Tag Archives: sales

Sun 26th December 2010
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Repossessed TZ.com Domain Name Snags $80,000 Bid during Sedo - Two letter .com domain name held by Domain Capital will sell this week. The domain name TZ.com is on auction at Sedo after receiving an $80,000 offer. TZ.com was previously financed with Domain Capital, a domain name financing company, but the buyer defaulted. According to DNSalePrice, four publicly disclosed two letter .com domain names have sold so far this year: SZ.com for $125,000, OY.com for $90,000, XI.com for $100,930, and KF.com for $123,504. Given the typical ... read more ...
Thu 23rd December 2010
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Comparing Instant Transfer, Reg Path Domain Sales Services - New sales channels are opening up for domainers thanks to efforts by Afternic, GoDaddy, and Sedo. Over the past week Afternic turned up two new partners in its Afternic DLS Premium program and Sedo extended the beta of its SedoMLS program to large domain holders. Each new partner that gets integrated into these systems means more domain sales. Afternic has found that, with each new registrar partner it adds, sales go up — it’s not just the same number of sales ... read more ...
Wed 22nd December 2010
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MarketShare.com Sells for $150K and Leads Afternic.com on A $700K Week - MarketShare.com lead the way with a $148,500 domain sale at Afternic.com this week. In all Afternic.com sold almost $700K in domain names in a the week before the big holiday. Other notiable sales off the list include LandingPages.com at $20K, eWindows.com at $4K (I hope the buyer is careful) and sportsfans.org for $2K Here are all the reportable .com sales $2k and over and all reportable non-com’s, $1k and over. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Tue 21st December 2010
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Sedo Sells Over $1 Million in One Week, Including LawFirm.com for $233k - Brokerage closes six figure domain name transaction. Sedo sold over $1 million in domain names over the past week, including closing a transaction for LawFirm.com at $233,501. Another interesting sale is TreasureMap.com at $25,000. Here’s a complete look at Sedo’s publicly available sales of $5,000 or more over the past week: .COMs lawfirm.com 233501 USD treasuremap.com 25000 USD gaana.com 21000 USD addresssearch.com 19000 USD arithmetic.com 16612 USD possum.com 13500 USD rental-cars.com 12550 USD 062.com 11562 USD aie.com 11099 EUR yesorno.com 11000 USD bioeffect.com 9000 USD lagniappe.com 9000 USD worldluxuryhotels.com 7500 EUR valueformoney.com 7500 USD 0f.com 7199 USD appaddict.com 6790 USD hr360.com 6500 USD linkpublicity.com 6200 USD solarfonds.com 5969 EUR techstore.com 5700 USD smos.com 5555 USD kinderplezier.com 5000 EUR monstersquad.com 5000 USD ccTLDS mexiko.de 32130 EUR horseracing.co.za 20000 USD auctions.co 15000 USD charms.de 10000 EUR bambus.pl 8400 EUR ellos.de 7500 EUR villa.es 7500 EUR send.me 7350 USD private-zusatzversicherung.de 7140 EUR try.me 7100 USD refer.me 6105 USD employ.me 6099 USD freesolar.co.uk 5500 USD list.me 5005 USD bracelets.fr 5000 EUR soap.tw 5000 EUR tovaglie.it 4500 EUR cuisiner.fr 4050 EUR zusammen-feiern.de 4000 EUR Other ... read more ...
 
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Afternic Sells MarketShare.com for $148,500 - Marketshare.com gets some serious market share. Afternic has brokered the sale of MarketShare.com for $148,500. It appears the seller was a software company, but the buyer is using whois privacy to protect their identity. While by far the highest reported sale coming out of Afternic this week, the company had some other solid five figure sales including: americanpro.com $25,800.00 LandingPages.com $20,000.00 expresshotels.com $16,800.00 biomics.com $14,500.00 ... read more ...
Mon 20th December 2010
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Here’s What Your Afternic Premium Listings Look Like - Hi Adam, That’s what it is supposed to be. Found the terms for Register, under, “Premium:” “At the time of transfer of the Premium Domain Name into your account, we will add one year to the existing registration period. Any subsequent renewals of the Premium Domain Name will be charged at the then-current renewal fee.” That sounds like what one would expect. Under, “Fees, Service Term, Renewals,” though, you agree: “Register.com reserves the right to change fees, surcharges, ... read more ...
Fri 17th December 2010
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Afternic Premium Now Works with eNom and Moniker - Afternic “turns on” its two new partners, giving domain name owners access to a powerful sales network. Yesterday I wrote about my success with Go Daddy Premium Listings. The only downside to the service is that your domain names have to be at Go Daddy. But there’s good news for domainers who want to get similar reach for domains that are currently at Moniker and eNom — those two registrars are now active with Afternic’s Premium listing service. What This ... read more ...
Thu 16th December 2010
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My Sales Results from One Year of Go Daddy Premium Listings - The future of SMB domain sales is in the registration path. It’s been about a year since I first start using Go Daddy’s Premium Listings option for selling domain names. This option lists your domain names for sale in Go Daddy Auctions, but more importantly in the registration path on GoDaddy.com when someone wants to register a domain name you own: I currently have about 250-300 domains with Premium Listings at Go Daddy, although for most of the year it was ... read more ...
Tue 14th December 2010
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SedoMLS Beta Now Open to SedoPro Customers - Company expands beta for listing syndication and fulfillment service. SedoMLS, which syndicates your Sedo domain name listings across multiple sites and instantly transfers domain names upon purchase, is now available for select Sedo customers. Sedo launched the service last year but it has been closed to most domainers. The new beta phase permits SedoPro customers to list domains at the MLS level. Other Sedo customers with 5,000 or more domain names may request ... read more ...
 
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Afternic Sells Decide.com for $175,000 - Afternic and Sedo announce six figure sales. Afternic has sold the domain name Decide.com for $175,000. The buyer appears to be someone associated with Seattle based PriceYeti. PriceYeti launched last year, offering to send users an email alert when the price of an item they were tracking online dropped. However, it appears the service is now offline. The whois records for PriceYeti and Decide.com are different, but Decide.com is registered under PriceYeti. Elsewhere ... read more ...
Thu 9th December 2010
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Want to Own a Territory? Gibraltar.com Hits a Market: Asking Price $560K - According to a press release this morning the domain name Gibraltar.com is for sale. Besides being part of one of the most famous phrases of all time, “the Rock Of Gibraltar”, its a territory with a small population of just under 30,000 people but gets according to the PR 10.3 million visitors a year. Gibraltar is located on the southwestern tip of Europe and is a self-governing UK overseas territory. “Gibraltar also is a low tax jurisdiction, VAT-free and its economy is robust ... read more ...
Wed 8th December 2010
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Ringtones.com Sells For $750K On Sedo - The domain name Ringtones.com has sold for $750K on Sedo or maybe it was just $575K cash with other considerations. Read on. The seller was Mobile Streams. According to an announcement from the seller, CEO Simon Buckingham said: “Ringtones.com was the domain name that started the Mobile Streams content business.” “However, as we reinvent the company for the coming wave of open mobile services and apps, we are looking ahead to the exciting opportunities that our new Appitalism.com service ... read more ...
 
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Facebook Bought FB.biz Domain Name, Too - Facebook snaps up FB.com; currently owns FB.com and .biz. Remember when .biz registry Neustar auctioned off two letter domain names at twodotbiz.biz? Facebook participated and picked up the domain name FB.com. The company registered the domain name under DNStination Inc., which is associated with domain registrar MarkMonitor. Facebook used the same group to acquire FB.com from American Farm Bureau, which still owns the .org domain. The domain name just recently ... read more ...
Tue 7th December 2010
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Afternic.com Sells $450K In Domains - The weekly Afternic.com report is out for the week ending December 5, 2010. In all over $450,000 domains were sold in reportable .com sales $2K and over and non-com’s $1K and over. Here is the full list: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Mon 6th December 2010
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Go Daddy Sells Color.com for $350,000 - Go Daddy goes big with Color.com. Go Daddy has sold the domain name Color.com for $350,000. The buyer is using a whois proxy to protect their information. The seller appears to be Warning Management Services Inc. of Anaheim, California. This is the second big transaction from Go Daddy that I’ve become aware of in recent weeks. Go Daddy executive accounts manager Brad Larson recently brokered the sale of HomeownersInsurance.com for $570,000. I’ve heard that ... read more ...
Tue 30th November 2010
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HomeOwnersInsurance.com Sold for $570K - According to a press report the domain name  HomeownersInsurance.com was just purchased fro $570,000 by  HomeInsurance.com. “HomeownersInsurance.com is our most recent step towards owning the top home insurance properties out there”, said Lagomarsino. “In addition to the two top home insurance domains in the industry, we have also attained almost all of the state-specific home insurance websites such as CaliforniaHomeInsurance.com and NewYorkHomeInsurance.com.” Another huge insurance ... read more ...
 
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Interview with $570k Buyer of HomeownersInsurance.com - Big domain purchase made sense for buyer. It’s always interesting to get inside someone’s mind after they make a major domain name purchase. Earlier today HomeInsurance.com CEO Carlos Lagomarsino was kind enough to give me some insight into his $570,000 purchase of HomeownersInsurance.com, which was announced today. Lagomarsino is obviously an expert in the home insurance arena with his HomeInsurance.com site. He purchased HomeInsurance.com back in 2007 for ... read more ...
 
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Hobbies.com Goes from Bankrupty Auction to Aftermarket (and Triples in Price) - Hobbies.com sale provides a nice return to the seller. Afternic brokered the sale of Hobbies.com this past week for $297,500, giving the seller a nice profit. The domain name has an interesting history. It was purchased along with iToys.com in the eToys bankruptcy auction back in February 2009 for $102,000. So even if iToys.com is worthless (which it’s not), the seller tripled his money in less than two years. This makes sense, as the auction for this domain name ... read more ...
Mon 29th November 2010
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Marksmen Gets Into Domain Sales Business - Company known for acquisitions starts pushing domain names for sale. Intellectual Property firm Marksmen is starting to play both sides of the field. The company has long been known in the domain name industry as a stealth domain name acquisition company. It works on behalf of large companies “who want to keep their identity and costs on the down low.” Now the company is getting into the sales side as well, launching a site called Name Quiver. The company is ... read more ...
Tue 23rd November 2010
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Beem.com Sells for $136k, BlackFridaySales.com for $90k - Beem.com and BlackFridaySales.com sell for big bucks. Sedo has sold the domain name Beem.com for $136,000. The domain name is still pending transfer and the buyer’s identity is not yet known. The company also brokered the sale of BlackFridaySales.com to Frank Schilling’s Name Administration for $90,000. The domain name was sold by RegistrarAds, an affiliate of domain name registrar Dotster. Schilling already owned BlackFriday.net, so he probably had a good ... read more ...
 
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Michael Berkens Sells MyRecovery.com for $40k with Help of Afternic - MyRecovery.com trades hands, buyer has big plans. The top reported sale coming out of Afternic this week is for MyRecovery.com at a healthy $40,000. The seller? Worldwide Media, Inc, run by blogger and domainer Michael Berkens. The buyer has already uploaded a placeholder in anticipation of his 2011 launch of the site. It reads: Inside myRecovery you will find comprehensive on-line programs, services, and solutions to alcoholism and drug dependency based on the ... read more ...
Mon 22nd November 2010
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NameJet .Pro Auction Fails To Impress - The NameJet.com registry owned .Pro domain name auction came to a close yesterday with most domains not even hitting reserve. Domains that I have on my report as selling include SSL.pro which seems to lead the pack at only $2,600, Ask.pro was a close second at $2,400, Tea.pro sold for $1,700 and the bargain of the auction (IMHO) Dui.pro sold for a meager $1,100. Other domains such as Dog.pro which also got a $1,100 bid did not hit reserve, nor did such domains as Eco.pro, Eye.pro, Hip.pro and Run.pro ... read more ...
 
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156 .Co Landrush Auctions to be ReRun - Some domain names applied for under landrush will be auctioned next year in open auction. The .co registry ran approximately 2,500 landrush auctions for .co domain names during its relaunch this year. But 156 of the auctions didn’t close for one reason or another, and these domain names will be auctioned again in the first quarter of 2011 at Pool.com. The 156 domains will be auctioned in an open format, meaning that even if you didn’t submit a landrush application ... read more ...
 
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Rupert Murdoch Buys TheDaily.com and The-Daily.com Domain Names - Domain name purchases come in advance of new make-for-tablet newspaper. Earlier today news hit the web that News Corp founder Rupert Murdoch is working on a new iNewspaper called “The Daily”. The Daily will be designed for tablets such as the iPad. This caught one Domain Name Wire reader off guard, as he recalls previously visiting TheDaily.com from ASSIST Information Services. As it turns out, ASSIST sold the domain name to Murdoch’s company a while back ... read more ...
Thu 18th November 2010
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Did Nokia Just Sell Dashboard.com? - Interesting changes to Dashboard.com domain name. It looks like Nokia may have just sold the domain name Dashboard.com, but some of the changes to the domain name don’t quite add up. Nokia got the domain name when it acquired Intellisync Corporation in 2005. It then forwarded the domain name to a landing page saying that Intellisync was now part of Nokia. On November 17 the whois record for Dashboard.com changed to DNStination Inc. DNStination is part of Mark ... read more ...