A Romanian Casino, a Space Engineering firm and a language app all bought domain names last week.

It was the week of “2” last week with the top sales at Sedo across all categories (.com, ccTLD and “other”) repeating this digit within their sales prices. And even more unusual was a .RO (Romania) ccTLD purchase beating out the other sales and taking top honors with its €220K ($250k USD) price tag.

Take a look at some of the end user sales at Sedo this past week, and you can view previous weeks’ lists here.

Casino.ro €220,000 – Given the price, you can expect this Romanian ccTLD to be developed by what would qualify as an end user.

Jobster.com $200,000 – Jobster was an online recruiting business that didn’t pan out. Someone is rebirthing it. The site says, “Jobster.com Soon to be unleashed again, The jobster.com team”.

Path.net $22,000 – The top sale for the “other” category was purchased by a technology firm offering internet analytics and uptime monitoring services.

Earth.co $15,000 – A travel media company called Earth is using this domain for a travel website.

Trope.com $10,000 – Forwards to TropeReader.com, a new publishing platform who will produce films, books & periodicals on a variety of subjects annually.

Capeesh.com $8,600 – A cleverly-branded company that offers language courses. I wonder if people know how to spell this word.

PoianaBrasov.ro $5,632 – Another .RO purchase – this time it’s for Poiana Brasov, the “largest and most famous mountain resort in Romania”, also voted the most accessible ski resort in Europe by telegraph.co.uk.

EliteSA.com $5,000 – The SA in this domain refers to “Surgical Associates”, a company out of Houston providing development and management services for surgery center operations.

EPay.me $5,000 – A payment processing company run by the Narula Institute of Technology, which is made up by a group of academic institutions.

Enspace.com €2,900 – Enspace has some rather complex terminology on its page…something about satellites and ion propulsion. I’m sure rocket scientists will understand what the company does.

Soar.tech $2,399 – A Scottish tech company specializing in Apps, Web Applications, and Enterprise Scale Software Systems bought this domain name. This name has good potential for an upcoming campaign or product launch, or for a client.

A clothing Designer, a project management company and a discount travel site bought domain names last week.

This week we have a rarity: a .net domain name was the second highest sale among end user sales I found at Sedo. Mahjong.net sold for $10K.

That and B13.com were the only 5-figure sales from last week that I was able to find. There were several sales at $5K and above including UHive.com, a social network with an interesting twist. Uhive has been using a new TLD.

Take a look at some of the end user sales at Sedo this past week, and you can view previous weeks’ lists here.

B13.com €13,000 – This domain forwards to the .DE version of the site for a German online digital communications agency. The agency’s name is b:dreizehn; dreizehn translates to “thirteen”, so they now own the shorter numeric .com version of their domain.

Mahjong.net $10,000 – This forwards to the .Com version of this gaming site that offers free Mahjong games online playable on desktop, tablet and mobile.

UHive.com $9,999 – This site forwards to UHive.life. It claims to be a comprehensive social network, the “World’s First Social Network With Physical Dimensions. Combining technology with Human psychology to deliver a new, remarkable and unique user experience.”

Norlha.com $5,500- Norlha is a clothing company based in China that works with high-end Paris fashion houses. They use the domain NorlhaTextiles.com, so this shorter domain was a nice pickup for the company.

TheWorldTour.com $5,000 – This looks like the landing page for a travel adventure club. Their tagline is “A social, member driven, international travel club of fun people. Awesome trips since 2000!”.

QUWI.com €5,000- This 4L .com has a preview page with the message: “World’s easiest project management system with screenshots.”

Viagens.com.br $3,300 – Forwards to Leblon.com.br, a travel booking site for Brazil where you can reserve discounted hotels, cars and airline tickets. Viagens translates to travels so this is a  keyword term.

ConnectingHelp.com $3,000 – This site is in development for a Montessori school in London called Over the Rainbow.

MyFellow.com €3,000 – This domain was purchased by Towerview Health, which also operates PillBox.com, a prescription medication subscription service and “personal assistant” for medications. Perhaps My Fellow will be an offshoot service for this company.

Inlogy.com $2,500 – Forwards to the .DE version of this site for a German software engineering company.

MachineCafe.fr $2,000 – This site operates as a French music forum where users can make comments on albums.

A high-end furniture designer, a mortgage leads company and a German manufacturer bought domain names last week.

This week’s end user sales list is headlined by a new top level domain sale — design.online.

You might recall that Sedo sold Casino.online for just over $200,000 last year. That sale was direct from the registry. In this case, DomainTools historical Whois records show that .online registry Radix sold design.online about a year ago. So this appears to be a resale rather than a registry sale. Update: I heard from Radix and this was actually a direct sale. The domain was registered under privacy about a year ago, but this was Radix putting up a for-sale lander.

Design.online started forwarding to the website for Australian furniture designer King Living after the sale.

That wasn’t the only nice end user sale at Sedo this past week. Let’s get to the list: Click here to continue reading…

Two Australian companies, several tech businesses and a private equity firm bought domain names last week.

It was a lively and interesting week for end user domain name sales with a six-figure domain sale, Mappa.com, topping the list. There were three more 5-figure sales that I could identify, including the three-letter domain IAW.com and a new gTLD name, King.online.  Several names seem to be for new marketing campaigns such as HoldItHigh.com, a slogan for the J.P. Wiser whisky brand.

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Mappa.com $127,400 – Frank Schilling’s Name Administration was the seller. The domain has Whois privacy so it’s not clear who bought it but it’s clearly an end user at this price. Two possibilities are a Japanese animation studio called Mappa Co that uses the domain name Mappa.co.jp or this backpack maker.

Fasting.com $50,000 – L-Nutra is a nutrition company that promotes fasting and sells products to help with fasting diets.

IAW.com $20,501- Features a nearly blank page with the message “I am Warren.” and “This domain is not for sale.” Not sure who Warren is but it will be interesting to see what he makes of this valuable 3-Letter .com.

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Several web design and development companies, a personal finance service provider, a British boutique law firm and a healthcare service comparison tool bought domain names last week.

It was a solid week for end user domain sales as Sedo. Sudden.com was the top end user sale this week (that I could identify) at nearly $25K, but it remains to be seen what the web service provider who purchased this will use it for. The overall top sale of the week actually went  qnet.org at $27,250 but I wasn’t able to pinpoint the end user for this domain yet.

(You can view previous lists like this here.)

Sudden.com $24,950 – Bought by Electronic Creations Corporation which is a website creation and management service provider. This could be for a new project but for now this page has a “Coming Soon” message saying the website is currently undergoing a major re-design and expansion.

BestMind.com $15,000 – This domain is registered to Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited, which is a Shanghai-based online publisher of books and games. In 2017 they were acquired by the Zhejiang Century Huatong Group.

Paybit.eu €10,450 – The domain isn’t resolving yet but there is a cryptocurrency payment processing service by the name of Pay Bit who uses PayBit.com. This might be part of an expansion or brand protection. Paybit.de previously sold on Sedo for $27,915.

PB.co.uk £8,400 – This two letter ccTLD already has a fully functioning site up and running for a boutique law firm based in Horsham specializing in intellectual property and business law.

Smile.direct €6,000 – Whois is redacted due to GDPR but I couldn’t help associating the name with the heavily advertised Smile Direct Club which currently uses SmileDirectClub.com. Maybe they will adopt this shorter domain name in the future. SmileDirect(.)com is also in use (NSFW).

Jass.com $5,199 – This site was bought by RAR Info Solutions LTD, an online SEO, PPC, Web Design and Development agency. There’s nothing on their site about Jass but maybe this could be a new product or service or for a client.

HappyScore.com $5,000 – This domain currently forwards to HappyMoney.com, the site of a financial company called Happy Money that used to be called Payoff. It doesn’t appear to be associated with the book of the same name. The company offers services under the name Happy Money Score.

VO1.com $5,000 – VO1, Ltd in the UK.

Trasna.com €4,500 – Purchased by the Oases Health Group, a European healthcare service provider and online comparison tool to arrange for health care services across different EU countries.

Print-Point.de €4,000- Purchased by the German print company Print.point, which currently used the address nichtrumdrucksen.de. That’s a play on the words Drucken=print, and drucksen means “hum and haw”. I’d say this new domain is an improvement, even with the hyphen (which is common in Germany). This domain currently has a “Coming Soon” sign up in German.

Taihing.com $3,500 – Whois is showing the registrant as Black Media Group, which is a web design firm out of Hong Kong. Tai Hing is also the oldest existing public housing estate in the Tuen Mun neighborhood, but it’s not clear if there’s a connection between the web design firm and this domain.

JoyMade.com $3,000 – Organic foods company Hain Celestial Group has a large assortment of natural food brands under its umbrella. Maybe Joy Made is the next brand launching?

Swipe.ch $2,888 – Has a coming soon sign up but this could be the Swiss landing page for Swipe, a service that allows presentations to be made mobile friendly in an easy streamlined process. They use the domain Swipe.to.

Apotheken-Inventur.de €2,500 – The Germany company Behning bought this domain and it appears they will use it to offer inventory assessments for pharmacies to save them time and HR resources.

PCBSoftware.com $2,000 – PCB Software s.r.o. PCB is the name for electronic design automation software.