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This week’s end user domain name sales

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A tattoo ink provider, a law firm, and a Canadian cleaning products company bought domain names.

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This week’s end user report is a bit shorter than last week’s long one. Here’s the list of end user domain name sales that just completed at Sedo. You can view previous lists like this here.

ScentCheck.com $5,995 – Taylor Technology Services, a printing company, bought this domain. It’s not clear what it will be for. They produce an assortment of what they refer to as “business identity products” like business cards, stationery, envelopes, presentation folders, custom stamps and more.

QTY.co $5,500 – Cosmic Shovel, a web development company that runs Amazon price tracker camelcamelcamel.

IronRoad .com $5,000 – Depot Drug, a mail-order pharmacy, is affiliated with the health insurer Iron Road Healthcare.

Gaer.it €3,660 – Gaer Società Cooperativa is an Italian electronics retailer.

BigData.info $3,300 – Forwards to BigData.it, the site for an Italian marketing company.

Slimbook.com €3,000 – The buyer appears to be a computer maker called Tuxedo Computers.

Fundamental.in $3,000 – An Indian company, Fundamental Electronics PVT LTD, bought this domain. It manufactures electronic components.

CasinoMentor .com €3,000 – This website links to online gambling services.

MiniFabrik.com €3,000 – Forwards to Nobilia.de, the website for a European kitchen manufacturer. I can’t find any connection between this brand and the company, but fabrik is German for factory.

VikingInk.com $2,800 – Maimi Paint Sociedad Limitada bought this domain. This Spanish company appears to operate the tattoo ink brand Viking Ink.

GL.law $2,700 – Gregg Latchams Solicitors forwards this domain to its website at gregglatchams.com.

SW.dev $2,250 – Developer Daniel Green forwards this domain to Daniel.Green. He is associated with Comic Shovel (see QTY.co sale).

Optimax.ca $2,200 – Optimax is a Canadian maker of cleaning and sanitary products.

Nutreno.com $2,065 – Nutreno bills itself as “The Netflix of training”, offering unlimited streaming of physical fitness content.

F-Pay.com $2,000 – The buyer is affiliated with Fast Payment, a payment services company licensed by the Morrocoo central bank.

 

26 end user domain name sales this week

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SmugMug, Pocketbook and other companies bought domains. 

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Sedo had a strong week for end user domain name sales, including some nice low-five-figure transactions.

Here’s a list of end user domain name sales that just completed at Sedo. You can view previous lists like this here.

Westerly.com $25,000 – AlMalki Group helps companies sell their brands/products in the Middle East. I’m not sure what the domain is for.

Creativa.com €17,800 – Creativa offers courses to teach people “business English”. It’s targeted to remote workers.

Topdesk.com.au €16,500 – Topdesk, a customer service platform, bought this domain and forwards it to its main website at Topdesk.com.

QRapp.com $10,000 – Zygomatic is an online gaming network and app publisher. I assume this is for a QR code app, not something pronounced like crap.

EvaFoods.com $8,950 – W. B. Reily & Co. Inc. is the food company behind Luzianne Tea and Swans Down cake flour. This might be a new food brand.

Atria.org $8,800 – Atria Health in New York.

LifelongLearner.com $7,000 – PSI Services LLC provides professional testing and assessment services to employers.

MyBeautyWorld.com €5,550 – Sopariwala Exports is an Indian exporter. It appears to focus on tobacco, but it might be getting into beauty products as well.

Photo.me $5,040 – Online photo service SmugMug bought the domain and forwards it to SmugMug.com.

Cloudition.com $5,000 – Cloudition GmbH will offer ERP as a cloud-based service. It owns the domain Cloudition.de.

SmartKiosk.com $5,000 – This domain is being used to promote a kiosk for temperature checking.

HealthyTracks.com $3,899 – Trividia Health, Inc offers products for cats and dogs with diabetes under the brand Healthy Tracks.

DallasVentureCapital.com $3,125 – A venture capital fund by this name just opened in Dallas.

ValueLuxe.com $2,199 – Eureka Partners/Craig Realty Group, a real estate development and management company across the U.S., bought this domain.

HearingAidClinics.ca $5,700 – Social Blue Corp, a Toronto-based lead generation company, has clients in the hearing aid business.

GP2.org $3,588 – Global Parkinson’s Genetics Program (GP2) is a five-year program to genotype >150,000 volunteers worldwide to further understand the genetic architecture of Parkinson’s disease.

ShopCarls.com $3,000 – This was a defensive purchase for Karl’s Bait and Tackle, which uses the domain name ShopKarls.com.

Ad.work $3,000 – Adwork is an online advertising banner shop.

LX3.com $2,799 – LX3 is a clothing designer.

BadCreditAuto .com $2,500 – The domain name forwards to BadCreditVehicle .com, which offers vehicle financing.

Naxa.net $2,500 – Naxa is a video streaming service.

Pocketbook.ro €2,000 Pocketbook International SA, the company trying to get Pocketbook.com through a lawsuit, bought another ccTLD.

ArtGalerie.at €2,000 – Artland GmbH is a German company that sells home decor products.

Bioworks.org $2,000 – Bioworks sells disease and insect defense and other products for plant growers.

Alixium.com $2,000 – The domain name resolves to a lander that states, “Innovation for the Hydrocarbon world”.

DIYstartup.com $2,000 – Author Thomas Lopez bought this domain for his book that guides people through entrepreneurship.

3 companies paid $100k+ for domain forwards

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Companies paid big bucks for domains that they are forwarding to other websites.

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A company paid $400,000 for Ingles.com to forward it to SpanishDict.com.

GoDaddy published its first set of domain name sales data in many years today. The company is publishing 20 of its top sales each month, but four months in arrears to accommodate its investor compliance folks.

There is an upside to the delay: there’s more time for buyers to put the domains to use, so we have a better idea of who bought them.

I reviewed the 20 sales GoDaddy published today. Several end users paid over $100,000 each to buy domain names solely to forward them to another domain. Think about that.

Here’s a look at the top 20 sales GoDaddy published this week and who bought them.

ingles.com $400,000 – Ingles is Spanish for English. The domain name forwards to spanishdict.com, a site that translates Spanish text into English.

lendable.com $125,000 – Lendable Ltd, a UK lender, forwards the domain name to its site at Lendable.co.uk.

wbs.com $115,000 – Wisenbaker Builder Services provides services to help homebuilders. It forwards the domain name to its website wisenbaker.com

vaninsurance.co.uk $106,769 – This is a stunning price for this .co.uk domain, especially when you see they paid less for the .com. The site compares van insurance in the UK.

fivenines.com $100,000 – Five Nines Technology Group is an outsourced IT provider for companies in Nebraska and Iowa.

vaninsurance.com $100,000 – See above

hfm.com $90,000 – The domain name doesn’t resolve yet and it has a private Whois record.

kalibari.com $80,000 – The domain doesn’t resolve yet. The Whois record only discloses that the buyer is in Illinois.

insurancecapital.com $59,995 – Another domain that doesn’t resolve and has a private Whois record.

makey.com $53,000 – DIY Cozy Home is rebranding as part of Makey, a site for do-it-yourself home projects.

appify.com $50,000 – Turbo Systems, a no code app building technology, changed its name to Appify.

autofun.com $50,000 – TANG Internet Limited in Hong Kong bought this domain. It still resolves to a for-sale lander.

skrt.com $50,000 – The domain is still parked with a private Whois record.

nopain.com $47,500 – A great domain for a pain clinic. The domain still resolves to the previous owner’s website.

mygarden.com $40,000 – Burda Senator Verlag GmbH is a home and garden publisher in Germany. The site is still in development.

hifashion.com $39,999 – The buyer in China has not activated the domain yet.

protek.com $39,982 – Intertek Group plc has a service called Protek, a safety and wellbeing assurance program. It forwards the domain name to intertek.com/protek.

variable.com $36,000 – I remember boarding the plane to Las Vegas for NamesCon one year and seeing lots of people dressed in camo. They were headed to Vegas for Shot Show, a massive ammunition and weapons conference. This domain resolves to a website for a business called Variable that says it’s launching at Shot Show 2021.

acaglobal.com $35,420 – ACA Compliance Group, a compliance and risk management company, bought this domain.

booktopia.com $35,000 – Australian bookseller Booktopia bought this domain and forwards it to booktopia.com.au

These three numbers suddenly mean something

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988 now means something, and an alert end user just bought 988.org at Sedo.

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When do three seemingly random numbers establish meaning?

This summer, the Federal Communications Commission designated 988 as a three-digit phone number for a national suicide hotline. (It won’t go into effect until July 2022.) A mental health organization in New York smartly acquired the domain name 988.org through Sedo this past week for only $3,600.*

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

Just.me $50,000 – Netfire GmbH is an IT company that has developed many types of software. This might be for one of its own projects or a client.

Brilliant.net $27,500 – Brilliant is a site that helps people build quantitative skills in math, science and computer science. It forwards the domain to its website at Brilliant.org.

HomestylesFurniture.com $12,000 – Furniture company Flexsteel bought this domain for its Homestyles furniture brand.

OneFor.com $10,000 – One For is a payments service for people in the EU to make remittances to people back home.

Freemans.co.uk £7,000 – The domain now forwards to Freemans.com, a website for a department store that sells clothing, accessories, home goods and more.

DSG.ch €7,000- The domain forwards to DatenSchutzGuide.net, a website offering a free webinar about Switzerland’s data protection act. Daten Schutz translates to “data protection”.

Eddyson.com $6,500 – Eddyson,  a German technology company that provides an online business commerce network for data interchanges, connections, interactions and cooperation between business partners in real-time. It forwards the domain to its website at Eddyson.de.

iimed.com $5,399 – iiMED Medical Manufacturing Solutions bought this domain. It’s a medical device manufacturing company in Western New York that provides services in FDA compliance, logistics, import/export management, procurement, process development, light assembly, converting, packaging, warehousing and distribution.

WebUpgrade.com €5,000- WebUpgrade is a digital solutions company focused on medical website management including SEO, treatment information, digital advertising and other custom solutions.

SCServices.com $5,000 – Signature Corporate Services bought this domain. It is a vendor management service for providing short-term housing fulfillment and relocation services for corporate clients. It uses the domain name SignatureCS.net.

988.org $3,600 – Hamaspik of Kings County, NY bought this domain. It’s a non-profit human services agency that provides customized, person-centered services to individuals with developmental disabilities and their families through Medicaid. 988 is a newly-approved phone number (like 911) that will connect people to mental health counselors.

Futbolia.com €3,000- An online information and news site for international football-related news.

Tepeyac.com $2,500 – Singerman Entertainment, an artist management agency with offices in Los Angeles and Toronto, bought this domain. Tepeyac might be a new artist.

SmartInject.com $2,500 – Bracco Diagnostics, Inc. bought this domain. It’s an Italian multinational company within the healthcare sector. Its products include injectors.

BullsEye360.com $2,355 – Electric Vine, Inc., an internet marketing service in Branchburg Township, New Jersey, bought this domain.

Pianetabimbi.it €2,300 – Forwards to GravidanzaOnline.it, an Italian baby products brand.

Rouje.fr €2,000 – Rouge, a French beauty and clothing brand, bought this domain and forwards it to Rouge.com.

* This is not a suggestion to register 988 domains. Registering domains to take advantage of the new suicide hotline would be in poor taste.

18 end user domain sales including a .Ws (yes, .Ws)

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A plant proteins company, a music streaming service, and a bug tracking app bought domain names at Sedo this past week.

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When is the last time you saw a .ws domain on a sales list? Let alone for thousands of dollars? It happened this week with a sale that almost broke the existing record for the Samoa ccTLD.

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

StarAtlas.com $14,999 – The page resolves to a site that says “Start Atlas – Recruiting Soon.”

World-Finance.com $6,000 – World Finance is a lending company.

WorkWatch.com $4,888 – ThinkLogix, a no code application development platform, launched WorkWatch as a software tool for Covid-19 worksite compliance.

TECAS.com $4,500 – Toews Environmental Ltd. bought this domain. TE obviously stands for Toews Environmental, but I’m not sure about the rest of the domain.

PocketBook.at $4,000 – e-Reader company Pocketbook bought this domain. The company is currently involved in a legal fight over Pocketbook.com.

MyBacon.com $4,000 – Ecovative Design, a biomaterials company, bought this domain name. One of its products is plant-based meat proteins.

Incite.ws $3,950 – Do not check your glasses. You are reading this correctly. A .ws domain sold for $3,950. That’s the second-highest sale ever reported, and it’s been nearly three years since a .ws domain sold for $3,000 or more (sex .ws). Incite, a strategic marketing consultancy with offices in London, New York and San Francisco, is the buyer.

HearThis.com €3,500 – Forwards to HearThis.at, a music and podcast download and streaming service.

Config.pro £3,500 – This domain forwards to CADActive.com, an automation tool for CAD services.

SummitAppliance.com $2,998 – Summit Appliance manufactures and sells commercial grade refrigeration and freezer appliances as well as washer and dryers, range hoods and more.

BugLink.com $2,850 – It looks like the bug tracking app that uses BugLink.io bought the matching .com domain.

Experdent.com $2,500 – Al Heaps & Associates is a Canadian firm that helps buy and sell dental practices. This might be the name of a practice they are brokering.

Inteliwell.com $2,499 – Transocean is a deepwater oil exploration company. It uses the domain Deepwater.com.

RyderMedia.com $2,399 – Ryder Media is a marketing agency focused on e-commerce businesses.

SquadZone.com $2,114 – Usermind GmbH is a web development and marketing agency. This might be for a client.

HeartRhythm.com $2,000 –  The Heart Rhythm Society organizes an event called Heart Rhythm. This is an international nonprofit organization with a mission to improve the care of patients by promoting research, education, and optimal healthcare policies and standards. The domain forwards to www.hrssessions.org.

SaferFireworks.com $2,000 – Forwards to BritishFireworksAssociation.co.uk, an information portal with consumer advice on the safe use of fireworks.

SterlingOaks.com $2,000 – Equity Realty bought this domain name for a community/area of Naples, Florida.

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