From sports to health, fifty end user domain sales from the past two weeks.
With the U.S. holiday last week I postponed the end user sales report. That means two weeks of data this week — and about 50 sales to report. Here goes…
Afternic
The Sportsman’s Guide, Inc. picked the UK version of its name, SportsmansGuide.co.uk, for $2,000.
A Beautiful California Florist bought ABCFlorist.com (get it, ABC?) for $1,500.
Sand Source Services shortened its web address from SandSourceServices.com to SandSource.com for $1,988.
Automated Pet Care Products, Inc. bought AutoPets.com for $1,295.
National Notary Association paid $2,252 for TrustedNotary.com. (Hope they got the sales agreement notarized!)
Credit card processing company Platinum Payments dropped the hyphen from its Platinum-Payments.com domain name for $1,400, which is about the cost of one ounce of platinum.
National Towelette Company Inc, manufacturer of private label wipes, bought FlexWipes.com for $1,422.
Here’s a purchase from a site I’ve been using a lot as I build a new home: Build.com. The company paid $1,500 for ApplianceStop.com.
Choice Healthcare Group bought ChoiceHealthCare.com for $2,500.
Nationwide Shipping, Inc. of Florida bought its company name (and also a great descriptive name) NationwideShipping.com for $1,500.
Popeye’s Supplements Canada, which I sure hope has a trademark license for the Popeye character, bought SupplementsUSA.com for $3,077.
The Heinz Family Office and Foundation bought JohnHeinz.com for $2,088. It’s likely in memory of the former Senator.
Whitman Publishing, publisher of a price guide for coins, bought VintageAvenue.com for $2,000. This no doubt refers to vintage coins.
Gourmet Business LLC picked up a gourmet domain for $1,500: FineCheese.com.
Diamond retailer Alberta Diamond Exchange purchased TrueDiamonds.com for $2,795.
Life Coach International paid $1,988 for CorporateSeminars.com.
Wanger OmniWealth spent a bit of its wealth on WowLLC.com for $1,888.
Florida law firm The Pikramenos Law Group, PLLC bought InjuryLegalCenter.com for $1,595.
Student housing company StudentRooms.com expanded with StudentPods.com for $1,595.
Local site WelcomeToMiami.com looks to be expanding up the east coast with its new iManhattan.com domain. It purchased it for $1,200.
Cottage Assisted Living bought TheCottages.net for $1,475.
Online credentialing firm Verisys bought eCredentialing.com for $3,500.
An agent with Keller Williams Realty bought NewOrleansHomeSearch.com for $1,288.
The owner of BuyersGuide.com bought ServicesGuide.com for $1,400, ConsultantsGuide.com for $2,494, Birdsguide.com for $2,094, ProductsGuide.com for $1,344, OwnersGuide.com for $2,594, and ActorsGuide.com for $2,644.
Arthur Andrew Medical Inc paid $3,500 for Enzymes.org.
Truffle company Laumont paid $1,100 for FreshTruffle.com.
CitySquare, a non-profit trying to fight the root causes of poverty, paid $1,000 for CitySolutions.org.
Here’s a nice improvement: My World News, Inc. dropped the ill-place hyphen in MyWorld-News.com for only $3,388.
Dolphini Networks outsmarted its competitors by purchasing BackupandStorage.com for just $1,000.
Applicant tracking software company iApplicants bought HireList.com for $2,000.
Prestige Dental shortened its web address from PrestigeDentalProducts.com to PrestigeDental.com for $1,500.
The creator of The New Phonics Game purchased LearningLegacy.com for $1,500
KG Technologies Inc moved from KGTechnologies.net to .com for $3,000
Free Spirit Wine, which is due to launch its web site this summer, upgraded from FreeSpiritWine.com to FreeSpirits.com for $1,250. Given the more general nature of “Free spirits”, I think this is a great deal.
Halifax Medical Center, owner of Halifax.org, bought HalifaxHealth.com for $16,200.
Investing software company TradingBlock bought MoneyBlock.com for $2,273.50.
The owner of AnyTranslation.co.uk went global with AnyTranslation.com for $2,800.
Fitness Together Holdings, Inc picked up ElementsMassage.com for $7,500.
DealersUnited, an auto dealer purchasing consortium, paid $3,688 for BusinessesUnited.com.
Sedo
AppFactory Srl bought the fitting domain Tabletize.com for $4,500
The Massachusetts Historical Society bought MHS.us for $750.
First Factory, Inc. shortened its domain from FirstFactoryInc.com to FirstFactory.com for $2,200.
The owner of InnosparkStudios.com bought Innospark.com for $1,000.
The owner of FurnishedApartments.COM bought FurnishedApartments.NET for $1,299.
Todd says
Thanks for this report.
My favorite as always.
Two others I think could be included:
relaxtionchannel.com which was in Pending Delete in April went for $3388 to Healing HealthCare Systems (healinghealth.com)
bellcapital.com which was in Pre-Release at NameJet just a few weeks ago went for $7500 to Marc Bell Capital Partners (marcbell.com)
Andrew Allemann says
@ Todd – thanks for adding those.
Aaron says
Good stuff — thanks for the research.
Interesting to see the price points — only 2 over $5k.
Andrew Allemann says
$1500 is a typical end user price point.
Ron says
I didn’t see one $5K sale or above there, for the most part seemed many were in the $1500 range.
Aaron says
Ron:
ElementsMassage.com for $7,500
HalifaxHealth.com for $16,200
🙂
@Domains says
I am surprised how low some of those prices are, you’d think some money was left on the table.
DR.DOMAIN says
imanhattan.com for 1200 bux ?! A steal.
I like that bundle that Buyers Guide bought.Obviously they have a development plan.
*I am just now furiously typing in ____guide.com checking “availability”…in case I can be of further “help” to their “strategy”.:-)
Ron says
NationwideShipping.com for $1,500 this seems like pretty good value for the buyer…
Is it buydomains who is wholesaling these to end users?
Andrew Allemann says
Ron – BuyDomains was the seller on NationwideShipping.com
rob sequin says
Maybe just a summer slow down but seems like prices are WAY down.
$1500 average as Andrew said.
Granted the big ones don’t get published but very few domains selling for five figures let alone six figures.
Funding says
Typical domainer-sellers with small portfolios, working within a fragmented, cottage industry are getting desperate for a return on their investments – thus, the low prices.
Andrew Allemann says
@ Funding – ten bucks says the majority of those sales are from a huge portfolio holder.
Jason says
IRALLC – 1000
CapitalFirst – 1500
KentuckySingles – 800
all in .com versions
Also a private sale for 12k here as well.
Privy Domains says
This is very typical of a recession cycle.
I am into stock market which is my primary business & understands this very well.
At the bottom of the recession cycle, there is very less demand for discretionary spending everywhere.
In these times only those with deep pockets & insight of future survives, all other players generally moves out of the market.
These people only come back in the middle or end of the boom.
@Andrew Allemann / @Funding IMHO It is not necessarily either one categaory i.e. large portfolio or small time domainers but any person who is short of funds or has entered during last 3-4 years which are selling out.
My Two Cents : I believe this is the best time to get good bargains at super cheap prices.
Nicco Schaal says
Selling so low … what were they thinking?