Three letter domain .io domain name sells for $12,000.
It’s not often that the top end user sale I discover at Sedo is a .io domain name. And, the asterisk on this sale is that it’s not yet clear who bought the domain. But at $12,000, the sale of ICO.io is definitely an end user. (Update: I might have misread the historical whois records. ICO is a big term for cryptocurrencies, and it’s possible that the buyer is a domain investor.) The domain name expired at the end of last year and the new owner cashed in.
Other end user buyers at Sedo over the past week include a $6 billion company that bought a .ru (Russia) domain name and a real estate firm that picked up a .berlin.
Here’s the list of end user sales I uncovered:
(You can view previous lists like this here.)
ICO.io $12,000 – The new owner hasn’t been revealed yet. But this price for a .io like this is definitely an end user.
SitePad.com £10,000 – Softaculous, a Mumbai software company, bought this domain name for its website builder.
TurnIt.com $9,000 – Greip (translates to Grapefruit) is an Estonian IT services company. I can’t figure out what they’re going to do with the domain.
VesperTech.com $8,000 – The domain name is registered to Vesper Technologies Group but is in the name of a lawyer in Ohio. There are plenty of companies named Vesper out there but they don’t directly tie back to Ohio.
Eratio.com $3,500 – ERATIO ES provides accounting services and uses the domain Eratio.no.
HRConference.com $3,000 – HR trade organization Human Resources Professionals Association (HRPA) bought this descriptive domain name.
Brain.ai $7,200 – The Whois address is to a home in Palo Alto and the organization is LC Inc. Beyond that I can’t figure out much about the buyer.
Huntsman.ru $3,900 – Huntsman International, a $6 billion chemicals company.
Wohnung.berlin €4,000 – Real estate firm Strategis. Wohnung translates to “flat”, or an apartment.
WiMark.com €3,900 – WiMark Systems is a London wifi management firm.
Ballad.co $3,000 – Ballad is a sound production company in Copenhagen.
DroneZone.com.au $2,200 – DroneZone is a drone store in Sydney, Australia.
ICO.io $12,000 – The new owner hasn’t been revealed yet. But this price for a .io like this is definitely an end user.
Andrew- I bet the ico.io pricing has something to do with the cryptocurrency ICO (Initial Coin Offering) boom going on recently whereby firms are raising money in nontraditional ways.
Regards, Mike
That’s a good guess. We’ll have to see what they do with it.
I’m not so sure this is an end user. It might be an investor. WHOIS shows NEWDOM Limited out of New Zealand. I believe the seller — the recipient of the $12,000 — was Russian.
I misread the NS changes when I researched it. You might be right, as the domain’s nameservers changed to AWS after that transfer.
The weird thing is the Russian guy was the owner and then it went into pending delete at the end of last year. Perhaps he renewed before it was fully deleted.
Could it be that Greip IT wishes to rebrand to Turn IT to go international?
The seller of HRConference.com for $3,000 left LOTS of money on the table.
DroneZone.com is available with an asking price of 10,000 EUR at Sedo.com. The Australian company should pick it up too.