Tag Archives: Sedo

Tue 2nd November 2010
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$500,000 Logo.com Deal Helps Sedo Clear $1M for a Week - A big sales week for Sedo. Earlier today I wrote about how Sedo sold over $20 million worth of domains last quarter. This quarter will be even stronger thanks to its $13 million sale of Sex.com. And this week’s report keeps the momentum going. Headlined by the $500,000 sale of Logo.com, the company turned in well over $1 million worth of domain sales. Here are the top .com sales for the week: logo.com 500,000 USD freeoffice.com 55,000 USD namecheck.com 50,000 USD resumeservice.com 28,000 USD securite.com 20,500 EUR rockmerch.com 20,000 USD alphaflash.com 19,999 USD saveco.com 12,888 USD hireexpert.com 12,000 USD bermudacruise.com 10,500 USD elegs.com 9,000 USD ecigar.com 8,600 USD ablip.com 8,500 USD mmedia.com 8,500 USD anobe.com 8,000 EUR hddiner.com 7,000 USD northboro.com 6,700 USD domburg.com 5,225 EUR beerhats.com 5,000 USD artmap.com 5,000 EUR Top ... read more ...
Thu 28th October 2010
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Sedo Switches to JavaScript for Domain Parking - Company moves to JavaScript for domain parking. Sedo is changing its domain name parking platform over to JavaScript, which is says should lead to higher earnings per click and RPM. By switching to JavaScript, non-human traffic such as bots and scripts will no longer be counted in statistics. This means most Sedo customers will see reported visitor counts drop, which will thereby push up RPM (revenue per thousand) assuming valid clicks. But the company says that ... read more ...
Wed 20th October 2010
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Sedo and Afternic Report Domain Name Sales - A sales update from the top two domain name marketplaces. I’m a bit behind since I’ve been a TRAFFIC Miami all week, but I do have some sales to report courtesy of Sedo and Afternic. Sedo’s top sale was Cursos.com for $150,000. Cursos means “courses” in Spanish. The company also had some good ccTLD and other sales. The top five .com sales for the week are: cursos.com 150000 USD liveup.com 11500 USD prova.com 10000 USD zelte.com 9900 EUR treatacne.com 8000 USD Top ... read more ...
Thu 14th October 2010
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Domainer Personal Portfolio Auctions during Sedo - There’s a personal portfolio auction going on right now with some great values. Here’s something I wasn’t aware of: Sedo will run a portfolio auction for you through it’s auction system. That is if you have good domains at a good reserve. For an example, take a look at the Richard Whitney Portfolio Auction going on right now. Look quickly, because it ends at 12:30 EDT today. Whitney’s auction has a number of good deals that are (currently) priced very ... read more ...
Tue 28th September 2010
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$500k IPO.com Sale One of Many Big Sales during Sedo This Week - IPO.com headlines strong week for domain marketplace. Sedo had a great sales week including the sale of IPO.com that Michael Berkens wrote about on September 22. But that wasn’t the only notable sale the company brokered. In second place was AirTickets.com at $80,000 followed by ResumeWriting.com at $66,000. ResumeWriting.com appears to have been sold by Frank Schilling’s Name Administration. But the buyer is peculiar. The current whois shows that EditMeNow.com, ... read more ...
Thu 9th September 2010
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JustBallGloves.com Covers Bases With JustGloves.com - Sports company buys necessary but costly domain name for its business. JustBallGloves.com is an online store that sells, well, just ball gloves. The site features baseball and softball gloves from all the major manufacturers. Compete.com suggests the site gets about 10,000 uniques a month. But let’s face it, JustBallGloves.com is probably often remembered as JustGloves.com. Compete.com shows the latter gets about 1,000 uniques a month. The solution? JustBallGloves.com ... read more ...
Fri 3rd September 2010
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Sedo Revenue Down But Earnings Up - Revenue slides but bottom line improves in first half of year. Revenue at domain name brokerage and parking company Sedo for the first half of 2010 was down compared to the same period last year, but earnings were up. Sedo Holding reported (pdf) revenue of 21.9M EUR for its Sedo division in H1 2010, compared to 22.6M EUR for H1 2009. However, profit increased from 3.0M EUR to 3.3M EUR. The company’s employee base dropped from 172 to 157 between periods. At the ... read more ...
Thu 2nd September 2010
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Want to Bid on Sex.com? Deposit $1 Million. - If an auction occurs, expect to put your money where your mouth is. We might never see an auction for Sex.com. But if we do, expect to put up a significant deposit if you wish to bid. Court documents show that the bankruptcy sales procedure for Sex.com will include three phases. In the first phase domain broker Sedo will do a worldwide outreach and prequalification of interested parties. The second phase is a negotiation period with qualified parties. The third ... read more ...
Tue 31st August 2010
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Angels.com Sells for $200,000 - Broker sells Angels.com domain name. Sedo has sold the domain name Angels.com for $200,000 according to the company’s updated sales feed. The domain name is currently pending transfer. Earlier this month I pointed out that the domain being listed for auction presented another chance for Major League Baseball to pick up the domain name. Major League Baseball tried to get the domain name through a UDRP filing earlier but failed. At the time the seller wanted ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Retools Domain Searching - Domain marketplace release new search system. Sedo has released new searching tools that make it much easier to sift through the site’s 7 17 million domain names for sale. The new search allows you to add and change search criteria and get updated results on the fly. Limit the number of words in domains, price range, and even parking traffic (if the domain is parked at Sedo). You can also preview a listing by clicking on the domain rather than loading an entirely ... read more ...
 
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NBC Tries to Wriggle Out Of $1 Million Women.com Sale - NBC wants lawsuit over domain name dismissed. NBC Universal has filed a motion to dismiss (pdf) a lawsuit filed by DONE! Ventures over DONE!’s failed purchase of Women.com. DONE! claims it had an agreement to buy women.com and women.net from NBC, and that NBC later backed out of the deal that was brokered by Sedo. NBC’s first line of defense is that it hadn’t reached an agreement with DONE! because communications only referred to Women.com, not .net — so ... read more ...
Wed 25th August 2010
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Google May Change Domain Parking Requirements - DNS parking may be required in the future. A few days ago Sedo informed its customers that its primary advertising provider (read: Google) may change the way it allows domains to be parked. URL forwarding will be out and all domains will need to be parked using DNS. This change has been rumored for a while and likely has to do with tighter control and transparency for parked domains, as well as changes to how parked ads are served technically. According to the communication ... read more ...
Tue 10th August 2010
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It’s Showtime! Sedo Sells Showtimes.com for $250,000 - Domain broker has another big week. Domain name brokerage Sedo has completed the sale of Showtimes.com for a quarter million dollars to lead its sales list for the week. The domain name appears to have been sold by Hollywood.com, which previously forwarded the domain name to its web site. The new buyer is using a whois privacy service to protect its identity. Sedo’s next highest sale is one I wrote about last night, with e.co going for $81,000. Another big sale ... read more ...
Thu 5th August 2010
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Sedo Sells YYY.com for $45,444 - Sedo sells three letter .com for big money. Domain brokerage Sedo has sold the domain name YYY.com for $45,444, according to the site’s recent sales section. So the question for all you three and four character domain name fans: is this a ccc.com domain or a vvv.com domain? Is it a triple premium? Is it a million-zillion-triple-premium-triple-repeat dot com? The domain name’s whois record currently shows Sedo’s brokerage, and it was previously protected by ... read more ...
Wed 4th August 2010
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Sedo Sells OY.com for $90k, German Cloud Computing Domain Goes for $38k - No six figure sales, but two letter domain comes close. Domain brokerage Sedo sold oy.com for $90,000 this past week, which was the company’s top completed sale. The company also had a big cloud computing domain sale, moving cloud-computing.de for 29,000 EUR, or about $38,000 USD. It’s not Cloud.com, but it’s still a good domain for the booming field of cloud computing. Here are other notable sales for the week at Sedo: .com p6.com 15000 USD befrank.com 15000 USD ... read more ...
Wed 14th July 2010
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FreeMarket.com Proves It’s a Free Market during $93,000 - FreeMarket.com leads domain name sales for the week. Hey, it’s a free market out there. That means the price of a domain name is dictated by how much someone is willing to sell it for and how much someone is willing to pay. A prime example: FreeMarket.com, which Sedo just brokered for $93,000. Another example of the free market at work: HighInterestSavingsAccount.com, a four word, 26 letter domain that sold for $18,000. Now if only I could find a savings account ... read more ...
Wed 7th July 2010
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SedoPro Event to Go on World Tour - Company takes its acclaimed Pro events on the road. Sedo is one of the most international companies in the domain name industry, so it’s fitting that the company will soon be taking its popular SedoPro events on a world tour. Until now, Sedo has organized annual SedoPro Partner Forums in luxurious locations alternating between the United States and Europe each year. Now regional events will be held on 4 continents and in 7 cities throughout the upcoming year. ... read more ...
Tue 29th June 2010
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Fannie Mae Spends $50,000 to Buy Domain Name - Fannie Mae dips into pockets to buy KnowYourOptions.com. Mortgage backer Fannie Mae has spent $50,000 (of basically your money) to buy the domain name KnowYourOptions.com. The site will no doubt explain your options if you find yourself behind on your mortgage. The deal tied another domain name — VideoDating.com — for the top spot at domain broker Sedo this week. The seller of VideoDating.com is Steve Newman. He was president of GreatDomains back in the day ... read more ...
Tue 22nd June 2010
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Sedo Hits 6 Figures with Three Domain Names - Domain broker has good sales week. Sedo completed three six figure domain name sales last week, capping off a great week for the company. First, it sold the three number domain name 027.com for $100,000. It also sold Pengyou.com and Pengyou.net, each for $100,000. PengYou appears to be a Mandarin word for “friend”. Two of Sedo’s other big sales are ones I’ve already written about, including Rage.com for $49,999 and TVs.co.uk for 51,000 GBP. Here are other ... read more ...
Fri 18th June 2010
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ZeniMax Buys Rage.com for Upcoming Rage Video Game - Video game creator shoots bullseye with domain name purchase. A long awaited video game has a new home on the web – Rage.com. ZeniMax Media Inc. purchased the domain name from a man in Great Britain for $49,999, and is now forwarding the domain name to rage.bethsoft.com (Bethsoft is the publisher). The deal was handled through Sedo. The seller moved his web site to RageLive.com. That a company would spend so much for a domain name for a video game should come ... read more ...
Wed 16th June 2010
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Sedo Sells TVs.co.uk for $75,000 - Big electronics UK domain name sells. Sedo has brokered the sale of TVs.co.uk for 51,000 GBP, or about $75,000 USD at today’s exchange rate, according to the recent sales section on the domain name broker’s web site. If you visit TVs.co.uk today you’ll see an online store for TVs. A note at the bottom of the page links to PCs.co.uk, as the web sites were both owned by the same UK entity. The seller purchased the domain name for 1,000 GPB in December 2007. The ... read more ...
Tue 15th June 2010
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Kredit.com Sells for 220,000 EUR - Monster deal headlines sales week. Sedo has brokered the sale of Kredit.com (Credit in German) for 220,000 EUR, or about $265,000 USD at today’s exchange rate. The domain name was purchased by GoAdvertising Limited of Ireland, an internet media company that also owns the Excite Europe group of portals. Sedo also brokered ChinaVision.com, which was purchased by the owner of Chinavasion.com and forwarded to that URL, for $75,000. Another notable sale for the week ... read more ...
 
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Pig.com Domain Name Sells for $125,000 - NameMedia scores six figure domain name sale. DNForum owner Adam Dicker has sold the domain name Pig.com for $125,000 with the help of NameMedia. Dicker purchased the domain name for $50,000 in 2006. In 2007 he was hit with a UDRP case brought by New Pig Corporation, but of course he prevailed in the case. The company also sold one of its own domain names, Tortillas.net, for $9,300. If that looks familiar, it’s because the domain name sold through its listing ... read more ...
Wed 9th June 2010
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Court Greenlights Sex.com Order - Order paves way for sale of Sex.com. The Central California Bankruptcy Court has issued an order approving a settlement between the managers of Sex.com owner Escom, LLC. This means that Escom can go forward with entering into an agreement with domain broker Sedo to sell the domain name. There was a slight hitch in the process as investor Nothin’ But Net (run by Mike “Zappy” Zapolin), which had been quiet in the early stages of the case, filed an objection. ... read more ...
Tue 8th June 2010
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CGM.com Domain Name Sells for $365,000 - Sedo sells three letter domain for big money, and the future is bright.com. After a few weeks of not reporting any major domain name sales (and one that go away), Sedo came through big time this week. Highlighting the list is CGM.com, which the company brokered for a whopping $365,000. The new whois record for the domain name is for Compugroup, a large European e-health company with nearly 300 million EUR in annual sales. The domain marketplace turned in another ... read more ...