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16 end user domain sales up to £42,500

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A sustainable coffee producer, delivery app and video game maker bought domain names.

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Sedo’s top end user sale of the week was Sudoku.net for £42,500. It’s surprising to see .net top the list, and it’s also surprising to see a .co.uk domain come in at #2.

Here’s a look at recent end users sales at Sedo. See prior end user lists here.

Sudoku.net £42,500 – An online sudoku puzzle website operator bought the domain.

Tide.co.uk £35,400 – The domain forwards to Tide.co, a business credit card company.

Grab.ai $12,500- GrabTaxi Holdings offers deliveries and transport via app request. It also owns the domain Grab.com.

Salv.com $10,000 – A new anti-money laundering, crime-fighting platform for financial companies.

Campings.be €9,990 – The same company that bought Campings.se for €4,000 earlier this year.

PureLifeFoods.com $8,888 – This domain was purchased by Mayorga Coffee, a sustainable coffee company.

BuyDo.com $6,995 – This is an ecommerce store selling electronics and fashion goods. Phonetically, it’s a lot like Baidu, isn’t it?

Atropa.com €6,595 – Forwards to Atropa.at. This new .com domain was purchased by Atropa Wellness, an Austrian wellness services provider focused on infrared saunas.

CloverGames.com $5,500 – Clover Games is a Korean video game maker.

UKDE.com €5,000 – The company’s website is still under development but it might offer financial services.

Panq.com $4,650 – A Netherlands-based software company service called Panq uses the domain name Panq.nl. It assists app developers in optimizing their offerings such as reducing the load times to increase engagement.

Probe.fr €2,300 – A French storage locker/cabinet maker called Probe.

Copter.io $2,200 – Lots of games use .io, and this is used by a game called Copter.io.

CureAmerica.org $2,112 – Purchased by Cure Violence Global, a nonprofit group with the mission statement “A World Without Violence”. It supports initiatives to aid in preventing the spread of violence by using the methods and strategies associated with disease control.

CompareISAs.com £2,000- A comparison site for ISA, which is a British term for Individual Savings Accounts.

TAF.us $2,000 – The Athlete’s foot shoeseller.

15 end user domain sales up to $40,000

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A Celtic bookseller, Spanish blog network and Shopify bought domain names this past week.

graphic of briefcase full of money related to end user domain name sales

Sedo’s top sale this past week was Sexe(.)com at EUR 210,000, but it’s not clear if it’s an end user purchase or not. Sexe means sex in French.

The top end user purchase is a financial company that is launching a brand under the name Hey Money. It smartly purchased both HeyMoney.com and Hey.money.

Here’s a look at recent end users sales at Sedo. See prior end user lists here.

HeyMoney.com $40,000 and Hey.money $8,888 – Advanced Planning Solutions filed a trademark in August for Hey Money for financial services, and ostensibly is the buyer of both of these domains.

Madrid.net €35,000 – Oscio Networks LLC runs a network of blogs in Spain.

PowerHost.com $12,000 – Forwards to PowerHost.cl, a hosting services company in Chile.

Investors.Club $7,000 – There’s a page saying the site is under construction. Whois has a privacy service so I don’t know who is creating the site.

InStars(.)com $5,000 – Instars is a new cryptocurrency platform in development.

ATTB.de €4,000 – Forwards to ATBB.eu, the site for Antenna Technology Bad Blankenburg, a high-tech company that designs intelligent multi-functional antennas for the automotive industry. It also provides communications services, radio and smart meter applications for the energy sector and the device industry.

GrandBeds.com $4,000 – Bought by Sonnenberg Manufaktur AG, a German furniture manufacturer.

CelticBooks.com $3,750 – Bought by Casement Publishers and Distributors who provide sales, marketing and distribution services for book publishers, in both the academic and trade fields. It has a focus on Celtic books.

Vivino.be €3,250 – Forwards to Vivino.com, an online wine community and app. It is buying some of the ccTLD versions including the .es name last week.

Shopify.pe $3,000 – Ecommerce platform Shopify bought the Peru country code version of its domain.

MyCredit.es €2,999 – Forwards to MyKredit.es, a quick loan service in Spain.

MoKnows.com $2,500 – A coming soon page for the site has a picture of a dog and the message “Mo Knows things. Lots of things. So many things. Give us a few Mo-ments to get his site ready.”

AquaResearch.com $2,350 – Aqua Research is a a water treatment company that uses AquaResearchLLC.com. It forwards the shorter domain to it.

SellSage.com $2,155 – SellSage LLC appears to be a new business in Michigan.

This post was updated to correct the price for Madrid.net.

What domains Ocean Spray and other companies bought last week

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Ocean Spray, a music streaming service and an online wine community bought domain names.

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When you think of Thanksgiving and Christmas, you might think of cranberries. So it’s fitting that one of this week’s end user domain sales is to Ocean Spray Cranberries. A trademark application gives a clue about what the company plans to do with Dabbly.com.

Also, a real estate investment firm was lucky to pick up a three letter .com for only $12,000.

Here’s a look at recent end users sales at Sedo. See prior end user lists here.

HVW.com $12,000 – End user three-letter domain purchase alert! HVW is a real estate investment firm. What a great value.

PharmaMall(.)com $12,000 – Pharma Mall Gesellschaft fuer Electronic Commerce mbH in Germany. It’s a pharmacy services company.

KKlab.com $6,500 – KKBox Taiwan Co., which is a music streaming service.

DooGood.com $5,000 – DooGood SA De CV in Mexico. I can’t find anything about this company.

FinallyHome.org $4,999 – Purchased by the Idaho Housing and Finance Association. This was a SedoMLS sale.

Beyond4.com $4,949 – Pictoric Media Group is a creative agency outside of Austin. This might be for a client.

FeedYourBrain.com $4,500 – It’s not clear who owns it yet but it forwards to a hosting page. I did a doubletake when I saw this domain; I own FeedMyBrain.com. I guess now I have a good comp.

EntirePay.com €3,888 – The domain forwards to the website for payments company Inpay.

Dabbly.com €3,650 – Ocean Spray Cranberries bought the domain name. It recently filed a trademark application for a product line call Dabbly.

Vivino.es €3,250 – Forwards to Vivino.com, an online wine community and distribution source.

TheDonutMan.com $3,177 – Giles & Associates is an accounting firm. It might have purchased this domain for a client.

CapitalTurnaround.com $3,100 – The buyer is setting up a site for a real estate project.

RPZ.de €2,599 – Forwards to RHPZ.de, a German distributor of mushrooms in different regions.

ProfiBaustoffe.de €2,500 – German building materials company Mobau Wirtz & Classen. Profi Baustoffe translates as ‘professional building materials’ in German.

Smartor.de €2,500 – Forwards to Next-Data-Service.com, a technology company providing data science, machine learning, big data, web and social analytics.

ToolVPN.com $2,500 – Computer Consultants, Inc. in New Jersey bought this domain name.

GetMedicareNow.com $2,234 – Spectrum Health Systems in Michigan.

Hundetrainerausbildung.de €2,000 – A dog trainer bought this domain, which loosely translates as ‘dog trainer’ in German.

11 end user sales up to $160K

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A popular app, a maternity pillow maker, and a German packaging company bought domain names.

graphic of briefcase full of money related to end user domain name sales

Glance.com was Sedo’s top public sale this past week. The maker of the poplar Glance app about this domain. It currently uses Glance.app.

Missing from the list below is AITimes.com because I can’t figure out who bought it. At this price, it’s likely a good-sized media company or a marketing effort from an artificial intelligence company.

Check out the end user list below. You can view previous lists like this here.

Glance.com $160,000 – InMobi’s app Glance just raised $45 million as it surpassed 50 million active daily users. It uses Glance.app.

SpreadGroup.com €28,900 – Forwards to Spreadshirt.com, a custom t-shirt design company. They’ve bought a lot of domains through Sedo.

AGLab.com $7,500 – Astrotech Corporation, a Cannabis company that mass produces labs built to be used anywhere, both indoor and outdoor.

QueenRose.com $4,900 – A U.S. brand of maternity pillows and other maternity related products.

OnlineBazar.com €4,000 – The buyer set up an e-commerce site for computer products.

InHarmonyMusic.com $3,500- A San Francisco Bay area-based local music school that currently uses the .net version of this name.

Go5g.com $3,000 – This domain was purchased by The Go Solution. The company helps drive customers to telcos, cable/dish companies and other businesses. This one is obviously for driving mobile phone service sales.

Ynfinite.com $2,800 – Königspunkt Technologies GmbH is a Germany company with a marketing automation toolkit at Ynfinite.de.

PremiereWorld.de €2,760 – Forwards to Championstream.de, a German sports television network streaming service.

SeidenPapier.de €2,177- A German packaging product company.

BiologyCareers.com $2,100 – Another domain purchase from Americareers, this one is specific Biology related job searches.

15 end user domain sales at Sedo

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A German eyewear company, a Canadian cannabis seller and a sustainable food manufacturer all bought domain names.

graphic of briefcase full of money related to end user domain name sales

An upswing in sales came through this week from Sedo, making me think the lull of summer is over and, hopefully, a steady rise in domain purchases by end users will continue. Two of Sedo’s top sales this past week appear to be end users, but I can’t figure out who bought them: Red.tv for €35,000 and Goods.co for $20,000.

As for domains I could directly connect to end users, here’s the list. You can view previous lists like this here.

Brillen.com €23,950 – A German prescription eyewear subscription-based service. Brillen is German for eyeglasses.

Jihi.com $15,000 – It looks like the company that owns Jihi.co bought the matching .com.

Famosos.com €13,299 – Famosos is a company that lets you buy messages form celebrities. It’s like Cameo but for the Spanish-speaking market. The domain forwards to the company’s domain ContrataFamosos.com. Famosos means famous in Spanish.

TrustVoice.com $10,000 – TestFreaks AB is a product testing and reviews company. TrustVoice sounds like a good brand for the business.

OnePanel.com €12,832- Purchased by Brainstorm Network, an innovation consulting firm that uses BrainstormNetwork.com as their main website.

LookYoung.com $7,000 – Purchased by Luminess Cosmetics, a cosmetics company focused on airbrush cosmetics and anti-aging products.

GoPom.com $5,799 – Purchased by Franklin Mutual Insurance Company. It’s not clear what it plans to do with this domain.

CocoCoin.com $5,500 – In development with a “Coming in October”. Mars Finance and Consensus Lab are listed in the fine print. Mars is a financial firm focused on the blockchain industry, so this site looks to be ultimately be involved with that sector.

GotWeed.ca $4,999 – Canadian based company GotWeed.ca, a cannabis and marijuana product e-commerce site.

LocalHouse.com $4,900 – A boutique hotel in Miami Beach.

Academic.ch €3,490 – Forwards to academic-gateway.ch, a private school in Switzerland.

FreeTMS.com $2,995 – Purchased by SAIA LTL Freight, an American trucking and logistics company. TMS is short for Transportation Management System.

CSD.be $2,250- Forwarding to CSDLiege.be/fr- This company offers caregiver services and more for elderly, handicapped and others needing assistance with everyday tasks from their home.

SureFront.com $2,150 – The buyer appears to be a Data and logistics consultancy firm. The logo on the site is for BuyingTime.

BHJ.de €2,000 – BHJ is a Sustainable food manufacturing and distribution company. It owns the .com and forwards this domain to it.