Gaming company, natural food store, and rental car company make domain name purchases.
GoDaddy and Afternic combined to sell over $1.8 million worth of domain names last week. Here are 32 that were sold to end users. See previous end user sales reports here.
Humble.com $50,000 – Humble Bundle, which sells PC and Android games on a pay-what-you-want model and donates money to charity. Its websites is HumbleBundle.com.
EconomyRentalCars.com $25,000 – Economy Rent a Car
Fiaba.com $14,000 – Fiaba and Friends, a Costa Rica company
HeadHigh.com $2,088 – Head High Holdings LLC, a Flordia company that owns headhighholdings.com. (Soon, it could also get a .holdings domain if it wants to.)
NaturalMarket.com $11,350 – MyNaturalMarket.com, an online retailer of natural products.
ContractHub.com $2,488 – Plugdiggity, a corporate finance and marketing strategy firm.
NicBuzz.com $1,000 – dotStrategy, the company behind .buzz. (Why? See this.)
BuildersResourceGroup.com $1,294 – Builder’s Resource Group, Inc., a building supply company in Wisconsin. Its website is BRGroup-Inc.com (ouch!)
FinancialStories.com $2,088 – Leap Systems, a software company that’s getting ready to launch a new product called Financial Stories.
CashGen.com $4,000 – Cheque Centre, a UK payday loans lender.
VIPkid.com $1,995 – the owner of VIP.com and VIPShop.com
CriminalLawMiami.com $3,580 – Miami law firm Negrin Law.
YumBait.com and YumBaits.com $1,000 each – EBSCO Industries, Inc., which owns the YumBait brand of fishing lures.
LockCores.com $1,999 – SystemForward America, Inc., franchisor of Pop-a-Lock
YouthfulAging.com $5,000 – Dr. Neil Levin, a doctor in East Northport, New York.
LeadershipCulture.com $1,400 – Leading Resources, a strategy consulting firm.
iDeposit.com $4,750 – mobile credit card processing company iDesposit.net smartly bought the matching .com domain name.
PinPointServices.com $1,188 – PinPoint Communications, a telephone and internet provider that uses PNPT.com for its website.
BenefitManagers.com $2,570 – MPG Consulting Group, LLC, which appears to be affiliated with AXA Advisors.
IQLighting.com $2,500 – IQ Design Products, which operates a number of home products under IQ brands.
MJMedia.net $1,588 – MJ Media, a print and web design company. It already owns MJMedia.com.
OnlineBootCamp.com $2,000 – Breakthrough Health & Wellness Solutions, a provider of corporate healthcare programs.
GoogleCreate.com $2,300 – Flatspin, a South African web company that apparently wants to learn about UDRP.
Film-On.com $5,000 – Ginger Clam LTD, the company that runs free online TV site FilmOn.com.
SportsBreak.com $6,476 – Concourse Media, which creates lifestyle and news sites.
InsureLogic.com $1,800 – Bannister & Associates Insurance in Huntington Beach, CA.
CottonSeedOil.com $1,500 – Cotton Incorporated. You probably recognize its logo:
EggBanks.com $5,000 – FertilityAuthority, LLC in New York City.
UltimateCarCare.com $3,388 – Car care products company Meguiar’s.
IDCoach.com $3,824 – Technology company Isaac Daniel Group
DR.DOMAIN says
I’m sure that there was a moderately tense meeting at Economy Rent A Car before they made that purchase. Probably came to the conclusion it would be easier to just offer a decent price.
Maz says
Another one:
EGI dot net
sold to Ernie Green Industries, a large auto parts supplier.
$6,400
Andrew Allemann says
Thanks Maz
Robbie says
Economy Car Rental one if you look at who the seller was, you will understand why it commanded the price it did.
NaturaMarket.com was a interesting one the actual end user was watching the domain thru the drop cycle, and it was done at 5K, and it looks like they had to fight to about $11K to get it…so end users are getting keen… who needs joe domainer to come a knocking…
marcus says
GoogleCreate.com?????
Andrew Allemann says
Yeah, and go take a look at the site…
Marcus says
GoogleCreate.com will get a call from the 800lb guerrilla name Google.com.
Sameh says
NaturalMarket.com and iDeposit.com were GoDaddy Expiring Auctions.
Maxwell says
So if google came to get googlecreate.com, what would happen?
I know the new owner would have to give it up.
But would the original seller have to refund the money to google or would they get to keep it since the domain is no longer registered to their name?
Does anyone know?
Andrew Allemann says
Nah, they wouldn’t get their money back. Some sales contracts state that the seller is not aware of any infringement, but I doubt there was such a contract here. And it’s so obvious…