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Hotel chain among end user domain name buyers this week.
As I do every week, here’s a look at end user domain purchases from Afternic for the past week.
First let’s start with the big name: Starwood Hotels and Resorts. The company paid $1,188 for OnlyInHawaii.com. Specifically, it looks like the buyer was the Sheraton Waikiki.
Electronic Cigarettes, Inc. bought eLiquids.com for $2,588. Electronic cigarettes are filled with liquid nicotine.
The rest of the purchases are upgrades where a company drops a superfluous word or upgrades its TLD.
Cincinatti-based The Urology Group, which owns TheUrologyGroup.net and .cc, upgraded to UrologyGroup.com for $4,000.
Some guy named David Sims upgraded from David-Sims.co.uk to DavidSims.com for $3,588.
Human Resources company The Centennial Group spent $3,500 to move from GoCentennial.com to TheCentennial.com.
Marketing and interactive agency Rocket Red improved its domain from GoRocketRed.com to RocketRed.com for $1,500.
Here are some other notable domain sales at Afternic this week:
hotstops.com $9,000.00
punchcards.com $7,640.00
lx3.com $7,500.00
mennetwork.com $6,400.00
moc.net $5,800.00
isgo.com $5,400.00
bznet.com $5,400.00
epicsolutions.com $5,275.00
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Samsung among biggest names buying domain names on the secondary market this week.
Afternic tallied over $650,000 in “announceable” domain sales over the past week. Here are some of the more interesting end user purchases:
Samsung bought Chaton.com for $17,000. I’m a bit confused as to what this is for, but Google unveils some possibilities.
EuroBuilding Hotels Group bought HotelEuro.com for $9,388.
Online survey panelist company uSamp bought TheWhiteBoard.com for $5,000. I don’t see anything on its web site that gives away its planned use.
Plus-size clothing company Redcats USA, which owns Avenue.com, picked up FullBeauty.com for $4,290.
Raycom Sports bought ACCNetwork.com for its coverage of ACC college athletics for $2,788.
iConfidential.com, which stores life’s important documents online, picked up a fantastic domain with LifeonDemand.com for $1,888.
Here are some other notable sales:
NursePractitioner.com $36,300.00
fullcontact.com $30,800.00
iea.net $16,488.00
weightmatters.com $15,000.00
business1.com $13,750.00
mybargain.com $9,000.00
internationalinvestor.com $7,500.00
fsbohomes.com $7,000.00
zestrogen.com $6,600.00
skyshopping.com $6,488.00
computerscience.org $6,000.00
around.net $5,750.00
hireawebmaster.com $5,088.00
1km.org $5,016.00
bemyneighbor.com $5,000.00
PerfectConnections.com $5,000.00
maxclothing.com $5,000.00
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A look at Afternic sales for the week.
I didn’t find a lot of interesting end user domain purchases through Afternic this week. The amount of disclosed sales was lower than usual thanks to the holiday weekend and a number of domains are still pending transfer. But here’s a look at some of the more interesting sales:
Austrialia’s Government Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency spent $3,588 on CleanEnergyFuture.com.
Medical company YGM Group, LLC upgraded its domain name from TheYGMGroup.com to just YGMgroup.com for $2,000.
London & Partners, which bills itself “The Official Promotional Agency for London”, may be getting ready to cheat on London. It paid $1,200 for LondonandParis.com.
Kent Metals, which owns WeBuyAnyMetal.com, wants to get metal out of cable with its purchase of CableRecycling.com for $1,000.
Here are other notable sales for the week.
falko.com $16,050.00
brainguard.com $7,600.00
myresidence.com $7,500.00
jkos.com $5,400.00
germsmart.com $5,000.00
FastHelp.com $4,900.00
localcommercial.com $4,788.00
solarcomponents.com $4,500.00
quillsoft.com $4,500.00
philately.com $4,477.00
keer.org $4,388.00
e-contractors.com $4,188.00
apam.com $4,000.00
rentalcare.com $4,000.00
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Here’s the simplest way to bulk upload domains to Afternic‘s Premium level service.
Listing domain names on services that offer syndicated, instant-transfer listings can be a bit of work. It takes more than just uploading your domain names; at a minimum you need to set prices and often times add categories.
Today I updated my Afternic Premium Promotion list by adding a couple hundred more domains that were in my Moniker account. Some of these were in my Afternic account but not on Premium level and some weren’t in the account at all. Here’s the fastest way to do it.
1. Login to your Afternic account.
2. Go to www.afternic.com/pfupload.php.
3. Select the “file upload” tool tab, then scroll down to “download bulk file”.
4. Save the .csv to your computer and open it. Don’t change the file name.
5. Enter this information in the spreadsheet:
-Add new domains in column A
-Set a minimum offer in column B. This is the minimum someone can offer you for the domain if they aren’t buying instantly. The number isn’t all that important.
-Set an asking price in column E. This is how much someone can pay to buy the domain instantly. Amount must be higher than what you put in column B.
-I recommend also setting a floor price in column D. This is the minimum price an Afternic sales rep can negotiate on your behalf to sell the domain. It can’t be more than your asking price nor less than your minimum offer.
-Type “3″ (no quotes) in column K
-I also recommend entering a main category and secondary category in columns F & G
6. Go back to your Afternic bulk page and click “upload my .csv file”.
Once your file is uploaded it will start to process. You will then need to follow the required steps at your registrar to approve the domains for the Afternic instant-transfer service.
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Company expands European footprint.
NameMedia is expanding its European footprint with a new office in London. The company will announce the expansion today.
The domain seller, which operates Afternic and BuyDomains, has hired Nadya Morozova as its European Business Development Manager. Morozova was previously Director of Community Outreach for the .tel registry.
Afternic is well known for its sales prowess through the U.S. registrar channel. But earlier this year it signed a deal with three European companies that collectively own 12 domain registrars to join its distribution network.
Customers can list their domains on Afternic using the “Premium” promotion level to get their domains listed for sale on these registrars. Registrar customers can buy the domain names like they would a typical domain name and get it instantly transferred into their account.
The new office and employee will help the company expand these registrar distribution relationships.
Afternic is still relatively weak on country code and non-English domain names, so it will be interesting to see if one of the goals here is to expand its offerings outside of .com/.net/.org.
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8 examples of end users buying generic domains for their businesses.
As I did with last week’s sales report, I’m taking a look at some of Afternic‘s sales to end users for the week.
Laser Spine Institute bought GoodbyeBackPain.com for $2,880. Goodbye back pain, but also a “good buy”.
JS Tour and Travel, which specializes in tours to the Caribbean, Hawaii and Mexico bought cancunfishing.com for $2,588.
Andover, Massachusetts jewelry and watch store Royal Jewelers, which has a section on its web site for pre-owned watches, bought PreownedWatch.com for $2,250.
CampingWorld.com, which bought RiderWorld.com through Afternic last week, picked up BoatingIndustry.com for $25,000.
Plastic card printer Tele-Pak bought CustomGiftCards.com for $1,650.
EMI Music / Capitol Recording bought NatKingCole.com for $6,600. This one has an interesting history, having been owned by what appears to be a group connected to the singer but the domain later expired.
Absolute Pools and Waterscapes, which forwards AbsolutePoolsandWaterscapes.com to an equally long domain name, upgraded to AbsolutePools.com for $1,500.
CostumeSupercenter.com bought WholesaleMedicalScrubs.com for $1,288.
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A look at end user domain buyers from the past week.
Afternic‘s extended network of domain name sales sites brings in end users. I thought it would be interesting to take a look at some of the company’s $600,000+ in domain sales for the past week and who the buyers were.
Consulting firm Bain bought Repeatability.com for $4,000. Sounds like a strategic consulting name to me!
Monarch Mortgage upgraded its domain name from MonarchMtg.com to MonarchMortgage.com for only $15,000.
Online car auction site Copart paid $26,056 to buy SellCar.com from iREIT.
RV and camping e-commerce store CampingWorld.com bought RiderWorld.com for $2,100. That’s a cheap price to enter a new shopping category!
Trade union NY Hotel Trades Council bought HotelWorkers.com for only $2,960, which is probably less than union dues for one person for a year.
The UK owner of Investmentland.com paid $2,688 for the .org version of his domain name. Maybe instead of investing in land, people should invest in domain names.
Avere Systems paid $2,810 for avere.net. They haven’t yet been able to buy Avere.com.
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No price chopping with Chop.com.
Oversee.net has sold Chop.com from its owned and operated portfolio with the help of Afternic.
A UK company that appears to be a battery importer purchased the domain name for $60,000. As of right now the domain name still resolves to a DomainSponsor parked page.
Chop.com was by far Afternic’s biggest sale of the week, although it has the usual strong list of four figure domains. Here are some of the top ones:
antonio.net $11,000.00
netstars.com $9,500.00
geometrical.com $8,000.00
play4me.com $7,500.00
doghelp.com $6,400.00
fashionconnection.com $6,000.00
TuxedoVest.com $5,500.00
MuscleTesting.com $5,500.00
gamevalley.com $5,000.00
southerndental.com $5,000.00
bizcash.com $5,000.00
manufacturingmatters.com $5,000.00
justelectronics.com $4,900.00
WaterHeatersOnline.com $4,800.00
ltmx.com $4,688.55
heptagon.net $4,588.00
72dpi.com $4,500.00
shagster.com $4,500.00
macat.com $4,388.00
spiga.net $4,388.00
fabjewelry.com $4,388.00
seniorsecure.com $4,388.00
editer.com $4,200.00
truair.com $4,188.00
localcoupons.net $4,000.00
islanddeals.com $4,000.00
dreamfurniture.com $4,000.00
InternationalJetCharter.com $4,000.00
sizeme.com $4,000.00
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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 $40,000 USD Afternic
physical.com 42500 USD
undergraduate.com 22000 USD
playbet.com 21600 EUR
IVIDEOS.com $16,800 USD Afternic
francemutuelle.com 15000 EUR
Xumo.com $15,000 Afternic
misjuegosdebobesponja.com 10000 EUR
thredbo.com 10000 USD
CreateAPoster.com $10,000 Afternic
altus.com 9600 USD
betterdna.com 9000 USD
niceprice.com 8000 EUR
autonova.com $7,700 Afternic
wholesalevoip.com 7500 USD
bowandarrow.com 7000 USD
Nicker.com $7,000 Afternic
periodoncia.com 6500 USD
peoplecounting.com 6000 EUR
alphadebt.com $6,160 Afternic
taxnation.com $6,080 Afternic
gxnews.com $6,000 Afternic
WebsiteUptime.com $6,000 Afternic
jiangshi.com 6000 USD
visiontrends.com $5,800 Afternic
stockpage.com $5,588 Afternic
booklamp.com $5,502 Afternic
bigswing.com 5000 USD
likeus.com 5000 USD
ukcloud.com 5000 USD
ifast.com 5000 USD
dragonglobal.com 5000 USD
cocogirl.com 5000 USD
milcoches.com 4500 EUR
ccTLDs
it.cc 15000 USD
gaertnerei.de 11781 EUR
gärtnerei.de 11781 EUR
holland.co 9000 EUR
beat.fm 8500 USD
storyboard.de 8000 EUR
vanrental.co.uk 6220 GBP
brandy.co 6000 EUR
energiemakler.de 6000 EUR
smo.co.uk 6000 GBP
virus.nl 5001 EUR
datarecovery.us 5000 USD
gin.co 5000 EUR
smartkauf.de 4500 EUR
Other
bills.org 70000 USD
darlehen.net 15000 EUR
emailserver.net $10,000 Afternic
sipnet.net 10000 USD
raw.info 6000 EUR
upgrades.net 5500 USD
shawbrook.co.uk 5000 GBP
youthhostels.co.uk 5000 USD
qrs.net $5,000 Afternic
compute.net $5,000 Afternic
mafia.info 4000 EUR
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Another big domain name sale to report.
Domain name marketplace Afternic has completed the sale of Puzzle.com for a whopping $500,000.
It’s unclear if the sale was handled on behalf of a third party seller or Afternic’s parent company. The old whois information for the domain included a Waltham, Massachusetts (the same city where the company is located) post office box and an email address for the BuyDomains brokerage.
The buyer is based in Amsterdam.
Puzzle.com wasn’t the only big sale Afternic closed this past week. It sold the three letter domain name EJU.com for $96,000.
Here are other notable sales at Afternic the past week:
pursu.com $13,200.00
claimit.com $8,000.00
consolidateyourdebts.com $7,000.00
epicgear.com $6,988.00
gamenavigator.com $6,800.00
groupgifting.com $6,777.00
hvhc.com $6,500.00
winenow.com $6,288.00
FQK.com $6,000.00
newsfeed.net $5,488.00
firekeeper.com $5,000.00
pelak.com $5,000.00
downworld.com $5,000.00
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