Summer may be winding down, but any time is a good time to sell a domain. Below are some recent domain auction results for your perusal. These aren’t six-figure sales by a long shot, but it’s important for a domainer to keep tabs on the entire industry. The average domain …
August, 2009
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13 August
Payment.com sells for $250,000
Payment.com sold at auction today for $250,000 USD. In addition, its plural partner, payments.com, was also purchased for $150,000. Currently no information on the buyer is available, but hopefully both names were bought by the same individual. I think the seller might be bit disappointed. A name like payment.com has …
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13 August
Report: average .net auction price exceeds .com
A popular domain auction site recently released a report detailing statistics about more than 9,000 auctions in the last three months. Surprisingly, the average sale price for a .net domain came out to $1,775 USD, a wee bit higher than the average .com value of $1,768. This is a sharp …
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12 August
Adult domains attract hot attention at auction
A large adult domain auction recently ended in which 33 names were sold. The top seller was orgasms.com, which netted £24,987 ($41,180 USD). Coming in at numbers two and three were pleaser.com and gay.info for £7,150 ($11,770.00 USD) and £5,620 ($9,251.00 USD) respectively. Not all the domains were necessarily adult-related: …
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11 August
Yahoo purchases OMG.com for $80,000
OMG WTF! Internet giant Yahoo has bought OMG.com for the price of $80,000 USD, or £48,642. The sale reportedly occurred last week, but the buyer wasn’t revealed until today. As anyone who texts or uses instant messaging knows, OMG is short for “Oh my God.” Urban Dictionary sums up the …
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7 August
Watch a live domain auction
We hear about domain auctions on a daily basis, but rarely does one get the chance to see such an event live. The video above shows the sale of Ad.com during T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Silicon Valley in April. The winning bidder was Divyank Turakhia, who paid £946,137 ($1.4 million USD) for the …
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7 August
KBToys.com sells for £1.25 million
After a business closes, its intellectual property- domains, trademarks, logos, etc.- still have value and can be sold. Bankrupt toy retailer KB Toys took advantage of this to pay its creditors when it sold its trademarks, logos, and KBToys.com domain for £1.25 million ($2.1 million USD) yesterday. Retail operator CE …
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5 August
Jesus.net sells for £73,442
Not only can Jesus turn water into wine, but he can sell domains, too. Jesus.net sold a few hours ago for a whopping £73,442 ($124,337 USD). There seems to be quite a few religious domains selling at auction lately. Last month, Rosary.com sold for £48,388 and Biblical.com netted £10,000. The …
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3 August
Server.com sells for £460,830
Server.com recently sold at auction for £460,830 ($770,000 USD). Considering how cut-throat the hosting industry is, this domain could provide a huge competitive advantage to a provider. The name is old, too, dating back to 1994. As previous discussed, this age makes it more attractive to buyers, but with this …
July, 2009
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31 July
Enlargement.com sells for £33,540
Open the your email spam folder and you know what you’ll find. In a society where over-the-hill men seem to base their worth solely on how hard they can make their wives moan, it’s no surprise that Enlargement.com sold today for £33,540 ($56,000 USD). Hopefully the new owner is happy …