Fannie Mae dips into pockets to buy KnowYourOptions.com.
Mortgage backer Fannie Mae has spent $50,000 (of basically your money) to buy the domain name KnowYourOptions.com. The site will no doubt explain your options if you find yourself behind on your mortgage.
The deal tied another domain name — VideoDating.com — for the top spot at domain broker Sedo this week. The seller of VideoDating.com is Steve Newman. He was president of GreatDomains back in the day and also owns Rock.com, a fully developed social network for music fans. Coincidentally, Sedo now owns GreatDomains.
The domain was purchased by someone in Canada. Perhaps they want to jump on the ChatRoulette.com bandwagon, but for more meaningful chat interactions?
Here are other notable sales from Sedo this past week.
.Com
uspo.com 20000 USD
coa.com 16500 USD
keku.com 15000 USD
completecommerce.com 14000 USD
detektei.com 11000 EUR
saraiva.com 10000 USD
pcnames.com 10000 USD
realcopy.com 9500 USD
newrock.com 8400 USD
gaysoulmate.com 8000 USD
xaas.com 7810 USD
relian.com 7500 EUR
koffers.com 7000 EUR
fastapasta.com 6900 USD
nanai.com 5600 USD
santafevacationrentals.com 5280 USD
beq.com 5101 USD
hck.com 5001 USD
shakeria.com 5000 EUR
spotting.com 5000 EUR
1238.com 5000 USD
ccTLDs
vermietung.de 23000 EUR
gezocht.nl 20000 EUR
cafe.de 15000 EUR
equip.me 15000 USD
hfk.de 12000 EUR
weights.co.uk 6610 GBP
americanholidays.co.uk 6500 GBP
seo.es 6000 EUR
ginseng.asia 5400 EUR
tech.tv 5000 USD
Other
gwp.org 9888 USD
medikamente.net 8430 EUR
textbooks.org 6100 USD
universallifeinsurance.org 5200 USD
privatestudentloan.net 5100 USD
kobo.net 5000 USD
Aron - XF.com says
VideoDating.com — cool name. The ideas just start flowing with that one.
NOTE:
knowyoureoptions.com is available for registration… and we know how some people can’t spell and don’t know the difference between YOUR and YOURE.
However, be careful if you buy the name and use it for ANYTHING mortgage related.
Just saying.
Amr says
How much videodating.com sold for ?
Andrew Allemann says
@ amr – $50k
mansour says
Excellent prices but very few sold domains, considering fact that million are for sale I start using eBay to sell some of my domains I have the domain http://www.iHopeSo.com for auction there so fare I have one offer for $60.00. Will see how it goes. I am not sure if eBay is a good place to sell domains.
don says
I wouldnt be too concerned about the typo version, hard to imagine they can trademark the term know your options or how they will spin this differen than making home affordable or whatever else misguided program they bring to the market that doesnt solve the real estate and mortgage crisis..and one could always argue they are simply a shareholder of the company anyways…
Josh says
Will be interesting to see what level videodating.com is developed to, curious if it got traffic but no real way to tell apart from looking at videodate(s).com which see next to non. Concept isnt new but may catch on. More of a brandable purchase than anything or so it seems.
Andrew Allemann says
@mansour – these are only the sales >5k
Jon says
Will VideoDating.com be looking to take advantage of recent release and subsequent buzz of FaceTime on iPhone.
I think so. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2365750,00.asp
Josh says
Looks like theyll take advantage of morons. Just saw the site, after 1 day of ownership they have success stories and member videos that look like hookers. Same old bs, just looks nicer lol
Logan says
The real steal in this list was tech.tv for $5,000. Nice!