Tag Archives: sales

Fri 30th January 2009
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Why a Live Domain Auction Bombed (and Why I’m Not Surprised) - Domain name auction pulls in under $700,000, but mid range domains continue to sell. Yesterday’s DOMAINfest Global live domain name auction wasn’t pretty. With under $700,000 in domains sold, it may have set a low point for a general Moniker live domain auction. The mood in the room was somber as domain after domain was passed. But the news wasn’t what was going on in the room, but what was going on outside the room. I ran into a couple people that usually ... read more ...
 
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Fly.com Appreciates 20% in 10 Years - Sale of $1.8 million not that great of a return. The big domain name news today is the sale of Fly.com for $1.8 million to Travelzoo (NASDAQ: TZOO). That’s a big number, especially in today’s economy. But it’s not a great return for the seller. It was almost 10 years ago that the domain name reportedly changed hands for $1.5 million. So in about 10 years the domain name appreciated less than 2% per year. Of course, 10 years ago the dot.com bubble was at ... read more ...
Tue 27th January 2009
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Top.com Tops $100,000 during Auction - Domain has met reserve and will sell for six figures. The domain name Top.com has met its reserve at Sedo and is currently at EUR 101,000 ($133,000 USD). 38 bids have been placed. The auction ends January 29 at 7 am EST. The auction should give a confidence boost to the domain industry heading into this week’s DOMAINfest live domain auctions. Although Top.com is the top auction (sorry, I couldn’t help myself) at Sedo right now, there are several other noteworthy ... read more ...
Thu 22nd January 2009
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Sedo Great Domains Domain Auction Ends Today - With just hours remaining, several good domain names have met their reserves. Sedo’s January Great Domains auction concludes at noon EST today. With just hours to go, several high quality domains have met their reserve prices and should go much higher in the final hours. I’m surprised to see that Fired.com had such a low reserve. The domain has met the reserve and is at $10,100. The owner had been asking much more, but there’s still time for the domain to ... read more ...
 
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FindaDate.com Finds a Buyer during $31,000 - Web site tops Great Domains auction. The web site FindaDate.com has sold for $31,000 in Sedo’s Great Domains domain name auction that ended earlier today. Here are other tentative sales results that I was able to collect: Starship.com – $22,500 – this seems like a lot of money for this domain. But it does have a Compete.com rank inside 500,000 as a parked domain. It currently shows ads for Star Wars items, but earlier this decade it was used by an education ... read more ...
Wed 21st January 2009
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Moniker To Make Listing Domains on SnapNames a Snap - Moniker customers will be able to list domains for sale on SnapNames from within their accounts. Domain Name Wire has learned that Moniker and SnapNames will introduce a new feature next week that makes listing domains on SnapNames easier. The feature will allow customers to list domains on SnapNames from within their Moniker accounts. This is a marked improvement over the current process, which requires filling out a lengthy spreadsheet. SnapNames is a good venue ... read more ...
Tue 20th January 2009
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360.org Sells for $25,500 - 360.org domain was purchased for only $2,000 a year ago. Sedo has completed the sale of 360.org for $25,500. The seller is likely to be familiar to people on DNForum, as active member “Acro” (Theo Develegas) flipped this domain for about a dozen times what he paid for it. On his blog Acro.net, he details the negotiation process and how he’s thankful he didn’t sell the domain earlier. He listed the domain with a $6,000 reserve at a TRAFFIC auction, but the ... read more ...
Thu 15th January 2009
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Sedo Great Domains Auction Looks Promising - January’s Great Domains auction hopes to match last month’s total. After selling over $500,000 last month, January’s Sedo Great Domains auction kicked off earlier today and runs through January 22. Already two low priced but notable domains have met their reserves: Forgive.com at $4,999 and gaps.com at $2,350 (the latter started with no reserve). There are two two character .com domains in the auction with reserves between $50,000 and $100,000. One is PZ.com, ... read more ...
Tue 13th January 2009
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Answers.Travel Sold For Over $3 Million? - In a press release today, travel411 says they acquired the domain Answers.Travel for a staggering, $3.3 Million dollars, in an all cash transaction, which closed in the third quarter of 2008. According to the release: “””””Answers.travel claims to have a network of over 20,000 travel help desks, concierge services, tour guides, and travel information desks in every major and smaller travel destination across the world. They seriously get all of your travel questions ... read more ...
 
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Dubai.info Sells for $35,000 - Dubai.info one of highest .info domain sales ever. Despite falling oil prices, Dubai is still booming. Apparently someone believes it’s booming enough to plunk down $35,000 for Dubai.info, making it one of the highest reported sales of .info ever. According to NameBio, this sale would be number 5 on the all time .info sales charts. The buyer appears to be Markus Sonermo, according to updated whois reports. (The name of the owner and his email address is the ... read more ...
Sun 11th January 2009
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Notable NameJet Domain Sales - Here are some notable sales from NameJet for this past week: Coto.com                   $5,100 LinkWorld.com           $3,300 Publicschools.org       $3,001 DiscountLuxury.com  $2,544 HobbyShow.com         $2,200 AntiAgingSpa.com      $2,190 AllProperties.com       $1,902 ColdAndFlu.com         $1,700 Marya.com                  $1,601 PriceKiller.com            $1,417 ThePavilion.com         $1,250 Google+Michael ... read more ...
Thu 8th January 2009
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Live Current Looks to Sell More Domains, Malaysia.com Whois Changes - Live Current Media seeking offers on more premium domain names; whois information for Malaysia.com changes. Live Current Media (OTCbb: LIVC.ob) is considering selling Yen.com, Body.com, Mouse.com, Keyboard.com and Leisure.com to raise much need cash, Domain Name Wire has learned. Any sale would “clearly depend upon receiving offers that meet our price expectations”, Chief Corporate Development Officer Mark Melville informed me via e-mail. In October the company ... read more ...
Tue 6th January 2009
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Domaining.com Sells ItalianRestaurants.com for $17,000 - Domain is first “big” sale at popular Domaining.com web site. About a month after launching its domain name marketplace, domain news aggregator Domaining.com has sold ItalianRestaurants.com for $17,000. The site charges a listing fee and commission for all domain name sales, and the rates were recently reduced. Listing fees start at $5 for domains under $250 and go as high as $25 for domains priced over $2,500. This listing fee ensures sellers price domains ... read more ...
Sun 4th January 2009
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iMode.com Starts a New Years off Selling for $17K during SnapNames.com - While you were trying to get over your hangover on New Years Day, the domain iMode.com sold for $17,001. iMode.com was on our first list of top Snapnames domains. In a couple of other notable sales: Slade.com sold today at Snapnames.com for $6,258 Over at Namejet.com solarguide.com sold today for $3,200. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Tue 30th December 2008
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Know When To Hold & Know When To Fold - David Castello, pointed out to me today an update on a story we wrote about a back in October, about a Steven Thiele, a body builder, who registered a several domains of Indian tribes in Florida; miccosukeetribeofindians.com, miccosukeetribeofindiansofflorida.com and a domain named after tribe chairman Billy Cypress, billycypress.com. In the October story, we pointed out that the domain holder was offered and turned down $100,000, insisting he wanted $500,000 for the domains.  At the time we questioned ... read more ...
Mon 29th December 2008
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YP.Com Sold to Yellow Pages For $3,850,000 - According to SEC filing,  a public company Live Deal Inc. (NASDAQ:LIVE),  sold the domain YP.com, on November 5, 2008, to YellowPages.com LLC for $3,850,000. The domain, according to the company, was an active site and was the source of ongoing revenues from the sale of Internet Advertising Packages. The site current is branded as Yellow Pages.com The Seller is now using the domain LiveDeal.com No doubt a significant part of the purchase price was due to the revenue derived by the site, but still ... read more ...
Mon 22nd December 2008
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SolarEnergy.com Bought For $1.6 Million? - According to a press release today, Solar Energy Initiatives, Inc. (OTCBB:SNRY), in announcing its financial results for the quarter ending october 31, 2008, states: “”””In the first quarter of 2008, capital expenditures were approximately $1.6 million, the majority of which was related to the acquisition of business assets, primarily the solarenergy.com domain name.””” I have no heard or read about the sale of this domain, but it certainly reads as if this domain was ... read more ...
Fri 19th December 2008
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BuyDomains Turning on End of Year Sales Pressure - Now might be a good time to strike a deal with BuyDomains. If you’ve had your eye on a domain at BuyDomains, now might be a good time to negotiate a deal. Over the past two days I’ve received four messages from BuyDomains with subjects ranging from “Let’s negotiate a great deal during the final days of 2008!” to “Andrew, call to negotiate great deals in 2008!” It seems like BuyDomains is pushing to get its sales numbers up to close 2008, which means ... read more ...
Thu 11th December 2008
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This is Why People Squat On Domains: GeorgeWBushLibrary.com Sold Back For $35K - Yuma Solutions, the developer of the site GeorgeWBushLibrary.com, let the domain registration lapse and a a company in Raleigh NC, Illuminati Karate, picked up the domain off a drop list, registered it for $10 and sold to back to the developers for $35,000. George Huger, lead Web developer for Illuminati Karate is quoted as saying: “It worked out very well” Mark Mills, owner of Yuma Solutions, could not be reached for comment. The Tallahassee, Fla.-based Yuma Solutions has a history with the ... read more ...
Wed 3rd December 2008
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Bank Buys SC.com for $300,000 - Two character domain bought by end user. Sedo has completed the sale of SC.com for $300,000, and it appears the buyer is Standard Chartered Bank. Standard Chartered provides banking services mostly in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The Standard Chartered Group was formed in 1969 through a merger of two banks: The Standard Bank of British South Africa founded in 1863 and the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, founded in 1853. SC.com isn’t the only ... read more ...
Tue 2nd December 2008
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Sedo’s Numeric Domain Auction Picking Up Steam - With less than 48 hours to go, several names bid to $100,000. Sedo’s first ever numeric domain name auction ends on Thursday. Several domains have been bid to $100,000 or more, but none of them have hit their reserve. So far the biggest sale looks to be 94.com, which has met its reserve at $49,999. According to the domain sales listing, 94.com receives over 6,000 unique visitors per month. The top domain is 88.com at $325,000 with 4 bidders. However, the stated ... read more ...
Fri 21st November 2008
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2o.com was Fair Deal, Jury Still Out on .com.au Domains - A look back at comments about this week’s Aftermarket.com auction results. A couple people commented about the Aftermarket.com auction held this week in Australia, and they commented about how many of the sales were absolute steals. Two comments in particular I have seen on various forums and blogs are that the purchase of 2o.com at $8,500 was a steal, and that the .com.au domains sold at very low prices. The first comment is somewhat true, the second one can’t ... read more ...
Thu 20th November 2008
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New Aftermarket Launches with Odd Name and Business Model - No, TLDOffers.com won’t sell you top level domains. I’ve written before about new domain name aftermarkets and asked if there was room for anything to compete against the incumbents. Few people think it’s possible. Today I saw a press release for a new market called TLDoffers.com. The name threw me for a loop, especially after reading the home page of the web site: “A top level domain (TLD), sometimes referred to as a top level domain name or TLDN. Basically, ... read more ...
 
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A Tale of Two Auctions - Yesterday’s Aftermarket.com auction started out great. Then it flopped. I thought yesterday’s Aftermarket.com auction went great. And I still thought that well after the auction was over. Why? Because I didn’t watch the second half. I watched the first 25 or so auctions from my office, and then packed up and headed home. The first 25 lots went great. The sell through rate was high and the auctioneer was lively. The online interface was greatly improved ... read more ...
Wed 19th November 2008
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It’s Domain Name Auction Day - Two live domain name auctions kick off this evening. Two live domain name auctions that are part of the Traffic Down Under conference will take place this evening starting at 5:30 PM Eastern U.S. time. The first auction is organized by Aftermarket.com and starts at 5:30. I previewed that auction last week. Online bidding started early and already a number of domains have received multiple bids. Later this evening at 9:00 PM EST the RickLatona.com auction will take ... read more ...