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Sedo removes appraisal requirement on $50k+ domains

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$99 appraisal no longer required to list domains for high prices.

Logo for sedo, with the letters in lower case blueDomain name marketplace Sedo has removed its requirement to purchase an appraisal before listing a domain for over 49,999$/€/GBP.

Previously, sellers had to pay for an appraisal to confirm the value before listing a domain with a buy now or make offer (with asking price) above this threshold. This would also apply to domains with a fixed price that were included in SedoMLS.

Sellers could always reply to a make offer inquiry with a price above $50,000, but they couldn’t list that as the initial price without first getting an appraisal from Sedo. The company charges $99 for an appraisal.

Now, sellers can ask whatever they want without going through the time and expense of an appraisal.

Sedo is on a roll making seller-friendly changes. Earlier this year, it dropped its minimum commission on domain sales and lowered minimum sales amounts from $90 to $20, making it easier to sell low-priced domains. (I bought a domain on the platform for $30 last week.)

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.

Picture of bundles of 500 euro notes with the words "End User Domain Sales" and the logo for Sedo

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.

A sock company, game store and more bought domains at Uniregistry

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Here are some of the companies that bought domains at Uniregistry this week.

Screenshot of the website at NoveltySocks.com that sells novelty socks

This Australian sock seller picked the domain name NoveltySocks.com for its website.

Would a gaming shop in Bentonville, Arkansas pay $10,000 for a domain name so that it could move is online presence from just a Facebook page to an actual website? It appears so.

It’s just one of the end users that bought domain names at Uniregistry this past week.

Here’s what I could find about the top 20 domains that sold at the marketplace:

1. extasy.com $18,000 – The domain has Whois privacy. This is another spelling of the drug ecstasy.

2. mytips.com $17,000 – Another domain with Whois privacy that doesn’t resolve yet.

3. ohne.com $15,000 – OHNE, which uses Ohne.co, bought the domain and forwards it to the .co domain. The company sells products for womens’ periods.

4. plantastic.com $12,000 – I believe the buyer is Premier Foods, which recently launched a product line called Plantastic.

5. earlyedition.com $10,500 – Whois privacy and no indications about the buyer.

6. wig.ca $10,000 – The domain may be for Canada, but it was bought by someone in Texas. Other than that, we don’t know much about the buyer.

7. geargaming.com $10,000 – It appears that a gaming store in Arkansas is upgrading from Facebook to a website.

8. stockauto.com $9,000 – The buyer also runs a site at OldsParts.com with Oldsmobile car parts.

9. houst.com $8,200 – This appears to be a play on the word “host”, as in Airbnb hosts. It forwards to Airsorted, a business that helps short-term rental hosts manage their homes.

10. LL9.com $8,000 – The domain is at GoDaddy using Whois privacy.

11. gotosea.com $8,000 – Whois shows the buyer is in Washington DC.

12. eaglex.com – $7,600 – This is likely related to a cryptocurrency project called Eagle Project.

13. noveltysocks.com $5,200 – What will you find on this website? Yep, socks.

14. screensource.com $5,000 – Whois reveals that the buyer is a German company, but that’s all we have to work on for now.

15. pantechnicon.com $5,000 – It seems that a new London restaurant called Pantechicon bought the domain. It uses the domain ThePantechnicon.com.

16. aceauto.co.uk $3,900 – I can’t figure out anything about the buyer.

17. freebooksummaries.com $3,500 – Whois shows a buyer in Oslo but nothing else.

18. hairycellleukemia.com $3,500 – Hairy Cell Leukemia is a rare type of cancer. I don’t know who bought the domain.

19. kitun.com $3,500 – Chicago entrepreneur Scott Kitun bought the domain for his website.

20. bimcollaboration.com $2,393 – It has Whois privacy and resolves to a registrar holding page.

Registration now open for Fashion.com domain name auction

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Original owners of domain name send it to the auction block.

the word "fashion" with "Make it your domain" below on a background of red, gold and blue fabric

Companies interested in acquiring the valuable domain name Fashion.com can now register for the auction at Fashion.com.

The auction will begin October 24 and it follows an unusual format.

It begins with a sealed bid auction process in which bidders can submit a single bid. Once someone bids the secret “buy now” price, that bidder wins the auction so long as no other company submitted a higher bid on the same day. It seems that the most likely scenario of having multiple bidders meet the reserve price on the same day would be on the first day of the auction.

If none of the sealed bids meet the reserve price, the sellers will either accept the highest sealed bid or push the domain to a public auction. The reserve price carries over to the public auction.

Escrow.com is handling the financial side of the auction. It will hold $25,000 bidder deposits and be the escrow for the winning bidder. Amsterdam company Auction-Experts will manage the bidding.

 

Sudoku.net sells for £42,500, showing .net isn’t dead

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This sale shows the .net market isn’t dead.

The word .NET on a background of computer hardware

If there’s one big top level domain that was hurt by the launch of new top level domain names, it’s .net. .Net has typically been a “darn, I couldn’t get the .com” domain extension. Now people can choose from a bunch of other options.

So the sale of Sudoku.net at Sedo for £42,500 (which just came across the company’s RSS feed) is notable. It’s the equivalent of about $53,000 at today’s exchange rate.

NameBio’s all-time list of .net sales over this amount totals 63 names. But no .net domains have publicly sold for this much in the past 12 months.

It’s a big sale for a .net domain, and it shows a bit of life for the extension.

The buyer appears to be a company called Edito. Although the domain was once forwarded to a Sudoku site, it doesn’t appear to have been for many years and a backlink check shows no links.