Tag Archives: Sedo

Tue 2nd July 2013
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Sedo.com Transactions Total $1.19M In Led By One Of Ours BigBeauty.com For $22.5K - Sedo.com just released their domain transactions for the week 06/23/13 – 06/30/13 totalling $1.19M. The highest priced transaction was one of our domain names bigbeauty.com which sold for 22,500 followed by kortingen.nl for $16,000. In all, 814 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS. Over 40% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: · Top .coms: bigbeauty.com at 22,500 USD · Top ccTLD: kortingen.nl at 16,000 ... read more ...
Wed 26th June 2013
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Major League Baseball buys an “outstanding” domain name - MLB among companies buying domain names last week. Major League Baseball turned to Sedo last week to buy the domain Outstandings.com. I’m not sure what it plans to do with it, although it does award a lot of “outstanding” player awards. Details on that purchase (and other end user domain name purchases on Sedo) are below. Osa Family Clothing Co. Ltd. went global with OSA.com at $20,000. It had been using OSA.hk. Agni Travel Ltd in the UK bought BeachVillas.com ... read more ...
Tue 25th June 2013
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Sedo.com Transactions Total $1.57M Led By OffMarket.com For $41K - Sedo.com just released their domain transactions for the week 06/16/13 – 06/23/13 totaling $1.57M. The highest priced transaction was offmarket.com at $41,000 followed by meaning.com and OSA.com which sold  for $20,000 each. OffMarket.com was sold by Garry Chernoff. In all, 829 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS. Just under 35% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .coms: offmarket.com at ... read more ...
Mon 24th June 2013
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Sedo updates remoteness process due to Google changes - Privacy policy explains that it may release your personal information to Google. Sedo sent a notice to its parking customers today to inform them that it has updated its privacy policy. The company has added a line to its policy that states: It may be necessary to disclose your stored information, such as first and last name, company name, address, email and/or phone number, to relevant domain monetization advertising partners for the purpose of providing you such ... read more ...
Thu 20th June 2013
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What domains Hallmark, Swarovski, and Sapient bought final week - Sedo has big sales week for large end user buyers. This week’s end user report for Sedo sales it full of big name companies. In addition to those in the headline, you’ll see purchased by Philips, Genentech, Intel, and Fujifilm Australia. Chocolate seller 5th Avenue Chocolatiere bought ChocolateWorks.com for $19,000. Analytics company Blue Yonder bought Blue-Yonder.co.uk for 3,000 GBP. The non-hyphenated version belongs to Virgin Media. Geotraccking company GeoTrack ... read more ...
Tue 18th June 2013
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Sedo.com Weekly Transactions Total $1.2 Million/ $32.7 Million For The Year - Sedo just reported 743 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.2m. Sedo also reported that their “annual year-to-date sales revenue” was $32.7 Million however as we know the weekly Sedo reports include transaction they just act as escrow agents on and I’m not sure if this figure includes solely sales or includes all transaction. Just under 47% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings which I think is a new record for Sedo. Highlights of public ... read more ...
Wed 5th June 2013
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Microsoft buys ToDoApp.com and 16 other domain name sales - Microsoft and Magazines.com among end user buyers at Sedo last week. Is Microsoft about to release an organization app a la Evernote and Google’s Keep? It bought ToDoApp.com last week on Sedo. Here are details on that sale and many other end user sales. Financing First Limited in the United Kingdom bought DentalFinance.co.uk for 1,500 GBP. Vertical Media, which owns VMPublishing.com, bought VerticalMedia.com for $10,000. Upperdog Interactive AB, owner of upperdog.se, ... read more ...
Mon 3rd June 2013
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14 finish user domain sales from Sedo - End users including Taser snap up domain names. Last week’s Sedo end user sales report is late because I was at the TRAFFIC conference last week. Afternic skipped last week and is doubling up on its report this week, so expect a long Afternic report on Wednesday. IFN.com, the same company that previously bought LiveAgent.co.uk for 1,100 GBP, bought Communicate.co.uk for 10,000 GBP. UK insurance seller Neilson Financial Services bought InsuranceLine.co.uk for 1,250 ... read more ...
Wed 29th May 2013
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.19 Million Led By HumanPro.com & 30Seconds.com - Sedo.com just reported that 623 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1.19 Million Over 42% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .coms: humanpro.com at 19,000 EUR ·         Top ccTLD: fitnessstudio.de at 13,000 EUR ·         Top “other” TLD: santorinihotels.org at 4,310 USD Some other domains of note 30Seconds.com which used to be owned by Marchex and was most ... read more ...
 
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Sedo To Hold Auction Of Registry Owned .Info Domain Names - Sedo, announced today that it would be holding an auction of 100 registry owned “premium” .INFO domain names that will run from May 29 through June 4, 2013. All domain names in the auction will have reserve prices that start at $99 USD “The auction will bring more than 100 premium .INFO domains to market, including geographical names and strong keywords in German, English and French.” “Among the many domains available will be: UKEvents.info DirectMarketing.info Futbol.info Bier.info Wein.info Musique.info CostaBlanca.info Societe.info Malaga.info Schwaben.info Tenerife.info Google+Michael ... read more ...
Tue 28th May 2013
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Sedo pulling new TLD services - Company releases brochure and starts more heavily marketing its new TLD capabilities. Sedo is starting to more aggressively promote services to new top level domain applicants, including adding a couple ad banners targeting them on its home page. The company’s four page “Sedo New gTLD Services” brochure (pdf) highlights services the company provides prior to launch, during sunrise and landrush, and after a domain fully launches. Ahead of launch, Sedo will help ... read more ...
 
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Girl.me gets $30,000 bid during Sedo - An eye-popping price tag, but many .me domains have sold in this price range. The domain name Girl.me has a $30,000 offer at Sedo and has been sent to an auction. Although errant bids sometimes occur on Sedo, my guess is this is legit. In order to place a bid of $10,000 or more you need to submit a number of documents, including a bank statement or utility bill and a copy of a government issued photo ID. Besides, $30,000 for Girl.me isn’t an outlier. True, most ... read more ...
Fri 24th May 2013
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17 finish user domain name sales from Sedo final week - Some expensive spring chickens and a cruise company were among last week’s end user domain name buyers at Sedo. Here’s a selection of end user domain sales from Sedo last week: A UK company called Spring Chicken Direct Limited bought SpringChicken.co.uk for a whopping 12,000 GBP. Online game company Greentube Internet Entertainment bought Greentube.it for 1,500 GBP. Its website is greentube.com IFN.com, which offers a toll free forwarding business, bought LiveAgent.co.uk ... read more ...
Wed 22nd May 2013
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Sedo.com Weekly Domain Name Transactions Total $1.26 Million - Sedo just reported that over the past week, 799 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1.26m. All sales were led by 3dCity.com which sold for $29,500. Over 40% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: •         Top .com: 3dcity.com at 29,500 USD •         Top ccTLD: creditos.com.mx at 19,000 USD •         Top “other” TLD: mika.net at 3,888 EUR   <![CDATA[]]> Google+Michael ... read more ...
Mon 20th May 2013
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Sedo’s Great Domain Auction Ends Thursday; 345.com; mph.com, Telephones.com - Sedo.com Great Domain Auction for May ends this Thursday at Noon EST. As of time of publication, over 70 domain names in the auction have bids led by 345.com with a high bid of $25,000 (that is owned by the same company that publishes TheDomains) mph.com is the domain with the second highest bid at $24,999. Telephones.com is sitting at just $99 a long way from its reserve price but is a great domain. In all there are 6 LLL.com domain names, a two letter .tv and .nl domain and a really good .co.uk ... read more ...
 
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K.im domain name gets $20,000 bid during Sedo - One letter Isle of Man domain may sell for $20,000 at Sedo. The domain name K.im has a $20,000 offer at Sedo, and an “auction” for the domain name ends tomorrow. .IM is the country code top level domain for Isle of Man. According to DNSalePrice, a handful of .im domain names have sold over the years, with the top reported sale being Mobile.im for $7,000 back in 2008. If that’s the case, then this would be the largest public .im sale of all time. That assumes ... read more ...
Wed 15th May 2013
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15 finish user sales adult to $23,000 - iPark.com leads list of Sedo’s end user domain name sales last week. Sedo sold $1.15 million worth of domain names last week, including some good end user sales. There’s a lot of money in NYC parking. Imperial Parking Systems, which bills itself as one of New York City’s largest and oldest parking garage operators, bought iPark.com for $23,000. Perhaps it has something to do with this? PCloud LTD in Bulgaria paid 12,000 EUR for pcloud.com. Norway company Advantec ... read more ...
 
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Some rays of wish during Sedo? - While Sedo’s earnings continue on a downward path, some metrics point to improvements. In a lot of ways, Sedo Holding’s quarterly financial report (pdf) published yesterday was more of the same. The company saw its performance at Sedo weaken, while its affiliate business affilinet grew a bit. But there were also a couple positive metrics for Sedo. The number of domains listed on Sedo increased by 1.7 million and it also increased the number of parked domains on ... read more ...
Tue 14th May 2013
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Sedo Transactions Totoal $1.15M Led By iPark.com For $23K - Sedo just reported that 677 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1.15m for last week. Sales were led by iPark.com at $23K. A .travel domain made a rare appearance with the domain name NewYork.Travel selling for $5K Over 40% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .coms: ipark.com at 23,000 USD ·         Top ccTLD: nav.co at 6,000 USD ·         Top “other” TLD: newyork.travel ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Reports: Domain Revenue Down 14%; Domains For Sale Up Tp 16.6 M - Sedo Holding AG published its consolidated financial results for first three months 2013. Although total Revenue grew of 7.3% to EUR 36.9 million, “This growth was particularly driven by the Affiliate Marketing segment.” “The Domain Marketing segment was down 14.1% , to EUR 7.3 million compared with the previous year’s EUR 8.5 million of revenue.” “The Domain Marketing segment remained confronted by the challenges of a falling market and growing competition, by contrast, as well as new ... read more ...
Wed 8th May 2013
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Electronic Arts buys BF4.com for Battlefield 4 (and other finish user sales) - Electronic Arts among the big name buyers at Sedo last week. Sedo had some big sales last week, including Moms.com for $252,000. The whois record for Moms.com still shows Sedo, so we don’t yet know how bought the domain. Here are some of Sedo’s other end user sales last week. Electronic Arts bought BF4.com for $9,000, which is short for its Battlefield 4 game. Australian wedding site EasyWeddings.com.au bought EasyWeddings.co.uk for $1,250. Spy equipment site ... read more ...
Tue 7th May 2013
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Sedo Transactions Total $1.46 Million Led By Moms.com for $252,000 - Over the past week, 703 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1.46m. Over 45% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .coms: moms.com at 252,000 USD ·         Top ccTLD: fotograf.de at 89,250 EUR ·         Top “other” TLD: espresso.net at 9,999 USD   <![CDATA[]]>Domain name  Price  Currency .COMs moms.com  252,000   USD evora.com  94,000   USD juxin.com  66,666   ... read more ...
Fri 3rd May 2013
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1,700 .ng domains purebred given cost cut, .ng domain hacks on Sedo - 97% price drop leads to more .ng domain registrations and a growing number of Sedo listings. Yesterday I wrote about how Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA), the registry for .ng domain names, had slashed the price of second level .ng domain registrations by 97%. The new price is equivalent to about $95 USD; previously it was $3,165 per year. That has sparked a jump in registrations, even at a price that’s relatively high for a second level domain registration. The ... read more ...
Wed 1st May 2013
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20 finish user domain sales from Sedo - A list of 20 end user domain buys at Sedo last week. Perhaps the most recognizable end user buyer at Sedo last week was Korbel, maker of sparkling wine. But also take a look at click-to-call.com, which shows a whois address at Sedo’s office in Boston. BlueWave Communications in New York bought BWC.ch for 1,190 EUR. Advertising agency Sonnen Werbung Verlag bought Sonnen.ch for 1,000 EUR. UK company Lifetime Legal bought Executor.co.uk for 12,000 GBP. Herbs company ... read more ...
Thu 25th April 2013
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Sedo: 63% Unaware of New gTLD’s; 94% Not Planning On Purchasing One - Sedo.com published a New gTLD Research Report last month and I don’t see that anyone reported on it. The report was based on a survey of 600 small to medium business owners that took place in January The most important findings of the ‘gTLD Awareness Report’ are: 63% of small to mid-sized business owners are unaware that new gTLDs will be available in 2013 and many do not understand what the value of these new addresses will be. Over half of respondents feel that new gTLDs will make the internet ... read more ...