Four letter domain sells to end user for $17,500.
Sedo sold $1.04 million worth of domains last week despite the U.S. holiday. Here are some of the end user domain sales.
A company called Information Resources Online, which owns IRO.com, bought ORIO.com for $17,500.
NIBC Bank N.V. paid 10,000 GBP for Dubank.com.
Veda Advantage Limited, a credit risk company, bought FreeCreditScore.com.au for $2,500 USD.
Career Cafe Ltd paid 1,500 GBP for 360degrees.co.uk.
Spraying Systems Co, which already owns the awesome domain Spray.com, picked up SprayingSystems.co.uk for 1,000 GBP. It forwards to Spray.com.
Swiss Private Job AG bought its acronym SPJ.ch for 850 EUR.
Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water, a water utility in Wales, bought WelshWater.co.uk for 750 GBP.
A CSC client bought SpartSpan.com for $2,395.
Communications companyTelefonica bought BeMore.net for 3,900 EUR.
BILD digital GmbH & Co. KG, which operates entertainment site BILD.de, bought BILDmusik.com for $1,295.
The owner of customized badge site BadgeBuddies.NET bought BadgeBuddies.com for $1,000.
Fashion TV Programmgesellschaft mbH, owner of FTV.com and FashionTV.com, bought f-man.com for $875.
The Exploratorium in San Francisco bought ScienceofBaseball.com for $750. I’ll have to check out that exhibit.
Beyond B-School, a career services company for MBA schools, bought ExecutiveLuxury.com for $899.
Moran Law already owns MichiganBankruptcyFirm.com, and apparently gets enough value out of it that it bought OhioBankruptcyAttorney.com for $3,995.
QNB Bank in Quakertown, Pennsylvania bought QNBBank.com for $800. This is likely for defensive purposes since it already owns QNB.com.
Tribune Company, owner of the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and WGN America bought NoCreditCars.com for $2,000. It is a co-owner of Cars.com.
Auction.com bought SoldBlog.com for $2,200.
Why, why, why are you people selling your domains so cheap?
Talk about bad negotiating.
@Tim
Why,why,why are you people selling your domains so cheap?
You never know what someones financial circumstances are………Do they need it for rent, groceries, clothing etc. Not all domainers are wealthy.
A good solution would be to have these sales that are below …say maybe $2500 or so, be listed under the headline:
“End User Sales at Domainer Prices”
Although, technically, if an End User buys it even for a dollar, it can still be considered an end user sale.
Most of the domains that sell for $2500 to end users wouldn’t sell for more than $250 to a domainer 🙂
@Tim
you also don’t know how much an end user is willing to pay. whether or not they understand YOUR (biased) valuation of the domain is irrelevant: many simply will not pay for it. period. you could hold that “rare & valuable” domain for the rest of your life. do you take $xxx or low $xxxx right now or do you wait for the fairy that may never come? not every sale will be “a perfect alignment of all the planets”.
@SF
“…below …say maybe $2500 or so, be listed under the headline: “End User Sales at Domainer Prices” ”
are you kidding me? alright then… grab your money and head off to any domain marketplace – there are millions of domains well under $2500 that you as the domain investor could grab and make a fortune on. quick, don’t delay, before i get to them first !
LiveSafe.com sold for $65K at Sedo. WhoIs shows McAfee. Safe to say they were the buyers?
“Why, why, why are you people selling your domains so cheap?”
How many can we take to the grave? 🙂
When a produce (Fruit/Veg) wholesaler has tomatoes that are ripping, he needs to move them quick. Rather than throwing them away a couple days later.
(something is better than nothing.)
Our mediocre domains are ripping because of the many new gtld’s coming to market over the next couple years. However, our prime .com domains have a longer shelf life.
Notwithstanding the quality of the domain(s). Most domainers have to decide when they simply Must reduce their price and sell whole sale.
My question is, What’s a domainer or wholesale price and what’s an end user price. Since there is a differentiation between a domain investor and an end user, logically, there should also be a differentiation between an end user price and a domainer price. Unless the after market has dropped so low that any price paid qualifies as an end user price.
It is more than a little jarring to see the sub-1k sales given mention here, though.