Tag Archives: sales

Tue 27th April 2010
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Software.de Sells for $315k, Business.TV Sale Completed - Country codes lead sales lists, but interesting series of “license plate” sales is most curious. Sedo has sold the domain name Software.de for 235,025 EUR, or about $315,000 USD at today’s exchange rates. The domain name is still undergoing transfer so the new owner hasn’t been disclosed. The domain broker also completed the sale of a number of .tv domain names from its recent themed auction. Business.tv leads the way at $100,999. On the .com side, thefirst.com ... read more ...
Mon 26th April 2010
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Businesses Continue to Buy and Use 3 Letter Domain Names - Three letter domains continue to be hot commodity. With Comwired’s relaunch as DNS.com, I found a recent study by domain investor Nat Cohen on three character domains rather timely. Cohen randomly generated 100 three letter domain names that contained only premium letters (no j, k, q, x, y, z) to see who owned them. Here’s what he found: Small and Medium Business: 51% Large Business: 20% Domainers: 20% Non-profits/Educational/Government/Religious: 2% Personal: ... read more ...
 
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Go Daddy Sells 778.com for $23,000 - Go Daddy cracks the five figure mark with three digit domain. Go Daddy Auctions, still often referred to as TDNAM in domainer circles, is known for selling a high volume of domains but rarely very valuable ones. This past week was an exception as 778.com traded hands on the platform for $23,000. Unlike many domains that sell at GoDaddy, this wasn’t an expired domain auction. It was an offer/counter-offer transaction. Many of the domains at Go Daddy sell for ... read more ...
Thu 22nd April 2010
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Afternic Offers Free Membership in April - Company offers free membership through the end of April. AfternicDLS is offering free sellers memberships — but the offer ends April 30. Afternic usually charges $19.95 to become a seller on its platform, and $1.00 for a buyer-only membership. Its chief competitor Sedo doesn’t charge for accounts. However, given Afternic’s historic focus on sales instead of domain parking, the fee makes sense. The seller fee limits the amount of users who merely flood the ... read more ...
 
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My Picks for Domain Name Wire Auction - Highlighting some of the domains in the DNW auction. Is it possible to remain unbiased when you’re writing about an auction you organized and domain names you own? Doubtful. So I won’t even try. But I did want to highlight some of the domains in the Domain Name Wire auction, ending Tuesday. So, in case it’s not perfectly clear, many of the domains below are mine. For the other domains, I don’t get any sort of cut. This post covers just some of the domains ... read more ...
Wed 21st April 2010
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BargainDomains Switches to Auction Format, Catchy.com Gets Catchy - Two domain sales sites get upgrades. BargainDomains.com, a site from Francois Carrillo of Domaining.com that offers domain names at a significant discount from their appraised value, is switching to an auction format. Previously, domain names were offered at a fixed price for 30 days. Little information about the auctions is available at this time, but submissions are open at the BargainDomains web site. Another domain sales site from Carrillo — Catchy.com — ... read more ...
Mon 19th April 2010
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Domain Name Wire Auction is Now Live - First ever auction runs through April 27. OK, don’t freak out. I’m not starting to compete with Latona, Sedo, Snap, etc. But I am running a one time auction on the SnapNames platform in conjunction with a number of different bloggers. Last January I was talking with Craig Snyder of SnapNames and I said, “Hey, why don’t we hold an auction on SnapNames with a bunch of inventory from domain bloggers?”. He liked the idea, so I ran with it. I assembled about ... read more ...
Thu 15th April 2010
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Go Daddy Opens Closeout Auctions to Public - Registrar opens up “closeout” section of domain aftermarket. GoDaddy has removed the membership requirement to its domain name aftermarket platform in order to be able to buy “closeout” domains. Closeouts are last-effort sales of expired domain names priced at $5-$9 plus the cost of registration. Previously, buyers had to have a membership to Go Daddy Auctions (a.k.a. TDNAM) in order to purchase these domains. Membership is no longer required. 25,000 domains ... read more ...
Wed 14th April 2010
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Oversee/Moniker/Snap Reports 42% Increase in Sales in 1st Quarter - Oversee.net tonight reported that sales jumped 42% between the fourth quarter of 2009 and the first quarter of 2010. Here is the info from the press release: “”The figure includes premium names sold through the companies’ aftermarket sales channels–DOMAINfest Global’s® Moniker Live Auction in January 2010, Moniker Brokerage Services and SnapNames Moniker Showcase Auctions. “”Top sales include: •    Guns.com ($800,000)* •    PartySupplies.com ($360,000) •    ScreenSavers.com ... read more ...
 
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No Landmark Deals, But Another Strong Sales Week during Sedo - Sales results for the past week. Sedo is reporting strong domain name sales over the past week, although it doesn’t have any of the six figure deals we’ve become spoiled accustomed too. The company reported about $850,000 USD in disclosed sales, not including smaller transactions. At the top of the list is Games1.com, sold to a casual games company for 39,000 EUR (about $53,000 USD). Also noteworthy is atelier.net at $30,000, which is currently pending transfer ... read more ...
 
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FriendFinder Will Help You Hook Up with NoStringsAttached.com - Social networking and adult entertainment company snaps up two generic domain names. Last week Michael Berkens sold the domain names NoStrings.com and NoStringsAttached.com for a combined $75,000 at Sedo. The buyer? FriendFinder Networks, a network of dating and hookup sites famous for its AdultFriendFinder.com web site, where people meet for casual sex hookups. FriendFinder was bought by Penthouse Media Group a few years ago, which renamed itself to FriendFinder. The ... read more ...
Thu 8th April 2010
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Rick Latona Domain Sales Newsletter Switches to Auction Format - Latona shakes up newsletter — no more fixed priced domain names. With 15,000 subscribers, Rick Latona’s domain name sales newsletter is the most popular newsletter for selling domain names. Today Latona’s company announced a big change: it will no longer sell domain names for fixed prices. Instead, domains will be auctioned off on Latonas.com. People can still submit domain names with a price, and the price will become the reserve price for the domain. Auctions ... read more ...
 
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MobilePhones.co.uk Sale May Result in Dropped Call - Sellers disputes auction, saying it didn’t authorize sale of domain. Last month the domain name MobilePhones.co.uk sold on Sedo for 91,500 GPB. At the time, that was about $137,000 USD. Since then, the buyer received some unfortunate news: apparently the seller is saying it didn’t authorize the domain name to be sold. In a lengthy (currently 12 page) thread at Acorn Domains, buyer Angie Barrow explains: …I have just been informed by Sedo that the seller ... read more ...
Tue 6th April 2010
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In Battle Over Retail Distribution, NameMedia Leaving Sedo in a Dust - Register.com agreement latest win for NameMedia. Today NameMedia — which operates Afternic and BuyDomains — announced that it has signed Register.com as a premium promotion partner. That means that visitors to Register.com can purchase any of the domains at the “premium” promotion level listed on AfternicDLS in a simple purchase with instant fulfillment. It also means domains registered at Register.com are eligible to be listed at the premium level on the ... read more ...
 
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Gregory Ricks Sells 199.com on 4.cn, 500.com is Next - Ricks scores big sale on Chinese domain site. I have to admit I wasn’t familiar with domain name brokerage site 4.cn before I learned about a recent sale by Gregory Ricks on the site. But now that Ricks has his money and the domain name is transferred, Ricks is certainly a believer. Ricks sold the domain name 199.com in an auction on the site for 368,666 RMB (yaun), which is about $54,000 USD. It was his first big sale on the site, and it has given him the confidence ... read more ...
 
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Hearst Buys Pilot.com for $300,000 - Media company buys domain name Pilot.com. Media conglomerate Hearst has purchased the domain name Pilot.com for $300,000. Hearst is well known for publications such as Cosmopolitan, Esquire, and the San Francisco Chronicle. A review of Hearst’s products does not show much related to “Pilot”, so we’ll have to wait to see what the company is up to. Domain brokerage Sedo handled the transaction from a private seller. Sedo also brokered the sale of Nasty.com ... read more ...
 
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Bankrate Buys InsuranceQuotes.com - Bankrate gets another category killer domain and web site — InsuranceQuotes.com. Financial information company Bankrate, Inc. has purchased the lead generation web site and domain name InsuranceQuotes.com, according to whois domain name records. The whois record for the domain name briefly transferred on April 3: Bankrate 11760 US Highway One suite 200 North Palm Beach, Florida 33408 United States The expiration date for the domain also extended by one ... read more ...
Mon 5th April 2010
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CamRoulette.com: Understanding Domain Sales Regret - A hefty case of domain sales regret — and what you can learn from it. Most of us who have been around the domain name world for any length of time have regretted a sale we’ve made. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but then we see the buyer flip the domain name for much more. One domainer got an early lesson of sales regret. He sold CamRoulette.com to Adam Strong for $1,400, only to see Strong turn around and sell the domain for $150,000 shortly thereafter. What ... read more ...
Thu 1st April 2010
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Three Domain Name Auctions Going On Right Now - Lots of domain name auction action going on. There are three live domain name auctions going on right now: First, the Domain Madness 2 extended auction ends this afternoon. Several domain names already have bids including Autorespond.com ($4,000), CustomChopper.com ($7,000), and Experimenting.com ($2,000). SnapNames has a Spring Auction with no reserves running now through April 8. Bidding starts at $300 per domain. Among the interesting domains are AdvertisingDeals.com, ... read more ...
Tue 30th March 2010
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UK Company Buys Top10.com from Idealab For $1 Million - Price comparison company buys Top10.com domain name. A UK price comparison company has purchased the domain name Top10.com from Idealab for $1 million in cash and equity. The deal included $200,000 in cash, and Idealab will take a 7% stake in the privately held company. As part of the deal Idealab founder Bill Gross will join the advisory board of the buyer, now named Top10.com Media Ltd. Top10.com Media Ltd. runs mobile phone and broadband comparison sites, which ... read more ...
 
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Sex.com Investor: Give Sex.com Domain Name to PETA - Mike Mann plays along with PETA. Sex.com investor Mike Mann is playing along with PETA’s request that it get the Sex.com domain name. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) grabbed some publicity earlier this month when it requested the domain name Sex.com be donated to it instead of auctioned for millions of dollars. As it turns out, one of Sex.com’s investors — Mike Mann — is a long time vegetarian. He says he’ll accept PETA’s request, ... read more ...
 
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Files.com Goes for $725,000, But When Did it Sell? - Another blockbuster sale as Files.com sells for $725,000. Sedo’s latest domain name sales report includes another spectacular sale: Files.com for $725,000. The current owner is Startive Capital Pty Ltd of Australia, but it has been listed as the whois contact for the domain name since December. The prior whois is for Domain Capital. So when did it actually sell? Sedo would not confirm when it sold, citing confidentiality about the details of the deal. Nevertheless, ... read more ...
Mon 29th March 2010
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CreditScore.com Sold For “More Than Toys.com” & Becomes The Top Sale Of 2010 - The domain name CreditScore.com was just purchased by Mighty Net, Inc. which owns CreditReport.com. Although the exact amount of the sale was not disclosed, I was informed by a party to the deal, that the purchase price exceeded the amount that Toys.com sold for last year. Toys.com was sold at a bankruptcy auction for $5.1 Million last year. That would make this domain, the top domain sale for 2010 by far, and one of the most expensive domain names ever sold. (The domain MyCreditScore.com was included ... read more ...
Sat 27th March 2010
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WeddingCarHire.co.uk Sold For Six Figures? - According to a press release today a company in the UK, limobroker.co.uk said they recently purchased the domain name, WeddingCarHire.co.uk for six figures. “Although we paid a hefty six-figure sum for the domain name, we felt the market was worthy of such a substantial investment”  Tej Randeva, Managing Director is quoted as saying. However the domain was first registered in November 2009, and if in fact it was bought for six figures that would be the second recent domain registration to be ... read more ...
Thu 25th March 2010
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How Search Rankings Boost Domain Name Sales - Getting your domain names in search engines boosts chances for selling to end users. I’ve written before about how I am using Octane360 to monetize a number of my long tail geo domains (e.g. cityAllergist.com). In addition to creating a new revenue stream on my domain names in the form of directory listing sales, there’s another benefit to creating web sites using Octane360 and similar site building systems: it helps you sell your domain names. How often does ... read more ...