Marketshare.com gets some serious market share.

Afternic has brokered the sale of MarketShare.com for $148,500. It appears the seller was a software company, but the buyer is using whois privacy to protect their identity.

While by far the highest reported sale coming out of Afternic this week, the company had some other solid five figure sales including:

americanpro.com $25,800.00
LandingPages.com $20,000.00
expresshotels.com $16,800.00
biomics.com $14,500.00

Here are other Afternic sales at $5,000 and up:

labyrinth.com $9,500.00
autohunters.com $9,000.00
mytoystore.com $7,500.00
TheCashadvance.com $7,500.00
InternationalFlowerDelivery.com $7,000.00
graduate-school.com $6,788.00
edgewave.com $6,500.00
mortgageplanners.com $6,000.00
livebettertoday.com $5,500.00
3d360.com $5,000.00
agentofchange.com $5,000.00
alltermsandconditions.com $5,000.00
craftprojectsfreeinstructions.com $5,000.00
hbsgroup.com $5,000.00
workingfromhomesupport.com $5,000.00
bgda.net $5,000.00
csfh.net $5,000.00
ghae.net $5,000.00
intgp.net $5,000.00
lpan.net $5,000.00
midnightdesigns.net $5,000.00
myfault.net $5,000.00
newcds.net $5,000.00
shopkids.org $5,000.00

I expect Afternic’s sales of third party domains to ratchet up now that the company has brought on inventory from Moniker and eNom customers.

Brokerage closes six figure domain name transaction.

Sedo sold over $1 million in domain names over the past week, including closing a transaction for LawFirm.com at $233,501.

Another interesting sale is TreasureMap.com at $25,000.

Here’s a complete look at Sedo’s publicly available sales of $5,000 or more over the past week:

.COMs
lawfirm.com 233501 USD
treasuremap.com 25000 USD
gaana.com 21000 USD
addresssearch.com 19000 USD
arithmetic.com 16612 USD
possum.com 13500 USD
rental-cars.com 12550 USD
062.com 11562 USD
aie.com 11099 EUR
yesorno.com 11000 USD
bioeffect.com 9000 USD
lagniappe.com 9000 USD
worldluxuryhotels.com 7500 EUR
valueformoney.com 7500 USD
0f.com 7199 USD
appaddict.com 6790 USD
hr360.com 6500 USD
linkpublicity.com 6200 USD
solarfonds.com 5969 EUR
techstore.com 5700 USD
smos.com 5555 USD
kinderplezier.com 5000 EUR
monstersquad.com 5000 USD

ccTLDS
mexiko.de 32130 EUR
horseracing.co.za 20000 USD
auctions.co 15000 USD
charms.de 10000 EUR
bambus.pl 8400 EUR
ellos.de 7500 EUR
villa.es 7500 EUR
send.me 7350 USD
private-zusatzversicherung.de 7140 EUR
try.me 7100 USD
refer.me 6105 USD
employ.me 6099 USD
freesolar.co.uk 5500 USD
list.me 5005 USD
bracelets.fr 5000 EUR
soap.tw 5000 EUR
tovaglie.it 4500 EUR
cuisiner.fr 4050 EUR
zusammen-feiern.de 4000 EUR

Other TLDS
bms.org 12000 USD
hiphop.net 10099 USD
mob.info 7500 USD (strong sale)

Domain sales database switches hands.

Domain investor Adam Strong has purchased the NameBio.com web site, a searchable repository of domain name sales.

NameBio was the second notable site of its kind after DNSalePrice.com. Both sites aggregate information about various public domain name sales and present them in an easy-to-filter database.

The original owner of NameBio made some great search interface upgrades back in 2008 to the site. He then sold the site earlier this year to a partnership between Adam Strong and Jacob Gower. Since then the site has received few changes other than data updates.

That will soon change.

Recently the whois for the domain name changed to Strong Inc. In Q1 2011 Strong plans to introduce a brand new look and feel, better search features and some additional tools. He’ll also add in his own proprietary database of domain sales which he has accumulated from various sources, which should dramatically increase the amount of data on the site.

He is also looking for partners that can work together to enhance the data set and service.

Good luck to Adam as he improves this useful resource for domain name owners.

VeriSign finds a new image and home on the web.

The company that manages dot.com has a new dot.com.

VeriSign — the .com and .net domain name registry — has changed its web address to VeriSignInc.com and changed its logo as a result of selling off its security division to Symantec earlier this year.

I discovered VeriSign’s logo change plans earlier this month when the company filed six trademark applications for its new stylized “v”. The new logo has a “v” inside a circle with predominantly blue colors.

If you’re longing for the old stylized VeriSign checkmark you can find it at VeriSign.com — albeit now encircled in Symatec yellow.

A walk down memory lane in the tech world.

Last weekend I was looking for some financial documents when I came upon a stash of old credit card receipts and stock trade confirmations from 1999-2001. In the process of sending some of these old documents through the shredder I took a walk down memory lane.

There were credit card charges for GoTo.com, which I started using perhaps 6 months after the original pay-per-click search engine launched.

The very credit cards that those charges were on are a blast from the past, too. Remember NextCard?

Some of my branded credit cards were the FreeRide.com Credit Card and Cybergold Credit Card.

Speaking of Cybergold, it unfortunately can be found on some of my Datek (now TD Ameritrade) account statements. It’s in there with other losers such as Vignette and MyPoints.

Not all of my stock purchases were bad, however. I made a nice sum on Audible.com and rode up GoTo a bit. On the domain name side, I had forgotten that I once owned shares in Register.com.

Then there were my bank statements from CompuBank, one of the first online-only banks. It went defunct in 2001 and was acquired by NetBank.

There were some good things in that period, even when the dot com bubble burst. I found an old record of a 9 month CD that was paying 6.5%. The Savings Bond I bought back then is still paying a healthy 8% or so.

Maybe I should have saved some of these documents for nostalgia. They would have been interesting another ten years in the future.

But it’s too late. They’ve been turned into shredder confetti.