Tag Archives: sales

Wed 9th December 2009
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December Domain Names for Sale - Frequent Domain Name Wire readers know that I rarely, if ever, post my personal domain names for sale on the site. But I’ve decided to give it a one time try to see if there’s any interest. The domain names below were registered as far back as 1997. Many of the .com’s have corresponding .net and .org domain names registered by other companies, and some of those are in use. Although the domains are listed below in a range, just send an email to me at andrew ... read more ...
Mon 7th December 2009
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ClimateGate.com Domain Name Sells - Domain name for controversial “Climategate” sells. Have you heard about the so-called “ClimateGate” yet? It has been all the buzz in the worldwide media over the past few weeks. It basically involves some not-so-ethical scientists trying to massage climate data to fit their needs. When the scandal broke, I immediately checked on the domain name. The domain was registered way back in January 2008, long before the current scandal occurred. But the owner ... read more ...
 
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Two Character .Biz Domains Selling Daily - Web site auctioning off two character .biz domains; first domains close today. TwoDotBiz.biz, an online auction site for two character .biz domain names, has domain auctions closing daily for the next couple months. The site was set up by Pool in conjunction with .biz registry Neustar. The first auctions started closing earlier today. A number of domains are selling for decent prices, with the majority of bids in the low three digit range but some crossing over ... read more ...
Fri 4th December 2009
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Contacting a Big Company That Owns a .Net Domain Name - Can a good domain name sales technique to small businesses work with a big one? In August I wrote about a successful end user domain sales strategy I’ve employed. Basically, you look up domains you registered a couple years ago to see if anyone has registered the .net, .org, or other version of the .com domain you registered. Presumably they wanted the .com, but settled for something else because you already owned it. These people are very targeted buyers for ... read more ...
Mon 30th November 2009
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Blockbusters: Russia.com Sells for $1.5 Million, Marchex Sells Dominio.com for $250,000 - Two big domain name sales over holiday week. In what should have been a lackluster week thanks to the Thanksgiving holiday, Sedo turned in one of its best performances of the year for domain sales. Leading the pack was a sale you’ve probably read about already, Russia.com at $1.5 million. The buyer wants to remain anonymous, and is using GoDaddy’s whois protection to shield their identity. The domain currently points to a basic GoDaddy parking page. Another ... read more ...
Tue 24th November 2009
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LuxuryNames Domain Name Auction Ends Today - First LuxuryNames auction ends today. The first ever LuxuryNames auction has attracted a number of bids in advance of its closing this afternoon. Lots will begin closing at 12:15 PST on SnapNames. As of 7 am PST today, 19 domain names have received bids. The highest so far is $2,600 for CheapHouseInsurance.com. Many of the domains have prices starting at only $99. I have three domains in the auction, one of which has received several bids already: WeeklyPlanner.com. ... read more ...
Mon 23rd November 2009
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$66,001 e.Biz Sale Closes - .biz takes the top spot for the week…sort of. “The top sale at Sedo this past week was a .biz domain name.” I never thought I’d have the chance to write that. And I’m not being entirely truthful by writing it. The $66,001 sale of e.Biz claims the highest “number” for the week, but when you convert the 49,000 EUR sale of i.de to U.S. dollars, .de claims the top spot. But let’s not ruin the moment. We still don’t know who the buyer of e.biz is ... read more ...
Sun 22nd November 2009
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Taking a $62,500 Risk on SearchEngineOptimization.net - Man buys .net domain name for $62,500 with big plans. Some people like to talk big. Patrick Gavin is putting his money where his mouth is. The founder of Text-Link-Ads.com just plunked down $62,500 for SearchEngineOptimization.net at BuyDomains. It’s a steep price for a domain who’s .org version sold for just $750 back in 2006. But Gavin has a plan, and he’s going to let the world watch him succeed or fail. Gavin plans to turn the web site into a learning ... read more ...
Thu 19th November 2009
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A Big Thumbs Up for BargainDomains.com - New web site from Domaining.com is very promising. Domaining.com founder Francois Carrillo works relentlessly to introduce new products. I like some more than others. Today I think he’s hit a grand slam with BargainDomains.com. The premise is simple: you can list your domains for sale on BargainDomains.com for a maximum of 30% of the appraisal price on sister site Valuate.com. When you take a look at the list of domains on BargainDomains.com, you’ll see that ... read more ...
Mon 16th November 2009
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LaFontaine.com Sells for $50,000 to Lead Sedo Sales List - LaFountaine.com leads sales chart, but also interesting .cc and .mobi sale. Sedo has completed the sale of LaFontaine.com for $50,000, its top reported sale of the past week. LaFontaine is a common last name, and means “fountain” in French. The domain broker also completed a number of sales from its one and two character .de auction and its one character .biz auction. .DE auction sales over 5,000 EUR a.de 32,111 EUR ok.de 21,956 EUR 18.de 16,500 EUR uk.de 14,000 EUR fm.de 10,100 EUR cs.de 10,000 EUR nu.de 7,000 EUR ua.de 5,355 EUR u2.de 5,352 EUR cu.de 5,200 EUR pl.de 5,100 EUR ro.de 5,000 EUR .BIZ ... read more ...
Fri 13th November 2009
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Want To Make $10K Quick? All You Need To Do Is Find A Buyer For Disaster.com For $850K or More -

DD Consulting Ltd. is charity a $10,000 finder’s fee to anyone who refers a particular who buys  a company’s Internet domain, Disaster.com.

The wordless auction started Oct. 22 with a smallest seeking bid of $850,000.

It’s approaching to interpretation on Nov. 20.

The association purebred a domain name Disaster.com in 1994.

Via: thedomains.com

Wed 11th November 2009
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Sedo Revenue Down 20% This Year, But Turning a Corner - Sedo posts 19.6% drop in revenue through three quarters. Sedo today reported its results for the first three quarters of 2009, facing a decline in revenue to 34.1M EUR this year compared to 42.4M EUR in the same period last year. These numbers include both sales commissions and parking revenue. But the good news is that things appear to be looking up. In its 9 month report (pdf), company management noted that the third quarter was better than the second this year, ... read more ...
 
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Monthly SnapNames Auction Begins, Sedo 2 Character Auction Ends Tomorrow - One auction kicks off as another comes to a close. SnapNames’ monthly domain name auction has kicked off and will conclude next Tuesday, November 17. The monthly auctions used to last only a few days, so it looks like SnapNames is trying a different tact. The auction includes roughly 240 domain names, 77 of which have no reserve. Among the domains with no reserve are DealComparison.com, LegalFees.com, and StewMeat.com. Two no reserve auctions have received bids: ... read more ...
Mon 9th November 2009
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Domain Owners Should Learn Lesson About Leaving Money on a Table - Deal or no deal? eNom leaves money on the table. Back in February I made an offer on a domain at AcquireThisName.com, an eNom affiliate. It wasn’t a great name, just a brandable that a friend was interested in. eNom wanted $6,000; my friend’s final offer was $400 since we were so far off. Flash forward to November and eNom is letting the domain drop, likely to earn little or nothing for the domain it could have had $400 or more for. Here’s an email I received ... read more ...
 
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Social Business Card Company Buys Poken.com for $75,000 - Social gadget company upgrades its domain name. Sedo has brokered the sale of Poken.com for $75,000 to a company that bills itself as a mobile social business card. According to the web site, “poken is your ‘social business card.’ it’s an easy way to share your contact details and online social networks in the real world. just hold two poken palms together – high4! – and you’re connected.” The web site makes it look like a product primarily for teenagers. ... read more ...
 
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LuxuryNames to Hold Online Domain Name Auction - Popular newsletter to run online auction. LuxuryNames.com will hold an online domain auction November 18-24 on the SnapNames platform. LuxuryNames.com is known for its once-or-twice monthly newsletters with domain names for sale. The recently-launched newsletter has resulted in over $250,000 in sales over the past three months. The auction will include about 200 domain names, and 80% of the reserves will be $1,500 or less. The catalog will include .com, .net, and ... read more ...
Thu 5th November 2009
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Rick Latona Auction Ends Today, Sedo 2 Character Auction Starts - One auction ends and another one begins today. The extended auction for Rick Latona’s TRAFFIC auction ends today, and bidding is open online. A handful of domains have already received bids (which also means they hit their reserve). Notable domains with bids include StateFlag(s).com at $25,000 and DLE.com at $12,400. In an email sent to Rick Latona newsletter subscribers today, the company said it acknowledges that the Proxibid interface may be frustrating to ... read more ...
Wed 4th November 2009
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Domain Auctions: Chill Out, But Let’s Re-examine - It’s time to step back and re-evaluate domain name auctions. The news today about an employee bidding at SnapNames is certainly disappointing. So here’s my take on what the domain industry should do. First, chill out. I’ve seen a bunch of comments today from people that now assume everyone who ever beat them in an auction is a fake bidder or scammer. Look, there are a lot of people out there who bid at the last second, bid in a lot of auctions, and bid to ... read more ...
Tue 3rd November 2009
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PokerBonus.com Domain Name Sells for $85,000 - Gambling domain takes top spot for the week. There were no six figure sales at Sedo this past week, but the broker still scored some big sales. Number one on the list is PokerBonus.com at $85,000. The domain’s whois record has been protected by a private registration for much of the past few years, but last month a public record showed that the domain was owned by an Australian man. The second highest .com sale was BrowserGame.com at $30,000, although it was slightly ... read more ...
Thu 29th October 2009
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Moniker Advertises to End Users On MonikerBrokerage.com - Moniker launches lead gen web site to attract end user domain buyers. Domain name registrar and brokerage company Moniker has started marketing the value of generic domain names to end users through a new web site, MonikerBrokerage.com. The company registered the domain name in August. Today I saw an ad for it on Google Adwords: The web site speaks to the SEO value of a good domain name, with the headline “Need a Big Boost from a Category-Leading Domain Name?” ... read more ...
Wed 28th October 2009
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Moniker Auction: Live Chat and My Thoughts - Join me online during today’s Moniker auction. Coming off the heels of yesterday’s successful Rick Latona Auctions event at TRAFFIC in New York, Moniker gets the bill this afternoon starting at 4pm Eastern. You can join Adam Strong and me in a live chat during the auction. We’ll get started around 3:50 ET. To join, go to tinychat.com/domains, pick a nickname, and enter password domains123. Or just go here. Here are some of my thoughts on the auction: .biz ... read more ...
Tue 27th October 2009
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My Thoughts on Today’s Rick Latona Auction - Taking a look at today’s live domain name auction. The Rick Latona Auctions auction at TRAFFIC starts this afternoon at 4:30 ET. Bidding is available online at proxibid.com/ricklatona. Here are my thoughts on a handful of domains in the auction: Acronyms.com $150,000 – this is the type of domain the folks behind Dictionary.com might buy. I’m not sure if they’d pay this much for it, and I don’t know that anyone else would be interested. Ballwin.com $11,800 ... read more ...
 
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Rick Latona Auctions Scores Big in New York - Auction results are impressive. With Rick Latona Auctions taking over as exclusive auctioneer at TRAFFIC conferences next year, a lot of people questioned if it would be up to the challenge. Many of those questions were answered this evening in New York. The final tally appears to be about $1.25 million or so in sales. That’s a respectable number. But it’s what’s behind the numbers that should be applauded. Exhibit 1: PinkDiamond.com. This domain sold for ... read more ...
Sun 25th October 2009
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New York Magazine Buys Vulture.com Domain Name - Vulture.com now forwards to popular blog at New York Magazine. New York Magazine has acquired the domain name Vulture.com for its popular entertainment and culture blog Vulture. A review of historical whois records shows that Frank Schilling’s Name Administration sold the domain name to New York Magazine. Records indicate that the domain was transferred to New York Magazine around September 2. This is an interesting example of a domain purchase by a major media ... read more ...
Fri 23rd October 2009
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Sedo Auction Woes Were Caused by Denial of Service Attack - DDOS to blame for problems during auction yesterday. Sedo’s outage during the .de domain name auction yesterday was not due to intense bidding activity, but was actually a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack, reports the company. In a statement released today, Sedo wrote: Due to a malicious attempt to disrupt our services, Sedo suffered from two different distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks which temporarily caused the Sedo and GreatDomains.com ... read more ...