Tag Archives: sales

Tue 22nd September 2009
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Investors Buy AreaRugs.com Domain Name For $405,000 - Company to launch new e-commerce store for area rugs. A group of investors in Iowa have purchased the domain name AreaRugs.com for $405,000 and plan to create an e-commerce store to sell rugs online. It was an all cash transaction. Lee Weber, head of marketing for AreaRugs.com, said he had to be patient to get the domain name. “It was a name I had on my radar for a long time,” he explained to Domain Name Wire. “I had reached out to [the owner] a long time ... read more ...
 
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Private Jet Company Buys Jets.com - Concord Private Jets buys Jets.com for $375,000. When I asked Damian Klinger for the name of his company, he promptly answered “Jets.com”. “OK, I mean what’s your old company name,” I asked. Klinger is co-founder and president of Concord Private Jets, which just forked over $375,000 to buy Jets.com. And he’s excited about it. So don’t expect him to refer to his company as Concord Private Jets anymore. When the domain name became available, Concord ... read more ...
 
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800.com Buyer Dials Up Great Deal during $250,000 - 800.com goes for $250,000 because no one knows about the auction. You might call it Toy Story, part 2. It goes like this: domain sells at bankruptcy auction, few people know about the auction, more buyers emerge after news of auction gets out, potential buyers challenge sale in court, auction is repeated. That’s what happened with Toys.com, which ended up selling for about 4 times the initial “winning bid”. And it almost happened with 800.com, which was sold ... read more ...
Mon 21st September 2009
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Jets.com Sells for $375,000, One of Three Six Figure Sales during Sedo - Jets.com leads pack at Sedo. By now you’ve probably heard that Sedo brokered the sale of Jets.com last week for $375,000. But that’s not the only great sale from Sedo this page week; it also sold two other six figure domains. But first let’s discuss Jets.com. [UPDATE: We now know that the domain was bought by Concord Private Jets.] The domain is still in the transfer process so we don’t know who bought it. After the nameservers were switched to Sedo parking, ... read more ...
Fri 18th September 2009
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Mint.com Mints Millions for Domain Seller - Mint.com domain name sale worth about $2 million. Mint.com Domain Name sale about $2.M Hite Capital sold the Mint.com domain name to the recently sold finance web site for equity a few years ago. It has paid off, according to an article by Michael Arrington on Tech Crunch. …Mint gave a “substantial” amount of Series A stock to Hite Capital in exchange for the Mint.com domain name. That stock was worth a “couple of million dollars,” says one source, ... read more ...
Thu 17th September 2009
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Bido Releases Transaction Manager - Bido releases system to manage domain purchases and sales. Bido’s new transaction manager When you sell one domain name a day, managing the payment and transfer process can be done manually. When you start selling dozens of domains a day, it gets more complicated. Bido has released a new buyer and seller transaction system to make its dozens of daily transactions easier. It includes both buyer and seller overviews and the ability to drill down to manage individual ... read more ...
Tue 15th September 2009
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Rent.co.uk Domain Name Auction Clears $100,000 - UK domain name will clear six figures. The domain name Rent.co.uk is set to sell on Sedo this Friday for at least £65,000 GBP. That’s about $107,000 USD at today’s exchange rates. So far there’s only one interested buyer in the domain name, which would chart itself well for sales of .co.uk domains. 8q.com will also close on Friday. It has attracted two bidders and a top bid of $10,100. The most active auction at Sedo right now is for xoxide.com. It ... read more ...
Mon 14th September 2009
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Automated Domain Auction Fulfillment is Worth a Price - Domains at Moniker can be transferred quickly with direct and automatic fulfillment. I often hear grumblings about how Moniker requires you to have domains registered with them in order to submit them to auction. (It’s not a requirement for the big auctions, but there is an added charge if you don’t and the domain sells.) Many people think this is just a way for Moniker to get you to transfer domains to them, but that’s ancillary to the real reason: it allows ... read more ...
 
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Hotel-Reservation.com Domain Checks in for Over $200k - Hyphenated domain sale is a shocker. Sedo has brokered the sale of Hotel-Reservation.com for a shocking 142,800 EUR, or about $208,000 USD at today’s exchange rate. This is certainly one of the most expensive hyphenated domain name purchases of all time. With nearly 700,000 global searches monthly for this term on Google (and 25 million for the plural version reservations), the SEO value of this domain is certainly high. Whois records show that the likely seller ... read more ...
Tue 8th September 2009
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Casino.Mobi Sells For $135K - Moniker just announced that it has brokered the sale of Casino.mobi to Infomeda Ltd for $135,000. This sale represents the second highest price ever paid for a .mobi name. As you may recall,  Flowers.mobi sold for $200K, Fun.mobi for $100K RealEstate.mobi for $85,000. Certainly this  is the highest priced paid for a .mobi since the extension’s initial release premium auctions held at TRAFFIC shows in 2007. The resale market for .Mobi’s  has been very quite, to say the least, almost non-existent, ... read more ...
Fri 4th September 2009
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Call.com Buyer Snaps Up Christian.com for $600,000 - Christian.com sells for $600,000, buyer to create Christian social network. Yesterday I wrote about Boris Kreiman, who bought the domain name Call.com for $1.1 million. He said he wasn’t done buying, and here’s proof: he just plunked down $600,000 for Christian.com. Kreiman told Domain Name Wire that he’s going to use the domain name for a Christian social network and Christian encyclopedia. The domain transfer is currently going through at Sedo. However, ... read more ...
Thu 3rd September 2009
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Exclusive: The Future of Call.com - $1.1 million purchase may be just the beginning. Boris Kreiman (and his company PhoneToPhone) has been confirmed as the buyer of Call.com. The better news is that he’s an end user, and he’s not done buying domain names. I briefly connected with Kreiman on the phone this morning to learn about his plans for the site. Kreiman runs a network of sites that connects consumers to professionals via the phone. An example is NewLawyer.com, where consumers can find a ... read more ...
Mon 31st August 2009
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Live Current Sells Call.com Domain Name for $1.1 Million - Live Current sells Call.com domain name for seven figures. Live Current Media has sold the domain name Call.com for $1.1 million through domain brokerage Sedo. The domain has a storied history. Live Current, when it was known as Communicate.com, sold the domain name as part of a package including Makeup.com, Automobile.com, and Exercise.com. Part of the sale included lifetime royalties on all earnings for these domains. Communicate.com reacquired Call.com in 2006 ... read more ...
Sun 30th August 2009
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Bido Guarantee Program: It Makes Sense Now - The missing piece of the puzzle glues it all together. When domain auction platform Bido announced its “Bido Guarantee Program”, I was a bit confused as to why any buyers would participate. Essentially, buyers would participate in a pre-auction where they could bid for domains. The seller could choose to accept the winning bid in the pre-auction, send the auction to a “real” auction with the pre-auction bid as the starting bid, or walk away. This didn’t ... read more ...
Fri 28th August 2009
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Live Current Sells Cricket.com - Live Current Media ends a sad saga. Live Current Media (OTC: LIVC.ob) has sold its Cricket.com domain name and assigned its Indian Premier League contract for a total consideration of approximately $1.75 million. About $1M of that will be paid in cash over four quarters, and the remainder is the assumption of liabilities and payment of severance to a key Live Current employee that will be hired by the purchaser, GCV Mauritius. Last year Live Current Media claimed ... read more ...
Thu 27th August 2009
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XP.com Tops Great Domains Auction during $99,000 - XP.com nearly cracks six figures at GreatDomains auction. Bidding for this month’s GreatDomains auction at Sedo concluded today. Although none of the domains have changed hands yet, it looks like XP.com will be the top sale at $99,000. The domain was originally registered back in 1995. BestPrices.com came in second at $81,000. BestPrices.com is an active web site with significant traffic. Sued.com came back this month with a lower reserve price that resulted ... read more ...
Wed 26th August 2009
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An Easy Way to Find End Users to Buy Your Domain Names - A dead simple way to find qualified end users to buy your domains. End users, end users, end users. Everyone in the domain name industry wants to be focus on selling domains to the “end user”. This is essentially anyone other than a domain investor. But finding these elusive end users can be a challenge. Fortunately, the easiest way to find them is sitting right under your nose: people who have registered your .com domains in other TLDs. I recently scanned ... read more ...
 
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Circuit City’s 800.com Domain Sells for Big Bucks during Auction - 800.com domain sells at bankruptcy auction. The liquidation of Circuit City’s assets has resulted in a big sale of the 800.com domain name. Although the final auction price is not yet known, Domain Name Wire has learned that starting bids quickly escalated to $250,000. According to court documents, the auction was to be held on August 18 at the New York offices of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher Flom, LLP (Filing, large pdf). The auction was run in part by StreamBank, ... read more ...
Tue 25th August 2009
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Sedo’s Auto Categorization Tool Hits a Home Run - Categorization tools saves time and increases odds of sale. Sedo announced its new auto categorization tool last week. The most painful part of adding domains to Sedo (or Afternic, for that matter) is taking the time to categorize them. But since categorized domains are more likely to sell, this is an important step. Sedo’s expansion to over 2,000 categories means more targeted searches, but more of a headache submitting domains — if it weren’t for it’s ... read more ...
Mon 24th August 2009
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Farsi.com Domain Name Sells for $75,000 - Farsi.com sells for $75,000 through domain brokerage. An entire language has been sold for $75,000. Well, an entire language as a domain name. Sedo has brokered the sale of Farsi.com for $75,000. The domain was first registered in 1995. As of now, it’s not clear who the buyer is. Although Farsi.com will certainly grab the headlines, it wasn’t Sedo’s top sale this past week. Brax.com topped the charts at $80,000. Other notable .com domain sales include ... read more ...
 
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NameMedia Sells over $800,000 in Domain Names Last Week - NameMedia has stronger-than-usual sales week. NameMedia continues to show its sales prowess, turning in over $800,000 in sales over the past week. This is especially impressive when you consider that the sales chart isn’t top heavy — the top sale was $15,000. NameMedia sells domain names through BuyDomains and Afternic. Here are the company’s stats for the past week: .Com sales: $719,743 .Com domains sold: 435 Median .com sale price: $1,210 Non-.com sales: ... read more ...
Thu 20th August 2009
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Epik Acquires DNKO Auction Platform, First Auction on Friday - Epik moves into auctions with acquisition of DNKO platform. Domain company Epik has acquired domain auction platform DNKO.com, and is launching its first auction as Epik tomorrow. Epik is Rob Monster’s new domain name venture that was launched around the time of Domain Roundtable. DNKO is a relatively new auction platform. The platform launched a couple months ago after being discovered on NamePros. Always interested in the domain auction space, Monster saw ... read more ...
Mon 17th August 2009
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BookHotels.com Domain Sells for 50,000 EUR - Hotel domain name top Sedo’s weekly sales list. Sedo cooled down a bit this week after a few weeks of blockbuster sales. But its sales are nothing to sneeze at. The top sale this week was BookHotels.com. The buyer, who paid 50,000 EUR for the domain, is using privacy protection to block whois for now. Coming in second place at $25,000 is GermProof.com, a domain that should come in handy as cold and flu season rolls in. The domain was bought by Amazon Thunder, ... read more ...
 
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Zeal.com Directory to be Reborn - Former Looksmart web directory gets new life. Domain name broker NameMedia has brokered the sale of the storied domain name Zeal.com for $50,000. Zeal.com was formerly a human-powered directory run by Looksmart. Looksmart purchased Zeal in 2000 for $20M. It was once seen as a potential rival to Open Directory. The domain was purchased by Kenneth Yeh, a former volunteer editor of Zeal. On a message on the Zeal.com domain, Yeh writes: I know that many of you Zealots ... read more ...
Wed 12th August 2009
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Rating Bido’s New Features - Domain auction platform Bido makes more changes. You have to hand it to Bido. They relentlessly brainstorm, create, and tweak features to make their platform better. About a month ago Bido starting allowing multiple auctions per day and allowed users to vote on domains for auction. This caused some problems. Namely, a lot of low quality domains are at auction and selling for less than registration fee. Those that do sell would have sold for more if they were the ... read more ...