Action.com Looks Like It Sold for Big Bucks Again - Sedo sales feed reports a big sale. Action.com sold for $230,000 at a live Moniker auction back in 2008, and it looks like it may have just sold for big bucks once again. This morning Sedo’s domain sales feed shows a $270,000 sale for the domain name: Sedo’s RSS sales feed is known for randomly throwing up sales from many years ago, but given the difference in price this one looks to be legit. (Plus, Sedo wasn’t the seller back in 2008). The whois on the ... read more ...

Envelopes.com Sold For $400,000 (In 2010) - According to the Domainnamestrategy.com blog, which cited an article in “Inc. Magazine“,  the category killer domain name Envelopes.com was purchased in January 2010 for $400,000. The Inc. article tells the story of Seth Newman president of company called Action Envelope who passed up a chance to buy the domain name for just $10,000 in 1997. The story goes on to talk about how Mr.Newman spent several years negotiating with the owners of the domain name “before finally buying the site last ... read more ...

Condo.com Acquires Houses.com - According to a press release today Condo.com bought houses.com in December 2010 for an undisclosed price. Here is the press release: “Condo.com, the world’s largest condo marketplace, today announced the launch of Houses.com” “The new site is a “category” or “generic” domain that combines the power and brandability of the generic domain name with the large volume of web searches for terms relating to houses. Similar in scope and design to Condo.com, the website utilizes the team, ... read more ...

Austin.com Goes Up for Sale - Big geo domain is looking for a new owner. The domain name and web site Austin.com is now officially for sale at Sedo. I caught wind a few months ago that the site was up for sale, which didn’t surprise me much. I met with one of Austin.com’s key employees a year or two ago and left feeling that the site owners were taking it in the wrong direction. They were investing a significant amount on creating timely content rather than focusing on building out the directory ... read more ...

Another LLLL.com Leads Afternic’s $500K Week As Maac.com Sells for $63K - Once again a LLLL.com domain stared in Afternic weekly sales list This week the domain name MAAC.com lead the sales chart with a $63K sale. Besides being pretty close to Mac.com ( I wonder how owns that?) MACC stands for a LOT of organizations and companies. $18K for brainwater.com? Hum I guess it is pretty close to Smartwater so I guess both will make you a better person. lolshirts.com for $6K Lol Seriously 5 other LLLL.com made the list as well Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

LEETU.COM To Sell For $260,000? - The Domain Name Leetu.com has a bid of 200,000 Euro’s on Sedo.com. The domain name has meet reserve and looks like its going to sell. At today’s exchange rate the bid is approximately $260,000. According to Sedo Tracker,  Leetu.com, has gotten 129,510 Unique Visitors and 184,410 page views over the last 32 days. Leetu.com appears to be a Spanish blog built on a Word Press site and has a worldwide Alexa Ranking of 77K. But has an Alexa Ranking of 10K or better in many Spanish speaking countries ... read more ...

The First Thing to Do When You Get an Offer on a Domain Name - Shift to syndicated buy-it-now domain listings changes what you do after receiving an offer on your domain names. In the “old days” when you received an offer on a domain name your first step would be to try to figure out who’s was making the offer. But now that many people are using buy-it-now syndicated listings with Go Daddy and Afternic, there’s a step that’s even more important: removing your buy-it-now listing before negotiating. For example, over ... read more ...

Links.com For Sale At Flippa.com - The domain name Links.com is at a private sale (auction) at Flippa. The private sale which just got underway doesn’t close for almost 6 months. According to the owner here is the Website Vital Statistics for Links.com: Registration Date: 04/01/1993 (Transferred to current registrant in 1996) Google Page Rank: 4 Avg. Unique Visitors: 14,000/month Avg. Page Views: 23,000/month Avg. Direct  Traffic: 8,100/month The metrics presented here represent a six month average extending from July 1, 2010 to ... read more ...

Facebook Still in Dispute With Organization that Sold it FB.com for $8M+ - Now that we know how much FB.com sold for, you may be surprised that Facebook is still embroiled in a dispute with the seller. We now have a better idea how much Facebook paid for FB.com — likely $8 million or more. Given this high number it’s shocking that the social network hasn’t yet settled its trademark dispute with seller American Farm Bureau. American Farm Bureau challenged Facebook after the latter filed a trademark for “FB”. While the dispute was ... read more ...

Afternic Sells $550K In Domains - Afternic.com published its weekly list of reportable domain name sales for the period ending January 9 2011. The domain Soulmate.com lead the way selling for $100K but the more interesting sale was Adss.com for $61,600. Its another mid five figure LLLL.com sale in the last few weeks at Afternic.com without any obvious meaning along with 2 other LLLL.com sales  in the mid four figures; gnom.com and tmon.com, kwny.com and ercc.com. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

Discoveries.com Sells For $10K On NameJet.com - The domain name discoveries.com sold yesterday on NameJet.com for $10,000. With over 16,000,000 references in Google,  its a nice one word domain but is always going to lose IMHO a lot of traffic to the singular discovery.com. A few other notable sales: StockRatings.com sold for $3,535 NewUsed.com sold for $3,100 BlueGarden.com sold for $2,400 Suitcases.org sold for $1,611 Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

Another WTF: HotBoat.com Sells For $14K On NameJet.com - The domain name HotBoat.com sold yesterday on NameJet.com for $14,443. Wow. Yes I know the domain had some traffic according to Compete and Alexa but it was a site with pics of boats and girls, but I have no idea of how this domain is worth $15k in the wholesale market. The winning bidder ID was Santababy which is quite apropo as this  price was a gift to the NameJet gods. A few other sales from Namejet.com over the last few days: HardWire.com sold for $8,700 GeneTesting.com sold for  $6,877 KitchenRenovations.com  ... read more ...

Sedo Increases Sales Commission 50%; From 10% to 15% : For “Domain Sales By Our Sales Team” Without Notice - Thanks to a reader who noticed that Sedo.com is raising their commission rate 50%, from 10%-15% effective TOMORROW. Changes to Sedo’s domain brokerage service prices on January 4, 2011 “””Sedo is committed to helping individuals and businesses find their ideal domain name with the services they need to do so. ‘”” “”In reflection of investments in our tools and services and an increased demand for highly personnel-intensive brokerage, we will increase the commission on successful ... read more ...

PodNova.com Finally Changes Hands for $90,000, OnlineKredit.net for EUR 100,000 - Podnova.com and OnlineKredit.net make for strong sales week. The domain name PodNova.com has sold at Sedo for $90,000. This was an active web site until earlier this year. Compete.com shows it getting as many as 20,000 unique visitors in February 2010 before falling off a cliff when the site shut down. It currently gets around 5,000 uniques. What’s also strange is it looks like this sale took a long time to close, or at least to transfer to the new owner. It ... read more ...

Deflecting Domain Purchase Inquiries to Network Solutions - A simple way to weed out bad domain name offers. If you receive a lot of inquiries about purchasing your domain names, then you probably get frustrated about responding only to have the person disappear after the first contact. There are many ways you can manage this, but I thought I’d pass along a tip a couple large domain owners tell me works. Whenever you receive an inquiry, tell the person to make an offer to you via Network Solutions’ Certified Offer Service. The ... read more ...

WTF: Wehr.com Sells for $74,000 On Afternic While Aone.com Sells For Just $10K - The domain name WEHR.com lead the way for the week ending on December 26th on Afternic.com Selling for hefty $74K. It looks like the buyer is “World Energy Holdings and Research”. I’m sure there are plenty of domainers who would have sold this domain for 10% or less than what it sold for, but its another example of realizing who the potential buyer of a domain might be before quoting a price. Its certainly a huge dollar sale for a LLLL.com with no obvious meaning besides being a last name and ... read more ...

Sedo Sells JF.com for $101,000 - Another two letter domain sale cracks six figures. Sedo has brokered the sale of JF.com for $101,000, leading its sales charts for the week. Soon it will also close TZ.com, which it auctioned off for $80,000. Here’s a look at other notable sales from Sedo this week: .COM character.com 23500 USD newsboard.com 22000 USD 079.com 12579 USD realwater.com 10000 USD teras.com 9000 USD bulkdeals.com 7000 USD fr9.com 6000 USD freesociety.com 5500 USD casinoonlinegames.com 5500 USD daga.com 5251 USD jeux-flash.com 5100 EUR trendland.com 5000 USD globalsense.com 5000 USD ieproperties.com 5000 USD ccTLDs finanzen.ch 19000 EUR officechairs.co.uk 17625 GBP breastimplants.co.uk 13000 USD yoli.de 10000 EUR mus.es 7000 EUR 5.to 5000 USD voice.it 5000 EUR razors.co.uk 4000 GBP Other laptopgiving.org 21000 USD rentenversicherung.net 19500 EUR glasstiles.net 11250 USD kx.net 8911 USD rouletteonline.org 7777 USD scorpio.net 7500 USD pillows.org 6000 USD Afternic’s ... read more ...

Quick Poll: What Was The Best Domain Buy Of 2010? - There were thousands of domain names that were reported sold in 2010 and we are looking for what you was the best buy  for the year. Your choices are: Sex.com for $13 Million.  Although it was the highest price paid for just a pure domain purchase some believe the buyer got a bargain. Slots.com $5.5 Million, one of the biggest gambling terms on the net. Dating.com $1.75 Million, A category killer in a huge online industry. Poker.org  $1M was a record reported price for a .Org. Ringtones.com $750,000, ... read more ...

Survey: Call for Online Domain Name Sales Venues - Which online domain name sales sites do you use? It’s almost time for the Sixth Annual Domain Name Wire Survey and I need your help. One of the questions on the survey is which online domain name sales venues you use. It’s hard to keep up with these as new services pop up just about every week. So please take a look at the list below and let me know if I’m missing any major domain name sales sites. Sedo/GreatDomains Bido NameJet (non-expired only) Domaining.com ... read more ...