Tag Archives: sales

Tue 8th June 2010
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CGM.com Domain Name Sells for $365,000 - Sedo sells three letter domain for big money, and the future is bright.com. After a few weeks of not reporting any major domain name sales (and one that go away), Sedo came through big time this week. Highlighting the list is CGM.com, which the company brokered for a whopping $365,000. The new whois record for the domain name is for Compugroup, a large European e-health company with nearly 300 million EUR in annual sales. The domain marketplace turned in another ... read more ...
Mon 7th June 2010
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e.co Domain Name Auction Starts during Sedo - Bidding for e.co underway. The charity auction of e.co, sponsored by .Co Internet and Sedo, has started and runs through June 10. A lot of people have been comparing this auction to that of e.Biz, but I don’t think the comparison makes sense. e.Biz sold for so much because it’s a very common term — eBiz. Just look at the buyer, which owns Ecommerce.com, to understand the value. So what is the value of e.co? I think most of the value lies in the “eco” ... read more ...
Thu 3rd June 2010
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Dutch Boyd Hits a Poker Tables, But Already a Winner during Sedo - Boyd playing a winning hand with domain name. Domaining is much easier. The World Series of Poker has begun, and that means World Series of Poker bracelet winner Russ “Dutch” Boyd is hitting the poker tables. But regardless of how well he does this year, he’s already looking like a winner thanks to a domain he has on auction at Sedo right now: cured.com. Boyd dabbles in domain names when he’s not bluffing his poker opponents. He also made it out to the TRAFFIC ... read more ...
Tue 1st June 2010
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BodogBrand Announces it is Slots.com Buyer - Popular online poker brand is buyer of Slots.com. Bodog Brand, owner and licensor of the Bodog gambling brand, has announced that it was the mystery buyer of Slots.com last month, and that it paid a bit more than previously reported. In a press release, the company announced that it paid GBP 4,000,000 for the domain, which equates to about $5.8 million USD a today’s exchange rates. Calvin Ayre, founder of the Bodog brand, stated: “The internet really has changed ... read more ...
Mon 24th May 2010
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Flying.com Acquires UsedAircraft.com - Flying.com parent company adds another web site to its collection. UsedAirplanes, Inc., the parent company of Flying.com and UsedAirplanes.com, has purchased the domain name and web site UsedAircraft.com to add to its expanding arsenal of web properties. Earlier this year the company acquired Flying.com for $1.1 million. I interviewed company President CEO Mark J Horne at the time, and he explained the decision as a “no-brainer”: “On an investment standpoint, ... read more ...
Fri 21st May 2010
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MonaLisa.com Domain Name Sells for $200,000 - MonaLisa.com domain name sells for $200,000. The Mona Lisa has been sold! OK, so it’s actually MonaLisa.com. According to Sedo’s market activity report, it has sold the domain name MonaLisa.com for $200,000: The domain name is currently pending transfer and is in Sedo’s brokerage account. The seller is California-based NetCorp. This is a big sale for Sedo, given the dearth of six-figure sales coming out of the brokerage recently. Of course, it is getting ... read more ...
Thu 20th May 2010
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DOMAINfest Extended Auction Bombs - Extended auction fails to live up to success of live auction. Last week DOMAINfest had a successful live domain name auction. Unfortunately, the extended auction didn’t perform too well. Only 8 out of 797 domain names sold, or a sell through rate of only 1%. It’s disappointing, but I’m not terribly surprised. I only came up with five domain names to mention in my preview post a couple days ago. (Mind you, none of the five I chose sold. But it goes to show ... read more ...
Wed 19th May 2010
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DNW Picks for Tomorrow’s DOMAINfest Extended Auction - Domains to watch in tomorrow’s auction. The extended auction for last week’s DOMAINfest Global power networking day in Fort Lauderdale ends tomorrow at 3:15 EDT. After looking through the list I came up with 5 extended domain auctions I think are worth a look. There were plenty of good domain names, but many of the ones I got excited about had reserves that I think are too high for investors. CharterPlanes.com $11,770 – I’m not quite sure on this because ... read more ...
Tue 18th May 2010
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Diapers.com Parent Ready to Launch Soap.com - Quidsi acquired Soap.com earlier this year; set to launch new site. Earlier this year Quidsi, the parent company of Daipers.com, acquired the domain name Soap.com. It looks like it’s getting ready to launch a new site or brand and is sending out a teaser to the press. Given the success Diapers.com has had with its flagship web site, it makes sense that the company would pick another great category-killer domain for its next brand. Of course, it could just be a ... read more ...
Mon 17th May 2010
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Peaches.com Headed to Auction - Peaches.com owner Kelly Pitts tells how he got the domain — and why he’s putting it up for auction. The next Sedo Great Domains auction kicks off Thursday, and my pick for the top domain name on the list is Peaches.com. It’s a spectacular category killer domain name that also has branding potential. I reached out to owner Kelly Pitts to find out when he acquired the domain name and why he has decided to offer it for sale. When did you originally register/acquire ... read more ...
 
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GoDaddy Sells IPS.com for $37,505 - Another five figure sale courtesy of Go Daddy Auctions. Last week I wrote about GoDaddy selling BusinessTube.com for $25,000. Go Daddy only reports certain sales it makes each week, and only sales made on its Go Daddy Auctions site. So we don’t always see five figure deals on its lists. But they did it again this week, selling IPS.com for $37,505. The domain’s whois record has been protected by privacy for a while so it’s unclear who the buyer is. Before ... read more ...
Thu 13th May 2010
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Jackpot! Slots.com Domain Name Sells for $5.5 Million - Slots domain name sells for a whopping $5.5 million. I have received confirmation from domain name auctioneer Moniker.com that Slots.com has sold for $5.5 million — making it the largest reported domain name sale of 2010 and one of the top 10 most expensive reported domain sales of all time. The domain name was listed for sale in a SnapNames auction. The auction concluded without a bid reaching the reserve, but Moniker worked with both parties to close the deal. ... read more ...
Tue 11th May 2010
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GoDaddy Sells BusinessTube.com for $25,000 - Registrar sells another five figure domain name through Go Daddy Auctions. GoDaddy has sold the domain name BusinessTube.com through its Go Daddy Auctions (aka TDNAM) platform for $25,000. The domain name was registered back in 2006 and just purchased by a California man. A visit to BusinessTube.com shows a logo with a message that the site will be going online this summer. Here are some other sales Go Daddy made in the past two weeks: PianoPlace.com $9,500 GarageBuilders.com ... read more ...
Mon 10th May 2010
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AOL Buys Advisibility.com Domain Name — For What? - Media giant buys domain name for a grand. Last week AOL bought the domain name Advisibility.com for $1,000. I did some searching to see what AOL might be up to on the domain name but came up empty. A logical answer is something related to online advertising — Ad Visibility. As we all know by now, AOL owns Advertising.com (and claims to have rights to many variants of the word “Advertising”). Could AdVisibility.com be a new product for this group? We’ll ... read more ...
Sun 9th May 2010
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My 12 Picks for Thursday’s DOMAINfest Auction - Here are a dozen domains worth watching at Thursday’s domain auction. DomainSponsor’s first DOMAINfest Power Networking day is this Thursday in Fort Lauderdale. The day concludes with a live domain name auction featuring 120 domain names. Several of the domains in the auction are tied to Rob Monster’s Domain Strategies. Karate.com, a partnership between Domain Strategies and Live Current Media, is on the block for $500,000-$750,000. Wifi.com, an early partnership ... read more ...
Fri 7th May 2010
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Register.com IDN Sale Nets $5k in an Hour - IDN Newsletter gets strong start with Register.com domains. Register.com recently did a deal with IDN Newsletter to sell its portfolio of company-owned internationalized domains names. IDN Newsletter is similar to other domain sales newsletters except, well, it only includes IDNs. IDN Newsletter informs us that it sold over $5,000 worth of Register.com’s IDN names today within the first hour of its Register.com mailing. Top sales include: 整体.com $2,000 Body ... read more ...
Thu 6th May 2010
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Lessons from Bido - A look back at two years of Bido. Now that I’ve had a couple days to mentally process the closing of Bido, it has given me time to reflect on what went wrong. To be clear, I commend both Sahar and Jarred for creating Bido. They put their heart and money into it, and should be proud of the innovation they brought to the marketplace. I also think we’ll see the platform live on in some incarnation as they are currently liquidating the assets. So here are my main ... read more ...
 
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Marchex Sells Another $1.3 Million in Domain Names - Marchex beats analyst expectations for Q1 and sells more domain names. Local marketing company Marchex sold $1.3 million worth of non-strategic domain names during the first quarter of 2010. This is in line with previous quarters. In an earnings press release, the company continued to note that “There is still significant demand for high quality domains and Marchex believes that will remain the case for the foreseeable future”. Marchex is known for only responding ... read more ...
Wed 5th May 2010
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Moniker.com Sells Photo.com For $1.25 Million - Another great generic domain and another seven figure sale, as Moniker.com tells me tonight the brokered the domain, Photo.com for $1.25 Million. These bang on category killers are hard to beat and always seem to sell. We congratulate the Seller and Buyer. And it doesn’t suck for Moniker.com either. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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VMOps Buys Cloud.com from Meetup Co-Founder - VMOps invests in great domain name; rebrands. Cloud computing company VMOps has purchased the domain name Cloud.com from Meetup co-founder Scott Heiferman and is rebranding its company as cloud.com. Heiferman put the domain name up for auction at various cloud computing conferences early last year. According to historical whois records, Heiferman transferred the domain name to VMOps around February 17, 2010, at which point the whois record changed to a private registration. ... read more ...
Tue 4th May 2010
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Domain Auction Site Bido Closing Down - Domain name auction site Bido is closing down. Domain name auction site Bido is closing. The company announced the move on twitter moments ago: Bido is ceasing operation as of May 5, 2010. All transactions and accounts will be gracefully finalized and closed. I confirmed the closure with the company. Although representatives would not speak specifically to why they are shutting down the platform, the company must have been losing substantial money. It had been ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Sells Record Number of Domains in Q1 - Online domain marketplace sets new bar with Q1 sales. Domain name marketplace Sedo sold a record number of domain names in Q1. The company sold 11,942 domains in the quarter compared to 10,070 domains in the fourth quarter of last year, and growth of 29% compared to Q1 2009. The company also saw a shift in how its domain names are sold. 21% of domain names were sold at a fixed price, compared to just 12% last quarter. Company representatives have told me that ... read more ...
 
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12 Domain Names to Bid on in Today’s Geo Domain Auction - A dozen picks for today’s auction. GeoDomain Expo’s online domain name auction held in conjunction with SnapNames ends today at 3:15 pm EDT. There are 805 domain names in the auction and so far 10 domains have met their reserves. The highest bid is $5,590 for BusinessTravelers.com. I have filtered the list and found 12 domain names that seem like values within their reserve ranges. On some of them they’re probably only values at the low end of the reserve ... read more ...
Wed 28th April 2010
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The New Domain Auction Paradigm - There are lots of auction opportunities. How can auction houses differentiate themselves? Yesterday’s Domain Name Wire “blogger” auction ended with 32% of domains selling. It was lower than what I had hoped, although there were some good bidding wars at the end. I was also happy that all but one domain that received bids ended up meeting their reserves. There are several things I did right selecting domains for and running the auction, and several things ... read more ...
Tue 27th April 2010
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Domain Name Wire Auction Ends Shortly - Last chance to bid. The Domain Name Wire auction at SnapNames ends today at 12:15 PDT / 3:15 EDT. I realize there are a lot of domain name auctions going on right now, so let me break this one down for you: – Only about 50 domains, so it’s easy to review the inventory – Many domains starting at $99 with no reserve – Over 20% of the domains have already met their reserves You’ll find active bidding wars for Duj.net and BeefJerky.net going on right now. The ... read more ...