Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News & Website Stuff

Domain Name Industry News and Website Stuff

Featured Domains

End user sales up to $59,000

by — Domain Sales 1 Comment

A delivery service, medical clinic and real estate developer bought domain names.

This week’s end user sales include many ccTLDs. Sedo is always strong with country code domains, but this week I was able to connect more of them to end users than usual.

The top sale was PickPack.com at $59,000. This might seem high, but pick & pack is a common term in the fulfillment industry.

Check out the list below, and you can view previous lists like this here.

PickPack.com $59,000- Pick Pack is a same-day delivery service.

Updraft.com $10,000 – The domain now forwards to Updraft.co.uk, a service that helps people avoid over drafting their bank accounts.

InstaCare.com $8,000 – The phone number in Whois is that of a Wyoming medical practice called Stitches Acute Care Center.

OSP.ch €5,000 – Forwarding to Ochsnersport.ch, a ski apparel and gear store.

Mietrecht.de €5,000 – Mietrecht translates to ‘legal rights for tenants’ and this site gives advice to those seeking information on this topic.

Torgaurd.com $4,995 – Forwarding to Torguard.net, an online privacy, protection and VPN services provider. Note that this is a typo of the brand.

Grills.de €4,900 – Forwarding to koempf24.de. Koempf Onlineshops GmbH operates a number of online stores including one that sells grilling supplies.

PD.eu €4,675 -Forwards to PremiumDevelopment.eu, the site for Premium Immobilien, a residential property developer and real estate management service company with offices in Vienna and Berlin.

Ferienhaus-Griechenland.de €2,890 – This site is in development to list Grecian vacation homes and apartments rentals.

Brandwerk.de €2,355 – German marketing and communications agency Brandwerk GmbH.

Leitbild.com $2,888 – This is forwarding to Mobily.me which is a German software company providing mobility solutions.

Share34
Tweet
Share
Email

Austin.com appears to have sold

by — Domain Sales 1 Comment

Domain name is in escrow at Escrow.com.

Austin.com is in escrow at Escrow.com.

The Austin.com domain name appears to have sold and might be on a payment plan.

iEstates, LLC purchased the domain name in 2012 but put it up for sale earlier this year. An October 4 DomainTools Whois record shows the domain was in escrow at Escrow.com. The domain was transferred from Moniker to GoDaddy at that time.

The Whois record still shows Escrow.com, suggesting that the domain name is on a payment plan or other sort of arrangement that will require Escrow.com to hold the domain in escrow.

iEstates declined to comment.

I searched the site for clues about who might now own the site but the terms of service and management information haven’t changed since before October. New content continues to be published.

Share34
Tweet
Share
Email

Malibu.com domain name will be auctioned next month

by — Domain Sales 10 Comments

Same broker that handled 1999 WallStreet.com sale will auction Malibu.com.

Malibu.com will be auctioned off on December 5 with a starting bid of $250,000 and no reserve. There’s a standing offer of $250,000 and a $25,000 bidding increment, so the domain will cost at least $275,000 if you want to buy it.

Millitzer Capital, which auctioned off WallStreet.com for $1.03 million in 1999, is handling the auction. Details are at Malibu.com.

There are a couple of things about this domain auction that are notable.

First, Malibu is more than a city. It’s also a brand including the popular rum brand.

Second, there’s no reserve, so the domain will sell next month for at least $250,000 assuming that the standing offer goes through. Even at $250,000 it will be a notable sale.

Share34
Tweet
Share
Email

19 end user domain sales up to $150,000

by — Domain Sales 2 Comments

A marketing automation software provider, a food processing company and a cryptocurrency investment firm all bought domain names last week.

Last week’s newsworthy sale of User.com has officially transferred making it this week’s #1 sale and the top end user sale from Sedo this past week. It was a good week for end user sales with lots of purchases by software development companies and manufacturing businesses.

The list is below, and you can view previous lists like this here.

User.com $150,000 – Purchased by User, a marketing automation software company out of the UK that was previously called UserEngage.

Fahrzeuge.de €18,700 – fahrzeuge=vehicle in German. The #2 sale in the ccTLD category was purchased by Toha, a German car trading network.

TaxFree.de €8,000 – Forwards to Buhl.de, a German software developer of tax and finance related software.

See the full list!

Share34
Tweet
Share
Email

Michael Cyger sells Brew.com to BuyMeACoffee.com team.

by — Domain Sales 10 Comments

Michael Cyger sells Brew.com in cash and equity deal.

Left to Right: Jackson Elsegood (Escrow.com), Madhavan Ramakrishnan (Brew.com), Jijo Sunny (Brew.com), Michael Cyger, Brian Tharp (Escrow.com).

Michael Cyger of DNAcademy has sold the domain name Brew.com to the team behind BuyMeACoffee.com, which is a sort of tip-a-creator service. Here’s co-founder Jijo Sunny mentioning the acquisition on Twitter:

Cyger had been using BuyMeACoffee on his website. As Sunny describes it, a deal quickly transpired from there:

It started with a cold email. Guess what? He was using BuyMeACoffee on his blog, and was excited to hear about what we’re building next. Within 2w, we signed the deal at @Escrowcom’s SF office. You’re a pleasure to work with @MichaelCyger!

Cyger told DNW:

I actually read about Buy Me A Coffee on HackerNews in February and thought their design and implementation was elegantly simple and beautiful. So I signed up for an account to check it out, and then integrated the Buy Me A Coffee button on the public blog of DNAcademy to see how it worked. So far, about 10 people — who are not subscribed to DNAcademy as students — but who appreciate the content I produce — have purchased me a cup of coffee, which I like much more than displaying programmatic ads because it’s cleaner, creates a more direct relationship with readers, and earns more revenue per reader.

While financial terms were not disclosed, Cyger expects the deal to eventually be worth seven figures after the company gains traction. He will join Brew’s Advisory Board.

Cyger met up with the BuyMeACoffee team at Escrow.com’s office to complete the deal (see photo).

The company will not rebrand its BuyMeACoffee.com service as Brew.com. Instead, it’s launching a new site on Brew.com using what it has learned running BuyMeACoffee. Based on Sunny’s tweets, it seems like it will be a type of Patreon service, perhaps providing people with an ad-free subscription to content.

Share56
Tweet
Share
Email