Tag Archives: Sedo

Tue 6th November 2012
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Sedo.com Transactions Total $1.95 Million - Sedo.com just released its weekly report. In all 861 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1.95 million. Over 40% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: ·         Top .com: jane.com at 60,000 USD ·         Top ccTLD: kousen.nl at 9,000 EUR ·         Top “other” TLD: divorce.info at 10,250 USD   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Mon 5th November 2012
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Sedo 3Q Report: Market Slows To $15.1M In Sales; Less Transactions; 46% All Sales Under $500; 40% $500-$2,500 - Sedo.com released its Market Report for the 3rd Quarter ending September 30, 2012 (pdf), this morning and reported its slowest quarter in terms of the number of transaction for domain names in 2012 and including the 4th quarter of 2011. Here are the highlights of the report: The third quarter of the year accounted for a total of 8,181 transactions In the 2nd Q of 2012 there were 9,049  transactions in the 1st Q of 2012 there were 10,133 transactions and going be to the 4th Q of 2011 there were 8,915 ... read more ...
 
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Sedo’s Q3 sales down 22% compared to final year - Another slow quarter, but a rebound might be in sight. Sedo’s domain name sales continue to fall short of last year. Today the company released its Q3 domain market study, showing sales of $15,147,216 in the quarter ended this September. Last year in the same quarter the company turned in $19,303,083 in sales, so sales this year in Q3 were 22% lower. Its sales performance in Q2 this year showed a similar 29% drop compared to the same quarter in 2011. However, Q2 ... read more ...
Wed 31st October 2012
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Two thoughts on $500,000 webhosting.co.uk sale - A mammoth ccTLD sale. Yesterday Sedo domain broker Dave Evanson announced that he had brokered the sale of webhosting.co.uk for $500,000. The buyer, Pawel Ciszewski, doesn’t appear to be new to the webhosting comparison site business. His LinkedIn profile links to a similar site FindMyHosting.com. So Cisznewski knows what he’s doing; he knows what the traffic to the domain and the keyword domain can do. I have two thoughts on this sale. First, congrats to Dave ... read more ...
 
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Sedo .uk auction ends tomorrow - Auction timing is a mixed bag. Sedo’s .uk domain name auction featuring 30 .co.uk and .org.uk domain names ends tomorrow. So far three of the thirty domains have received bids and met their reserves. The top domain is moviedatabase.co.uk at 210 GBP. I spot checked five domains and they were all owned by Sedo subsidiary DomCollect, so this appears to be a house auction. On one hand, the timing for the end of this auction couldn’t be better. The company announced ... read more ...
 
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33 finish user domain sales: TrendMicro, Tufts, Shutterstock, and more - Big companies, small companies, and universities make domain purchases. A broad mix of end users made domain purchases this past week. Afternic The proprietor behind the BetterBaseball.com baseball equipment site expanded with BetterVolleyball.com for $1,250. Home decor company Rowley Company paid $1.888 for InternationalHomeDecor.com. The company behind LocalEats.com, a directory of local (presumably independent) restaurants bought TryLocalFirst.com for $1,000. I ... read more ...
Wed 24th October 2012
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Domain sale roundup: Bankruptcy auction, .xxx, GreatDomains, and SnapNames - Some interesting domain offerings and auctions are on tap over the next 30 days. I’ve received a number of recent announcements regarding domains sales and auctions, and some of them are rather interesting. First, there’s a bankruptcy auction for two portfolios of domain names. One is of 3,000 premium domain names and the other a portfolio of 150,000 domains. There is significant traffic in this portfolio. The auction is result of a long and intriguing battle. ... read more ...
Thu 18th October 2012
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Sedo’s Jeremiah Johnston gets curtsy for SXSW - Johnston to give the lone domain name related talk at SXSW. This week SXSW announced the panels and talks that made the cut for its 2013 conference in Austin. Sedo’s Jeremiah Johnston has been selected two years in a row to give a talk about new top level domains. Johnston will give a “Future15″ talk titled “New Domains Have Landed – Now What!?“. Of course, new TLDs won’t have exactly landed by the time he gives his talk in March. But they will be imminent. Next ... read more ...
Wed 17th October 2012
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20 some-more finish user domain sales - 20 more end user domain sales to report. It’s bonus week for Domain Name Wire readers…two end user sales reports in one week! OK, maybe it’s not that exciting. But there are a couple big names on this week’s list, including Starwood (not it’s first trip to the aftermarket) and The Guardian. Afternic Atlantic Central Bankers Bank bought ACBB.com for $4,999. Its web site is Atlantic Central. Starwood Hotels Resort bought AlohaGuide.com for $2,688. Idealshape, ... read more ...
Mon 8th October 2012
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Afternic scores outrageous domain sales partner with Endurance - Endurance joins Afternic domain sales network. Afternic officially announced today that Endurance International Group has joined the company’s AfternicDLS program. That means customers of Endurance’s various businesses will now see AfternicDLS domain inventory when they search for domains. They’ll also be able to list their domains in Afternic’s system. Endurance is one of the biggest shared hosting and domain registration companies in the world, but it’s ... read more ...
Thu 27th September 2012
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Sedo boosts domain auctions with “Last Call” - New auction option will increase activity in Sedo’s auctions. Sedo announced a new auction option this morning called “Last Chance Auctions”. The more I learn about it, the more I like the idea. Last Chance Auctions allow Sedo users to start a domain auction at a reserve of 99 USD/GBP/EUR. This is a good way for customers to get added exposure for domains they perhaps want to cull out of their portfolio. Currently, you must be a SedoPro customer to list domains ... read more ...
Wed 26th September 2012
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Sedo expands placement partnership with Go Daddy - “Make Offer” domains now distributed to Go Daddy through SedoMLS. Sedo announced today that it has expanded its distribution partnership with Go Daddy to include “make offer” domain names. In January Go Daddy joined the SedoMLS network. That meant that fixed priced domains at Sedo that were opted into SedoMLS would show up in the registration path at GoDaddy.com. Go Daddy customers could purchase the domains by following a link to Go Daddy Auctions. The expanded ... read more ...
Tue 25th September 2012
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Sedo GreatDomains auction ends Thursday. Here’s a look. - 17 domains have already met their reserves with a couple days to go. Sedo’s monthly GreatDomains auction ends Thursday. So far 17 of the 217 domain names have met their reserves. The highest domain name to have met its reserve is PTZ.com at $5,000. Another three letter .com attracting attention is OAL.com at $14,000, although its reserve of up to $25,000 hasn’t been met. Leah.com leads the list with a $26,000 bid but that’s below the reserve as well. The auction ... read more ...
Thu 20th September 2012
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Sedo changes domain inventory routine and adds “Big Data Pricer” - New process includes “Big Data Pricer”. Sedo has updated the process of listing domain names for sale with the service. There’s a pretty slick wizard that walks you through the process. The new process includes the company’s “Big Data Pricer”, which provides price suggestions for your domain names based on the same methodology used for theIDNX. You can choose to accept the price as a listing price if you want. The suggested prices calculate fairly quickly. The ... read more ...
Wed 19th September 2012
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What domains a Kickstarter success, Christie’s and University of Oklahoma bought this week - Company that raised $70k on Kickstart buys its company domain name. This week’s end user domain name sales report includes some big names. Auction house Christie’s bought an Andy Warhol domain name, University of Oklahoma bought a four letter acronym, and a Kickstart success story bought its company domain name. Afternic Auction house Christie’s bought WarholArt.com for $6,457. It is selling some of Warhol’s works. MasterGuides.com was purchased by someone ... read more ...
Wed 5th September 2012
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AOL bought a new code for $3,300 and AFL-CIO PAC buys a debate domain name - End user sales report includes some big names. This week’s end user domain name sales report includes a purchase by AOL that’s likely for a new site and the Workers Voices PAC picking up a domain name for the upcoming campaign. Afternic The Hangout, a restaurant in Gulf Shores, Alabama, bought TheGulf.com for $4,479. The owner of EdHelper.com bought EduHelper.com for $$21,288 and ExHelper.com (a typo) for $1,245. The EdHelper.com sale must have been through Afternic’s ... read more ...
Wed 29th August 2012
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19 intelligent finish user domain buys from a past week - From governments to app developers, here are 19 end users that bought domain names over the past week. I’ve nineteen end user sales on the list this week. Enjoy. Afternic Direct response marketing company Ontel Products Corporation bought SoundSleepers.com for $2,088. I don’t see the product on its products page, so maybe it’s a new one. Another business I never thought of: Bar Codes Talk, which lets you create bar codes for your products and instantly print ... read more ...
Wed 22nd August 2012
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.TV and .Me among dual dozen finish user domain sales this week - .tv, .me, and a slurl. This week a .tv and a .me domain were amongst the best end user domain name sales. But before we get into this week’s normal end user sales report, I want to call out a Slurl. Divorce Detox bought the domain name divorcetherapist.com for $995 at Sedo. Now, maybe it’s because of all the media attention to “legitimate rape” this week, but the first thing I read was “Divorce the Rapist dot com”. Therapist is a common slurl word, but ... read more ...
Mon 20th August 2012
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How browser changes are creation a hole in approach navigation traffic - Browser features change the way people navigate the web. Last week I wrote about how Sedo’s domain name parking business continues to struggle. The company cites a few reasons for the decline, including “advances made in browser technologies, which alters the circumstances surrounding monetization in the parking business”. There’s no doubt that browsers are blurring the lines between typing in a domain name and a search. What that means for type-in traffic ... read more ...
 
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30 finish user domain sales including Microsoft and America’s Cup - Domain Name Wire’s end user domain sales report. It’s difficult to compile the end user sales report while traveling. It requires bulk whois lookups, yet many registrars rate limit how many whois searches you can run within a time period. When I’m in the office I have a whitelisted IP for lookups at the largest registrar. But when I’m out of the office a lot of whois searches are blocked. Why does this matter to you? Well, I’ve been out of the office for ... read more ...
Mon 13th August 2012
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Six months in, Tobias Flaitz on a domain name industry - Sedo’s new CEO opines on opportunity in the domain name industry. Editor’s note: Tobias Flaitz has been CEO of Sedo for about six months now. I recently reached out to him to get his thoughts on opportunities in the domain name industry, both for his company and the industry as a whole. Six months into my new role as CEO of Sedo, I’ve had the great opportunity to get to know my colleagues and many of our partners and to get diverse and big-picture insight into ... read more ...
Wed 1st August 2012
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End user sales news and a warning to TED - End user domain purchases from the past week. Before we jump in with this week’s end user sales report, I have a warning for the famous TED conferences: be careful with your new domain. TED bought xNetwork.org for $1,788. I’m not sure what it plans to use it for, but it should think twice before using this domain. The problem is that xNetwork.com is owned by an adult entertainment company offering “free legal images” for webmasters. Although the site’s homepage ... read more ...
Mon 30th July 2012
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Sedo sales down 29% in Q2 compared to final year - Overall sales numbers down but trend toward fixed priced domains continues. Sedo’s domain sales in the second quarter were down significantly on a year-over-year basis, the company disclosed today in its quarterly report (pdf). Domain name transactions totaled $17,415,345 in the quarter ending this June. That’s down 29% compared to Q2 2011 and 19% compared to Q2 2010. Quarter-over-quarter sales were down 11%. Summer months are typically a bit slower for domain ... read more ...
Thu 26th July 2012
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20 finish user domain sales from a past week - Fox Broadcasting Company among end user buyers this past week. Here’s Domain Name Wire’s weekly wrap of end user domain name purchases from Afternic and Sedo. Afternic Fox Broadcasting Company bought MidnightBlack.com for $3,588. Any ideas what it’s for? The owner of IrishCityTours.com bought eatplaystay.com for $1,350. This is a great domain and I see variations on this “slogan” from time to time. The only challenge is remembering the word order. Machines ... read more ...
Fri 20th July 2012
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End user sales report, Friday edition - 19 end user domain name sales. I’m back in Austin after attending HostingCon (more on that later), so here’s the belated end user domain sales report for this week. In case you missed it, I visited both Afternic’s and Sedo’s offices this week. Afternic Washington Jesuit Academy bought edSolutions.org for $1,000. Actress casting company BubbleGum Casting bought AmateurModeling.com for $2,488 and ModelingGigs.com for $2,000. Global Business Travel Association ... read more ...