Wyndham Hotels among end users to buy domains last week.
Here are 14 end user domain purchases from the past week. All sales are at Afternic unless otherwise noted.
A California company, iBots LLC, bought iBots.com for $5,000. The soon-to-launch company will offer marketing automation software.
Wyndham Hotels, which owns a chain called Night Hotels, bought NightHotels.com for $1,500 at Sedo.
A company called International Gaming Solutions in Romania bought IGSonline.com for $7,688.
NetSuite partner vConstruct bought TheNewOffice.com for $1,200.
Here’s an interesting buy. Altria, parent company of Philip Morris, bought GoldTracks.com for $2,988.
Email company FreshAddress paid $1,200 for SafetoSend.com.
Laser tag gun company Delta Strike upgraded from DeltaStrike.net to DeltaStrike.com for $2,500.
The owner of Playbill.com bought ArtsEDU.com for $2,200.
ACP Magazines paid $1,250 for TechLife.net at Sedo, the name of a magazine it just launched.
The infamous Psychic Friends Network paid $2,000 for PsychicFriend.com. Hopefully they used their psychic powers to negotiate a good deal on the domain.
EnerCal USA, which owns Texas energy company Texpo Energy, bought PennsylvaniaPower.com for $1,000 and SouthwestPower.com for $1,600.
Greves Protection Management bought CorporateInvestigators.com for $2,000.
Here’s a great one. Vantage Deluxe World Travel bought Discoveries.com for 12,000 EUR at Sedo.
Precision Pipe & Products Inc., which sells steel piping, paid $1,000 for InfraSteel.com.
Gabriele says
Interesting article, thanks for sharing!
Greetings from Berlin
Jonathan says
Discoveries.com That was a Very Good buy
Seeker says
Discoveries.com GREAT NAME @ a GREAT PRICE
Josh says
A, the more weeks that pass and the more end user trades I see on decent names in the $XXXX range I have to assume most may be an alternative to a udrp, wipo, lawsuit or simple C&D.
Not to say the domain itself may not be considered generic but generic and roughly or identically the same name as a company, wonder what the use was parked lol
rob says
did enercal buy pennnsylvania… (with 3 n’s) or is that a typo?
it’s interesting to see how some of these end user domain sales are just soooooo cheap. one or two thousand is a joke for many of them.
i think what lets the industry down is the massive hoarding of semi (entirely?) useless names and wanting to sell at business end-user prices rather than the hobbyist end-user prices they should be. it effectively means that the good domains have to be lowered somewhat in price so that they make enough sales to pay for the holding of so many “long shot” domains. basically some domains should go way up while others way down.
Andrew Allemann says
@ Rob – that was a typo. fixed. thanks.