Tag Archives: sales

Thu 25th June 2015
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Sedo responds about Autism.rocks sale - Company explains why the customer ended up paying a marketplace commission rather than for escrow. Earlier this week Sedo announced that it handled a $100,000 transaction for Autism.rocks. It’s a big price for a domain under a new top level domain name. Both the buyer and seller are involved with advocacy for people with autism. It was made more interesting by the seller’s allegation that Sedo steered him to a full transaction at a 15% commission rather than just an escrow at 3%. You can read ... read more ...
 
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Auction for qiche.com domain name closes during $2 million + - An auction for “Car” in Mandarin Pinyin has closed for a staggering amount. An auction for qiche.com, which means “car” in Mandarin Pinyin, has closed for more than $2 million on Chinese domain trading platform eName. The auction closed just after 10 am EDT today with 485 bids and a final price of 12.85 million yaun. That’s equivalent to 2.07 million USD. There were 485 bids in the auction, and it was extended multiple times thanks to bids being placed within the final five minutes of ... read more ...
Wed 24th June 2015
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End user domain name sales including a new TLD for $100k - $100,000 Autism.rocks domain name sale rocks domain investing world. The number of domain names on my weekly Sedo End User sales lists are not always proportional to the number of domain names that sold in the week, nor proportional to the number of end user sales. Some weeks have a lot of domains likely sold to end users that are still in escrow. Other weeks, it’s hard to connect the dots directly between the buyer and the domain. This week is a case in point. Sedo handled 545 transactions, which ... read more ...
Tue 23rd June 2015
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Whoa: Autism.Rocks sells for $100,000 [Updated] - A shocking sale in a new top level domain name. The domain name Autism.Rocks has sold for a staggering $100,000. And there may be a good reason this domain name sold for so much. The new owner is listed as Sanjay Shah in Dubai. Shah started the charity Autism Rocks, which can be found online at AutismRocks.com. Shah’s young son has autism. Based on news reports, Shah has been a very successful trader. The seller is associated with another autism charity, We Rock for Autism. I talked to him today, ... read more ...
 
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Afilias wins auction for .Promo tip turn domain name - Domain name is second to sell through Innovative Auctions’ Top Level Auction service. Domain name registry Afilias has won rights to the top level domain name .Promo in an auction organized by Innovative Auctions. Phenomena Group Oy was the only applicant with ICANN for the .promo domain name, but the company decided it made more sense to sell the domain name to another party rather than run it itself. Innovative Auctions sold the domain name through its Top Level Auction offering, a service ... read more ...
 
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Symantec sells .Security and .Protection domains to XYZ - Symantec now left with two .brand domain names. Security software firm Symantec has sold its two non-brand top level domain names to XYZ, the company behind the .xyz top level domain name. XYZ says the .security domain name can be used for anything from private security to building security to internet security, with domains like ComputerSoftware.security and DowntownLosAngeles.Security. The company notes that a lot of security companies use the term protection in their brand names and slogans. Protection ... read more ...
Fri 19th June 2015
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Breaking: We.com Domain Name Sells during Sedo - Two letter .com domain names are pretty rare with only 676 of them, but two letter words are even more rare when it comes to domain names and We.com is one of them! It has just been SOLD according to whois records. The domain has went into transfer service at Sedo, so it either sold at Sedo or is using Sedo escrow. The domain name was owed by Alf Temme of North Hollywood, CA and has been owned since October 3, 2006. The domain We.com has just went into transfer service at Sedo.com so the buyers are ... read more ...
Thu 18th June 2015
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Another pointer of a 3 minute .com domain name boom… - Sedo Great Domains mailer shows only three letter .com domain names. DNJournal’s sales charts have been dominated by three letter domain names lately. The domain names are hot, and they’re very liquid. As an owner of a three letter .com, I get up to a half dozen emails on some days asking if it’s for sale. People have resorted to including a price in the subject line (most recently hitting $35,000). Domain marketplaces are trying to capitalize on this as well, and this ensures that DNJournal’s ... read more ...
Wed 17th June 2015
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After Selling For $750K In 2010, Ringtones.com Sells For $105K On Namejet.com - The domain name Ringtones.com just sold on Namejet.com for $105,000. The reserve price seemed to be $100,000. In all there were 218 bidders and the bidder with the  id easydomains won the domain name auction with a bid of $105K The domain name has an Estibot.com value of $909,000 Ringtones.com sold at Sedo back in 2010 for $750,000 although it’s not clear if the buyer of the domain name at $750,000 was the seller or if the domain sold a time or two since then. There were only 6 bidders of $20,000 ... read more ...
 
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How Whoosh Inc. Bought Whoosh.com from Directv - The following is an interview I did with Whoosh! Inc’s Jason Greenspan who I had noticed recent acquired the generic exact match .com domain name they have been attempting to acquire for the past 2.5 years. I tried to ask questions to give you insight into how, why and when. This is how it happened and a bit more about the company, its product and the domain names they own. When was Whoosh Inc. founded, what do you offer and what domain name did the company first launch with? Whoosh! was founded ... read more ...
 
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Mike Mann Sells Fun.co For $70,000 -

Mike Mann announced that his DomainMarket.com sole a domain Fun.co for $70,000

The domain name was “purchased a while back” according to Mike Mann.

This .co domain represents a 9th top .Co domain sale according to Estibot and a top domain sale by DomainMarket.com given Business.co that sole for $80K.

 

 

Via: thedomains.com

 
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Monsanto buys domain name for a new code (and other finish user purchases) - Monsanto buys a new brand name .com and a handful of new TLDs are snapped up by end users. Monsanto recently applied for a trademark on Trecepta, and this past week it bought the matching .com domain name for just $850. Even more peculiar, the domain name was registered last month. Did someone spot the trademark application and register the domain name? Was there some sort of threat that limited the purchase price to $850? The Monsanto purchase was just one of many end user sales at Sedo, which turned ... read more ...
Tue 16th June 2015
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Sedo Weekly Sales Come in Strong during $2.2million led by NKB.com - Over the past week Sedo saw 596 transactions take place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $2.2m. 51% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.   $2.2 million is a big week as last week was only $1million. Highlights of public sales are: Top .com: nkb.com at 31,000 USD Top ccTLD: tires.ae at 22,500 EUR Top “other” TLD: dami.net at 18,000 EUR New gTLD Sales for the week included: service.bike    5,000    EURx.lighting    3,999    USDmedien.haus    1,980   ... read more ...
Wed 10th June 2015
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Strong greenback provides domain name shopping opportunity - Currency fluctuations have a big impact on domain name negotiations. The U.S. dollar goes a lot further these days.If you keep your cash in the U.S. dollar, now might be a good time to by domain names from people outside of the U.S. It might also be worth revisiting failed purchases from the past year or two as your previous offer might now be more appealing.. The U.S. dollar has been very strong in the past year, rising 10%-22% against many major currencies. It’s up about 20% against the euro, ... read more ...
 
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16 finish user domain name sales adult to $50,000 - An end user (instead of a Chinese domain name investor) bought a three letter domain name last week. Sedo handled 560 transactions last week for total domain name sales of about $1 million. The biggest public sale was NBT.com, which was purchased by South Korean app maker NBT Partners. The company currently uses the ccTLD NBTPartners.co.uk. Some new top level domain names made the end user sales list as well. Here’s a list of end user domain name sales from last week: (You can view previous lists ... read more ...
Tue 9th June 2015
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MM.com Domain Sells After $1.2 Million Purchase - The domain name MM.com has been confirmed sold! The transaction took place last Wednesday, June 3, 2015 with the domain name being acquired by Jinxin Wang Luo of Fujian, China according to whois records. I did try and get a purchase price but the buyer did not wish to share the details publicly. Hangzhou Duomai E-Commerce Co.,Ltd, owners of the popular 4.cn website acquired the domain name MM.com in a $1.2 Million dollar purchase that was brokered by Sedo.com’s Dave Evanson as reported by DomainInvesting.com’s ... read more ...
Thu 4th June 2015
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Interview: Why Shaun Smith bought JiuJitsu.com - An interview with Shaun Smith, who just acquired JiuJitsu.com on a creative payment plan. Shaun Smith locked down the premium domain JiuJitsu.com for $75,000 about month ago…for much less than $75k. Here’s his story. First things first, what’s Jiu Jitsu? Martial arts pops into my head, but that’s all I know. Jiu Jitsu originated in Japan and migrated to Brazil in the early 19th century. Unlike, say, Karate, in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ) there is no striking. It’s primarily focused on joint ... read more ...
Wed 3rd June 2015
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Recent finish user domain name sales - A photographer, bicycle manufacturer and illustrator bought domain names last week. Sedo had 605 domain name transactions last week for a total of $1.1 million in sales. A number of the higher sales are still going through transfer, so some big end user sales might be missing from this list. .Club has a couple entries and there’s a good .me domain name, as well. Here’s a list of end user domain name sales from last week: (You can view previous lists like this here. If you’d like to learn how ... read more ...
 
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Name Jet Reports $355K In Sales For May 2015: Of Top 16 Sales 12 Were LLL.com or NNNN.com -

Namejet.com usually released a monthly news for May 2015 stating over $355,000 in domain name sales all of that are a outcome of domain auctions.

As usual, usually domain names that sole for $2,000 or some-more are enclosed and remuneration had to be perceived by a finish of May to be included

Out of a tip 19 spots 3 domains were LLL.com domains and 9 were NNNN.com domain names

Here is a list:

 

 

Via: thedomains.com

 
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Sedo touts Direct Auction successes - Top Direct Auction sale so far is $26,500. Sedo launched a new feature called Direct Auctions at the end of April, allowing anyone to start an auction for a $59 fee. 150 orders for Direct Auctions were placed on the first day. So, how is it going? Sedo has released a few highlighted auction results that were started with the Direct Auctions option: 8255.com $26,500 USD mexico.tv $9,000 USD blumenversand.com (flower delivery) €4,200 p-k.com $3,900 USD 434.net €3,452 These are good results. Of ... read more ...
Tue 2nd June 2015
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DomainAgents.com Launch Domain Market Place With Low Sliding Commission Rates & 10% BIN Rate -               DomainAgents.com just announced it has opened up it’s own marketplace with a sliding scale commission rates on negotiated sales, which I believe are the lowest in the industry and a 10% flat rate on Buy It Now Priced (BIN) domain names. “”There are 2 separate commission scales depending on the type of sale: Negotiated or Buy It Now. Negotiated sales (AKA Make an Offer) now have a sliding commission rate that the buyer pays: $10,000 USD Under = 10% $10,001 – $50,000 ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Weekly Sales Total $1.1million led by AoAo.com during $49,900 - 605 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.1m. 58% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.  Top Sales by Category: Top .com: aoao.com at 49,900 USD Top ccTLD: optimize.me at 8,000 USD Top “other” TLD: a5.net at 20,000 USD Always been a fan of LLTV names and it was nice to see LNTV.com sell for $30,000. Dot Club put up 3 new gtld sales all at $1,500, Canyon,Foto and Makers. ... read more ...
 
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Why do people try sell domain names on eBay? - Or do they have another purpose for listing domains for sale on eBay? Believe it or not, there are currently over 14,000 listings in the Domain Names section on eBay. That’s a lot of active listings for a site that most domain name investors never visit. Why is this? Are people actually making money selling domains on eBay, or do they use it for some other purpose (such as driving clicks to domain names)? Looking more closely, there are only about 1,000 active auction. The rest of the listings ... read more ...
Wed 27th May 2015
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15 finish user domain name purchases - An accessories company, law firm and trade publisher bought domain names last week. Sedo had 598 domain name transactions last week for a total of $1.1 million. Two likely end user sales aren’t on this list because they have whois privacy or are still in transfer: MyFood.com at $33,500 and FBet.com at €50,000. Neither domain name resolves to an active website yet, but we’ll probably find out who the buyers in the coming months. Below are 15 end user domain name sales at Sedo from the past week (You ... read more ...
Tue 26th May 2015
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Bought a Month Ago For $12K Fbet.com Leads Sedo's $1.1M Transactions during $50,000 Euros - Over the past week, 598 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.1 Million The domain selling for the highest amount is this week is Fbet.com which was purchased on Sedo just a little over a month ago for $10,099 and just sold again on Sedo for 50,000 Euro’s which is over $54,000 53% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. The Top ccTLD: cz.cc at 10,000 Euro’s The highest selling other TLD’s were  zb.org which sold for $10,099 and Joy.Eu that ... read more ...