Tag Archives: Sedo

Tue 17th July 2012
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Boston: a core of a domain name aftermarket - Two companies in Boston handle the bulk of the domain name aftermarket. I’m up in Boston for HostingCon, and spent my Monday visiting two of the largest and longest running domain name aftermarkets: NameMedia (Afternic) and Sedo. The two are separated by just a fifteen minute drive, so it’s fair to call Boston the center of the domain name aftermarket. My first stop was NameMedia’s office in Waltham. Signage outside NameMedia’s office in Waltham, MA. NameMedia’s ... read more ...
Fri 13th July 2012
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Let’s Face It; Sedo.com Generic .Me Auction, It Was A Bust - The Sedo.com Generic .Me domain name auction that concluded yesterday was, well there is no other way to say it, a bust. Out of the 190 domain names for sale only 8 domain names sold and the vast majority never even got a bid. The auction was run in conjunction with Brands-and-Jingles whose principal Mark Kychma told had to say: “The result are very disappointing – Brands-and-Jingles is regularly selling .ME names in the range $5k-$50k.” “This auction failed to recognize the value of some ... read more ...
Wed 11th July 2012
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50 finish user domain sales over a past dual weeks - From sports to health, fifty end user domain sales from the past two weeks. With the U.S. holiday last week I postponed the end user sales report. That means two weeks of data this week — and about 50 sales to report. Here goes… Afternic The Sportsman’s Guide, Inc. picked the UK version of its name, SportsmansGuide.co.uk, for $2,000. A Beautiful California Florist bought ABCFlorist.com (get it, ABC?) for $1,500. Sand Source Services shortened its web address ... read more ...
Wed 27th June 2012
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What domains FC Barcelona and 22 other finish users bought final week - Weekly report of end user domain sales: 23 on tap this week. Gooooal! Football (that’s soccer for us Americans) team FC Barcelona bought a domain on the aftermarket this week. Read on to find out which domain they bought. Afternic FC Barcelona (Futbol Club Barcelona) bought OABonline.com for $2,000. OAB is the name for the FC Barcelona Supporter Services Office. FilmFunds, which helps budding filmmakers get financing for their projects, bought FilmFans.com for $4,188. GivingCredit, ... read more ...
Thu 14th June 2012
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What domains Go Daddy and 18 others bought final week - 19 end user domain sales. There’s been a lot of news about new top level domains this week. But what’s going on right now in the domain market? Here are 19 domain sales to end users from the past week, including one to domain registrar Go Daddy. Afternic Dispatching technology company Unified Dispatch, LLC, bought zTrip.com for $20,000 from Frank Schilling. App creator Apps For Life, which published Box Shot, bought BoxShot.com for $3,500. TV Guide bought TVGM.com ... read more ...
Mon 11th June 2012
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Sedo adjusts gain superintendence down, though there’s a china backing for domain parkers - Sedo paying out more to top domain parking clients. Sedo Holding has lowered its earnings forecast for the current year due to “confirming margin development in Domain Marketing in the second quarter 2012.” While this may seem like a bad thing, there’s a silver lining for some of Sedo’s larger domain parking clients. When asked for comment, Sedo.com CEO Tobias Flaitz told Domain Name Wire: Sedo Holding AG is the publicly traded parent company of Sedo and our ... read more ...
Wed 6th June 2012
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16 finish user domain sales from a past week - Here’s Domain Name Wire’s weekly wrap of end user domain name sales. From medical companies to a utility and o2, here’s a list of end user domain sales from the past week. Afternic RedRock Wealth Management of Las Vegas paid $1,188 for InvestmentPlan.net. Here’s an individual end user: Darren Sandford of California bought Sandford.net for $2,588. He already owns Sandford.tv. Secure Ticket Purchase, the owner of BoxOfficeTicketSales.com bought up TicketsNow.org ... read more ...
Wed 30th May 2012
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What domains Taco Bell, Overstock.com, Enterprise, and others bought this week - Big companies make domain name purchases. This past week has been a great one for end user sales. I’ve identified 23 end user sales (there are of course more, but these are the ones that stuck out). There are big name brands in this report, so read on… Sedo McGraw-Hill Companies bought WorkforceAccess.com for $2,500. The name of a new publication? Raw TV Ltd, which owns RawTelevision.co.uk, bought Raw.co.uk for GBP 15,000 Enterprise Holdings, Inc., which owns ... read more ...
Fri 25th May 2012
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What domains Kanye West and others bought this week - Kanye West buys domain name for new short film. Kanye West has made some interesting naming decisions in the past. So let’s give him credit for buying CruelSummer.com for $3,000. Cruel Summer is the name of his new short film. Here are some other end user domain buys from the past week. All sales took place at Afternic unless otherwise noted. Forbes writer Rich Karlgaard, who has written about the “Power of Pairs”, paid $1,595 for PowerPairs.com. I wrote about ... read more ...
 
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Hipsters.com for sale: Afternic teams adult with SnapNames for auction and .Me kicks off during Sedo - Where are my black framed glasses? SnapNames just started its “Summer Kick-Off Auction“, run in conjunction with Afternic. Although most of the domains in the auction are owned by Afternic or an affiliate company, some of the domains appear to be owned by the company’s larger clients. Compared to recent auction lists, this one looks to be a winner. My personal favorite: Hipsters.com for under $10,000. That’s a great domain. Ambitious.com $10k-$25k Authorization.com ... read more ...
Mon 21st May 2012
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My picks for Sedo’s Great Domains auction - Great Domains auction ends Thursday. Here’s what I like. This month’s Great Domains auction at Sedo ends on Thursday. The lineup doesn’t include as many big ticket domains as usual; there’s only one domain with a reserve over $25,000. But that’s OK, there are some good domains worthy of attention. Here are ones that popped out to me: Reconnect.com – With a reserve range $10k-$25k, this would be good only if you have a plan for the domain. I can think ... read more ...
Wed 16th May 2012
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Intuit buys Apps.net for 24,100 EUR among 25 finish user domain sales - Intuit picks up Apps.net domain name and other notable domain purchases. The biggest name on this week’s end user domain sales report is Intuit. The company (of Quicken and Quickbooks fame) bought Apps.net for EUR 21,400 at Sedo. It already owns Apps.com. It offers Intuit Apps for many of its products. Here are other domain name purchases by end users over the past week. Sedo Ad network Multi-View, Inc. made this week’s big $112,000 purchase of AHHA.com. Travel ... read more ...
Tue 15th May 2012
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Zimbabwe.com seller takes outrageous loss - Zimbabwe.com sells for a fraction of what it sold for in 2007. We always hear stories about people who bought domains and flipped them for many times their purchase price. But the opposite also happens. Take the case of Zimbabwe.com, which just sold for $42,500 at Sedo. The last time this domain (reported) sold was in 2007. Purchase price: $130,000. It’s possible the domain also changed hands in 2008. Regardless of if it has changed hands since 2007, the domain ... read more ...
Thu 10th May 2012
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Jewelry.co gets $24,000 bid on Sedo - .Co domain gets a big bid and other notable Sedo domain auctions. Here are some Sedo auctions worth checking out. The owner of Jewelry.co has sent the domain name to auction after receiving a $24,000 offer. The auction ends May 12. Crackon.com also has a strong bid of $11,500. The auction for Crackon.com ends May 15. Another interesting auction is for RealityWife.com. The site used to be a porn site. When it was active in 2007 and 2008 the site had revenue of over ... read more ...
Thu 3rd May 2012
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You unequivocally need to get on a bound cost domain bandwagon - SedoMLS and AfternicDLS are changing the game. Sedo released its first quarter domain name market study today (pdf). For the first time ever, fixed price “buy now” listings were the company’s most common type of sale. 39% of sales were buy now purchases and 34% were offer-counter offer purchases. There’s a simple reason for this: end user buyers don’t want to negotiate. And they want their domain now. I suspect a lot of these sales occurred through SedoMLS. ... read more ...
Wed 2nd May 2012
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Union pays for VeriGreedy.com and 14 other finish user domain sales - 15 end user domain purchases in the past week. Communication Workers of America bought the clever domain VeriGreedy.com last week to take a jab at Verizon. It looks like the domain owner wasn’t very greedy, too. Here are details on that sale and other “end user” domain buys from the past week. Sales at Afternic South Texas Innovations LLC bought STIConstruction.com for $1,895. Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port, which owns NCSP-net.com, bought NCSP.com for $6,400. San ... read more ...
Mon 30th April 2012
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Blog.com site and blog network adult for sale - Network with close to 20 million monthly page views goes up for sale. Domain name marketplace Sedo announced today that it is the exclusive broker for the sale of Blog.com. Blog.com launched as a self-serve blog network (a la Blogger.com) in 2010. It boasts two million bloggers (according to the site) and had 19.3 million page views in March (according to Sedo). The site has an Alexa overall rank of 697 and and Quantcast U.S. rank of 1,794. Blog.com is owned by Portugalmail, ... read more ...
Tue 6th March 2012
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A Customer Say Sedo Allows Users To Edit Listings Of Domains They Don’t Own - This morning I logged in to sedo and was surprised to notice that I had access to somebody ELSE’s domain listings in addition to some of my own. While sedo was in the middle of assuring me that these were only “pending listings”, I changed the price of Ability.info (not my domain) from over $6,000 to just $100 and proceeded to buy it. However, since Ability.info was “mine” (it isn’t, remember), Sedo wouldn’t allow the transaction to proceed. Sedo didn’t seem to understand why this ... read more ...
Fri 3rd February 2012
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Today We Call Out Sedo For Including Escrow Only Transactions In It’s Sales Figures - Sedo.com has been including domain names it acts only as escrow agent for in its weekly and annual reports of domain sales. This information came to light this week when Sedo inadvertently reported a sale that was supposed to be confidential and Francois from Domaining left a comment on TheDomains.com telling us that not only should have the sale been confidential but that Sedo.com only acted as Escrow agent for the transaction. We reached out to Sedo which confirmed that its served solely as the ... read more ...
Wed 30th November 2011
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8 engaging finish user domain sales - Eight domain names that sold to end users last week. Here are eight end user domain name purchases completed over the past week. All sales were at Afternic except for GameTraining.com, which sold at Sedo. Anytime Fitness president David Mortensen.com now owns DavidMortensen.com after dropping $1,788. Internet marketing firm Adventure Marketing upgraded its URL from AdventureMarketingLLC.com to AdventureMarketing.com for $1,000. Telecom networking company Dynamic Network ... read more ...
Thu 6th October 2011
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Domain Marketplaces Still Grapple with Orphaned Listings - Lots of progress, but still an issue of orphaned domain name listings on marketplaces. If you’ve been buying domains on major domain name marketplaces for any number of years you’ve certainly come across a domain listed for sale that isn’t actually for sale. I still remember “buying” SugarCookies.com for something like $2500 many years ago only to find out the person who had listed it had sold it already. Afternic and Sedo have taken steps over the years ... read more ...
Wed 5th October 2011
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NameMedia Pulls Listings from Sedo - Company removes listings from Sedo but it may be only temporary. Notice anything missing from Sedo lately? NameMedia, which operates BuyDomains and Afternic, has yanked all of its domains from Sedo. The company previously listed its owned and operated domain names on Sedo’s marketplace. Sedo changed its commission rate and terms and conditions a few months ago, although Sedo says this wasn’t the reason for the removal. Sedo Marketing Team Manager Heather DelCarpini ... read more ...
Mon 26th September 2011
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Sedo Introduces CNAME Parking - Parking company touts benefits over DNS. Domain parkers have only a few days left before the end of URL forwarding for Google parking. For most people that means switching to DNS parking. But there’s another option at some parking companies, including CNAME. CNAME parking basically lets you point the web traffic for a domain to the parking servers. It’s how Google’s own Adsense for Domains self-serve product originally worked. It’s a bit more work the first ... read more ...
Mon 22nd August 2011
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Sedo Hires Researcher Behind IDNX - Pricing researcher to work for domain name marketplace. After working with researcher Thies Lindenthal to create domain pricing index IDNX, Sedo has decided to bring him on as its Product Manager for Domain Pricing. In a press release, Lindenthal said: I am thrilled to combine my passions for the domain market and real estate research at Sedo,” said Lindenthal. “I look forward to continuing work on IDNX, and to bringing my research to Sedo in order to develop ... read more ...
Wed 10th August 2011
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DONE! Ventures Reaches Settlement with NBC and Sedo Over Women.com - Settlement reached over failed seven figure domain name sale. DONE! Ventures has reached a tentative settlement in a lawsuit it brought against NBC Universal and Sedo. The lawsuit was over a failed purchase for Women.com and Women.net. DONE! says that NBC accepted its offer of $1 million for the two domain names. But then-NBC Universal Chairman and CEO Jeff Zucker allegedly quashed the deal. DONE! originally sued just NBC Universal to get it to go through with the ... read more ...