Time Inc. bought a sports domain name and Sears might start a site at Wash.in.
Sedo turned in $2 million worth of domain name sales during the last two weeks of the year, a fairly high number of the holiday period. I think it was helped by a couple big sales, because $2 million is high for a transaction volume of just 648 domains.
Some large companies bought domains, including Time and (I believe) Sears.
Here’s a look at these end user domain name sales from the past week:
(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.)
Wash.in $15,000 – my guess is Sears is the buyer. It was registered by Sears’ Director of E-Commerce. It’s possible it’s for an outside project, though.
LottoResults.co.za $5,0000 – UK company Jackpot Gaming Ltd.
Hadwins.co.uk GBP 2,000 – Hadwins Capital Ltd, a financial markets trading software company that uses the domain name HadForex.co.uk.
CBRewards.com $3,295 – Bit9 + Carbon Black is a security firm. CB obviously stands for the second part of its name.
anıtur.com (IDN) $3,000 – The domain name was purchased by the owner of Aniture.com.tr and now forwards to that travel site.
Payworks.com $5,000 – Payworks GmbH, which provides a white lable card reader solution for point of sale companies, made a nice upgrade from its PayworksMobile.com domain name.
SportsCon.com $5,500 – Time Inc., publisher of Sports Illustrated.
PerfectPortal.com $6,000 and LawyersBank.com $5,000 – LEAP Legal Software. As its name implies, it creates software for law firms.
DannyChong.com $2,395 – A guy named Danny Chong wanted more than DannyChong.me.
Bkam.com $3,900 – Bkam FZ-LLC offers a price comparison app for Egypt.
HoneyMagic.com $2,095 – the owner of BulkHerbStore.com. My guess is he will introduce a honey product or book.
Need.me $25,000 – I’m not sure what San Francisco company Fast & Fun, LLC plans to do with this domain.
IMSLearning.com $2,595 – Institute for Management Studies, a management training company.
SigBrands.com $2,499 – Horizon Beverage is a liquor distributor in the Northeast.
Polarizer.com EUR 2,500 – American Polarizers provides solutions for polarization (think windshields).
BeWellatWork.com $2,495 – Employee benefits company Workplace Options, Inc
DECService.com $2,795 – DEC IMPIANTI S.p.A. supplies industrial emission control systems.
EnergyTalker.com $2,500 – publicly traded energy company ENGIE group
LegalClick.com $2,495 – Legal Click, LLC is launching a legal service.
Continental.org $2,888 – Continental AG, maker of tires and other automotive products.
ViewPoint.com.au $2,000 – ViewPoint construction software.
FDP.org $9,888 – Food Service Design Professionals in Texas.
SportsCon is awful cheap if Time Magazine is creating a NamesCon for sports!
LegalClick.com would have been a great name for that Company that held a contest, and decided to rebrand from Congo.
Also I prefer it to LegalBooth.com — not a bad name, but one that presents a legal minefield with the TM owners of LawBooth and thelawbooth.com company/site
I also prefer “Legal” to “Law” — just my preference.
As far as SportsCon.com — congrats to the seller. I used to work in branding. Rule # – never name a product or site that has the “con” in it, unless your client is “Prisons, Inc.” or Ex-Prisoners, a non-profit.
Need.me was purchased by a former Googler whom I’m sure will create a super product
.in for $15,000. Good to see.
I’ve always wanted to know how these names were sold on sedo. Was it a buy it now listing that the buyers navigated to the landing page of the domain and bought it or was it promoted through one of sedo’s channels (great domains, 7 day auction, etc). This info will be very helpful. Thanks.
I stand with ‘United we stand’… I would also like to know this answer. These sales prices are certainly interesting and, I suppose valuable in valuing domains, but I think the information remains incomplete to those it impacts unless we also know exactly how they sold them. Thank you, ‘United we stand’.
At least you know of the approximately $2 million in sales, 56% were BIN. That tells you something.
Time is buying companies hoping to salvage its value. Look into the portfolio and you’ll find Time paying $100mil for companies earning 2 mil profit.
Research.Fact.
If these companies had wanted real domains they should have contacted me….many of these names are weak at best and the lot is worth about 900 dollars a piece…would not touch a one of them…compare any of these to DubaiDeals.com…rest is junk sorry folks.