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15 end user domain name sales

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A young entrepreneur, a driver testing company, and a DJ bought domain names at Sedo this past week.

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Sedo’s top public sale over the past week was BuyWeed .com for $50,000. Other than being in Florida, we don’t know anything about the buyer yet.

Here’s a list of end user sales this past week. You can see previous lists like this here.

Founders.net $37,500 – Lukas Mankow, a young German entrepreneur, forwards the domain to his personal website LukasMankow.com

RoadTest.com $16,500 – Forwards to MPUTest.de, a site about MPU tests. In German, MPU stands for “medical-psychological examination” and encompasses the exams given to drivers to make sure they can drive and have the appropriate reaction time, concentration and attention. This type of test is also used in aviation for pilots and air traffic controllers.

RealisticLoans.com $8,999 – This is an odd name for a loan site, but that’s precisely what it is.

Alavis.com $8,050 – Alavis, a company that sells nutritional supplements for horses to support joint health. It currently uses Alavis.cz for its website.

TAAL.in $5,500 – Merapos Private Limited, a website and digital services firm in India.

Lium.com $5,000 – This domain was bought by Infill Thinking, an information forum founded in 2016 to deliver updates, analyses and research to business decision-makers in the oil and gas industry.

Gonz.com $4,500 – This website is for a Miami-based DJ named Gonz.

ArtPix.com €3,900 – Artpix 3D bought this domain. The company engraves user’s pictures inside crystal keepsakes. ArtPix3d.com is its main website.

Autoly.com $3,800 – This is an app/mobile solution to measure customer engagement with autos. Potential users of this app would be auto showrooms, dealers and manufacturers who can benefit from the data being analyzed from the sensors connected and measured by this mobile app.

TheArtShop.com $3,000 – Digital marketing agency Agency Red bought this domain name.

MaxLine.net $2,800 – Make Cents, Inc is a loan provider. The company is a corporation of the “Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation,” a sovereign nation located in the US.

TheRockShop.com $2,500 – This is an e-commerce site for clothing, accessories and other apparel products in the “rocker” or “goth” genre/style.

Worth.nl €2,500 – Forwards to Worth.systems. Worth is a full-service digital agency based in Reading, England and Rijswijk, the Netherlands.

Zoya.ro €2,940 – Forwards to Zoya.bg, a Bulgarian e-commerce site for organic products including raw super-foods, natural health and beauty products, cleaning and household items.

CloverMarketing.com $2,400 – Clover Marketing bought this domain name. It is a Marketing Services consultancy focusing on the A/C, HVAC and heating industries.

XYZ wins .car/.cars/.auto auction

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XYZ buys out Frank Schilling through auction.

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XYZ won the auction for three automotive domain names.

Top level domain company XYZ has won the auction for the .car, .cars, and .auto top level domain names. ICANN posted the assignment agreements today.

XYZ partnered with Frank Schilling to bring the domain names to market, so the company effectively bought out its partner through the auction.

XYZ founder Daniel Negari told Domain Name Wire that he was unable to reveal the purchase price due to non-disclosure terms for the auction. He confirmed that there were bidders in the auction other than XYZ and Schilling.

In a written statement, Negari said:

XYZ is all in on bringing the best domain extensions to businesses and individuals around the globe. As the shift to digital accelerates, dealers and automotive businesses have even more reason to use a memorable .Cars / .Car / .Auto domain name.

XYZ continues to be active in M&A, expecting to launch 5 new domain endings in 2021: .Beauty, .Hair .Skin, .Makeup and .Quest. The XYZ Registry now owns and operates 18 domain extensions, including the most utilized new domain extension .xyz – For every website, everywhere®. We are hyper focused on increasing access and awareness to our generic domain endings and inspiring the next generation of internet users to innovate and grow their online presence.

.Car, .cars and .auto have about 1,000 registrations in total. That generates about $2 million in annual revenue, though: the domains have a wholesale price of $2,000 per year.

BuyWeed.com domain sells for $50,000

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Another marijuana-related domain sells for big bucks.

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People who played the long game betting on marijuana-related domains have finally hit their payday in recent years. Many states have legalized the drug to one degree or another and it has become a big business.

Here’s the latest example: Sedo just reported the sale of BuyWeed .com for $50,000. The .net version of this domain sold for $500 last year in a NamesCon auction.

Here are some other marijuana-related domains that have sold since the beginning of last year, according to NameBio:

cannabiscity .com $12,000
cannabiscompany .com $12,000
cannabismedia .com $19,999
cannabliss .com $15,340
CBD .it $17,000
CBD .world $20,000
CBDclub .com $30,000
CBDinfused .com $15,000
happy420 .com $36,166
medicannabis .com $25,770
weedcenter .org $23,100
weedMagazine .com $10,000

Purported Calculator.com thief might still be active

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A person using the same name as the alleged thief of Calculator.com is still trying to sell domains.

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A purported domain thief going by the name Ruth Yakobzon appears to still be active.

The person, whose name may or may not be real, tried to sell Calculator.com on Sedo in 2018. An auction for the domain concluded at $250,000. But a couple of domain investors saw warning signs that the domain might have been stolen and the buyer backed out of the deal after the previous owner of the domain confirmed the concerns to the buyer.

(Calculator.com sold a couple of months ago and the original owner says the domain was stolen. The buyer is arguing in court that it did not buy a stolen domain.)

Domain Name Wire has learned that someone going by the name Ruth Yakobzon recently tried to sell another name through Sedo. The buyer backed out after seeing warning signs that the domain might be stolen, and after viewing the name on the sales contract. The purported address for the seller in both cases is Billerica, Massachusetts.

I reached out to Sedo to understand why the seller was still active on its platform. Regarding the 2018 sale of Calculator.com, the company stated:

There were “internet rumors” that the domain could be stolen. Upon hearing these, we investigated them further on our end but could not find any evidence to support the validity of these statements. So we asked that the person communicating about this theft to ask the real domain owner to contact us which never happened. But even though we never received an official complaint in regards to this, it was cancelled on the request from the buyer because he did not want to proceed.

In other words, because the “real” owner of the domain never contacted Sedo, the company wasn’t able to conclude that the domain was stolen.

The seller’s account at Sedo has now been suspended after the second case, in which the real owner of the domain made an official complaint with Sedo.

Sedo also stated:

In both cases the seller had full access to the domains and was actively communicating with us without any delay and provided any additional documentation we requested.

Without verification that the domain was not stolen, the only thing we could verify is that the seller passed all our additional checks which is only possible when you have full access to the domain.

In both cases we left the decision with the buyers and both decided to cancel the transaction.

In general as part of our procedures on domain ownership, we complete ownership verifications as a precaution.

In addition, here is a link to more detailed information on the process we have in place to report potential stolen domains:

https://sedo.com/us/about-us/policies/stolen-domain-policy/

We had also participated in this post on Domain Name Investing last year. It has some really good information in a statement we provided:

https://domaininvesting.com/sedo-comments-on-domain-theft-verification-policy/

Stolen domains and ownership verification of domains being sold on our marketplace is something we take very seriously as a trusted third party service provider in the domain industry. We know it is a crucial part of the confidence our customers have in using us to buy and sell domains.

Stolen domains are a big issue in the domain name industry. GDPR and other privacy laws are making it harder to track the provenance of domain name ownership in Whois. At the same time, a lack of Whois information could make it harder for thieves to steal domains because they won’t know the contact details for the registrar accounts they want to target.

 

17 end user domain name sales up to $100k

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A virtual reality company, an adtech company, and a cryptocurrency wallet provider bought domain names.

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Sedo had a handful of strong end user domain names sales this week. The buyer of the top sale remains a bit of a mystery, but the second-highest sale was to a virtual reality gaming company.

Here’s a list of end user sales this past week. You can see previous lists like this here.

HiPhi.com $99,999 – The domain name resolves to a coming soon page that uses the HiPhi capitalization. Whois shows the buyer is in Shanghai. Oddly, the domain had a for sell message quoting $88,888. Update: As a reader points out, this is likely the Chinese electric car brand.

NEOS.com €30,000 – NEOS is a virtual reality gaming company. It forwards this domain to NEOSVR.com.

Hekate.com $20,000 – Hekate Health Sciences bought this domain. This company has filed for trademarks within nutritional categories relating to medicinal supplements, powdered mushroom and cocoa blends “to aid in reducing anxiety, improve focus, memory, strengthen a user’s immune system and increase the maximum oxygen a person can absorb during athletic performance.”

Hausfinanzierung.de €14,000 – Forwards to Kredit.de/Baufinanzierung. Kredit=loan and Baufinanzierung=construction financing. This website compares the different types of loan and construction financing including their advantages and disadvantages.

Speckmann.com €11,000 – Christoph Speckmann, a technical marketer, bought this domain name.

AmericanPayments.com $10,000 – A financial company by the same name bought this domain. American Payments is a coalition of financial institutions providing a safe payment system for consumers and businesses.

KMTX.com $10,000 – Keymantics, which calls itself the Keyword Platform, is an online advertising company. KMTX is shorthand for Keymantics.

NordTeam.com $9,995 – Team is a German energy and construction company. The domain forwards to the company’s website at Team.de.

Wallet.live $7,500 – This domain was bought by Ledger, a cryptocurrency wallet that stores a user’s private keys in a secure hardware device. Hardware wallets isolate your private keys from your computer or smartphone.

Moonshot.de €5,000 – Moonshot is a film production company located near Hamburg, Germany.

Impact.info €4,000 – French venture capital firm Impact Partenaires. It uses the domain Impact.fr.

JobTrailer.com $3,599 – Anyone know why the German beer brewer, the Gutmann Brewery, bought this domain?

Loopit.com.au $3,000 – Forwards to Loopit.co, which was formerly Blinker. Loopit provides the technology for customers to operate a car subscription service, providing a flexible car ownership alternative.

Lichensclerosus.de €2,800 – Forwards to Lichensclerosus-deutschland.de/home. This is a website in German for a chronic disease that mainly targets women. There’s information on how to live with the disease, how other people can interact and help infected persons, as well as treatment options.

Luxmetall.com $2,500 – Forwards to Luxmetall.de, which is a company that sells professional-grade tin sheets for rooftops or walls to reduce noises.

HappyChurch.com $2,500 – Macappstudio Private Limited is an app developer. This might be for a client app.

Black-Arrow.com $2,200 – Nelogica Sistemas de Software Ltda, a Brazilian software company. Perhaps this is for a product.

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