Tag Archives: Sedo

Tue 9th August 2011
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Sedo’s Jeremiah Johnston Steps Down, Will Open Private Practice - Long time domain industry exec steps down. Sedo has just confirmed a rumor that started percolating recently: COO Jeremiah Johnston is leaving the company. Johnston will remain General Counsel to the company as he opens his own private practice. Honestly, with Johnston’s involvement with all of the company’s legal business I had kind of forgotten that he was also COO. He was instrumental in bringing resources and money to Internet Commerce Association, and he ... read more ...
Fri 5th August 2011
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Depositions Begin in Women.com Case with Sedo and NBC Universal - Representatives of domain broker and NBC to be questioned over failed transaction. Depositions will begin next week in a lawsuit over a failed transaction for Women.com and Women.net. The suit was originally brought by DONE! Ventures against NBC Universal after the latter allegedly failed to complete a sale agreement for the domain names for $1 million. Sedo was later added to the suit for failing to enforce the agreement. Next week in Boston Kathy Nielson, Jeremiah ... read more ...
Mon 1st August 2011
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A Smart Whois Verification Feature on Sedo - Many “sales” of domains people don’t own are by accident. When domainers let domain names expire or sell them, their first trip usually isn’t to update online sales listings for the domain names. As a result, most of us have had the experience where we receive an offer on a domain we no longer own or try to buy a domain name through a marketplace only to find that the seller doesn’t own it any more. Which is why I think this feature from Sedo is smart: I’m ... read more ...
Wed 27th July 2011
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Sedo Q2 Market Study in Review - by Heather DelCarpini [Sedo just released its Q2 market study today. In this guest post, Sedo marketing manager Heather DelCarpini explains where the domain name aftermarket is heading.] Sedo’s Market Study for Q2 2011 reveals the strongest quarter in over a year, after excluding the record-breaking sale of sex.com for $13m in Q4 2010. Median prices for all gTLDs increased across the board, with some notable .com sales in the form of datacenter.com ($352,000), consolidation.com ... read more ...
Tue 28th June 2011
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School Equipment Company Buys MarkerBoards.com and Other Sedo Sales - A review of this week’s domain sales at Sedo. Apparently my review of Afternic sales earlier today in which I showed who the buyers were struck a chord. I’d like to do the same thing with Sedo’s results, except that most of the domains are still in escrow whenever they send out their list. But I’ll try, and perhaps sometimes I’ll go back and pull in some sales from the previous week that now have updated whois information. Here’s a match made in heaven: ... read more ...
Tue 21st June 2011
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How Much is a .Eu Domain Worth? Find out on Sedo Today - Hundreds of .eu domains being auctioned at no reserve. About 400 .eu domain names are up for grabs on Sedo today, all at no reserve. The auctions end starting at 12 pm EDT. Some of the top keyword domains include Gin.eu, treasure.eu, soda.eu, junk.eu, razor.eu, sociology.eu, labor.eu, repair.eu, dermatology.eu, easter.eu, and horoscopes.eu. There are also many 3 and 4 letter domains. So far the auction looks more like a .ws auction than .eu given the prices — ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Has a Million Dollar Week with Two Six Figure Sales - A big domain sales week thanks to two six figure transactions. Sedo closed over a million dollars worth of domain transactions last week — in .com alone. The biggest sale was the closing of DataCenter.com, which Elliot wrote about a few weeks ago. In second place was Billionaire.com at $215,000, which Michael wrote about yesterday. Both domains’ whois records are protected by privacy services. The top ccTLD sale of the week was Finance.co at $45,000. It’s ... read more ...
Tue 7th June 2011
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Sedo Asks Court to Dismiss Women.com Lawsuit on Jurisdiction Claims - Domain broker says lawsuit should not be heard in California. Done! Ventures has fought and won a jurisdiction battle in its lawsuit over Women.com already. Now it has to gear up for another fight. Sedo, which was recently added to the lawsuit originally filed against GE/NBC Universal for a failed transaction to purchase Women.com and Women.net, has asked the court to dismiss the case on jurisdiction grounds (pdf). According to Sedo’s court filing, Done! Ventures ... read more ...
Tue 24th May 2011
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Afternic and Sedo Combine for Over $1.5 Million in Domain Sales - Strong sales week but no six figure transactions from top marketplaces. The two largest domain name marketplaces, Afternic and Sedo, combined for well over $1.5 million in announced domain sales over the past week. Sedo led the way with Bills.org, while Afternic had a very strong sale with FunChat.com at $40,000. Here’s a list of notable sales above $5,000 (Afternic sales denoted with “Afternic”, others are Sedo): .com humidifiers.com 50000 USD funchat.com ... read more ...
Tue 17th May 2011
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Sedo Sued for $10 Million for Failing to Enforce Women.com Transaction with NBC Universal - Domain broker added to suit over failed Women.com transaction. DONE! Ventures has added domain name broker Sedo to its lawsuit over a failed transaction for Women.com. DONE! sued NBC Universal last year after it alleged the media giant failed to follow through with a transaction to sell Women.com and Women.net for $1 million. According to the suit, NBC Universal’s CEO at the time Jeff Zucker vetoed the deal after it had been agreed to. Sedo broker Jeff Gabriel ... read more ...
 
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“Cooking Games” in Spanish Sells for $90,000 on Sedo - Spanish domain name is top sale for the week at domain broker. Domain broker Sedo didn’t turn in any six figure sales this week, but they still have some good ones worth mentioning. First, they sold juegosdecocina.com — which means “cooking games” in Spanish — for a nice $90,000. Last year CookingGames.com sold for $350,000. Just behind that was the three letter domain ese.com for $85,000. Solar Power company Cleanergy.com paid a hefty $50,000 to upgrade ... read more ...
Wed 11th May 2011
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Sedo Reports Strong Sales Including Closing of Gambling.com for $2.5 Million - A big week with a seven figure sale. Sedo had a strong sales week, headlined by officially closing Gambling.com for $2.5 million. But this sale wasn’t the only one the company had to cheer about as the week included many good five figure sales. One highlight is POW.com, which was sold to Internext Media Corp. for $75,000. Internext Media Corp. is a major search engine advertising company that owns Advertise.com. Here are other notable sales for the week: .com tiempo.com 41900 USD isu.com 23000 USD personalica.com 20000 USD playaresorts.com 12500 USD prfirm.com 12111 EUR absbelt.com 10000 USD svenska.com 10000 EUR cloudstack.com 10000 USD weico.com 10000 USD asztalos.com 9500 EUR inmold.com 7000 USD mutou.com 7000 USD mobile360.com 7000 EUR gamutnews.com 7000 USD kuza.com 6300 USD technosat.com 6000 USD teamtop.com 6000 USD artpix.com 5940 USD renewableelectricity.com 5500 USD safeoffsite.com 5250 USD machiavelli.com 5226 USD aism.com 5000 USD interracialpicture.com 5000 USD cieloazul.com 5000 USD brica.com 5000 USD ccTLDs t.ag 60000 USD want.it 26500 USD poker.org.uk 25000 GBP walk.co.uk 9999 GBP properties.co.nz 8000 USD apostas.pt 6000 EUR gowrings.co.uk 6000 GBP anz.kr 6000 USD recipes.co 5600 USD af.ro 5000 USD employment.de 4750 EUR melrose.co.uk 4450 GBP haier.nl 4425 EUR Other sanfrancisco.net 20000 USD cloudstack.org 7500 USD snakes.net 4999 USD diabetes.pro 4500 USD kfz-versicherungen.net 4500 EUR ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Domain Revenue Falls Thanks to Domain Parking - Revenue down as domain parking continues to slide. Sedo Holding’s revenue from its domain name segment fell 6.3% in the first quarter of 2011 compared to the same quarter in 2010, the company disclosed in a financial report (pdf) today. As with results reported in its annual report for last year, the company blames falling domain name parking revenues for the decline. At the end of the first quarter the company was monetizing 6.3 million domain names, down from ... read more ...
Wed 27th April 2011
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First Tequila.co, Now Vodka.co Sells for Five Figures - Second premium liquor keyword in .co sells in as many weeks. Sedo has brokered the sale of Vodka.com for $10,000 to the same person who bought Tequila.co for $14,500 just a week ago. Of course Vodka.com was one of the most expensive domain names ever sold. Legendary domainer Roy Messer sold it to a Russian vodka company for $3 million. So who’s the mystery buyer snapping up these liquor domains? No, it’s not a liquor company. It’s someone in the Czech ... read more ...
Thu 3rd March 2011
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French Word for Wedding Domain Name Gets $130,000 Bid - Six figure offer made for French language .com domain name. Mariage.com — a typo of Marriage but more importantly the French word for Wedding — has received a 92,000 EUR bid at Sedo. That’s about $130,000 USD. An auction for the domain name ends March 8. Elsewhere in the domain auction world SnapNames is running its March feature auction. It includes primarily domains related to travel and entertainment. A few domains already have bids but the auction ... read more ...
Wed 2nd March 2011
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Survey: Domain Name Marketplaces - Major domain marketplaces continue to innovate and grow. The number of domain name sales venues is expanding. More importantly, the way these venues syndicate sales listings is leading to a more fluid domain aftermarket. Domainers use a number of domain marketplaces beyond the usual suspects. Still, the big three dominate: Sedo received the most votes in this year’s Domain Name Wire survey with 39% of the vote. Go Daddy and Afternic received 12% and 9% respectively. ... read more ...
Tue 1st March 2011
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Site Finds “Orphaned” Domains on Sedo and Afternic - Site lists domains listed for sale that are free to register. Have you ever seen a domain name for sale on or Sedo or Afternic only to find out that it’s freely available for registration? Someone lists a domain, lets it expire, but the sales listing never gets deleted. The problem used to be rampant. It’s gotten better thanks to new controls and monitoring by both sites (particularly Afternic). But a new service from domain name search engine DomainWhiz shows ... read more ...
Tue 8th February 2011
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Next Navigation Sells Pathology.com and More - Australian company cashes in in latest Great Domains auction. Australia-based Next Navigation has sold Pathology.com for $33,500, one of several domains it sold through the most recent Great Domains auction on Sedo. The company also sold: Feline.com for $20,600 GasStation.com for $13,600 Trillion.com for $12,854 Rivalry.com for $10,099 NeonLight.com for $1,050 Cad.org for $3,800 The company has a developed site at Shares.com.au, which is an online forum for Australian ... read more ...
Fri 4th February 2011
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Sedo Celebrates 10th Birthday - Happy Birthday, Search Engine for Domain Offers. Domain name marketplace and parking company Sedo turns 10 this month. Sedo wasn’t the first online marketplace for domain names but it quickly grew into a powerhouse. In addition to brokering lots of six and seven figure transactions the company also has a dominate position in ccTLDs. Here are some of the company’s milestones over the past decade: 2001- Sedo officially becomes entity in Cologne, Germany 2002- Sedo ... read more ...
Tue 4th January 2011
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Sedo Ups Personal Brokerage Fee to 15% - Fees increase today, but only for small subset of sales. Today Sedo will increase its fee on personally brokered domain name sales to 15% from 10%. This fee increase only applies to sales that involve a human broker and does not apply to self-serve sales in which buyers and sellers transact on Sedo.com. I had a feeling this change was in the works for a while. Frankly, one of the problems with high touch sales in the domain name industry is that commissions are too ... read more ...
Tue 21st December 2010
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Sedo Sells Over $1 Million in One Week, Including LawFirm.com for $233k - Brokerage closes six figure domain name transaction. Sedo sold over $1 million in domain names over the past week, including closing a transaction for LawFirm.com at $233,501. Another interesting sale is TreasureMap.com at $25,000. Here’s a complete look at Sedo’s publicly available sales of $5,000 or more over the past week: .COMs lawfirm.com 233501 USD treasuremap.com 25000 USD gaana.com 21000 USD addresssearch.com 19000 USD arithmetic.com 16612 USD possum.com 13500 USD rental-cars.com 12550 USD 062.com 11562 USD aie.com 11099 EUR yesorno.com 11000 USD bioeffect.com 9000 USD lagniappe.com 9000 USD worldluxuryhotels.com 7500 EUR valueformoney.com 7500 USD 0f.com 7199 USD appaddict.com 6790 USD hr360.com 6500 USD linkpublicity.com 6200 USD solarfonds.com 5969 EUR techstore.com 5700 USD smos.com 5555 USD kinderplezier.com 5000 EUR monstersquad.com 5000 USD ccTLDS mexiko.de 32130 EUR horseracing.co.za 20000 USD auctions.co 15000 USD charms.de 10000 EUR bambus.pl 8400 EUR ellos.de 7500 EUR villa.es 7500 EUR send.me 7350 USD private-zusatzversicherung.de 7140 EUR try.me 7100 USD refer.me 6105 USD employ.me 6099 USD freesolar.co.uk 5500 USD list.me 5005 USD bracelets.fr 5000 EUR soap.tw 5000 EUR tovaglie.it 4500 EUR cuisiner.fr 4050 EUR zusammen-feiern.de 4000 EUR Other ... read more ...
Tue 14th December 2010
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SedoMLS Beta Now Open to SedoPro Customers - Company expands beta for listing syndication and fulfillment service. SedoMLS, which syndicates your Sedo domain name listings across multiple sites and instantly transfers domain names upon purchase, is now available for select Sedo customers. Sedo launched the service last year but it has been closed to most domainers. The new beta phase permits SedoPro customers to list domains at the MLS level. Other Sedo customers with 5,000 or more domain names may request ... read more ...
Mon 6th December 2010
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The Week Ahead in Domain Names - A look at a busy week in the domain name industry. This is going to be a big week for domain names. Here’s some stuff to keep your eyes on: ICANN is meeting in Cartagena, Colombia. This is going to be a big meeting. On Friday the board will vote on its way forward for new top level domain names. There’s a lot of pressure — including input from the U.S. Department of Commerce — that could slow things down. But there’s also a lot of pressure to go forward. ... read more ...
Tue 23rd November 2010
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Beem.com Sells for $136k, BlackFridaySales.com for $90k - Beem.com and BlackFridaySales.com sell for big bucks. Sedo has sold the domain name Beem.com for $136,000. The domain name is still pending transfer and the buyer’s identity is not yet known. The company also brokered the sale of BlackFridaySales.com to Frank Schilling’s Name Administration for $90,000. The domain name was sold by RegistrarAds, an affiliate of domain name registrar Dotster. Schilling already owned BlackFriday.net, so he probably had a good ... read more ...
Wed 17th November 2010
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Sex.com Officially in a Record Books during $13 Million - Sex.com officially becomes the largest all cash publicly announced domain sale of all time. The check has cleared. A few weeks after signing documents for a $13 million all cash deal, Escom LLC has officially sold Sex.com with the help of Sedo. Congratulations to Sedo broker Jeff Gabriel who handled the deal. Also congrats to Sedo for its persistence trying to get the name to broker. It filed an affidavit with the court arguing it should be allowed to broker the ... read more ...