Tag Archives: sales

Tue 11th August 2009
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UPDATED: Our Picks From The Snap Adult Auction: Closes Today: Domains With Bids - The  Snapnames adult auction closes today at 3:15pm As of 1:30pm here are the domains with bids and the current price. To join the auction, or to watch it, just click on the link below: gay.info $5,500 (note this started at no reserve) orgasms.com $42,180 pleaser.com $12,270 showersex.com $6,020 concubine.com $1,230 (interesting the plural Concubines.com still has no bid) hymenreplacement.com $1,230 Stud.Net $1,230 SexPlaza.com $615 tittes.com $615 yourgirlfriends.com $325 We will be updating you ... read more ...
Mon 10th August 2009
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Payment.com and Payments.com Sell for Combined $400,000 - Sedo has another strong week; Brazil.com sale in the works. Sedo is on a roll with another strong domain name sales performance. Leading this week’s chart are Payment.com at $250,000 and Payments.com at $150,000, for a combined $400,000. The whois records for the domains still show Sedo’s transfer service, so the buyer isn’t known. Both domain names have had protected whois records for the past couple years. Although not on Sedo’s official list for the week, ... read more ...
 
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Yahoo Buys OMG.com Domain Name for $80,000 - Yahoo buys popular texting term. Yahoo (YHOO) has purchased the domain name OMG.com for $80,000. Domain Name Wire reported the sale last week on its weekly Sedo sales wrap, but we didn’t know the buyer at the time. OMG.com, which commonly stands for “Oh My God” in shorthand and texting, does not currently resolve to a web site. As readers point out in the comments below, Yahoo has a popular celebrity gossip web site at omg.yahoo.com. Yahoo is not only a ... read more ...
Fri 7th August 2009
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Zappos Paid $4.9 Millon for Clothes.com Domain Name - Zappos ponied up serious money for Clothes.com domain name last year. Now it’s Amazon.com’s toy. Online shoe retailer Zappos paid $4.9 million to acquire the domain name Clothes.com from IdeaLab last year, SEC records show: In May 2008, we acquired the Clothes.com internet domain name from Idealab. The domain name was recognized as a purchased intangible asset with a useful life of 20 years. The entire purchase price of $4.9 million was assigned to the price ... read more ...
Thu 6th August 2009
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Microsoft Buys Office.com Using a Different Tact - Microsoft uses Marksmen to acquire Office.com. Microsoft has acquired the domain name Office.com, but the software company appears to have taken a slightly different tact in acquiring it than it has in the past. As I wrote after Microsoft acquired CashPerks.com and CashBack.com, the company typically uses a broker to acquire domain names. This is smart; if the seller knows Microsoft wants the domain then the price goes up. But in previous acquisitions the acquirer ... read more ...
Tue 4th August 2009
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iGuide.com Domain Name Sells for $100,000 - NameMedia sells close to $1M in domain names in one week. Thanks in part to a “no reasonable offer will be refused” marketing push at BuyDomains and a six-figure domain name sale, NameMedia sold nearly $1 million worth of domain names over the past week. That’s double what the company usually sells each week. The top sale was iGuide.com, which was purchased by Baroda Ventures LLC of Beverly Hills. It forwards to OVguide.com, a web site about online video. ... read more ...
Mon 3rd August 2009
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Have Some Extra Cash? You Can Buy iLoveyou.com - The domain, iLoveyou.com is apparently for sale. If you have interest and some extra cash laying around you can grab it for the asking price of just $38 million. Yes its certainly a nice name and would be a great addition to any portifillio. How do I know the domain is for sale for $38 million? Just check out the site. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Server.com Sells for $770,000, Jesus.net for $124,000 - Domain brokerage Sedo turns in slew of major domain name sales this week. Sedo completed two six-figure domain name sales this week, including a monster sale of Server.com for $770,000. The domain name is showing a standard GoDaddy parked page right now, and was previously parked at Dotzup. According to Compete.com the domain name receives over 12,000 unique visitors per month. Sedo also turned in a spectacular .net domain name sale, selling Jesus.net for $124,337. ... read more ...
Tue 28th July 2009
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French Insurance Domain Names Sell for $87,000 - Pair of insurance domains top Sedo’s weekly sales list. Assurancevie.com and Assurance-vie.com, which means life insurance in French, have sold on Sedo for a combined price tag of $87,000. The domain broker also sold Texel.de this week for 39,500 EUR. But the big talk may be a smaller sale — BodyBuilding.info at $13,500. This is a very high price for a .info domain name. Another interesting sale this week is one of the quickest flips I’ve ever seen on the ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Makes a Push for a End User - At the Domain Roundtable conference in Washington, D.C. last month, I noticed a lot of new faces with the Sedo team. As I started talking to them, I realized what was going on. Sedo had hired a number of people experienced selling to businesses. The company was making a focused effort selling to end users, and was hiring the right people to do it. These new employees are not domain industry veterans; they’re B-2-B salespeople. As part of its push for end user ... read more ...
 
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NameMedia Sells $600k Domains, SkyHarbor.com for $35k - NameMedia has a sky-high week thanks to SkyHarbor.com. NameMedia, which operates BuyDomains.com and Afternic, sold over $600,000 in domain names over the past week. The standout sale was SkyHarbor.com at $35,000. SkyHarbor.com has yet to change hands, but a possible buyer is the Phoenix airport, called Sky Harbor. Other notable .com domain sales include: militarylawyers.com $7,500.00 trademarkets.com $6,400.00 adhelper.com $6,400.00 recipex.com $5,800.00 piketon.com ... read more ...
Sun 26th July 2009
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Live.cc Domain Name Posts $10,000 Bid during Sedo - Domain would be one of the most expensive .cc domain names ever sold. Long before .me, .tv, and .ws were commercialized, the big rage of country code domain names was .cc. .CC is the country code domain for the Cocos islands, an Australian territory. A bidder on Sedo has placed a bid at $10,000 for Live.cc, which may be the largest amount ever paid for a .cc domain, save for a publicity stunt in 2000. NameBio shows three other sales of .cc domains over $5,000: Poker.cc ... read more ...
Fri 24th July 2009
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No End Users? GetARoom.com Just Sold On Sedo, Goes To Hotels.com Founders - The DNJournal reported on the sale of the domain GetARoom.com for $30,000 on Sedo.com a couple of weeks ago. Today it appears that the domain GetARoom.com was purchased by the founders of Hotels.com and is going to be rolled out in a multimillion dollar ad campaign. The site is already up and running. Bob Diener and David Litman, founded Hotels.com sold it in 2003,  have been under a five-year non-compete clause, announced the launch of getaroom.com yesterday. “We could not have found a better ... read more ...
Wed 22nd July 2009
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Do The Right Thing: Latona Cancels This Week’s Auction - Latona makes two smart moves. I was a little surprised to receive a press release from Rick Latona Auctions this week about an upcoming online auction, scheduled to start July 23. What concerned me was that I hadn’t heard about the auction until just this week and Latona was still accepting submissions. That could be a recipe for disaster. But hey, it’s his show. Today Latona made two great moves in one: he canceled this week’s auction and announced a new ... read more ...
Tue 21st July 2009
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SnapNames Showcase Auction Ends Today - SnapNames auction ends today; more auction activity in the weeks ahead. SnapNames’ first “Showcase Auction”, a new monthly online domain name auction, ends today at about 12:15 PDT. Auctions that receive bids in the final minutes will be extended. At the time of writing, about 40% of domain names have met their reserves. DegreePrograms.com is leading the board at $8,914 with 8 bidders. WatchMeNow.com has one bidder at $3,300 in second place. There are a ... read more ...
Mon 20th July 2009
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TechCrunch Covers Candy.com: Our Take - TechCrunch.com covers the sale of the domain, and launch of the site  Candy.com, this morning. So first let me congratulate Rick getting this deal done and retaining a piece of the new business. Now to the article and the comments. The stupidest comment in the article itself by far is: “The $3 million question for them: how quickly, if at all, will they make up for the price it paid” Wow. Would TechCrunch ask that on reporting an investment in a start-up. No. In another post from today, TechCrunch ... read more ...
 
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Demand Media Buys Demand.com - Parent company of eNom enters into agreement to buy Demand.com domain name. The domain name Demand.com is in demand. Demand Media, parent company of eNom and NameJet, has entered into an agreement to purchase the domain name Demand.com for corporate branding purposes. The sale was announced today in a press release from the seller inter123 Corporation. The sale price was not released. Inter123 was founded by Jeffrey Peterson, an entrepreneur mostly known for launching ... read more ...
Sun 19th July 2009
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Live Current Completes Sale of Mouse.com, Keyboard.com - Company continues domain name liquidation. The whois information for Mouse.com and Keyboard.com have changed, with the administrative email now showing domain name broker Sedo. This confirms that Live Current Media (OTC: LIVC.ob) has completed a sale of the two domain names, as DotWeekly observed on July 17. Mouse.com sold for $125,000 and Keyboard.com sold for $100,000. Neither of these seem like spectacular domain names to me, as Keyboards.com would be preferred ... read more ...
Fri 17th July 2009
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DomainFest 2010 Dates Announced & Moving To Santa Monica - DomainSponsor, announced today DomainFest Global 2010 will be held at the luxurious Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica, CA. (you can watch as YouTube Video on the hotel here),  moving from its previous location in Hollywood CA. DomainFest 2010 will be held on January 26-28, 2010. To enhance the intimacy and networking at DomainFest Global, the entire hotel property has been reserved exclusively for this conference. Online registration will open August 15 with an Early Bird discounted registration ... read more ...
Tue 14th July 2009
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eGo.com Sells for $75,000, Hardware.de for $150,000 - Sedo has strong sales week. Sedo has brokered the sale of ego.com for $75,000. You may think that the buyer has a big ego, but it looks like the buyer has a different meaning in mind. Ego Friendly, LLC has a web site at the address for a motivational product called eGO. According to the web site, eGO was conceived by researching some of the neurological and psychological aspects of human behavior. We then interviewed people who achieved high levels of success ... read more ...
Mon 13th July 2009
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Correction & Clarification on SyFy.com: It Did Not Sell For $250K - Soundly Reasoned: I went into deep detail on the necessity and reason of filing for a trademark and when you don’t. I am not going to repeat it here, so you will have to look at the previous comments to get those details. But in a nutshell, filing a trademark with the government provides added protection and lessens your burden of proof of ownership in an infringement case, but it’s not required to prove ownership of a mark in an infringement case. If you took a story I published, and ... read more ...
 
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BostonHerald: Domains Are Free Advertising: Mattress.com Sold For $25 Million? - The Boston Herald published a very positive article this morning about domains highlighting the recent sale of Candy.com, and other category killer domains The article goes on to talk about Furniture.com which apparently sold for $1M in 2001, which I think has not been reported until now (maybe Ron Jackson can confirm this). “We bought the domain for $1 million,” said Carl Prindle, president and CEO of Blueport. “‘I think it’s worth significantly more than that now” The article also talks ... read more ...
 
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Pricing Domain Names during “Make Me Move” Prices - Most domain names are priced at “Make Me Move” prices. One of the features of automated real estate appraisal web site Zillow is the “Make Me Move” price. These prices are set by owners of homes that aren’t really interested in selling, but will make a move if you offer them substantially more than the home is worth. Most “Make Me Move” prices are very high, but there’s an understanding amongst buyers that these are mostly listed for fun. Many domain ... read more ...
Sun 12th July 2009
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Now We Know How Much NBC Paid For SyFy.com: $250K & The Story Behind It - ALAN: My last name is Hinman (hehe), and to be honest, did you know that I never heard the whole Polish thing before NBCU bought the trademark? No one ever brought that up to me, but that explains why we have a better following in Poland NOW than we did then I bet, lol! And yes, that word predates 1998, but remember, I am not talking about the actual creation of the word or any version of it. I’m talking about its specific usage as a variant spelling for “sci-fi.” CARTOONZ: I’m sorry, ... read more ...
Wed 8th July 2009
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Netbook.co.uk Domain Name Goes adult for Auction - Domain attracts 12,000 EUR bid. The domain name Netbook.co.uk is on auction at domain brokerage Sedo. It has one bidder at 12,000 EUR ($16,700) with 4 days remaining in the auction. Netbooks, or small and cheap laptop computers, are a hot sales item these days. Earlier today, Google announced it is creating a new operating system that will initially be designed for use on netbooks. Computer maker Psion had claimed trademark rights to the term netbook, but has ... read more ...