An online event platform, several software companies, and a cosmetic laser franchise bought domain names.
It was quite a week for end user sales with nearly 20 hits including one of the highest .IN sales to date, Hop.in. This is their company name so it makes perfect sense that they invested in it even at its high price tag.
Here’s a look at some of the domains end users bought at Sedo this past week. You can review previous end user sales lists here.
Hop.in $50,000 – Hopin is an online events production company. I wrote about its domain Hopin.to last week. This will be a nice shortener.
Hoss.com $29,995 – Hoss allows people to track and manage third-party APIs.
FullPlay.com $23,500 – The domain resolves to a website that claims FullPlay is the “Future of Marketing”.
JobsRUs.com $9,999 – CorTech LLC, which operates a jobs listing site on the domain. It’s not my favorite domain, but it beats its old one: JobStalker.net!
RentALev.com $9,888 – The buyer of ElectricCar.com (which was the top sale last week).
Klient.com $7,000 – Krow Software, a Professional Services Automation software company.
MaVacation.com $5,000 – Forwards to charlestonmedia.online, a “locals-led” travel site.
TopGene.com $5,000 – TopGene’s original core business is personalized non-invasive diagnostics to treat cancer but they have since established a new business unit dedicated to medical and KN95 masks.
Ravona.com $3,900 – A Korean professional sports gear manufacturer and design company.
ESigner.com $3,800 – The whois shows eSigner as the company name but it’s difficult to attach this to a specific company.
Gynaekologie-Muenchen.de €3,600 – Forwards to Gynaekologie-Koeln.de, a gynecology practice in Cologne, Germany.
LaserAway.com $3,500 – Laser Away is a cosmetic laser service franchise with multiple locations in the U.S.
Welt.net €3,500 – Forwards to Welt.de. “DIE WELT” is a German newspaper and this site is their corresponding online magazine for their news items and live video streams of political speeches and news.
KetoDiet.ch €2,900 – Forwards to KetoDiet.eu, a website about the popular Keto diet with related supplements and products for purchase.
Arbeitschreiben.de €2,499 – This is an individual’s website in German offering information and know-how on writing scientific papers.
ZeroTolerance.de €2,380 – Forwards to Thomas-Teleservice.de, a service provider for smartphone repairs. You can also buy single components to make repairs yourself.
TampaWebDesigner.com $2,355 – Forwards to Ideas4.com, a digital and web design agency.
Sundr.de €2,000 – Forwards to the website for Sendatzki + Rosenthal Autoteile und Lacke, a group of auto-related companies.
Immocom.de €2,000 – Forwards to Wundr.de, a political and PR consulting firm in Eastern Germany. They handle marketing and public relations for companies within the real estate industry.
TaxFix.nl €2,000 – Website about taxation in the Netherlands aimed at individuals and small entrepreneurs.
Ankit Puri says
As per laws in India .in is not alowed to be sold more than registry decided price. Mentioned below link that confirms the same.
https://www.registry.in/registry-advisory-la01sales-of-in-names-by-registrars
Also as per Legal Advisory 5 (LA-5) tranfer on .in domains require a lot of documentation and can be only transfered in sale of business or a gift which also requires aproval from Indian govt.
Aura says
I think you are getting confused between registrar and registrant.. Is there any clause explaining registrant cant sell more than what they bought for ? What you have shared above is a restriction to registrars
Ankit Puri says
Just to remind you that after sale domain transfer and change of REGISTRANT need to take place for which legal formalities needs to be taken care of. Also since registrars are the once allowing to point the domain to a auction site so they are also considred to have equal role in selling the domain. I recomend you reading LA5 of registry.in and you will understand whats responsibility of registrant in such events.
Aura says
For 15 years many names bought and sold.. there is a plenty of sales data also to demonstrate that. 2+ million names are transferred several times between registrars.. May be 10 to 20 million times transfers are handled.. your comment not serving any value in light of the above stats.. Better to introspect.. ( no offence intended).. Just not sounding logical on what you are saying, that’s all i am trying to point out.. I sense bit of ambiguity is there in documentation , but thats more intended for registrars not for registrants
Ankit Puri says
Well if you dig into this further and check archive of the site few months back there was LA5 on registry.in which still exist but has been taken off the site. That describes that registrant can be changed only under 2 circumstances
1> Gift. Requires registered gift deed and also approval from NIXI prior transfer. ( though since NIXI employees own a lot of great .in domains so they dont take action on this.)
2> Business Acquisition. this also requires to present all documentation pertaining to the same.
SR says
Registrars cannot engage in Selling Domains, thats the rule. Don’t mislead people
Aura says
This sounds quite correct to me
Ankit Puri says
Mislead? If you say so however could you please explain everyone that what all documentation is needed to transfer domain to a different registrant for .in domains.
Aura says
Registrars cant as they are powerful , a normal registrant can.. there is a subtle difference between those two .
Andrew Allemann says
I’d be careful about creating a website on a .IN because their version of UDRP is really bad. If you think some UDRP cases aren’t fair, wait until you read about .IN cases.
Aura says
Glad to see a .IN on top of the list…
.IN extension seems to be an extension which is picking up in sales recently.. I have noticed some action on auctions at Daaz.com too.. a new market place with good .in inventory
KJ says
very true. so many domainers dont see it because they 1) dont want to believe and 2) they dont look deep enough.
Aura says
very well said
SR says
Thanks for the post. .IN makes a great hack or shortener in many instances. With Stay at Home, Crowded Marketplaces, Traffic all reasons that .IN and .CO.IN could see increased interest . Heck its the second larges online population with 600 million.
Aura says
Wow.. 600 million internet users… that’s a huge growth compare to the 2 years back number and just another 750 million left to join. Plenty of room for the future growth too
Nick says
Seller of Klient sold for way too low