Lots of .com upgrades in this week’s end user domain sales list.
If there’s any theme in this week’s end user list, it’s the recurring theme of companies buying a .com domain name that matches a second level domain in a country code or other top level domain name that they already own. There’s also one case of the reverse this week; the owner of a .com bought the matching “hack” in a new TLD (see source.support).
The top end user sale of the week is a pharmaceutical company that took a very long and difficult-to-spell domain name and shortened it to just four letters for $30,000. This is the difference between a “Chinese premium” investor sale and an end user sale. And yes, the domain has a couple of vowels in it.
Here are 15 end user sales I found on Sedo’s sales list this week:
(You can view previous lists like this here.)
Dova.com €30,000 – Dova Pharmaceuticals, Inc. dropped the long (and commonly misspelled) Pharmaceuticals.com from the end of its domain name.
CallIndia.com $12,000 – Miron Enterprises, LLC offers long distance calling services through an app at KeepCalling.com.
Vlogging.com $9,999 – The Whois record is private and the site doesn’t say much about who owns it, but Vlogging.com has already been put to use.
OceanYachts.com £6,000 – Old Thorns Golf Hotel & Country Estate Ltd in Great Britain.
Luxotticaessilor.com €5,000 – You might not be familiar with Luxottica Group S.p.A. But if you wear glasses, you’re probably a customer.
Medistart.com $5,000 – Naumann zu Grünberg Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH is a European medical education company that uses the domain name medistart.de.
Simplify.ai $3,999 – IdeaLab, the incubator that invented paid search many moons ago. The company has a page up that says it will offer “Artificial Intelligence for All”.
X-Services.com €3,500 – Xing is a billion dollar (market cap) professional social network based in Germany.
CosRX.com $3,500 – CosRX Inc. is a Korean skincare company that uses the domain name cosrx.co.kr.
Secucom.com $3,000 – Secucom is a distributor of telecom equipment.
LawTutors.com $2,995 – The company that uses LawTutors.net decided they should own the matching .com domain.
HolmgrensBil.com $2,799 – Holmgrens Bil AB is a Swedish car leasing company that owns the matching .se domain name.
CoolCollect.com $2,000 – IFCO Systems is a food packaging company. Perhaps Cool Collect refers to refrigerated food packs?
Endoc.com $2,000 – Check O Matic, Inc sells checks and envelopes. I imagine this will be for a product or brand that play son En(velope) and Doc(uments).
Source.support $2,000 – IT services company Source Support Services uses the domain name SourceSupport.com.
Jamie Zoch says
Vlogging.com sold WAY low! I even would have purchased it at $10K and I’m as cheap as they come! Vlogging = video blogging
Andrew Allemann says
I wrote before about someone who bought a lot of vlog domains when the term was starting to be popular about 10 years ago. Hasn’t the term passed, though?
Logan says
Apparently not based on the purchase and the immediate site launch of content.
Andrea Paladini says
“Luxotticaessilor.com €5,000”
This is a typical case of a TM owner purchasing the domain instead of going through a UDRP which no doubt would have awarded them the name.
I’ve also seen a similar .net name being sold recently.
Previous owner is clearly a cybersquatter, in its worst definition, who registered the name when or just before the merger between Luxottica and Essilor was announced.
It would have been an easy to get name in a UDRP, both Luxottica and Essilor have many longstanding TMs on the terms, very easy to prove all elements of a UDRP here.
But I think they preferred to avoid the hassle and extra legal costs associated to a UDRP.
I know Luxottica very well, I’ve covered it for many years as equity analyst, well actually even before that, since they listed on the NYSE in the very early 90s.
Patrick Cowan says
Ocean yachts is a much larger market than lake yachts.