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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 of multiple tie-ins to social media.
Invasion.com – Also has a reserve range $10k-$25k. Not a very commerce-friendly domain, but would be good for a video game, movie, etc.
WineFridge.com – I’ve looked at wine fridges/beverage fridges for our new house. Not cheap. Reserve is met with a top bid of $1,049.
Swindled.com – I like this one because I used to own it 
I don’t recall what I sold it for, but the domain is currently $100 with the reserve met.
ComputerCourses.com – reserve is $5k-$10k. May be a little high, but good market for this.
There’s also a wonderful opportunity in a non-Great Domains auction on Sedo. Seesaw.com is currently $3,100 with a Wednesday end date. This is a great brandable domain.
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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 Networks Europe Ltd, owner of rental car finder CarJet.com, paid 3,000 GPB for CarHirecover.com
Jasper Engines & Transmissions paid $2,000 for MyJapser.com.
The restaurant data company behind FoodServiceReport.com bought RestaurantData.com for $1,299.
Travel services company HOTELBEDS SPAIN, S.L.U. bought AttractionStore.com for $1,895 and ResortActivities.com for $1,295.
University of Toronto mathematician James Colliander bought CrowdMark.com for $995. It will be interesting to see what he does with it.
Afternic
Westport, Connecticut cycling/spin studio JoyRide Cycling Studio picked up JoyrideStudio.com for $1,495. It currently owns Joyride-Cycling.com and JoyrideWestport.com.
Embassy Loans bought the singular version of its domain name — EmbassyLoan.com — for $1,500.
Healthcare company Primary Care Partners in South Florida bought HealthyPartners.com for $3,788.
The Catamaran Company, seller of catamarans (a type of boat), paid $2,088 for LagoonCatamarans.com
Elite Estate Buyers Inc, which already owns EliteAuction.com, bought EliteConsignment.com for $2,088.
Business intelligence company Third Time dropped the hyphen in its domain name for $1,200 by picking up ThirdTime.com. Nice purchase.
Book publisher Health Communications, Inc, whose slogan is “The Life Issues Publisher”, bought LifeIssues.com for $8,800. Nice sale.
Godat Landscape Construction Company paid $1,388 for Godat.net.
ShortTermStays.com, an L.A. short term rental referral service, bought ShortTermStay.com for $2,100.
It appears that Lufthansa Technik has purchased LTCS.com for $2,500. The whois record for the domain doesn’t mention the company, but the registrant’s email address is LTCS.aero, which is owned by Lufthansa. The actual registrant is Gordon Weller, Sr. Director Customer Service & Account Management for the company.
Max New York Life bought MaxLifeInsurance.com for a whopping $21,000.
Affordable Power, L.P., which goes by the name APG&E, picked up APGE.com for $5,088.
The owner of Waverlyhomes.ca bought Waverlyhomes.com for $2,000.
Calgary Co-operative Association Ltd. bought YourCoop.com for $2,655.
A brand new company called Canada Carbon has purchased none other than CanadaCarbon.com for $1,995.
Instant Home Loans, Inc. d.b.a. Instant Capital, bought InstantCapital.com for a strong $14,500. Its web site is MyInstantCapital.com.
American Trash Management, a unique company whose mission is to “reduce the environmental impact, costs and problems of trash”, bought SmartTrash.com for $2,188.
Production company Flatland Pictures bought MusicProfessor.com for $1,888. Perhaps the title of an upcoming film?
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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 took a total haircut of $87,500 during that period.
Not pretty.
There’s not a whole lot you can do with Zimbabwe.com from a commerce perspective other than offer elephant hunting trips.
Ideally a buyer would use the domain to help shed more light on Robert Mugabe’s atrocities.
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.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 $200,000 (according to the seller). The seller also says it earned $20,000 last year. The traffic certainly is impressive, with 67,000 plus visitors to the parked page over the past 30 days. Still, I question why this domain would be sent to auction for under $1,000 if the domain is still earning this kind of money. You’ll definitely want to do some homework.
There’s also a no reserve auction ending today at noon EDT that features dozens of three letter .de domains, among others. As of the time of writing 22 of the domains have bids and will sell. You can check it out here.
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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. I also bet Afternic’s “buy now” results are 90% or more.
You should take note.
I often hear people griping about all of these $2,000 end user sales. People say “If the person hadn’t put a fixed price, they would have negotiated more money.”
Hogwash. If they hadn’t put a fixed price with instant transfer, the buyer would have probably negotiated a lower price than the fixed price. Or they would have walked away. And it would have taken a heck of a lot more of your time to do the transaction.
Put yourself in the mind of the typical end user buyer. They want to buy a secondary market domain just like a hand registration.
Some people are worried about losing out on a lottery ticket. They’re afraid one of their domains will suddenly become worth more because a major company launches a new brand. The domain will be sold for less money than they could have gotten.
It’s possible, but don’t count on that ever happening.
It’s worth noting that, although fixed price sales accounted for 39% of Sedo’s sales in the first quarter, they accounted for only 16% of the sales value. This shows that the big ticket sales still involve negotiation.
That’s how I recommend looking at your portfolio. Price out the domains that small business end users will buy. Set the others as “make offer”.
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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 Antonio design company Backyard Studios upgraded from BackyardStudios.net to BackyardStudios.com for $2,000.
Roll Global, the company behind Fiji Water and POM Wonderful, picked up Untouched.com for $11,750. I’m curious to see what they do with it. The company has a penchant for good domains; it owns Roll.com.
Austin based Meridian Logistics bought FreightPros.com for $1,500.
Catholic “college” Augustin Institute bought CatholicYouth.com for $7,800.
Electronics company Monster, Inc. bought MetalMonster.com for $3,616.
PRShots, an online library hosting company press information and PR images, bought PressArea.com for $4,000.
K&S Quality Associates upgraded from QualityAssociates.ORG to QualityAssociates.com for $1,299. Worth every penny.
PA Personal Physician Care, whcih owns PPCare.net, bought PersonalPhysicianCare.com for $2,000.
Here’s one close to home. Austin Real Estate Partners bought CircleCRanch.com for $1,977. My seller agent for my home last year is with this company. Circle C is a large master planned community in Austin. A smart domain buy.
Sales at Sedo
A Mark Monitor client bought GoFurther.com for $10,000 at Sedo. The whois is currently protected with Mark Monitor’s form of “privacy” service.
Communications Workers of America, a large union that represents phone company employees including at Verizon, spent $850 of union dues to buy VeriGreedy.com at Sedo. It is starting a campaign with the name and has the matching Twitter handle. The domain was registered in 2010.
Material Handling Industry of America, which owns MHIA.org, bought MHI.org for $12,500 at Sedo.
Queryable Corp., the company behind InboundScore & InboxQ, bought HotProspect.com for $2,650 at Sedo. Looks like a great deal to me.
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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, which is putting it on the block so it can focus on its email services.
This is definitely a great asset. The question will be how much Portugalmail wants for it.
Interested parties should contact consult (at) sedo.com.
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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 Advisors bought CloudAdvisers.com for $1,100. CloudAdvisOrs.com (with an ‘o’) is owned by someone else.
Oil & gas product supplier ScanTech, which uses the domain name scan-tech.no, solidified its online presence with Scan-tech.com for $1,000.
Family Marketing, Inc., which provides cost-per-action lead generation targeting new families, bought EverydayFamily.com for $3,188.
Coffee company Allegro Coffee bought the great “statement domain” EnjoyCoffee.com for $3,488.
GameTraining.net, which trains people to develop video games, upgraded to .com for $2,250 at Sedo.
Enterprise software support company Rimini Street, Inc. bought SupportSAP.com for $3,491.40. Yes, it provides SAP support. But I don’t know how SAP will feel about this.
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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 to resolve this problem. After a site started listing domains listed on Sedo that were freely available for registration, Sedo started implementing a number of systems to weed out old listings.
The problem is also creeping up on GoDaddy. It creates a particularly interesting situation on GoDaddy since the site started syndicating its auction listings to its registration path.
One Domain Name Wire reader has experienced this twice. A domain expired and was fully deleted, so he went to GoDaddy to register it. But the system wouldn’t let him register it, instead saying the domain name was available in auction:
The reader had to go to a competing domain registrar in order to register the domain name.
What happened here is that the previous owner had listed the domain on Go Daddy auctions. When the domain expired the auction listing wasn’t removed.
Marketplaces have worked to clean up such listings as they move to more fixed price, instant transfer listings. Most instant transfer systems constantly monitor whois records for changes and remove domains from the marketplace immediately if there’s an ownership change.
I’ve noticed Afternic go a step further recently. Afternic will completely remove your listing if you don’t respond to several notices of a price request for a domain name.
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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 informs me:
“While NameMedia did temporarily remove their names from our marketplace, this had nothing to do with the change to our terms and conditions. Their contract with us expired, and at that time the names were removed.”
NameMedia owns about one million domain names.
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