Jets.com leads pack at Sedo.

By now you’ve probably heard that Sedo brokered the sale of Jets.com last week for $375,000. But that’s not the only great sale from Sedo this page week; it also sold two other six figure domains.

But first let’s discuss Jets.com. [UPDATE: We now know that the domain was bought by Concord Private Jets.] The domain is still in the transfer process so we don’t know who bought it. After the nameservers were switched to Sedo parking, they then moved to wikimedia.org for a brief period before switching to secureserver.net. I don’t think Wikimedia has anything to do with the purchase; they were just holding nameservers and the domain didn’t resolve there. But later this week we should know if the domain was purchased by a “flying” jet, a “football” Jet, or someone else altogether.

Now onto the other six figure sales. Newbrand.de sold for 120,000 EUR, or about $175,000 USD, and TradeTracker.com sold for 100,000 EUR, or about $145,000 USD.

Other impressive sales include Production.com at $70,000, 222.com at $49,000, designer.de for 50,000 EUR, and a strong .org sale of Attorney.org for $38,500.

Here are other notable sales at Sedo this past week:

.com
digiweb.com 25,000 USD
virtualimmortality.com 25,000 USD
gutenberg.com 20,000 USD
ukmail.com 10,000 GBP
risk-consulting.com 9,500 USD
pinkdiamond.com 7,999 USD
californiainsurancefinder.com 6,000 USD
viajantes.com 5,000 USD Travelers in Portugeuse
loveqa.com 5,000 USD
770poker.com 5,000 USD
it411.com 5,000 USD

ccTLDs
tuc.nl 10,000 EUR
cleaningservices.co.uk 9,100 GBP
hotelscombined.kr 8,000 USD
superstar.eu 8,000 EUR
recensioni.it 7,200 EUR Reviews in Italian
hotelscombined.co.kr 6,000 USD
springbreak.de 6,000 EUR
mitbewohner.de 5,500 EUR
lumen.eu 5,000 EUR
thalasso.ch 5,000 EUR
arctos.eu 5,000 USD
dumm.de 5,000 EUR

Other
karneval.org 12,500 EUR Carnival in German
medicalschool.org 11,500 USD
freelancer.org 10,000 EUR
gmn.org 9,888 USD
counselor.org 8,900 USD
qfi.org 7,140 USD
parfum.org 6,600 EUR Perfume in French

Mint.com domain name sale worth about $2 million.

Mint.com Domain Name sale about $2.M

Hite Capital sold the Mint.com domain name to the recently sold finance web site for equity a few years ago. It has paid off, according to an article by Michael Arrington on Tech Crunch.

…Mint gave a “substantial” amount of Series A stock to Hite Capital in exchange for the Mint.com domain name. That stock was worth a “couple of million dollars,” says one source, after the acquisition.

Not bad. For Hite Capital, selling a domain name for equity paid off. (It’s not clear if there was cash involved in the transaction as well.) But selling a domain for equity doesn’t always work out as planned. One high profile case is Business.com, which Marc Ostrofsky sold for $7.5M in 1999. But that wasn’t cash; it was equity. And according to the buyer, it ended up redeeming that equity for only $2.0M in 2004.

Bido releases system to manage domain purchases and sales.

Bido’s new transaction manager

When you sell one domain name a day, managing the payment and transfer process can be done manually. When you start selling dozens of domains a day, it gets more complicated.

Bido has released a new buyer and seller transaction system to make its dozens of daily transactions easier. It includes both buyer and seller overviews and the ability to drill down to manage individual transactions. This self-serve tool is essential when you’re dealing with many sub-$100 sales each day.

I haven’t come across many domains that interested me on Bido lately, until yesterday. Two auctions — DFW.info and LotteryNumbers.us — caught my attention. I ended up bidding on LotteryNumbers.us, although I let someone else have it at $48. DFW.info attracted lots of attention, and sold for $324 with 19 bids. I’m not going to opine on the value of Bido in terms of creating liquidity. But I will say, if you have domains you’re looking to sell for as little as $28, it’s worth taking a look at Bido.

UK domain name will clear six figures.

The domain name Rent.co.uk is set to sell on Sedo this Friday for at least £65,000 GBP. That’s about $107,000 USD at today’s exchange rates. So far there’s only one interested buyer in the domain name, which would chart itself well for sales of .co.uk domains.

8q.com will also close on Friday. It has attracted two bidders and a top bid of $10,100.

The most active auction at Sedo right now is for xoxide.com. It has 71 bids and a current price of $7,611. The auction includes the popular web site for computer modification tools. The current owners are shutting it down and putting it up for sale. According to the sales page at Xoxide.com, the site does roughly $200,000 in monthly revenue. The key measure — profits — is not disclosed. The site received over 300,000 unique visits in August. The xoxide.com auction ends September 17.

Here are some other auctions at Sedo this week worth keeping an eye on:

Motel.info 3,500 EUR
Ballpointpens.co.uk £1,000
61.eu 950 EUR
World.im $650
Trailer.org $410
Important.org $365
Ocean.info $240

Hyphenated domain sale is a shocker.

Sedo has brokered the sale of Hotel-Reservation.com for a shocking 142,800 EUR, or about $208,000 USD at today’s exchange rate. This is certainly one of the most expensive hyphenated domain name purchases of all time. With nearly 700,000 global searches monthly for this term on Google (and 25 million for the plural version reservations), the SEO value of this domain is certainly high. Whois records show that the likely seller was DomCollect, and the buyer is Hotel Reservation Service GmbH. UPDATE: As pointed out by a reader below, DomCollect is owned by Sedo.

Separately, HotelsWashingtonDC.com sold for a strong $22,000. That domain appears to have been purchased by Graham Easton of SwiftRank.com, a company that creates optimized travel portals.

Other notable sales include 34.com for $68,000 and ElectricGuitars.com for $42,700.

Other sales at Sedo over the past week:

.COM
7y.com 25,000 USD
juegos-gratis.com 16,500 EUR Free games in Spanish
zwan.com 15,350 USD
newharvest.com 15,000 USD
live-odds.com 8,000 EUR
christianstore.com 6,000 USD
cheapvuelo.com 5,000 EUR
mypapa.com 5,000 USD
dextro.com 5,000 USD
flashxml.com 4,800 USD
timetogo.com 4,500 EUR

ccTLDs
steroids.com.au 8,000 USD
tapisroulant.it 6,000 EUR Treadmill in Italian
testosterone.co.uk 5,500 GBP
bao.fr 4,000 EUR

Other
tagesgeld.info 11,500 EUR
travelguide.net 10,100 USD
businessschool.org 10,000 USD
tarife.org 7,500 EUR Tax in French
game.pro 5,000 USD