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Uniregistry domain buyers pick up shorter domains

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Two of the top sales at Uniregistry were by groups with long names.

Screenshot of ChurchoftheCity.com

ChurchoftheCity.com is a long domain name, so this church smartly bought COTC.com.

Two of the companies that bought domain names at Uniregistry this past week did so to shorten their domain names. Church of the City bought COTC.com, which it forwards to ChurchotheCity.com. Fly on the Cloud bought FOTC.com. That domain doesn’t resolve yet, but I assume it will forward it to its existing domain FlyonthCloud.com.

Here’s a look at who bought domains at Uniregistry during the most recent week:

1. squeezed.com $50,000 – unknown buyer

2. traveladvantage.com $33,000 – unknown buyer

3. wedog.com $25,000 – Several companies use this name, but none of them seem that big.

4. recoverit.com $16,000 – Wondershare Technology Group Co., Ltd is a Chinse company that sells software called Recoverit.

5. halva.com $15,000 – I’m perplexed by this one. Whois shows the buyer is in the US but the newly-updated name servers point to a Russian bank, SovcomBank.

6. moderncare.com $15,000 – At this time, all we know is that the buyer is in New York.

7. barramundi.com $11,000 – A wine company uses this name. So does a video content company. And it’s the name of the fish. We’ll see what the buyer does with it.

8. faculty.net $10,000 – The domain now forwards to web design shop Faculty, which uses Faculty.com.

9. fotc.com $10,000 – Fly on the Cloud, a cloud consulting firm, bought this domain as shorthand for its domain FlyOnTheCloud.com.

10. manforce.com $10,000 – The Whois is for a company in Belgium. But it could be this Indian company.

11. groomen.com $8,500 – Genomma Lab Internacional is a pharmaceutical company in Mexico.

12. cotc.com $7,500 – Church of the City, which has six locations, bought this domain as shorthand for its site at ChurchoftheCity.com.

13. principio.com $6,700 – The buyer is in Abu Dhabi. Principio is Spanish for ‘beginning.’

14. tusas.com $6,000 – Tusas Aerospace Industries Inc.

15. otys.com $5,746 – OTYS Recruiting Technology.

16. arabedition.com $5,500 – Whois ties back to an investment group called AKJ Holdings.

17. happy99.com $5,500 – Someone in California bought this domain, and I’d like to know what it will be used for.

18. traigo.com $5,469 – VTG AG is a rail transport company. Traigo means ‘I bring’ in Spanish.

19. worldsmart.com $5,250 – Someone in California.

20. yardlink.com $5,155 – YardLynk is a construction tool and equipment rental company. It was smart to buy this domain to go along with YardLynk.com.

13 more end user domain name sales

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Click Funnels, an essential oils and aromatherapy distributor and a pet nutrition company bought domain names.

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

Many of Sedo’s end user domain sales this past week were to companies buying the .com equivalent of their country code domain, or vice-versa. Another buyer is Click Funnels, which purchased the clever domain HowToSell.com.

Here are the end user domain sales I could find. You can view previous lists like this here.

Goldina.com €11,000 – Richworks International Sdn. Bhd. is a seminar organizer in Malaysia. I’m not sure what this domain is for.

Pernaturam.com €6,250 – Forwards to Pernaturam.de, the website for German company PerNaturam, which produces nutritional supplements for dogs, cats and horses.

Aromar.com $5,980 – Forwards to Aromar.us – a manufacturer and developer of home fragrances including fragrance oils, concentrated air fresheners, tea light candles, incense, oil burners and other home fragrance products.

Corpia.com $4,900 – Corpia is a financial company that uses technology to build a more precise credit risk model to target small to medium-sized businesses in obtaining loans to fund their growth.

HowtoSell.com $5,000 – ClickFunnels acquired the domain name.

Lucatis.ch €4,200 – Forwards to Lucatis.com, the site for global Private Equity Firm Lucatis .

Comtuer.com $3,445 – Forwards to Comtuer.de, the website for Comtuer, which manufactures and installs high end interior doors.

Tubeo.eu €3,000 – Forwards to Tubeo.fr, a French fiber optic service provider.

Seneque.com €2,900 – Purchased by Journme SA. When I google that name, it pulls up information on Sénèque SA.

Closd.com $2,500 – The buyer is likely the French legal project management platform Closd, which uses the domain Closd.fr. I assume this is pronounced “closed.”

Bauprofi24.ch €2,500 – Forwards to Floormatex.ch, a German B2B building materials provider. Bauprofi is German for building professionals.

SB-IT.de €2,500 – Forwards to Schauenburg-Industrietechnik.com, a German industrial engineering firm specializing in molded parts, stamped parts and hose technology. They recently also purchased the .com version of this name, too.

Anza.ca $2,000 – A Remax branded website for a real estate agent named Anza Malik, who is based in the Toronto area.

Who bought domains at Uniregistry this past week

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Big three-letter eko.com sale was just one of many sales.

Screenshot of solarfoods.fi

Solar Foods has been using the domain SolarFoods.fi. It bought SolarFoods.com.

Uniregistry’s sale of Eko.com smashed the charts this week, but it wasn’t the only notable sale the company made.

I reviewed the company’s top 20 sales to figure out who bought domains. In many cases, I don’t know because the domain doesn’t resolve to a developed site and Whois information is obscured. Uniregistry Whois often only provides a state/province and country for the domain owner, and I’ve noted it when that’s the case.

Let’s take a look.

1. eko.com $1,500,000 – A video content company that uses HelloEko.com bought the domain.

2. 7732.com $49,500 – Probably a domain investor.

3. practicemanagment.com $14,985 – The Capital Group Companies, Inc., a financial services company with nearly $2 billion under management.

4. ground.org $11,000 – Whois is under privacy and site goes to a register parking page. Seems like an end user purchase here.

5. alfas.com $10,000 – The buyer is in Tokyo, according to the Whois.

6. ratefinder.com $9,800 – Mortgage rates? Tax rates? Shipping rates? I’m not sure, but Whois shows the buyer is someone in Texas. Nice domain name.

7. solarfoods.com $8,500 – Solar Foods Oy is a Finish company creating a protein. It uses the domain SolarFoods.fi.

8. realwin.com $7,500 – The buyer is in Latvia.

9. schoolcloud.co.uk $7,475 – The Nominet Whois record doesn’t tell us much.

10. steeltrader.com $7,000 – Technology & Engineering Services in Uruguay.

11. talabani.com $6,000 – Whois is for someone in Maryland. The domain still resolves to a Uniregistry lander.

12. banfu.com $5,500 – Banfu is a town in China. Whois shows the buyer is in China.

13. kicksnation.com $5,500 – Kicks Nation will be a site to buy sneakers.

14. foldingknives.com $5,000 – It’s under Whois privacy and still resolves to a Uniregistry lander.

15. ghid.com $5,000 – Hmm. Buyer is in Pennsylvania but I’m not sure who it is.

16. zipextractor.com $5,000 – The company that uses ZipExtractor.app bought this domain.

17. streetracing.com $5,000 – Whois says the buyer is in Florida.

18. theadventurer.com $3,500 – Someone in Ontario, Canada.

19. nirvana.ca $3,500 – Nirvana homes in Canada.

20. bedbugbites.com $3,000 – Someone in Canada.

14 three-letter .com domains in GreatDomains auction

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Lots of short domains available in domain name auction.

Hands holding bid cards in auction

Sedo’s current GreatDomains auction has a high number of three-letter .com domain names on offer.

14 three-letter domains are available, with reserves ranging from under $5,000 to as much as $100,000.

Two of the domains have met their reserves: VNY.com (bidding is at $10,100) and VQF.com (bidding is at $6,766).

The full list including reserve range is below:

  • PCE.com $50k-$100k
  • OLI.com $50k-$100k
  • EFM.com $25k-$50k
  • BJR.com $25k-$50k
  • HIJ.com $25k-$50k
  • QOQ.com $25k-$50k
  • NUR.com $25k-$50k
  • NWT.com $25k-$50k
  • AQP.com $25k-$50k
  • ONL.com $25k-$50k
  • VNY.com reserve met
  • QSE.com $10k-$25k
  • VQF.com reserve met
  • QUK.com $10k-$25k

It’s worth noting that .ONL matches a new top level domain name. The registry pitches it as short for “online”.

Bidding concludes on Thursday, and verification is required to bid more than $10,000.

Eko.com domain name sells for $1.5 million

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Video company picks up short domain for big bucks.

Screenshot of HelloEko.com

Video storytelling company Eko has purchased the domain name Eko.com for $1.5 million. The deal was co-brokered between Uniregistry and Buy Domain Guide, LLC.

Eko has been using HelloEko.com for its website. Eko.com now forwards to HelloEko.com.

It’s a bit difficult to understand Eko’s business by viewing its website. It seems that it works with brands to create video content. We’re not talking commercials; its longer form video and content that hits the brand’s target audience. It also creates video production tools for creators.

Eko certainly has the money to upgrade its domain name. It recently inked a deal with Walmart in which the retailer will invest over $250 million to develop over 100 video series over the next three years.