Tag Archives: sales

Tue 26th January 2010
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Website.de Domain Name Sells for 101,500 EUR - German ccTLD leads charts. Domain broker Sedo has finalized a transaction selling German country code domain name Website.de for 101,500 EUR (about $143,000 USD at today’s exchange rates). The domain was sold be an individual in Germany. The whois record has not been updated to reflect the new owner. The top .com domain name sale for the week was Bookkeepers.com for $34,000. That would make an excellent web site name for an accounting or bookkeeping directory. ... read more ...
Fri 22nd January 2010
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Latonas.com Domain Name Auction Postponed - Auction postponed due to online bidding problems. The Latonas.com live domain name auction at TRAFFIC in Las Vegas has been postponed due to technical difficulties. The auction will be run Saturday at 10 am PST. Attendance at the auction was higher than many recent domain name events. However, the online Latonas.com system lagged the in room bidding. About an hour into the auction Rick Latona announced that it was necessary to postpone auction. That may be disappointing ... read more ...
Tue 19th January 2010
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Free-sms.de Domain Name Sells for $165,000 - Hyphenated .de domain leads pack. Sedo has brokered the sale of German country code domain name Free-SMS.de for 115,000 EUR, or about $165,000 at today’s exchange rates. The domain name was purchased by SuperComm Data Marketing GmbH, according to whois records. The next highest sale for the week was ConnectionExpress.com, which sold for $30,000. In third place is an interesting one, Toys.co.za. .Za is the country code top level domain name for South Africa. ... read more ...
 
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Over 100 Domains Have Met Reserve during SnapNames Auction - Auction enters final hours with over 100 domains meeting their reserves. Over 100 domain names in this month’s Snapnames Showcase Auction have met their reserves. The auction ends later today. The auction features 1-4 character domain names as well as one word country code domains. The highest bid on a domain name that has met its reserve is COA.com at $17,500. Compete.com suggests the domain receives over 1,000 uniques a month. BGM.com has seven bidders and ... read more ...
Mon 18th January 2010
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Rick Latona Puts AEIOU.com Up for Sale - AEIOU.com among the domains for sale at this week’s live domain auction. Rick Latona Auctions released its final inventory for this week’s TRAFFIC conference auction in Las Vegas. Lot #1180 may look familiar: AEIOU.com. This is the domain name Rick Latona used for his minisite development service, which he closed down last year. It can be yours for a reserve range of $40,000-$50,000. Here are a few domain names in the auction that I like upon first glance: Motivating.com ... read more ...
Thu 14th January 2010
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SnapNames Finally Hits a Mark in Showcase Auction - Latest showcase auction off to roaring start. I haven’t been impressed with the results in SnapNames’ monthly “showcase” auctions thus far. The sell-through rates have been dismal and the inventory lacking. That is, until this month. With still five days to go, this month’s showcase auction already has 80+ domain names that have met their reserves. Granted, the deck is stacked with about 700 domain names, but this is still a great start. There are two ... read more ...
Tue 12th January 2010
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Auction Shows Top .Asia Domain Names Not Worth Much - .Asia auctions don’t give much promise for resale values. If you invested in English-language .asia domain names, you probably haven’t seen much of a return on your investment. Five .asia auctions that closed at Sedo today didn’t add up to much: RealEstate.asia $6,000 Credit.asia $4,250 Single.asia $770 Wireless.asia $1,750 MP3.asia $655 .Asia currently has about 215,000 domain names registered, according to HosterStats.com. Although it represents a region, ... read more ...
 
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NameMedia Sells $600k Worth of Domains, Vivant.com for $30,000 - With help of $30k sale, NameMedia clocks another solid sales week. It’s another week and another $600,000 plus in domain name sales for powerhouse NameMedia, which operates BuyDomains and Afternic. The company sold 327 .com domain names at a median price of $1,000 and 78 other domain names for a median price of $794. The top sale for the week was Vivant.com for $30,000. Although the domain hasn’t transferred to the new owner yet, a search for “Vivant” on ... read more ...
Mon 11th January 2010
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On.biz Leads Two Character .Biz Sales Chart - Two character .biz auction site has sold hundreds of domains. Neustar has auctioned off some of its one and two character .biz domain names through Sedo and Moniker, but last month it started online auctions in conjunction with Pool at TwoDotBiz.biz. Hundreds of domain names have sold on the auction site, and more sell each day. So far the highest sale is On.biz, which took home $8,100. Here are the top ten sales: on.biz $8,100 qc.biz $3,300 88.biz 3,200 dr.biz ... read more ...
 
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Credit.fr Domain Name Sells for $850,000 - Sedo starts new year off with big sale. Domain name broker Sedo has sold the domain name Credit.fr for 587,500 EUR, or about $850,000 USD at today’s exchange rates. .Fr is the country code domain name for France. The big sale is a great way to kick off 2010, but I’m sure it will be surpassed by an even bigger deal soon. Sedo brokered another six figure sale with assistance from Moniker, selling Migraine.com for $125,000. Migraine.com has shown Sedo as the registrant ... read more ...
Fri 8th January 2010
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These UK Students Must Have a Big Budget to Buy Domain Names - New domain purchase inquiry “form letter” making the rounds. I got a suspicious domain name inquiry yesterday. It was suspicious for two reasons: 1. Whenever someone vaguely explains their reason for buying generic domain names, that’s a red flag. 2. I received an email from another domainer at the same time, who had received the same email. It purports to be from some students/”small time entrepreneurs” in the UK looking to buy domain names. I’m not ... read more ...
Tue 5th January 2010
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MSNBC Buys BreakingNews.com to Complement Twitter Handle - With Twitter handle in hand, MSNBC buys matching BreakingNews.com domain name. File this under breaking news: the MSNBC Digital Network has purchased the domain name BreakingNews.com. What makes this interesting is that the purchase seems to have originated from MSNBC’s use of the @breakingnews twitter handle, which has over 1.5 million followers. The acquisition is a big win for PV Media Group, which launched the BreakingNews web site a little over a year ago. ... read more ...
Mon 4th January 2010
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Leisure.com Price Tag $150,000 - Leisure.com sold for the price of a luxury vacation. Last week I reported about a pending sale of Live Current Media’s Leisure.com domain name. Today we have confirmation from Sedo that it brokered the sale of the domain name for $150,000. Perhaps next week we’ll find out what Live Current sold Indonesia.com for. With a holiday week, Sedo’s weekly sales list wasn’t as robust as usual. But it still includes some other notable sales including Find.net at ... read more ...
Sat 2nd January 2010
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Live Current Media Sells Indonesia.com - Live Current continues sales with Indonesia.com. On Thursday I wrote about the possible sale of Leisure.com by Live Current Media. It now appears the company has sold Indonesia.com as well. On December 30, 2009, the whois record for Indonesia showed Communicate.com as the owner (Communicate.com is the prior name of Live Current Media). On January 1, 2010, the whois record changed to domain broker Sedo’s transfer account. The Indonesia sale would conclude a year ... read more ...
Thu 31st December 2009
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In Play: Live Current May Have Sold Leisure.com - Live Current Media sale of Leisure.com may be in the works. The whois information for Leisure.com has changed, signaling a possible sale by Live Current Media (livc.ob). The whois record for the domain name on December 22 showed Live Current Media; on December 30 the record changed to GoDaddy’s Domains by Proxy. The nameservers also changed from SedoParking.com to GoDaddy nameservers and the web site has a placeholder now. This follows the pattern of previous ... read more ...
Tue 29th December 2009
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Kiev.com Sells for $88,000 - Ukranian geo domain tops sales chart. Kiev.com, a domain for the capital of Ukraine, has sold for $88,000 at Sedo. The domain represents the top completed sale at the sales venue over the past two weeks. Russia.eu (European Union country code domain) sold for $24,000. Sedo sold Russia.com for $1.5 million last month. Here are other notable sales from the past two weeks: .COM swype.com 25,000 USD 6m.com 16,055 USD computerspeakers.com 14,500 USD shepperton.com 13,225 GBP singlecity.com 12,950 USD bedstar.com 12,000 EUR privy.com 12,000 USD lifedash.com 10,500 USD tbk.com 10,000 USD g66g3e.com 10,000 USD tbk.com 10,000 USD thinkspot.com 9,999 USD ifeed.com 9,900 USD catholicsoulmates.com 8,995 USD bookee.com ... read more ...
Tue 22nd December 2009
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BestPennyStocks.com Sells for 2 Million Pennies - Investment domain name sells for a whole lotta pennies. NameMedia, which sells domain names through its BuyDomains web site and Afternic DLS platform, has sold the domain name BestPennyStocks.com for 2 million pennies. That’s $20,000. The domain name was one of 394 domain names the company sold this past week for a grand total of $606,000. The median .com sale price was $1,185.50 and the median .org/.net price was $750. Another interesting sale is VGmail.com ... read more ...
Sun 20th December 2009
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What Was The Best Domain Buy Of 2009? (Revised With Your Picks) - I have updated and restarted the poll with some of your comments and suggestions. The only option I did not give you is to vote for the $7 Million dollars portifillio that DirectNavigation.com Reported on last week. It’s simply unfair to judge a portfolio acquisition against a single domain acquisition. I also removed the “something else choice”, they were all good buys so pick the one you think was the best. Here is the post from yesterday: Well this year has certain seen some huge domain ... read more ...
Wed 16th December 2009
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Experience a New Auction Platform and Help Charity - Charity domain name auction underway. The WhyPark charity auction is now live, and I can think of a couple good reasons to participate. First is that all auction proceeds go to charity. For me, December is a month of giving. Although I donate to charities throughout the year, my wife and I are sure to make our big donations before the end of the year. In this auction, the person who places the single highest bid in the entire auction gets to choose the charity ... read more ...
 
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Bido Changes Up Its Game (Again) - Bido added a number of new features today. Credit domain name auction site Bido with constantly tweaking (or overhauling) its site in response to feedback. Today the company announced a number of new changes: 1. Name your starting price. No more $28 minimum/maximum. A lower minimum will likely result in more votes. 2. Vote for profits. If an auction you vote for goes to auction and sells, you get a cut of Bido’s commission. The goal is to incentivize you to ... read more ...
Mon 14th December 2009
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Sedo Extends Buyer Certification to All Auctions - Certification now required for all auctions. Domain brokerage Sedo has extended its buyer certification requirement to bidders in all auctions. Previously, only bidders in special auction events (such as GreatDomains) were required to complete certification requirements. Standard Certification, the lowest level of certification, is easy to obtain. You can provide a credit card, W-9, respond to a text message, or just sign a statement. This will allow you to bid ... read more ...
 
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Buromobel.de (Office Furniture) Sells for $100,000 - German domain name cracks six figures. Büromöbel.de, which means “office furniture” in German, has sold for 69,000 EUR (roughly $100,000 at today’s exchange rate) at Sedo. The sale was the top reported sale for the week from the online brokerage. SPB.com was the second highest domain sale at $65,000. It was purchased by SPB Software, a mobile software company based in New Jersey. Coming in third was Arenal.com, which will likely be used for Arenal in ... read more ...
Thu 10th December 2009
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Great Domains Auction Ends Today during Noon EST - Final Great Domains auction of the year ends today. December’s Great Domains auction at Sedo ends today at noon EST. As of the time of writing, the top domain to have met its reserve is ddm.com at $11,000. The top bid overall is 48,000 EUR for ZM.com. But this is shy of the reserve range of 50,000-99,000 EUR. There may be some bargains to be had for astute buyers. Take a look at Irish.com, currently at $20,000. The reserve range is $50,000-$100,000, and this ... read more ...
Wed 9th December 2009
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European Company Threatens Baidu Search Engine - Baidu Europe hopes to extort big bucks out of popular search engine. Remember Baidu? Not the Chinese search giant, but the European software company that has promoted its trademarks and baidu.tld domain names for sale? Well, it’s putting its brand and domain names up for sale. And it’s not hiding the fact that it hopes the big search engine buys them. In a brash press release about the sale on eBay, the company specifically cites Baidu the search company: In ... read more ...
 
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Use Valuate.com to Find Targeted End User Buyers for Domain Names - Valuate.com quickly tells you which TLDs are registered. In August I wrote about contacting owners of .net and .org domain names that you own the .com version of. It’s an easy way to find end users to buy your domain names. But my explanation of how to bulk check for domains you own with .net and .org taken was a bit involved. So here’s a simpler solution: use Valuate.com. Today I plugged in about 50 domains I’m thinking about selling, and Valuate.com quickly ... read more ...