest sale at Afternic.   Here is the full list:     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

I Still Question a $10 Million Fund.com Sale - It just doesn’t add up. I’ve always questioned the 2008 sale of Fund.com for $10 million. It’s mostly in my gut: why did a new company that went public by buying another company pay a ridiculous price for this domain through a broker I’ve never heard of? It just doesn’t make sense. Now someone has dug into it the company a bit more, and the whole thing stinks. BusinessInsider notes that the company has no real revenue since 2007, has seen its stock (now ... read more ...

Navidad.com (Spanish for Christmas) Sells for $100,000 - Domain broker completes six figure holiday domain sale. Sedo has brokered the sale of Navidad.com for $100,000 to an as-yet undisclosed buyer, capping off a week with about $1 million in sales. Sedo’s second place was approvals.com for $60,000. The company also handled a very strong .co domain name sale, selling Tequila.co for $14,500. Afternic’s top reportable sale for the week was Ringer.com at $40,500 on behalf of YummyNames. Here are other notable sales for ... read more ...

Decide, Which Bought Domain Decide.com for $175,000, Raises Series B - Decide banks $6 million in series B. Stealth start up Decide has closed on a $6 million series B round led by Maveron, Madrona Venture Group, Google founding board member Ram Shriram, and former Expedia CEO Erik Blachford, TechCrunch reports. The company bought Decide.com for $175,000 through domain broker Afternic last December. At the time it bought the domain, I wrote: The buyer appears to be someone associated with Seattle based PriceYeti. PriceYeti launched ... read more ...

Connectv.com Sells For $45K on Sedo.com - The domain name Connectv.com just sold on Sedo for $45K. The domain is currently at Godaddy.com on privacy. Obviously an end user sale, with the mostly likely buyer being Connectv.ca In a couple other notable sales, Sedo.com also sold tequila.co for $14,500 and directory.net for $10K     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

NameBio Gets a New Look – A Sign of Things to Come? - Domain sales database gets a facelift. Last year domain name investor Adam Strong and a partner purchased domain name sales database NameBio. You probably wouldn’t have noticed, though, as the site stayed the same. Until today. I just went to the site and noticed a new look and feel. It’s a lot cleaner design without that annoying background image. You can access all of the advanced features without clicking between tabs. Also gone is the “instant search” ... read more ...

GroceryStores.com Sells On NameJet.com For $22K; Publicize.com Sells for $10,099 - The domain name GroceryStores.com sold on NameJet.com today for $22,329. It was another one of those Nielsen Research domains they received when they bought out another company some of which sold on NameJet.com the other day. Another good domain, publicize.com sold for $10,099 Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

Domain Madness 3 Tries Again Today - Last week’s postponed auction gives it another try today. Nothing deflates excitement about a domain name auction that postponement. But today Domain Madness will try to overcome that as it runs its third annual auction a week late. Last week the auction platform ran into technical problems just as it began. This isn’t the first time a domain name auction has run into technical difficulties. In fact, every major live domain auction service has had some sort ... read more ...

Sedo.com Rings Up Another $60K with The Sale Of Approvals.com - Just crossing the wire is the lastest 5 figure sale from Sedo.com and once again its a one word .com domain name. Approvals.com just sold for $60,000. The domain which is under privacy would make a nice name for a mortgage or finance company and think its was a nice buy at $60K   Congrats to the buyer and seller Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

Wow: Defiance.com Sells For $90K On Sedo - Here is a nice sale, the domain name Defiance.com just sold on Sedo.com today for $90,000. The domain is still parked at Sedo but now has as the registrar,  CSC CORPORATE DOMAINS, INC. which likes MarkMonitor usually appeals to large companies. There is a movie by the same name whose official site is defiancemovie.com There is a town of about 17,000 people in Ohio named Defiance as well. There is also a band by that name. There is also a small college named Defiance. There is a also a defiancemachine.com Quite ... read more ...

Toby Clements Discusses a Domain Sales Newsletter Sans Rick Latona - Toby Clements discusses the future of his domain name sales newsletter. A popular sales channel for domain names is coming back under a new brand. Rick Latona and Toby Clements recently announced they’ve parted ways, and now Clements will be taking over the newsletter formerly known as the “Rick Latona Newsletter”. It was a popular sales newsletter for a long time, and it’s good to hear it is coming back. Clements new web site for the newsletter isn’t up ... read more ...

B3.com Sells On Sedo for $25K - The domain name B3.com just sold on Sedo.com for $25,500 on one bid. Seems like a fair price for a nice LN.com. B3 is of course a vitamin, but there are organizations and companies that seem to be named B3 or have products named B3. Congrats to the buyer and seller     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

SYLT.com Sells For $50k on Sedo - A nice Geo domain name  Sylt.com just sold on Sedo for 35,000 Euro’s or about $50K. As I’m sure you all know, “Sylt is an island in northern Germany, part of Nordfriesland district, and well known for the distinctive shape of its shoreline. It belongs to the North Frisian Islands and is the largest island in North Frisia. The northernmost island of Germany, it is known for its tourist resorts, as well as for its 40 km long sandy beach” The domain is already resolving to its new owner. Sylt.de ... read more ...

Quick Poll: How Much Will 3D.com Sell For? - With the news yesterday that the domain name 3D.com is up for sale and being brokered by Sedo, the question now becomes how much will it sell for? 3D Domains certainly have a lot of interest inside the domain community as our post on the subject of July of 2010 has generated over 2,500 comments.  While many of the comments are just people talking about 3D domains they registered there are also links to literally hundreds of stories written about new 3D products and the future of 3D so if you have ... read more ...

If You Want To Buy BX.com You Better Bring Some Cash, As Top Bid Hits $272,000 - As reported by Kevin Murphy earlier today the domain name BX.com is up for sale by its owner through a “sealed bid process”. However, I just spoke to Mark Shapiro, President of  BX.COM, Incorporated who told me he already has a bid of $272,000 for the two letter domain. Mr. Shapiro also informed me that there is a trademark on the term which “is available to be purchased with it (actual legal expenses for the transfer will be charged to the purchaser)” and that “The bidding closes June ... read more ...

3D.com Domain Name Goes Up For Sale - Ryan Colby scores 3D.com brokerage contract. Whether or not you think 3D is the next big thing in entertainment (and a lot of domainers apparently think so), you have to admit that the domain name 3D.com is a winner. Sedo domain broker Ryan Colby just got the domain name under an exclusive brokerage contract to sell. Compete.com estimates that the site gets thousands of unique visitors per month, and that’s without an active web site. Take a look at 3D.com to view ... read more ...