Tag Archives: sales

Wed 24th March 2010
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
MEC.com Hits $41,000 in Great Domains Auction - Three character domain in the spotlight. Sedo’s monthly Great Domains auction ends tomorrow, and a three character domain in the auction is attracting a lot of attention. MEC.com is up to $41,000 with its reserve met. Four different bidders are in on the action. There are a number of companies and acronyms for MEC, and the domain name appears to get substantial traffic. It was just parked on March 18, and Sedo’s stats show over 3,000 visitors to the domain ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
NFL Players Association Buys NFLLockout.com Domain Name - Football players union gears up for possible lockout by buying domain name. Is a lockout of National Football League players likely in 2011? NFL Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith told ESPN that, on a scale from 1-10, the likelihood of a lockout is a 14. That sounds serious. Perhaps to gain an upper hand, the NFL Players Association just bought the domain name NFLLockout.com. Seller Eric Gargiulo tells Domain Name Wire that he sold the domain ... read more ...
Tue 23rd March 2010
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Some Schmuck Bought Schmuck.com for $66,000 - German entity buys Schmuck.com domain name. Sedo has sold the domain name Schmuck.com for 49,000 EUR, or roughly $66,000 at today’s exchange rates. Before you think it’s going to be some site about jerks or idiots, it looks like this may be a brand name in Germany, and it’s also a common surname. Sedo broke the six figure barrier this past week with DolceVita.com selling for $120,000 to the shoe company of the same name, which got a nice upgrade to its existing ... read more ...
Mon 22nd March 2010
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Domain Madness 2 Auction Ends Tuesday - Second annual “Domain Madness” auction runs through Tuesday. Domain Consultant’s Domain Madness 2 auction ends Tuesday afternoon. Live online bidding is available at DomainMadness2.com. Domain Consultant is giving away a free iPad to one lucky person who registers for the auction (no bidding is necessary). The quality of domains in the auction this year is substantially better than last year’s, with some uber-premium domain names to choose from. But you’ll ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Sex.co Headed to Auction Block in May - Sex.co domain name to be auctioned off in May. That’s not a typo in the headline. Sex.com may be off the auction block, but the owner of the Colombian ccTLD Sex.co hopes to cash in this May. Mobile Entertainment Group of Colombia plans to auction off the domain name at Sedo. I talked to Mobile Entertainment Group founder Jan Leijnse by phone today. He explained that he’s not sure how much traffic the domain name gets as it was parked at Sedo only recently. You ... read more ...
Thu 18th March 2010
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
ScreenSavers.com Sells For $335K - The domain name ScreenSavers.com sold for $335,000 as part of the SnapNames.com March showcase auction although the sale occurred hours after the auction closed with no bidders. John Mauriello of Moniker,  in a comment to our post for the results of this auction, let us know that this domain sold just hours after the auction closed. The reserve range was stated as between $250K-$500K so the Seller may have come off his initial reserve to get this deal done. The official results for this auction ... read more ...
Mon 15th March 2010
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
MusicVideos.com Sells for $250,000, .Info Snags $24,000 - MusicVideos.com takes home prize, but good .co.uk and .info domain sales as well. Sedo completed well over $1 million in domain name transactions last week, including helping Yahoo! sell MusicVideos.com for $250,000. The company also sold Gold.co.uk for 42,050 GPB, which is about $63,000 USD. Last week the company auctioned off MobilePhones.co.uk for about $137,000 USD equivalent, but the sale hasn’t been completed yet. Although these are all noteworthy sales, ... read more ...
Thu 11th March 2010
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Company Sends Press Release After Buying $1,088 Domain Name - Company brings new meaning to “pumping”. I’m not sure what it’s like being a company traded on the pink sheets. But a lot of them try to do whatever they can to hype themselves. Today The Amergence Group (PINKSHEETS: AMNG) sent out a press release titled “Amergence Group Successfully Bids on and Acquires PanPacific International Domain Name.” The company bought PanPacificInternational.com from BuyDomains “in concert with its venture partner, PanPacific ... read more ...
Wed 10th March 2010
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Domain Price Fairy Tales are Hard to Kill - Myths about sales prices grow like weeds. With Sex.com hitting the auction block next week, mainstream media are in a tizzy writing about the auction of the “world’s most valuable domain name”. As usual, they’re comparing it to other big ticket domain sales. The only problem is that many of the sales they refer to have misleading sales figures. Consider The Huffington Post’s “The 11 Most Expensive Domain Names Ever“. Casino.com is on HuffPos’ list ... read more ...
Tue 9th March 2010
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Sex.com Domain Name In Default for Over a Year - Debtors behind on bills for the past year. With Sex.com heading to the auction block, there’s a been a lot of talk about what went wrong with the current owner, Escom LLC. According to a Reuters article, Escom has been in default on its loan for over a year to lender DOM Partners. “The loan was in default and DOM partners is foreclosing pursuant to its right under the security agreement,” DOM’s attorney Scott Matthews told Reuters. The auction is still ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Guagua.com Sells for $100k, Pepe.com Sells Again - Guagua.com hits six figures, Domaining.com owner scores nice sale. Sedo has sold the domain name Guagua.com for $100,000. Guagua has a number of different meanings, including being the name of a language and a municipality in the Phillipines. The company also helped broker the sale of Pepe.com for 45,000 EUR. It looks like Francois Carrillo of Domaining.com scored a nice flip on this domain name. He bought it at Bido.com a couple months ago for only $15,000, and ... read more ...
Thu 4th March 2010
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
L’Oreal Buys Makeup.com for 7 Figures - Makeup giant buys category killer domain name Makeup.com. L’Oreal has purchased the domain name and web site Makeup.com, and one of the bidders in an auction for the domain name tells us it was for seven figures. Makeup.com has an interesting history. The domain name was owned by Communicate.com — now Live Current Media — earlier this decade before the company struck a deal to sell the domain to Manhattan Assets Corp along with Automobile.com, Exercise.com, ... read more ...
Tue 2nd March 2010
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
LuxuryNames.com Starts New Auction - LuxuryNames.com begins its second domain name auction. LuxuryNames.com has kicked off a new auction titled 4 Days – 40 Names. The auction runs through Thursday. The auction actually has 41 names in .com, .net, and .org. Like the last auction run by LuxuryNames.com, many of the domain names have high search volumes and/or frequency. I like the smaller number of domain names in this auction, as it assures none will be overlooked. The most expensive domain name ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Metal.com Leads Sedo Charts during $165,000 - Metal.com and StockPrices.com sell for solid money. Sedo has finalized the sale of Metal.com for $165,000, leading the company’s sales chart for the past week. The whois record for the buyer is protected by whois privacy, and the domain name is currently parked at Go Daddy. The company made another big sale this week with StockPrices.com going for $60,000. The domain name’s whois record is protected by Moniker’s whois privacy. Two other notable sales this ... read more ...
Thu 25th February 2010
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Last Minute Picks for Today’s Great Domains Auction - Here are some domains to keep an eye on in the waning moments of this month’s Great Domains auction. By the time you read this, you have less than two hours before the end of this month’s Great Domains auction at Sedo. Auctions will close at noon EST, unless they are extended due to last minute bidding. But there are some good deals to be had. Here are a few. Obnoxious.com – the reserve is met and it’s under $1,000…for now. Update: domain sold for $3,600. BGM.com ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Time Capsule: MP3.com Bought for $1,000 for 10,000 Visitors a Day - Entrepreneur paid $1000 for MP3.com domain name, got 10,000 unique visitors in the first day. For an interesting domain name story, check out TWiST #42 with Michael Robertson, founder of what became MP3.com. In minutes 54:00 to 58:00 of the show, Robertson discusses how he bought the domain name MP3.com for $1,000 back in 1997. The owner of the domain had registered it because his Internic handle was ‘MP3′, and he didn’t know anything about what an MP3 was. ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Survey: Innovation Coming to Domain Sales - Companies provide innovative twists on domain selling. Which company is most innovative when it comes to selling domain names in the aftermarket? The results show a handful of newer companies are innovating in the selling process — and attracting attention from domainers. The top response in this year’s Domain Name Wire survey (by a long shot) this year was Sedo. After that are three companies, two of which are smaller upstarts: Rick Latona and Bido. Rick ... read more ...
Fri 19th February 2010
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
End User Perspective: Buying a Premium Domain on GoDaddy - Simplicity helps end user buy domain name. In October I wrote about GoDaddy’s service that lets you place your domains for sale within the registration path, called Premium Domain Names. Using a “Premium Listing”, your domain shows up in the GoDaddy domain marketplace. But the real value is that they also show up prominently when someone is searching for that exact domain name: To test the system, I transferred about 75 domain names to GoDaddy and listed ... read more ...
Tue 16th February 2010
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Sedo and GoDaddy Tops for Domain Sales - Where’s the best place to sell domain names online? Sedo and GoDaddy have been selected as the two best online domain name sales venues in the 2010 Domain Name Wire Survey. Sedo’s position at the top of the charts is nothing new — it took 40% of the vote. But this is down from 48% last year. Where did those 8% go? Well, more people are flocking to GoDaddy. Here are the top five: 1. Sedo 40% 2. GoDaddy 13% 3. NameMedia (Afternic, BuyDomains) 10% 4. Forums ... read more ...
Tue 9th February 2010
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Biking.com Domain Name Sells for $250,000 - Two weeks, two great recreational domain sales. Domain name brokerage NameMedia has sold the domain name Biking.com for $250,000. This comes just a week after selling Boating.com for the same amount. As you might have guessed, the buyer of both names is the same, Stein Holdings. That’s a half million bucks in a couple weeks, instantly putting the buyer on the map for recreational domains. Thanks to the Biking.com sale, NameMedia sold about $800,000 worth of ... read more ...
 
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
No Blockbusters during Sedo This Week, But Sold 10,000 Domains Last Quarter - Company releases 2009 market report. Sedo didn’t turn in any blockbuster domain sales over the past week, but you can forgive the company for a slower-than-normal week. After all, the company just released its 2009 domain market study (pdf), which contains a startling stat: Sedo sold 10,070 domain names last quarter. That’s more than the company sold in any one quarter for at least the past two years, and maybe more. (I have an inquiry into Sedo to find out ... read more ...
Sat 6th February 2010
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
The Problem With Having Too Many Domains in an Auction - For online domain auctions, less is more. Two “extended” domain name auctions concluded this week. The results were underwhelming. In the Rick Latona auction, only 9 of 600 domain names sold. The Moniker extended auction sold 79 of about 2,000 domains. So what’s the problem? Too many domains, and especially too many poorly priced domain names. I won’t profess to be an expert at picking which domain names will sell. But I assume auction houses apply some ... read more ...
Thu 4th February 2010
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Two Domain Auctions End Today, KZ.com Snags 6 Figure Bid - Extended online domain name auctions from TRAFFIC and DOMAINfest end today. [Update: Apparently the bids on Kz.com were errant, as the they were removed and the domain didn’t sell.] Two extended online domain name auctions from recent conferences end today. First, the extended auction from TRAFFIC concludes on Proxibid at 1 PM EST. With less than 3 hours to go, a few domains have bids but haven’t met their reserves. This may indicate there are some buying opportunities ... read more ...
Tue 2nd February 2010
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Designer.co.uk Domain Name Sells for $120,000 - UK domain name leads sales chart. Sedo has brokered the sale of the domain name Designer.co.uk for 76,300 GBP, or about $120,000 USD at today’s exchange rates. The second highest sale for the week was Lundi.fr for 50,000 EUR, or about $70,000 USD at current exchange rates. Lundi means Monday in French. A couple other notable sales include ISDB.com, a four letter domain that sold for $53,500, and GolfZone.com, which took in $50,000 — a nice sale for a brandable ... read more ...
Tue 26th January 2010
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Now Might Be a Good Time to Buy Travel Domain Names - Search engine advertising report shows travel sector down, but hot season approaching. If you can buy direct navigation travel domain names based on a multiple of recent parking performance, now might be a good time to take the plunge. That’s one bit of insight I picked up from reading Efficient Frontier’s Q4 U.S. Search Engine Report. There are two reasons travel domains might be attractive right now. First, travel click prices have been pummeled more than ... read more ...