Tag Archives: sales

Wed 4th March 2009
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Court Approves Toys.com Sale - Bankruptcy court approves landmark domain name sale. Judge Brendan Shannon of the United States Bankruptcy Court District of Delaware has approved Toys ‘R’ Us purchase of the toys.com domain name for $5.1M. The domain name was auctioned last Friday as a continuation of an auction held the first week of February. In the original auction Faculty Lounge Partners bought the domain for $1.25M. As part of the sale to Toys ‘R’ Us (bidding as Eagle, LLC), Faculty ... read more ...
Tue 3rd March 2009
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FlatRate.de Sells for $200,000 - German ccTLD tops sales list for the week. Yesterday on Twitter Sedo posted some of its completed sales for the week. One in particular caught my eye: FlatRate.de sold for EUR 160,000. That’s about $200,000 USD. The buyer is Active Touch Media + Marketing of Germany. Although that was the only completed six figure sale from Sedo last week, the company tallied an impressive line up of five figure sales across TLDs: .Com bruxelles.com 28,500 EUR ilicense.com 28,000 USD belgique.com 25,000 EUR raise.com 21,000 EUR sportissimo.com 20,000 USD loi.com 16,200 USD bnw.com 15,500 USD jex.com 10,599 USD herboriste.com 10,000 EUR delivery24.com 10,000 USD ccTLDs ggg.com.br 15,000 USD Other skincare.net 22,500 USD man.org 12,500 USD bbplanet.net 10,000 USD Sedo’s ... read more ...
 
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Claim.com Domain Name Sells for $80,000 - NameMedia sells Claim.com for $80,000. NameMedia, parent company of BuyDomains and Afternic, has completed the sale of Claim.com for $80,000. The buyer is unknown but appears to have used domain financing service Domain Capital to complete the transaction. Claim.com was just one of over 400 reported domain names NameMedia sold last week. Many of the domain names the company sells are subject to non-disclosure agreements, so the total sales numbers are much higher. ... read more ...
Mon 2nd March 2009
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Bido Needs to Improve Domain Quality — Fast - After $2 auction, platform needs to step up quality fast or users will lose interest. I love Bido. There. I said it. Bido is an imaginative auction platform. It’s the first truly social domain auction platform. Stop by the site during auction hour and you can join a discussion. Prior to bidding you can read what other people have said about the domain. It’s fun and engaging. There’s just one problem: the domains up for auction stink. And I’m not the ... read more ...
Fri 27th February 2009
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More Domains Sell in Aftermarket.com Extended Auction - Auction ends today at 4 PM CST. It ain’t over until the fat lady sings. Aftermarket.com’s Domainer Mardi Gras auction is still going, and some of the domains that didn’t sell during the live auction last Saturday are getting bids. That includes Credenzas.com, at $13,500, and GolfSets.com at $4,500. The extended auction also includes new domains that weren’t in the original auction and have no reserve. These include Engrossing.com, HealthyMenu.com, PhotoPapers.com, ... read more ...
 
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Toys ‘R’ Us Buys Toys.com Domain Name for $5.1M - Reauction of Toys.com goes for $5.1M. It’s not over yet (subject to court approval), but it looks like Toys ‘R’ Us will be purchasing the Toys.com domain name for $5.1M. The company outbid National A-1 Advertising in an auction that was live blogged on DirectNavigation.com. (DirectNavigation.com is written by Larry Fischer, who attended the teleconference auction in his role with Faculty Lounge Partners.) The domain originally sold for $1.25M in an auction ... read more ...
Thu 26th February 2009
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Toys ‘R’ Us, Frank Schilling Among Bidders to Pay $1.35M or More for Toys.com - 6 companies to bid in Friday’s Toys.com auction. In a review of qualified bid documents, Domain Name Wire has discovered some familiar faces in Friday’s auction of Toys.com: Frank Schilling, National A-1 Advertising, and Toys ‘R’ Us to name a few. It’s clear that the press coverage of the original auction brought more bidders out of the woodwork. Most of the bidders submitted an initial bid of $1.35M, as I predicted. But it’s clear the auction will ... read more ...
Wed 25th February 2009
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Forums.com Sells for $400,000 - A look back at last week’s top sales on Sedo and SnapNames. Domain Name Wire will now publish newsworthy information about sales from SnapNames in addition to its coverage of Sedo sales. But before discussing expired domain sales, there is a big .com sale to report from Sedo: Forums.com has sold for $399,990. The seller was DNForum owner and GoDaddy VP Adam Dicker. Other noteworthy sales at Sedo from the past week include: primus.com 33,000 USD enterprisegroup.com 17,500 USD delamaison.com 15,000 USD tai.com 13,000 EUR parisfrance.com 12,100 EUR cheetahs.com ... read more ...
Mon 23rd February 2009
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Bido Sells FixedLoans.com for $5,459 - Famed domain name sells for $5,459. The domain name that brought down Bido.com — FixedLoans.com — has helped the auction service get back on the radar. Just moments ago the domain name sold for $5,459. FixedLoans.com attracted a lot of attention in August of last year, and the auction eventually caused Bido’s servers to crash. The company decided to take some time off to make the platform more scalable. In previous auctions bidding topped $5,000 before crashing. ... read more ...
Sun 22nd February 2009
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Domain Name Auction Picks Were 82% Accurate - My picks for the Aftermarket.com auction were right 82% of the time. I used a stunningly complex methodology to pick the winners in yesterday’s Aftermarket.com auction at Domainer Mardi Gras: I made a gut call on whether or not someone would bid on the name. Yep, that’s it. No complex algorithms. No looking up advertiser or traffic counts. Just making a call. I was right 82% of the time. I underestimated the number of domains that would sell. I predicted ... read more ...
Thu 19th February 2009
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Median End User Domain Name Sales Price $1200 - NameMedia provides data on the SMB end user market for domain names. Earlier this month I reported that the median sales price for domain names at Sedo last year was $500. I pointed out that this number represents a mix between end user sales and investor sales. If you’re looking for a better number for the small and medium business end user market, look no further. NameMedia, which focuses on the SMB end user market through BuyDomains and other market channels, ... read more ...
 
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Toys.com To Be Auctioned Feb 27 - Minimum bids, asset purchase agreement, and 10% deposit required by February 25. In the continuing saga of Toys.com, a new auction will be held February 27. The domain name was originally won at a bankruptcy auction earlier this month for $1.25M by Faculty Lounge Partners. However, another party indicated it may be willing to pay more for the domain name. Faculty Lounge, of which domain name lawyer Ari Goldberger is a partner, will be the stalking horse bidder ... read more ...
Wed 18th February 2009
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Toys.com Back On Auction; May Sell for Over $1.25M - Toys.com will be auctioned again; Faculty Lounge will be stalking horse bidder. Domain Name Wire has learned that the sale of Toys.com has been halted by the bankruptcy court and the domain name will be auctioned again. Faculty Lounge, the company that won the domain name at auction earlier this month, will be a stalking horse bidder in the auction. Eli Columbus, a shareholder in Winstead PC’s Business Restructuring/Bankruptcy Practice Group (which is not involved ... read more ...
Tue 17th February 2009
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Judge: DONE Ventures’ Domain Purchase is Done Deal - Bankruptcy judge approves sale of domain names to DONE! Ventures. Earlier today, U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge Brendan L. Shannon handed down an order affirming the sale of a number of eToys’ domain names to DONE! Ventures. The domains included in the $200,000 deal are: birthdays.com birthdays.net birthdays.org birthday.net ebirthdays.com e-birthdays.com e-birthdays.net happybirthdays.com eparties.com pinata.com The domain name whois records for these domains still ... read more ...
Thu 12th February 2009
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3 Companies That Still Want to Buy Your Domain Names - These three companies are still buying domain names in the down market. Domain buyers are fewer and further between in this down economy. But that doesn’t mean they don’t exist. Here are three companies that still want to buy your domain names. Oversee.net – parent company of Moniker, SnapNames, and DomainSponsor. Oversee.net is still buying domains and portfolios of domains. You shouldn’t expect to sell for what you would have two years ago, but the ... read more ...
 
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Toys R Us Confirms $2.15M eToys Acquisition - Company confirms what we already thought. It was fairly clear that Eagle, LLC was connected to Toys ‘R’ Us during the eToys bankruptcy auctions. Toys ‘R’ Us confirmed the suspicion today in an Associated Press article. The article says the purchase price was not disclosed. Domain Name Wire already reported the purchase price of $2.15 M. This included a number of domain names and customer lists. The acquisition is a big boost for Toys “R” Us, which ... read more ...
Wed 11th February 2009
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Is It Time to Suspend a Live Domain Name Auction? - Results from DOMAINfest beg the question. The advent of the live domain name auction has given the domain name industry a huge boost in both high dollar investor purchases and media attention. Two years ago in New York, Moniker’s live domain name auction topped $10 million in sales. Last month in Los Angeles, the live domain auction brought in only $800,000 over two nights selling 110 domain names. It wasn’t a big surprise given the economy and what’s going ... read more ...
Tue 10th February 2009
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Low Quality 3 Letter Domain Names Hit Hard Times - Recent sales at Sedo show scarcity is less important than potential use. Domain names aren’t like baseball cards. Just because something is scarce doesn’t mean it’s more valuable. This week’s completed sales of three letter domain names at Sedo show weakness in low quality three letter domain names: MWX.com $4,000 FGZ.com $4,000 VZJ.com $3,499 JQF.com $3,333 This parallels a fad in the domain market during 2008. Because all four character .com domain names ... read more ...
 
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22.com Sells for $100,000 - Domain auction ends with over 50 bids. A dozen bidders placed over 50 bids in an auction at Sedo for 22.com. The end result was a sale for $100,000. Bidding rocketed up to $99,000 with two days to go, and then stalled until the final bid was place today. In order to bid over $100,000, buyers most obtain Premium Plus Certification. The seller is Virtual Network SA of Switzerland. Hopefully we’ll know the identity of the buyer in a couple weeks. There’s another ... read more ...
Sat 7th February 2009
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IREIT/NameJet Proves Domains Are Liquid Assets - The sell of of IREIT domains continues over at NameJet.com this week. What’s lost in the story is the fact that this strategy by IREIT to sell their domains in this fashion, all starting at a $69 reserve is that domain names are in fact a Liquid investment. The debate has raged for quite a while are domains liquid assets, that is can they be sold and turned into cash quickly if they need to be. After watching IREIT domains selling on NameJet for decent prices the answer is YES. A good domain will ... read more ...
Fri 6th February 2009
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Goldberger on Toys.com Team, eToys.com Buyer Remains Mystery - Follow up to yesterday’s auction story. I spent several hours yesterday reading through bankruptcy documents before breaking the news about a major domain name auction in Delaware on February 4. Since then I’ve read more documents to try to piece together the major winners at the auction. The two high profile winners — Faculty Lounge Partners and Eagle, LLC probably won’t ring a bell with you. It appears they were set up to buy domains in the auction. There’s ... read more ...
Thu 5th February 2009
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Toys.com, Birthdays.com, Hobbies.com Sold during Auction - Millions of dollars in domains sold at auction. The biggest domain name auction of the year took place yesterday, but you probably haven’t heard about it. And Oversee.net, parent company of Moniker, was a bidder, not a seller. Yesterday at 10 am substantial assets from The Parent Company were scheduled to be auctioned off at the law offices of Pachulski Stang Ziehl Jones LLP. The Parent Company owns a number of online retailers including eToys. Among the domain ... read more ...
Wed 4th February 2009
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Dollars.com Sells for $388,000 - Domain name with a history sells for lots of “dollars”. Sedo has sold Dollars.com for EUR 302,500, which is about $388,000 USD at today’s exchange rates. An auction for the domain ended this morning, but the winning bidder is certified and is likely to complete the transaction. My understanding is the deal was put together by a Sedo broker. Dollars.com has somewhat of a history on the domain name aftermarket. The domain reportedly sold for $650,000 in 2007. ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Releases 2008 Domain Name Market Study - Sales volume up, average price down in 2008. Sedo has released its 2008 Secondary Domain Market Study (pdf), and it provides a wealth of information about the domain name aftermarket. The domain brokerage company sold over $77 million in domains in 2008, a slight increase of 8% over 2007. Although overall sales revenue was up, the company saw weakness in the fourth quarter. The company sold 9,727 domain names in Q2 (the peak for the year) and only 8,754 in Q4. ... read more ...
 
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Domain Auction Watch: DOMAINfest and Sedo - DOMAINfest silent auction ends Thursday; Sedo auctions heating up. The silent auction portion of the 2009 DOMAINfest Global auction ends Thursday at 3:15 PM EST. The auction includes thousands of low cost domain names, including 3,000 domain names with starting bids of $1,000 or less (and many at $300). Bidding is done through the SnapNames platform. To find the DOMAINfest auction domains, go to the SnapNames home page and click on “advanced search”. Then ... read more ...