Tag Archives: Sedo

Wed 30th October 2013
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21 some-more finish user domain name sales - Sedo sells domain names to a window company, a music school chain, and an office furniture maker. Sedo sold $1.3 million worth of domain names last week. Here are 21 that were to end users. YorkshireWindows.co.uk 2,399 GBP – UK window company Yorkshire Windows HomeWizard.co.uk 950 GBP – Home automation company HomeWizard B.V., which uses the domain name HomeWizard.nl AirCar.co.uk 750 GBP – Airlink Limited in the UK FWG.ch 700 EUR – Fredy Wiesner Gastronomie ... read more ...
Tue 29th October 2013
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Sedo.com Transactions Total $1.3 Million Led By Frank Schilling’s Sale Of Baristas.com For $45K - Over the past week, 705 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1,3m. This amounts to $56m in year-to-date sales revenue. Over 47% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. All sales were led by Baristas.com which sold for $45,000 through  SedoMLS that came through GoDaddy. The domain was sold by Frank Schilling’s Name Administration. Highlights of public sales include: · ·         Top ccTLD: xocial.co.uk at 14,900 USD ·         Top ... read more ...
Mon 28th October 2013
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Manwin Operator of YouPorn.com Renames Itself To MindGeek & Buys MindGeeks On Sedo For $3,500 - According to xBiz.com,  Manwin which operates some of the most visited adult websites in the world including YouPorn.com, RedTube.com, Pornhub.com and Tube8.com to name a few has been re-named to MindGeek. “Manwin.com now links to MindGeek.com, a site that calls the company an international information technology firm, specializing in highly trafficked websites.” The company which is said to use be one of the top five bandwidth consumption companies in the world, acquired the domain name of ... read more ...
Thu 24th October 2013
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What domain names T-mobile and 15 others bought final week - T-Mobile among domain buyers at Sedo last week. Here’s the latest end user sales report for Sedo sales. Notable buyers include T-mobile, and check out the price tag on CloudID.net. Secret.ly – $3,500 – A new start up called Whispr, LLC appears to be creating a sort of SnapChat for non-video messages. If you go to GoWhispr.com and wait a moment you can click a link that brings you to a page that says “Send beautiful, disappearing notes to your friends. Brighten ... read more ...
Tue 22nd October 2013
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Sedo to Auction Rare & Never Before Released .Asia Domain Names Including 1 & 2 Letter/Number Domains - Sedo.com announced today a strategic partnership with DotAsia, the organization charged with running the .Asia top-level domain (TLD) and RightOfTheDot.com, a leading domain industry consultancy, to auction a series of rare and never-before-released domain names. Through these auctions, approximately 1,300 one and two character domain names such as 8.asia, 28.asia, and X.asia will be offered to the public for the first time. For more information on the pending auctions, visit sedo.com/us/asia. The ... read more ...
Mon 21st October 2013
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Sedo Launches Site In Chinese: Sedo.cn - Sedo,  unveiled a new Chinese website today, according to  a press release we just received, “expanding its international reach to serve China’s 591 million Internet users and more than one billion Chinese speakers around the world”. “With the addition of a Chinese-language site, Sedo now offers a platform that powers domain related services and transactions in 7 languages, and support from a staff of domain professionals that speak 25 languages, further strengthening its position as the ... read more ...
Wed 16th October 2013
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15 finish user domain name sales - Sedo’s end user sales last week include a three letter .org that sold for $56,000. I’m trying a different format for this week’s end user domain name sales report. The format is domain / price / buyer. Let me know if you prefer this to the old format. FaceTravel.at – 2,500 EUR – German travel company Facetravel GmbH. USA.org – $56,000 – this one hits close to home. It’s an Austin marketing company called GasPedal, which is located about a mile from ... read more ...
Tue 15th October 2013
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Sedo.com Transactions Total $1MM Led By USA.org For $56K - Sedo.com just published their domain transactions for the week 10/7/13 – 10/13/13 totaling $1MM. Over the past week, 698 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1MM. This amounts to $53.1MM in year-to-date sales revenue. Over 45% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: - Top .coms: triglycerides.com and nineforums.com each at 25,000 USD - Top ccTLD: startup.tv at 8,750 USD - Top “other” TLD: USA.org at 56,000 ... read more ...
Wed 9th October 2013
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Got Milk? or Milk Life: Sedo finish user domain sales - End user domain name sales at Sedo last week. This week’s end user domain sales at Sedo include a purchase by ad firm Deutsch. Deutsch, which counts California Milk Processor Board (Got Milk?) as a client, bought MilkLife.com for $7,000. Deutsch is also GoDaddy’s ad firm. Here are other end user domain sales at Sedo from the past week: Cloud storage and document sharing company Box bought BoxNotes.com for 8,000 EUR. That’s a lot less than it paid for the Box.com ... read more ...
Tue 8th October 2013
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Sedo Transactions Total $970K - Sedo just published it weekly transactions report Over the past week, 615 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $970,000. This amounts to $52.1 Million in year-to-date sales revenue. Over 44% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .coms: chriskay.com at 22,000 EUR ·         Top ccTLD: cbs.de at 22,015 EUR ·         Top “other” TLD: epargne.net at 4,500 EUR   Here are ... read more ...
Thu 3rd October 2013
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What domains Getty Images, John Hancock, and others bought final week - Getty Images and John Hancock Insurance were among the end user domain buyers at Sedo last week. Sedo sold $1.4 million worth of domain names last week, including these sales to end users. pairNetworks bought yet another domain in the aftermarket. This time it was Pair.es for $2,000. Online backup service KeepItSafe, a j2 Global company, bought KeepItSafe.de for 800 EUR. It uses the .com version. A guy with the last name Siegmund bought Siegmund.com for $15,000. Swedish ... read more ...
Wed 2nd October 2013
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What domain names BMW and 19 others bought - BMW was among the end user buyers at Sedo recently. Some times when you schedule a post on WordPress it somehow doesn’t publish, giving an error “misses schedule”. That happened to one of my end user sales posts scheduled for September 20. I just realized it. So here’s a belated look at some of Sedo’s end user sales from September. Nutritional supplements company nu3 GmbH, which already owns nu3.com and nu3.de, bought nu3.co.uk for 1,400 GBP. Swiss architecture ... read more ...
 
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Sedo to go private as United Internet buys out co-founders - Sedo will no longer be a separate, publicly traded company. United Internet AG has raised its stake in Sedo Holding to 96.05% after buying out the co-founders’ shares at a price of 2.60 euros per share. United Internet plans to integrate Sedo Holding’s affiliate and domain business into its overall business. The company will initiate a “squeeze-out process” at Sedo over the coming weeks. Tim Schumacher, one of the founders of Sedo, released this statement: This ... read more ...
Tue 1st October 2013
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.4 Million; Moneta.com For $150K; LT.org For $26K - Over the past week, 746 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.4 Million This amounts to $51.2 Million in year-to-date sales revenue. Over 45% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .coms: moneta.com at 150,000 USD ·         Top ccTLD: gta-worldmods.de at 15,000 EUR ·         Top “other” TLD: lt.org at 26,000 USD Sedo Congratulates  to the buyer and seller of Moneta.com ... read more ...
Mon 30th September 2013
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Moneta.com Sells On Sedo.com For $150,000 - The domain name Moneta.com just sold on Sedo.com for $150,000. The domain was owned by  Hanse Orga AG of Hamburg Germany. The domain has an original registration date of June 1996 The domain is now under privacy at Register.com. In Roman mythology, Moneta was a title given to two separate goddesses: the goddess of memory  and an epithet of Juno, called Juno Moneta More currently it seems to be the name of a popular band out of Seattle, and There are also a lot of suggested terms for Moneta on Google ... read more ...
 
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Sedo.com New gTLD Study Says 59% Said They Would Consider Using a Domain Other Than .Com - Sedo.com today announced the results of research study of whether those that work in the advertising and marketing industry (or their clients) are aware of the pending launch of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) in 2013,  and whether they plan to take advantage of these new web addresses. I was at on Friday at a presentation by Sedo.com, on the subject and these are some of the results in the press release today. I’m going to point out some more results from the study that weren’t part of ... read more ...
 
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Domain parking association named to bad hosts list, but… - Sedo listed as top for phishing sites, which doesn’t make a lot of sense. HostExploit has released its latest World Hosts Report (which has been renamed from its previous moniker “Bad Hosts”). Domain name parking company Sedo shows up ranked #2 for phishing sites. Now, you may be scratching your head and asking “how does a domain parking service get nailed for phishing?”. It’s most likely due to old data. Parking companies get ensnared in this report because ... read more ...
Fri 27th September 2013
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Non-Brokered MLS & BIN Sales Aren’t All Low Priced Sales; Here Are The Top 10 Highest Sedo MLS Sales - I was under the mistaken perception that those MLS sales and BIN sales we see every week reported in the marketplaces are all low dollar sales. However I just got some information from Sedo that shows some domain sold through the  MLS channel, even domain sold with BIN priced domains are fetching some excellent prices. MLS is the registrar distribution product of Sedo and one in which in which automated offers and counter offers are handled all online without the need  or participation of a live ... read more ...
Thu 26th September 2013
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15 finish user domain name sales from Sedo - An organic food company, bowling alley, and baby photo site bought domain names via Sedo last week. Sedo sold $1.4M worth of domain names last week. Here are fifteen domain name sales to end users. BabyVote Limited, which holds baby picture contests at BabyVote.co.uk, bought BabyVote.com for $2,550. Secretary Plus Management Support in Brussels bought AssistantPlus.com for $2,095. A company called ThunderCloud UK bought ThunderCloud.co.uk for 1,550 GBP. Conservatoire ... read more ...
Sat 21st September 2013
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Sedo completes the second many costly domain name transaction ever - Sedo completes domain transaction in “mid seven figures”. Sedo sent out a press release about its sales yesterday, as sort of a “don’t forget we sell more dollars worth of domains than Afternic” reminder in the wake of GoDaddy’s acquisition. About midway through the press release, which pointed out that it grabbed 9 of the top 10 spots on DNJournal’s list this week, the company mentioned: In addition to the sales publicly announced in DN Journal, Sedo ... read more ...
Wed 18th September 2013
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With A Day To Go Sedo .Info Auction Has Less Than $2K In Bids - With just one day to go, the Sedo Premium .info Auction has less than $2,000 in total bids, and only one domain name streets.info has met its reserve price. Not great buy any measure. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.14 Million - Over the past week, 679 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.14m. This amounts to $48.4m in year-to-date sales revenue. Over 45% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. “Congratulations to the buyer and seller of intranet.com for $160,000: The domain was brokered by Sedo’s broker Dave Evanson and is the highest sale in this sales list. ” Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .coms: intranet.com at 160,000 USD ·         ... read more ...
Mon 16th September 2013
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Intranet.com domain name sells for $160,000 - Dave Evanson brokers sale of Intranet.com to unknown buyer. Sedo has brokered the sale of domain name Intranet.com for $160,000. Sedo broker Dave Evanson announced the news on Twitter this morning: The domain was registered way back in 1992. For a long time it was owned by IntraNet Worldwide, Inc, which has been part of payments company ACI Worldwide since 1998. More recently, the whois record has been protected by a whois privacy service and the domain has resolved ... read more ...
Wed 11th September 2013
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ccTLD owners supplement .com in this week’s Sedo finish user sales list - Country code domain name owners buy the matching .com on this week’s Sedo end user sales list. A good number of end user domain purchases at Sedo and Afternic each week are made by companies that own the same second level domain under a different top level domain. That’s particularly the case with ccTLD owners. This week’s list has a few examples. On the flip side, it also includes examples of companies that own a .com buying a matching ccTLD. MobileHelp.com, ... read more ...
Tue 10th September 2013
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Sedo Transactions Total $930K Led By URFA.com For $30K - Over the past week, 639 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $930,000. This amounts to $47,3m in year-to-date sales revenue. Over 46% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Sedo wants to congratulate the buyer of urfa.com: Urfa is a city in the south-east of Turkey with a long ancient history. It is close to the Euphrates River and the Syrian border. Currently the website is announcing that a newscast project about the city and region is on its way. Highlights ... read more ...