Tag Archives: Sedo

Tue 16th February 2010
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Sedo and GoDaddy Tops for Domain Sales - Where’s the best place to sell domain names online? Sedo and GoDaddy have been selected as the two best online domain name sales venues in the 2010 Domain Name Wire Survey. Sedo’s position at the top of the charts is nothing new — it took 40% of the vote. But this is down from 48% last year. Where did those 8% go? Well, more people are flocking to GoDaddy. Here are the top five: 1. Sedo 40% 2. GoDaddy 13% 3. NameMedia (Afternic, BuyDomains) 10% 4. Forums ... read more ...
Sat 13th February 2010
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Escrow.com Rated Top Domain Name Escrow Service - Escrow.com selected as best domain name escrow service. Escrow.com is the best escrow service for domain names, according to a survey of over 500 domain name owners. In the 5th Annual Domain Name Wire Survey, 55% of respondent picked Escrow.com as the top service. Sedo’s escrow service came in at number two with 24%, followed by Moniker at 13%. Afternic’s escrow service came in a distant fourth. EscrowDNS.com also received votes. EscrowDNS.com was recently ... read more ...
Tue 9th February 2010
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No Blockbusters during Sedo This Week, But Sold 10,000 Domains Last Quarter - Company releases 2009 market report. Sedo didn’t turn in any blockbuster domain sales over the past week, but you can forgive the company for a slower-than-normal week. After all, the company just released its 2009 domain market study (pdf), which contains a startling stat: Sedo sold 10,070 domain names last quarter. That’s more than the company sold in any one quarter for at least the past two years, and maybe more. (I have an inquiry into Sedo to find out ... read more ...
Tue 2nd February 2010
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Designer.co.uk Domain Name Sells for $120,000 - UK domain name leads sales chart. Sedo has brokered the sale of the domain name Designer.co.uk for 76,300 GBP, or about $120,000 USD at today’s exchange rates. The second highest sale for the week was Lundi.fr for 50,000 EUR, or about $70,000 USD at current exchange rates. Lundi means Monday in French. A couple other notable sales include ISDB.com, a four letter domain that sold for $53,500, and GolfZone.com, which took in $50,000 — a nice sale for a brandable ... read more ...
Tue 26th January 2010
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Website.de Domain Name Sells for 101,500 EUR - German ccTLD leads charts. Domain broker Sedo has finalized a transaction selling German country code domain name Website.de for 101,500 EUR (about $143,000 USD at today’s exchange rates). The domain was sold be an individual in Germany. The whois record has not been updated to reflect the new owner. The top .com domain name sale for the week was Bookkeepers.com for $34,000. That would make an excellent web site name for an accounting or bookkeeping directory. ... read more ...
Tue 19th January 2010
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Free-sms.de Domain Name Sells for $165,000 - Hyphenated .de domain leads pack. Sedo has brokered the sale of German country code domain name Free-SMS.de for 115,000 EUR, or about $165,000 at today’s exchange rates. The domain name was purchased by SuperComm Data Marketing GmbH, according to whois records. The next highest sale for the week was ConnectionExpress.com, which sold for $30,000. In third place is an interesting one, Toys.co.za. .Za is the country code top level domain name for South Africa. ... read more ...
Mon 11th January 2010
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Credit.fr Domain Name Sells for $850,000 - Sedo starts new year off with big sale. Domain name broker Sedo has sold the domain name Credit.fr for 587,500 EUR, or about $850,000 USD at today’s exchange rates. .Fr is the country code domain name for France. The big sale is a great way to kick off 2010, but I’m sure it will be surpassed by an even bigger deal soon. Sedo brokered another six figure sale with assistance from Moniker, selling Migraine.com for $125,000. Migraine.com has shown Sedo as the registrant ... read more ...
Tue 29th December 2009
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Kiev.com Sells for $88,000 - Ukranian geo domain tops sales chart. Kiev.com, a domain for the capital of Ukraine, has sold for $88,000 at Sedo. The domain represents the top completed sale at the sales venue over the past two weeks. Russia.eu (European Union country code domain) sold for $24,000. Sedo sold Russia.com for $1.5 million last month. Here are other notable sales from the past two weeks: .COM swype.com 25,000 USD 6m.com 16,055 USD computerspeakers.com 14,500 USD shepperton.com 13,225 GBP singlecity.com 12,950 USD bedstar.com 12,000 EUR privy.com 12,000 USD lifedash.com 10,500 USD tbk.com 10,000 USD g66g3e.com 10,000 USD tbk.com 10,000 USD thinkspot.com 9,999 USD ifeed.com 9,900 USD catholicsoulmates.com 8,995 USD bookee.com ... read more ...
Mon 14th December 2009
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Sedo Extends Buyer Certification to All Auctions - Certification now required for all auctions. Domain brokerage Sedo has extended its buyer certification requirement to bidders in all auctions. Previously, only bidders in special auction events (such as GreatDomains) were required to complete certification requirements. Standard Certification, the lowest level of certification, is easy to obtain. You can provide a credit card, W-9, respond to a text message, or just sign a statement. This will allow you to bid ... read more ...
 
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Buromobel.de (Office Furniture) Sells for $100,000 - German domain name cracks six figures. Büromöbel.de, which means “office furniture” in German, has sold for 69,000 EUR (roughly $100,000 at today’s exchange rate) at Sedo. The sale was the top reported sale for the week from the online brokerage. SPB.com was the second highest domain sale at $65,000. It was purchased by SPB Software, a mobile software company based in New Jersey. Coming in third was Arenal.com, which will likely be used for Arenal in ... read more ...
Thu 10th December 2009
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Great Domains Auction Ends Today during Noon EST - Final Great Domains auction of the year ends today. December’s Great Domains auction at Sedo ends today at noon EST. As of the time of writing, the top domain to have met its reserve is ddm.com at $11,000. The top bid overall is 48,000 EUR for ZM.com. But this is shy of the reserve range of 50,000-99,000 EUR. There may be some bargains to be had for astute buyers. Take a look at Irish.com, currently at $20,000. The reserve range is $50,000-$100,000, and this ... read more ...
 
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Making Sedo’s Multi-Bid Interface Better - Four ways to improve the Sedo bulk bidding interface. If you missed the conclusion of Sedo’s December Great Domains auction, you missed some great deals. I picked up five good domains at nice prices. Don’t say I didn’t give you a heads up. This was the first time I was bidding on multiple domains that closed at the same time on Sedo, so it was my first experience with Sedo’s “bulk” bidding system. It worked fine, but there are several ways it can be ... read more ...
Mon 7th December 2009
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ClimateGate.com Domain Name Sells - Domain name for controversial “Climategate” sells. Have you heard about the so-called “ClimateGate” yet? It has been all the buzz in the worldwide media over the past few weeks. It basically involves some not-so-ethical scientists trying to massage climate data to fit their needs. When the scandal broke, I immediately checked on the domain name. The domain was registered way back in January 2008, long before the current scandal occurred. But the owner ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Web Site Redesign Goes Live - Sedo web site redesign launches today. At the SedoPro Partner Forum in Key West this year, the company said it was working on a redesign of its site. The site had become outdated and needed a refresh. The new design went live this morning: The first thing you’ll notice is a much smaller home page that fits it the typical browser without scrolling down. To achieve this, Sedo has removed much of the real estate for current domain listings. It has replaced these ... read more ...
Mon 30th November 2009
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Blockbusters: Russia.com Sells for $1.5 Million, Marchex Sells Dominio.com for $250,000 - Two big domain name sales over holiday week. In what should have been a lackluster week thanks to the Thanksgiving holiday, Sedo turned in one of its best performances of the year for domain sales. Leading the pack was a sale you’ve probably read about already, Russia.com at $1.5 million. The buyer wants to remain anonymous, and is using GoDaddy’s whois protection to shield their identity. The domain currently points to a basic GoDaddy parking page. Another ... read more ...
Mon 23rd November 2009
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$66,001 e.Biz Sale Closes - .biz takes the top spot for the week…sort of. “The top sale at Sedo this past week was a .biz domain name.” I never thought I’d have the chance to write that. And I’m not being entirely truthful by writing it. The $66,001 sale of e.Biz claims the highest “number” for the week, but when you convert the 49,000 EUR sale of i.de to U.S. dollars, .de claims the top spot. But let’s not ruin the moment. We still don’t know who the buyer of e.biz is ... read more ...
Mon 16th November 2009
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LaFontaine.com Sells for $50,000 to Lead Sedo Sales List - LaFountaine.com leads sales chart, but also interesting .cc and .mobi sale. Sedo has completed the sale of LaFontaine.com for $50,000, its top reported sale of the past week. LaFontaine is a common last name, and means “fountain” in French. The domain broker also completed a number of sales from its one and two character .de auction and its one character .biz auction. .DE auction sales over 5,000 EUR a.de 32,111 EUR ok.de 21,956 EUR 18.de 16,500 EUR uk.de 14,000 EUR fm.de 10,100 EUR cs.de 10,000 EUR nu.de 7,000 EUR ua.de 5,355 EUR u2.de 5,352 EUR cu.de 5,200 EUR pl.de 5,100 EUR ro.de 5,000 EUR .BIZ ... read more ...
Wed 11th November 2009
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Monthly SnapNames Auction Begins, Sedo 2 Character Auction Ends Tomorrow - One auction kicks off as another comes to a close. SnapNames’ monthly domain name auction has kicked off and will conclude next Tuesday, November 17. The monthly auctions used to last only a few days, so it looks like SnapNames is trying a different tact. The auction includes roughly 240 domain names, 77 of which have no reserve. Among the domains with no reserve are DealComparison.com, LegalFees.com, and StewMeat.com. Two no reserve auctions have received bids: ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Revenue Down 20% This Year, But Turning a Corner - Sedo posts 19.6% drop in revenue through three quarters. Sedo today reported its results for the first three quarters of 2009, facing a decline in revenue to 34.1M EUR this year compared to 42.4M EUR in the same period last year. These numbers include both sales commissions and parking revenue. But the good news is that things appear to be looking up. In its 9 month report (pdf), company management noted that the third quarter was better than the second this year, ... read more ...
Mon 9th November 2009
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Social Business Card Company Buys Poken.com for $75,000 - Social gadget company upgrades its domain name. Sedo has brokered the sale of Poken.com for $75,000 to a company that bills itself as a mobile social business card. According to the web site, “poken is your ‘social business card.’ it’s an easy way to share your contact details and online social networks in the real world. just hold two poken palms together – high4! – and you’re connected.” The web site makes it look like a product primarily for teenagers. ... read more ...
Thu 5th November 2009
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Rick Latona Auction Ends Today, Sedo 2 Character Auction Starts - One auction ends and another one begins today. The extended auction for Rick Latona’s TRAFFIC auction ends today, and bidding is open online. A handful of domains have already received bids (which also means they hit their reserve). Notable domains with bids include StateFlag(s).com at $25,000 and DLE.com at $12,400. In an email sent to Rick Latona newsletter subscribers today, the company said it acknowledges that the Proxibid interface may be frustrating to ... read more ...
Tue 3rd November 2009
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PokerBonus.com Domain Name Sells for $85,000 - Gambling domain takes top spot for the week. There were no six figure sales at Sedo this past week, but the broker still scored some big sales. Number one on the list is PokerBonus.com at $85,000. The domain’s whois record has been protected by a private registration for much of the past few years, but last month a public record showed that the domain was owned by an Australian man. The second highest .com sale was BrowserGame.com at $30,000, although it was slightly ... read more ...
Tue 27th October 2009
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You Say See-Dough, we Say Say-Dough - One of the questions I often hear about Sedo is how it is pronounced. I’ve always said See-Dough. So when I was at the SedoPro conference in Key West earlier this month, I was delighted to hear Sedo CEO Tim Schumaker pronounce the company as see-dough as well. Case closed. But then in a session the next day Sedo Chief Operating Officer General Counsel Jeremiah Johnston kept referring to the company as “Say-Dough”. Someone in the audience asked: which is it, ... read more ...
Fri 23rd October 2009
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Sedo Auction Woes Were Caused by Denial of Service Attack - DDOS to blame for problems during auction yesterday. Sedo’s outage during the .de domain name auction yesterday was not due to intense bidding activity, but was actually a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack, reports the company. In a statement released today, Sedo wrote: Due to a malicious attempt to disrupt our services, Sedo suffered from two different distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks which temporarily caused the Sedo and GreatDomains.com ... read more ...
Thu 22nd October 2009
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Sedo 1 and 2 Character .De Domain Name Auction Ends Today - .De auction ends today. Sedo’s one and two character .de domain name “pre-auction” ends at noon Eastern today. .De is the country code for Germany, and is arguably the most successful country code domain name on the web. .De registry DENIC is releasing one and two character domains, as well as other domains that previously were not allowed to be registered (such as those containing only digits). It announced the change on October 15, leaving just a week for ... read more ...