MusicVideos.com takes home prize, but good .co.uk and .info domain sales as well.

Sedo completed well over $1 million in domain name transactions last week, including helping Yahoo! sell MusicVideos.com for $250,000.

The company also sold Gold.co.uk for 42,050 GPB, which is about $63,000 USD. Last week the company auctioned off MobilePhones.co.uk for about $137,000 USD equivalent, but the sale hasn’t been completed yet.

Although these are all noteworthy sales, here’s an incredible .info sale: PayDayLoans.info went for $24,000.

Here are the rest of Sedo’s noteworthy sales for the week.

.com
313.com 25,000 USD
webstyle.com 16,500 USD
949.com 13,560 USD
bgm.com 12,501 USD
giftcardmessages.com 12,000 USD
buty.com 11,500 USD
singlesdating.com 11,001 GBP
dogsbite.com 11,000 USD
pokerist.com 11,000 USD
freestay.com 10,000 GBP
pimpcash.com 10,000 USD
7g.com 9,999 USD
421.com 8,955 EUR
99problems.com 8,000 USD
dragonballs.com 7,900 USD
onlinecheckup.com 7,774 USD
thek.com 7,500 USD
toonix.com 7,000 USD
dogvip.com 6,000 EUR
custodyrights.com 5,100 USD
robofx.com 5,000 USD
ehong.com 5,000 USD
mdct.com 5,000 USD
marketingconsultancy.com 5,000 USD

ccTLDs
terrasse.de 13,000 EUR
ips.nl 9,520 EUR
fibrebroadband.co.uk 8,500 GBP
krimi.tv 6,500 EUR
ma.de 6,100 EUR
jo.de 6,100 EUR
thebible.co.uk 5,600 GBP
bathroom-tiles.co.uk 5,425 GBP
adsforfree.co.uk 5,000 GBP
erkältung.ch 5,000 EUR
kgb.mx 5,000 USD
financialaid.tv 4,750 USD

Other
whisky.net 8,000 EUR
ubm.net 5,000 USD
proenergie.net 3,500 EUR

Company brings new meaning to “pumping”.

I’m not sure what it’s like being a company traded on the pink sheets. But a lot of them try to do whatever they can to hype themselves.

Today The Amergence Group (PINKSHEETS: AMNG) sent out a press release titled “Amergence Group Successfully Bids on and Acquires PanPacific International Domain Name.” The company bought PanPacificInternational.com from BuyDomains “in concert with its venture partner, PanPacific Business, Inc.”

I know what you’re thinking. That doesn’t seem like premium domain, or anything important enough to send out a press release. But when you read “bids on and Acquires” and “with its venture partner”, you’re thinking there must be some serious money involved here.

$1,088.

Yep, that appears to be the “buy now” price that The Amergence Group paid BuyDomains to acquire the domain name. A listing for the domain is still on Sedo with that price.

“Bid” might be a strong term for “made an offer” or “clicked the buy now button”.

But I suppose if The Amergence Group was trying to get some visibility from this, I just gave them some. Now if only they updated the web site at the domain from BuyDomain’s content page to something relevant prior to sending out the press release.

Myths about sales prices grow like weeds.

With Sex.com hitting the auction block next week, mainstream media are in a tizzy writing about the auction of the “world’s most valuable domain name”. As usual, they’re comparing it to other big ticket domain sales. The only problem is that many of the sales they refer to have misleading sales figures.

Consider The Huffington Post’s “The 11 Most Expensive Domain Names Ever“.

Casino.com is on HuffPos’ list at $5.5 million, but the caption notes that it was the web site and domain. So that wasn’t a domain sale.

You’ll also see Business.com, which was widely reported as sold for $7.5 million. But that was in illiquid equity. According to the buyer, the equity ended up being redeemed for only $2.0 million. (The seller claims it ended up being more than $7.5 million.)

Then there’s the granddaddy of them all, Insure.com. Look, Quinstreet did not buy the domain name Insure.com for $16 million. It bought an active web site, and it generates substantial leads. The domain itself wasn’t worth that much.

Buyers and sellers often times have an incentive to pump up the sales price for domains. The buyer gets lots of publicity, and the seller gets an ego boost. Yet it’s painful to see this sort of misinformation continue to spread.

Guagua.com hits six figures, Domaining.com owner scores nice sale.

Sedo has sold the domain name Guagua.com for $100,000. Guagua has a number of different meanings, including being the name of a language and a municipality in the Phillipines.

The company also helped broker the sale of Pepe.com for 45,000 EUR. It looks like Francois Carrillo of Domaining.com scored a nice flip on this domain name. He bought it at Bido.com a couple months ago for only $15,000, and then listed it for sale on his Mocus.com domain listing site. Sedo brought a buyer to the table, helping Carrillo score about four times his money in just a couple months.

Here are other notable sales for the week from Sedo:

.COM
gastronomie.com 35,000 EUR
telemar.com 12,000 EUR
xtrader.com 10,000 USD
afx.com 8,100 USD
mallchina.com 6,000 EUR
buffalogroup.com 5,432 USD
cosmetiques.com 5,150 USD
okta.com 5,100 USD
bookmate.com 5,000 EUR
jpsports.com 5,000 USD
qualcos.com 5,000 USD
landingpagedesign.com 5,000 GBP
stayfair.com 5,000 USD
tridien.com 5,000 USD

ccTLD
risultati.it 32,000 EUR
energieagentur.de 21,500 EUR
escortservice.de 16,660 EUR
transpower.nl 15,500 EUR
ioffer.co.uk 11,500 USD
jb.de 9,500 EUR
stelle.it 8,000 EUR
shirts.co.za 8,000 USD
73.de 7,500 EUR
87.de 7,500 EUR
call.at 6,750 EUR
drucker-toner.de 6,500 EUR
carworld.eu 6,000 EUR
designshop.ch 6,000 EUR
luxury.co.za 6,000 USD
tmb.de 5,950 EUR
healing.de 5,950 EUR
mamme.it 5,900 USD
xa.de 5,700 EUR
hurghada.ch 5,000 EUR

Other
sys.net 12,500 USD
open.org 6,200 USD
analytics.info 5,000 USD
docs.net 5,000 USD

Debtors behind on bills for the past year.

With Sex.com heading to the auction block, there’s a been a lot of talk about what went wrong with the current owner, Escom LLC. According to a Reuters article, Escom has been in default on its loan for over a year to lender DOM Partners.

“The loan was in default and DOM partners is foreclosing pursuant to its right under the security agreement,” DOM’s attorney Scott Matthews told Reuters.

The auction is still scheduled for March 18. Clearly, there are some disagreements amongst Escom LLC investors. There was early indication from one of the investors that there might be a lawsuit filed to block the auction, but a search of Federal District Court records did not turn up any such suit yet.

Auctioneer Maltz Auctions says there’s been significant interest in the domain name. Prospective bidders need to deposit a $1 million check prior to the auction. There will definitely be bids in excess of $1 million, but any winning bid is subject to DOM Partners’ acceptance.