Tag Archives: sales

Wed 28th May 2008
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Microsoft to Harness Generic Domain CashBack.com for Search - Software giant buys premium domain name for search efforts. The world was abuzz a couple weeks ago when Microsoft announced its new cashback search engine. Less reported was that Microsoft quietly purchased the domain name CashBack.com. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) purchased the domain name from Kansas City, Missouri company Creative Marketing Associates. Creative Marketing Associates owns a number of domain names, including the valuable GiftCard.com, as well as corresponding ... read more ...
Fri 23rd May 2008
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Moniker Domain Name Auction: GasPrices.com Sells for $225,000 - Auction results from Moniker auction at TRAFFIC. The live domain name auction in Orlando has started. About 75 people are in the room, and many more are watching and bidding on the internet. The auction started with .com domains, and then moved into other extensions such as .net and .info. Check back for frequent updates, although I will have to leave at 3:30 to catch a flight back to Austin. Below are the sales. GasPrices.com sells for $225,000 Susan.com $50,000 Grass.com ... read more ...
Wed 21st May 2008
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Second Day of TRAFFIC Conference Kicks Off - Initial domain auction goes well, second day kicks off. Last night more than 150 people packed the exhibit hall at TRAFFIC for a welcome cocktail party. The mood wasn’t quite as upbeat as previous conferences. There’s looming fear of attacks on the domain name industry and the downward pressure of domain parking revenue spoiling the mood. That said, the business is still strong and the low reserve/no reserve auction last night went well. 16 domains traded ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Introduces Authentication System - After many complaints about incomplete deals, company offers three-tier verification system. Sedo sells a lot of domains, but many of the domain sales on its site are never completed. A number of people — including readers of Domain Name Wire — have recommended that bidders be authenticated to cut down on bogus bidding. Today Sedo introduced a three tier system for verification. Here’s how it works: 1. Tier 1 lets you bid on any domain under $10,000. You ... read more ...
Thu 15th May 2008
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Should we Set Minimum Offer Prices on Sedo? - Should I set minimum offer prices or let people make any offer? I’m always excited when I get an email from domain aftermarket Sedo informing me that I’ve received an offer on a domain name. That excitement usually turns to disappointment when I click through to see that the offer is for a measly $60. Please, it’s not even worth my time transferring the domain. But this may be my fault. After all, you can set a “minimum offer” price on your domain listings. ... read more ...
Fri 9th May 2008
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Update: Selling Domain Names on eBay - Is it worth trying to sell domain names on eBay? An experiment with Headcase.com. Everyone knows that eBay’s domain name auctions are full of junk. I personally don’t spend any time looking for domains there. But recently there have been some high profile domain auctions on the site. There are also new tools to sift through the junky domains and find winners. I’ve decided to give eBay another shot, but this time as a seller. And with a good domain, not ... read more ...
Thu 8th May 2008
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Maybe $2.6 Million for Pizza.com Isn’t that Outrageous Afterall - Papa John’s has sold over $1 billion in pizza online. Perhaps the recent $2.6 million deal for Pizza.com isn’t as outlandish as I thought. Papa John’s pizza has sold over $1 billion in pizza online, the company just announced. $400 million of that came last year alone. It has spend $15 million developing its online ordering technology. What’s another $2.6 million? Just about every pizza chain with more than a half dozen restaurants allows online ordering, ... read more ...
Mon 5th May 2008
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Sedo Sells Co.nu, MyCanvas.com - Sales data from Sedo shows handful of five figure sales. A fresh batch of sales data from Sedo shows a number of quality domain sales for the week, including a couple .nu domains. .Nu is the country code domain name for the island state of Niue. Sedo sold Co.nu for $16,111 and Info.nu for $12,500. According to DNSalePrice, the highest ever reported .nu domain name sale was Casino.nu, which sold for $69,269 earlier this year. Other notable sales at Sedo include: bucket.com ... read more ...
 
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Afternic To Add Listing Verification, Feedback System - Domain aftermarket to add new features, time frame unclear. Domain name aftermarket Afternic is adding two new features. One I support 100%, the other one gives me a couple concerns. The first feature is a listing verification system. Domains will be verified for proper ownership when they’re listed. But the system will also periodically verify ownership while a listing is live. This is a great feature that will reduce the chances of “buying” a domain that ... read more ...
Fri 2nd May 2008
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When Will Pizza.com Dough Arrive? - Sale yet to close. Will it? [Update: Pizza.com has now sold.] People outside the domain world were surprised to see that Pizza.com sold for $2.6 million a few weeks ago. But those of us in the domain industry have been on edge ever since. We have one question: will the deal actually close? As of today there’s no news on the deal. The whois on Pizza.com has been a private registration for many years, although Chris Clark’s (the seller) name is no longer attached ... read more ...
Tue 29th April 2008
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Survey: Sedo “Most Innovative” Domain Aftermarket Company - Company selected as “Most Innovative” when it comes to selling domain names. 45% of those surveyed in Domain Name Wire’s third annual survey believe Sedo is the “Most Innovative” company in the domain aftermarket. This is the first year the question was asked on the survey. Sedo sold about $75 million worth of domain names last year, mostly through its online sites. It holds monthly “Great Domains” auctions featuring high quality domains and has over ... read more ...
Fri 25th April 2008
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Survey: Domain Owners Predict Increased Values - 75% of survey respondents see domain values increasing in 2008. Despite a rough economy, domain industry professionals are bullish on domain prices. 75% of those surveyed see aftermarket prices increasing in 2008 compared to 2007, and only 7% see values decreasing. The results are from Domain Name Wire’s third annual survey of 841 domain industry professionals. Why are domain owners still bullish despite a hurting domain parking industry? This week I was on Domain ... read more ...
Thu 24th April 2008
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Domain Deals - Here are 3 domains that are being offered with financing by the owner. We generally don’t do this but we know the owner personally. As far as I know this is exclusive to our site. SaintKittsAndNevis.com   $18,000   $300/month for 60 months TreatmentProgram.com  $3600      $100/month for 36 months TelevisionRepair.com      $6000      $100/month for 60 months If you have interest, in one or all of the three, just post below to claim it. The owner will place the domain at moniker.com ... read more ...
Wed 23rd April 2008
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Survey: Sedo Best Online Sales Venue - Sedo tops list of best online sales venues. For the second year in a row, Sedo has been selected as the best online sales venue for buying and selling domain names. In a survey of 841 domain name professionals, 51% selected Sedo as the top online sales venue. Last year Sedo was first but only grabbed 36% of the vote. The question on this year’s survey was slightly different from last year, as the question specified that it only pertained to online sales venues. ... read more ...
Mon 21st April 2008
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100 Three Letter .Mobi Domain Names Listed on eBay - A portfolio of three LLL.mobi domains is listed on eBay with no reserve. A portfolio of 100 three letter .mobi domain names is for sale on eBay with no reserve. The current price is $2,550 with 11 bids. It’s unclear who is selling the portfolio as all of the domains have whois privacy. The seller’s username is auction_hand. Is someone dumping a portfolio to get out of the .mobi market? I was tipped off to the sale on eBay by a reader Jason who wrote “It ... read more ...
Sun 20th April 2008
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Domain Roundtable Auction Preview for Monday, Apr 21. - Will this year’s Domain Roundtable auction beat last year’s sales tally? It will be an uphill battle. Domain Roundtable’s live domain name auction kicks off tomorrow at 11 a.m. PDT. Last year’s Domain Roundtable auction introduced a new wave of technology into live auctions by broadcasting live and accepting bids over the internet. It was also deemed successful with over $3 million in domains sold. (There were a couple hitches, however, including an auction ... read more ...
Thu 17th April 2008
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Live Current (Communicate.com) Signs $50 Million Cricket Deal - Company that owns Cricket.com signs deal with major cricket league. Live Current (OTCBB: CMNN.ob), an internet company that owns premium domain names such as Cricket.com, Boxing.com, Brazil.com, and Perfume.com, has inked a ten year $50 million deal with DLF Indian Premier League, a cricket organization. Live Current will become the exclusive online provider of content from the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and the DLF Indian Premier League. This ... read more ...
Fri 11th April 2008
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Money.co.uk sole for $2.4 Million - Accroding to published reports today the domain, Money.co.uk sold for $2.4 Million Dollars. This is a record price for a .co.uk or any country code. Just a month ago cruises.co.uk was sold for over 1 million. Congrats to the buyer and seller Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Tue 8th April 2008
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Back to a Future: iREIT Pricing Blunder - iREIT lets three letter domains go for under $1,000. Domain investors know the value of three character domains. These domain names are in limited supply and often represent acronyms of large organizations. Although poor ones sell for under $10,000, it’s not unusual to see them sell for six figures. Last month I wrote about how you can protect your three character domains from companies that want to steal them from you. But apparently I left off some other advice: ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Upgrades Support System - Sedo launches true online support system. Sedo is a big success in the domain industry especially for a company that exploded onto the scene earlier this decade. But one complaint I hear is that its support is non-existent. Although non-existent is a bit of a stretch, I certainly share in this frustration. The key problem as I see it is that it doesn’t (didn’t) have a centralized support system (at least that customers could see). You would send a support email ... read more ...
Thu 3rd April 2008
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DNJournal.com: 1st Quarter best ever for domain sales - Ron Jackson, who tracks all reported domain sales and publishes the results weekly in the DNJournal, published his anaylsis of domain sales in the 1st quarter and has some great news for the industry: “””””The first quarter of 2008 wound up being the best domain sales quarter reported since we started tracking the market back in the fall of 2003. A total of $38,029,543 in domain sales were reported in 1Q-2008, a spectacular 78% jump over the $21,253,105 reported in the first quarter of ... read more ...
Sun 30th March 2008
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Pizza.com Auction Eclipses $2.5 Million - Auction for pizza.com hits reserve, may be one of biggest domain name sales ever. An auction for Pizza.com is attracting attention at Sedo. The domain has 63 bids and a current price of $2,505,000 USD as of the time of writing. That’s a whole lotta pizza — about a quarter million medium pepperoni pizzas. Although bids are still subject to verification, this sale could enliven the entire domain name market. The auction ends on April 3. Other domains in the ... read more ...
Wed 19th March 2008
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Afternic to Open Auctions to Individual Domainers - Domain sales site to open up auction platform to individual domain owners. Afternic plans to open up its auction feature this year to allow individual domain owners to submit domains for auction, the company disclosed in an online web conference. Currently, Afternic’s auctions only include domains that have met their reserve. I imagine this will work somewhat like Sedo’s auctions, where you can list qualified domains with a specific closing time but retain a ... read more ...
Wed 12th March 2008
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FUND.COM SALE AT 10 MILLION CONFIRMED - When I read the press release yesterday, stating that fund.com was sold and now being used by a public company fund.com (otcbb: FNDM) for 10 million dollars cash I was suspicious. I reviewed some press releases from the company and saw that back on January 22, 2008, fund.com announced that they: “””changed its name to Fund.com Inc to reflect its newly acquired business in a reverse merger with privately held Fund.com Inc that was filed with the SEC on January 16th. In addition to the change ... read more ...
Fri 29th February 2008
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DataRecovery.com Sells for $1.7 Million - Sale to data recovery firm is biggest of the year. [Updated 9:49AM CST] ESS Data Recovery has purchased the domain name DataRecovery.com for $1.659 million, confirms company President Ben Carmitchel. The sale marks the biggest reported sale of the year and shows the promise of a targeted, generic domain name. The seller is competitor Associated Computers, Inc. of Minnesota. Carmitchel confirmed that the transfer took place on February 1, 2008. In a phone interview ... read more ...