NameMedia Sells Flying.com, Racks up $600k Domain Sales
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
NameMedia has another strong sales week.
NameMedia, which sells domain names through BuyDomains and Afternic, had another big week with over $600,000 in sales. It sold Flying.com through its BuyDomains platform. The sale price of Flying.com was not disclosed, but Jets.com sold for $375,000 a couple weeks ago at Sedo.
The company’s median .com sale was $1,062 with an average selling price of $1,479. The median non-.com sale was $800 with an average sale of $1,328. These numbers do not include non-disclosed sales such as Flying.com. Many of the upper end sales are not disclosed, which may skew the numbers downward.
Here are some of the notable .com sales for the week:
wellthen.com $13,200
lovetolove.com $12,000
urecycle.com $5,400
affordablemoving.com $5,000
kimko.com $5,000
smartapplications.com $4,500
discountmedicalplan.com $4,488
prassociates.com $4,080
RetailFlowers.com $4,000
cyberceleb.com $3,788
magicpc.com $3,688
discounthealthplan.com $3,588
innovationnews.com $3,588
lecteurs.com $3,500
GreenCupid.com $3,500
comre.com $3,488
nutritionmarket.com $3,388
ampcorp.com $3,388
investprofit.com $3,288
blackpear.com $3,288
ObituarySearches.com $3,200
flexnetwork.com $3,188
humanline.com $3,141
mattressqueen.com $3,088
waterandenergy.com $3,000
boulot.com $3,000
healthandbody.com $3,000
archinfo.com $3,000
ourtribe.com $3,000
symbiontic.com $3,000
carperformancechips.com $3,000
Here are notable non-.com domain sales:
areacode.org $8,000
iot.net $6,500
mode.net $5,000
h2r.net $4,188
astral.org $4,000
airis.net $3,988
leep.net $3,788
birding.org $3,688
powdercoating.net $3,000
demark.net $2,788
humangrowthhormone.net $2,600
independentartist.net $2,521
ultrasearch.net $2,250
thecompass.net $2,088
MyChurch.net $1,900
onlinefinancedegree.net $1,730
onlinepsychologydegree.net $1,730
onlinemarketingdegree.net $1,730
onlineaccountingdegree.net $1,730
savingspoint.net $1,588
dentalhygienist.org $1,500
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Tags: Afternic, buydomains, NameMedia
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At $1500 I like dentalhygienist.org.
A couple of education affiliate programs will pay for that baby pretty darn quick.
If you notice, Pete Lamson did not answer the question others raised in the article last week -
What percentage of NameMedia’s weekly sales are ‘non-buydomains domain’?
It looks like Michael B. sold AreaCode.org for $ 8K thru Afternic. It still has his dns.
@ Domain Investor – if someone wants to help, I’m happy to run the calculations. But I’d assume it’s a fairly low percentage for the following reasons:
1. A good percentage of the listed names are owned by NameMedia
2. Only a small subset of user-listed domains are priced, and priced reasonably, like NM’s domains
3. An even smaller subset takes advantage of Expanded promotion, and an even smaller subset Premium, which is necessary to be listed on registrar’s web sites during the domain search process, where many domains are sold
4. Few non-NM domains have a prominent for sale notice with NM’s phone number
NM invests a lot in AfternicDLS and the domainer channel. It’s not for charity, so I suspect it gets a lot of value out of it.
If anything, these numbers show a definite uptrend in sales overall.
Domain Investor:
I actually tried to respond several times, however for some reason had difficulty getting my response to take on DNW. Likely operator error …..
OK – to respond to last week’s thread:
Each week, AfternicDLS provides a sales report recap to several of the industry’s leading blogs and forums (including DNW).
While many of our sales are reported, many are not as we maintain confidentiality on all sales where either the buyer or seller requests we do so. This generally takes place on the higher end sales, although not exclusively so.
We also never include information on who the seller or buyer of a domain is – also for privacy purposes (on occasion there is an exception to this policy, usually when a press release is involved).
For this reason we also do not report aggregate seller based sales data, other than the type of information included in last week’s “How To …” webinar.
I hope this answers your question.
All the best,
Pete
“We also never include information on who the seller or buyer of a domain is – also for privacy purposes…”
Pete,
How would it possibly violate anyone’s privacy to aggregate and report Seller based vs Name Media based sales data percentages?
No one’s I.D. would be revealed.
No actual domain names would be listed.
Just percentages.
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“wellthen.com $13,200″
Okay, I admit upfront I do not understand
the value of this domain, commercial or otherwise, and how/why it could sell for so much.
When I see a sale like this I want to cry…
out of envy.
But I am happy for the Seller…and the Buyer too if he/she is happy.
I think some of Pete’s comments got stuck in the spam filter on the last post. I have approve them.
This is the thread referenced above that Andrew released more comments.
http://domainnamewire.com/2009/09/24/selling-your-domain-names-fast-good-tips/#comments
Pete quote in another thread -
“With respect to overall saleable inventory, we currently have approximately 2M names listed on AfternicDLS that are not owned by NameMedia.”
Pete,
If you said 30% of the this weeks sales were non-BuyDomain, the world’s best statistician could not get any proprietary information from that.
Realistically, you don’t want to say because it does not work in your favor. It will confirm what we have always known, the majority of the sales are NameMedia’s domains.