16 companies buy the right domain in the domain aftermarket.
Here’s Domain Name Wire’s weekly look at end user domain sales. All of these sales took place on Afternic unless otherwise noted.
The owner of eClassie.com wised up to the radio test and bought eClassy.com for $3,500.
Another domain registrant made a smart move by dropping a hyphen. The owner of Fifth-Axis.com bought FifthAxis.com for $2,149.70.
Williams Chevrolet Honda Geo of Traverse, Michigan paid $1,500 for WilliamsMotors.com.
Arysta LifeScience Corporation bought Arysta.com for EUR 7,000 on Sedo.
Pest management company Beneficial Insectary bought FlyControl.com for $4,588.
A company called Effective Fundraising Strategies bought EffectiveFundraising.com for $1,188.
Here’s an example of a company that owns a category killer domain buying a more niche domain to go along with it. Wild Attire Inc., which owns Ties.com, bought CorporateTies.com for $2,921.
Another upgrade, this time from .me to .com. The owner of Entheos.me bought Entheos.com for $8,000.
Unknown.com, Inc. paid $1,177 for UnknownPublisher.com.
Book publisher Thomas Nelson returned to the domain aftermarket to pick up TimeWithGod.com for $1,188.
New Jersey based heating and cooling repair company Airflow Systems, which does business as The Weather Busters, bought WeatherBusters.com for $2,488.
The company behind AdKeeper, which has garnered lots of press, registered DealKeeper.com for $2,088. I think you can guess what that domain will be used for.
Emerald Performance Materials, LLC paid $1,295 for EmeraldChemicals.com.
New York City car wholesaler and exporter Targa Motor Group bought Carporter.com for $1,000.
Professional staffing company Strategic Professional Staffing Inc. bought AttorneysonDemand.com for $1,500.
CampingWorld.com bought FastRescue.com for EUR 1,000 at Sedo.
Mike says
I dont pay any attention to Afternic sales. Its nearly impossible to work through the bugs on their online system. I think they do this so that the bulk of the sales are their own domains (you do realize they have well over 2 million domains that THEY want to sell). So your 500 or even 1500 names are not likely to have a chance. Afternic used to be great back in the early 2000’s but now they’re bloated and couldnt care less about the average domainer out here.
Ron says
I personally feel afternic is selling to cheap, and diluting the overall market, into fixed pricing mass hysteria.
Ron says
I mean those prices above, are great deals for end users $1-2K range, some great buys, when does the other side get some profit.
@Domains says
Price wise, those are good buys for the companies. I wonder if any of the former owners who sold to the bigger companies are kicking themselves a bit? Shows that it’s not always so expensive to upgrade to the better name.
Ties.com, along with Scarves.com and WildTies.com has an affiliate program running through CJ, just got an email about it the other day.
SF says
It’s good that some people go to the trouble to report domain sales.
One of these days, buying end user domains will mean paying end user prices. That day can’t come soon enough for many of us.
As for Afternic, their policies are Not Seller Centric.
They “almost demand” that you set fixed prices.
If one of your domains gets an inquiry, they Do demand that you set a fixed price.
If you don’t set your price cheap enough, they are likely to demand that you lower it.
It’s a silly little game.
Dowmedia says
Pretty pathetic sales figures. Most of the sellers probably lost money given their several years of maintenance (at an average of 1,200 USD as a sale, the names would need to be less than ten years old to turn a miserly profit). Oh well, I guess the best thing to do then is use them to bounce through the Google rubbish.