Two End Users Buy 3 Letter Domain Names

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

Energy company and bank invest in better domain names.

There’s little better than owning a nice, short domain name for your company. It’s part of the reason I sprung for DNW.com.

Within the past couple weeks two different end users have purchased three letter domains of their own.

First is Mack Energy Corp, which paid a hefty $99,000 for MEC.com. Mack Energy Corp. is an oil exploration company.

Second is First Fidelity Bank, which has been using the sub-prime domain name First-Fidelity.com. The bank paid $18,000 to get the domain name FFB.com.

Each week, hundreds of end users buy domain names on the aftermarket for their business. Here are some other recent end user purchases:

PremierAdvantage.com – The Venetian in Las Vegas paid $4,5000. Perhaps it will be for a rewards program?

HealthInvestment.com – HIF Corporation, which operates as “Health Investment & Finance”, picked up this improved domain name. So far it has yet to forward it to HIFCorporation.com.

Candy-Apples.com – Candy Warehouse.com bought this delicious domain name for $2,500. It will make for a great SEO-driven site for selling caramel and confection coated apples.

FolioCloud.com – Fabasoft.com paid $2,500 for this domain name — the name of one of its products.

Further Reading:

  1. Bank of America Promotes .Mobi, One Million Users
  2. What Domain Names Bain and Other End Users Bought from Afternic This Week
  3. An Easy Way to Find End Users to Buy Your Domain Names

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  1. Steve M
    April 14th, 2010 | 2:31 pm

    Andrew–that typo on PremierAdvantage; was the price $4,500 or $45,000? Thanks.

  2. Andrew Allemann
    April 14th, 2010 | 2:51 pm

    @ Steve M – sorry, $4,500

  3. chandan
    April 15th, 2010 | 8:00 am

    seems HIF .com value goes high :D

  4. Louise
    April 15th, 2010 | 8:44 am

    Are you doing an auction through Snap? I see Domain Name Wire on the schudule: http://showcase.snapnames.com/upcoming-auctions
    Starts tomorrow! How come you don’t make an announcement?

  5. Andrew Allemann
    April 15th, 2010 | 11:50 am

    @ Louise – I think you may have scooped me :)

  6. Louise
    April 15th, 2010 | 2:24 pm

    Woohoo!!! All these great auctions going on . . . can’t wait to see what you’re unloading.

  7. Patricia Kaehler
    April 15th, 2010 | 5:59 pm

    I am with Louise I can’t wait to see what you are unloading… (smile)
    ~Patricia Kaehler – DomainBELL

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