Car rental company Enterprise and a guy named Sam among those buying domain names this past week.
What does it feel like when you’re able to acquire a domain name matching your common first and last name? This is what San Francisco resident Sam Bishop posted at SamBishop.com after acquiring the domain name:
That’s the entire website. And I know the feeling!
Sam was just one of many end users buying domain names at Sedo this past week. The company handled 788 domain name transactions for $1.3 million.
Once I picked through all of the three and four letter domains, and the numeric domains bought by Chinese investors, I found 24 end user sales.
Some domain names, like DraftPicks.com, are still in escrow. The buyer paid only $8,000 for this domain — does that seem like a steal to you?
Here’s a look at end user domain name sales from the past week on Sedo:
(You can view previous lists like this here. If you’d like to learn how to sell your domain names like these on Sedo, download this report.)
Wine.mx $25,001 – After paying $25,000 for Wine.co, the online wine store at Wine.com.br paid $1 more for the .mx domain name.
ABM.co.uk £1,650 – ABM Facility Services UK Limited is a division of the facilities management company that owns ABM.com.
AMTAmassage.com $1,955 – American Massage Therapy Association, a trade organization for the massage therapy business. This is an example of a company buying an obvious trademark because it was probably more practicle (and cheaper) than filing a UDRP.
KrollBondRatings.org $2,000 – Kroll Bond Ratings agency uses the matching .com domain name. Here’s another obvious trademark purchase.
StTammanyLibrary.com $900 – St. Tammany Parish Library in Louisiana. It already owns the shorter domain stpl.us.
Serelys.com $850 – S.A.M. Serelys Pharma is a pharmaceuticals company in Monaco. It uses the domain name SerelysPharma.com.
Smartsage.com $1,400 – Network services company Hughes Network Systems must have bought this domain for a new product line or marketing message.
CodeCandy.com $1,000 – User interface company Conze bought this clever domain name. This is one of my favorite buys of the week.
SkinnyWorld.com $2,250 – The weight loss company behind Skinny-World.com dropped the hyphen.
BeTheChange.com $9,988 – Teleperformance is some kind of marketing company. After a couple minutes of trying to figure out what it does (on its English language site), I decided it’s not very good at marketing.
Qbit.com €7,350 – Qbit GmbH, seller of audio equipment, uses Qbit.de.
DayShopping.com $2,000 – Brazilian marketing agency Daybook.
YourAuctionInc.com $2,669 – It’s still three words, but it’s a lot shorter than Your Auction, Inc’s other domain name yourauctiontampabay.com. YourAuction.com is protected by whois privacy.
Vissmann.com $1,500 – I suspect this is a common misspelling for Viessmann IT Service GmbH.
ARMSbusiness.com $3,000 – No, car rental company Enterprise isn’t getting into the guns business. ARMS stands for Automated Rental Management System.
SamBishop.com $795 – This is the Sam Bishop I mentioned in the lede. At $795, I wonder why it took so long?
Novian.com €1,250 – another name purchase. Artist Mina Novian forwards her new, shorter domain name to MinaNovian.com.
TouchMonitor.net $995 – Utah company Touch Screens, Inc. I wonder when the term “touch” will become assumed and redundant when mentioning screens?
Misters.com $775 – Somehow I doubt Zahrt Holdings is into the patio misting business since it’s in Wisconsin, but this is a heck of a deal on this domain name.
AllApp.com $1,288 – This domain forwards to UseAllApp.com, but the website doesn’t say much about the business.
PaymentIntegrity.com $777 – although not registered in a company name, the email address of the registrant ties this back to private equity group West End Holdings.
Fenopy.eu $800 – The whois doesn’t disclose the owner, but the site currently hosts a torrent site.
EarlyBlackFriday.com $877 – 2Prices LLC bought this domain name, which has a website posting Black Friday ads in advance. Early.blackfriday is registered by someone else and doesn’t resolve.
SweetLips.com $1,450 – all I’ll say is this is a sex device. The Norway company behind it uses the matching .no domain name.
Howie says
Had to do a google for draft picks. To do with NFL is it. $8000 is the deposit right?
AbdulBasit Makrani says
Wine.mx was a great sale and getting that extra $1 must be a real fun for seller.
BeTheChange.com was a steal for buyer and someone like Mike Berkens would have sold for at least 25K looking at his current similar sales.
Nice to see the sale of DayShopping.com because I have ShoppingDay.com. Although moving one word right to left changes the meaning of domain.
shaheepath says
let’s see what happen.
shaheepath says
making us bagger and sucking our wealth this way -that way.just nothing but Irfun.
Omar Negron says
The Draftpicks name is…wonderful. 8K well worth it in my opinion.
Huge industry and just keeps growing.
-Omar
Joseph Peterson says
BeTheChange.com was reported sold last April too:
https://domainnamewire.com/2015/04/09/namejet-expired-domain-name-review-4/
Andrew Allemann says
a nice resale!
Mike S. says
Draftpicks was a steal at $8K for an industry that is just exploding right now (Fantasy Football)
Bonin says
Personally I like Smartsage.com and SweetLips.com I think they are very good brand names with potential.
Novian.com It is a beautiful name, short and melodically, hopefully I can buy my surname for the same price…..
Regards
Bonin