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19 end user sales…including one to Uniregistry

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A domain name registrar was an end user this week.

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It’s not often that you see a domain name registrar acquire a domain name as an end user. But that happened this week as Uniregistry (or is it now Uni?) bought the domain name UniEmail.com at Sedo.

This was one of 19 end user sales I uncovered at Sedo for the past week.

One that I didn’t include because I don’t know the buyer is Club.app. It sold for just $2,000, which sets a value point for .app domains.

Here’s the list of end user sales from the past week. You can view previous lists like this here.

Lootjes.nl €29,500 – Forwards to Lootjestrekken.nl. This site lets you set up gift exchanges by pulling straws. It randomizes who your gift recipient is.

Capiche.com – A fun name but it reminds me of the spelling challenges that Gazoontite experienced back in the day. I’m not sure who bought it but the domain resolves to a page with a Capiche logo.

AutoPiter.com €9,900 – Forwards to AutoPiter.ru, a Russian auto and motorcycle parts dealer.

Chacon.com €9,850 – Chacon sells smart home goods and cameras at Chacon.be. It now has the .com to match its country code domain. I think it got a good deal on this name.

InversorGlobal.com $6,000 – This domain was purchased by Inversor Global, a Spanish Investment Firm that currently uses IGDigital.com as its main website.

Lyst.ch and Lyst.at €5,500 each – Lyst Ltd is an online fashion store that uses the domain name Lyst.com.

OmniGym.com $5,465 – Omnigym (Puuha Sports Oy) produces home fitness and gym equipment out of Finland.

CloudTechSolutions.com $4,999 – Cloud Technology Solutions is a Google Cloud Premier Partner that provides G Suite and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) solutions. The domain forwards to CloudSolutions.co.uk.

EYUP.com $3,900 – David Richards of the David and Jane Richards Family Foundation, a charitable organization whose goal is to educate, empower and improve the lives of children. For now, the domain forwards to the foundation’s website at djrff.org.

QAD.nl €2,900 – Forwards to QAD.com, an integrated business software company for manufacturing companies. The company now owns the Dutch ccTLD.

WER.io $2,800 – A new digital marketing agency whose claim is to connect the physical store aspect of businesses with digital channels, enabling an immersive, spatial computing environment and direct marketing channel between brands and consumers at the local store and online.

ChefsResource.com $2,500 – This website is still being developed but has the message posted, “We are trusted by millions of home cooks as the authority for best recipes, cooking tips, and much more”. Might be some hyperbole there since it’s a fresh install of WordPress.

LQ.be €2,200 – Lemmis Q is a French Consultancy Firm that helps organizations through structural changes using their own readiness scan based on the “Six batteries of change”. Its website is LemmisQ.com.

Viak.com – $3,500 Viak is an organization trying to make smartphones more affordable.

UniEmail.com $3,000 – Domain name registrar Uni (aka Uniregistry) bought this domain.

Arcade.one $3,000- This new site appears to be for games and has a cool coming soon page.

George.pro – €2,019 Erste Group’s George Labs, which has a banking solution called George.

RenewalTherapy.org $2,000 – Forwards to RenewalCounselling.com – an individual counseling and psychotherapy services provider.

18 end user domain name sales up to £50,000

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A French fishing magazine, several tech and engineering firms and a British furniture company bought domain names last week.

graphic of briefcase full of money related to end user domain name sales

Sedo had some nice end user domain name sales over the past week. The top sale of FusionBank.com is still in escrow but I wonder if the buyer is the bank that uses Fusion.bank for its website.

Also, note the two different data brands that bought domains. One pays people to collect local data and the other compensates people for their personal data.

Here’s the list of end user sales from the past week. You can view previous lists like this here.

FusionBank.com £50,000 – The domain name is still in escrow but it’s clear that this is an end user purchase.  Perhaps it’s the same bank that uses Fusion.bank for its domain name? This was the top sale of the week and took place through SedoMLS.

ComScope.com €42,500 – This is the second place overall sale for last week and it is forwarding to CommScope.com, a technology company focused on infrastructure, products and communication solutions. This purchase is likely to capture type-in error traffic since this domain is their exact name minus one “M”.

Peche.com €30,000 – An online French fishing magazine. It also happens to be the name of one of my favorite restaurants in Austin. Check it out next time you’re in town.

T.win $22,500 – This one-letter domain hack in a new TLD forwards to Twin.com, an online gaming site. This was also the top “other” sale.

Hlio.com $21,850 – Forwards to HeliosTechnologies.com, formerly known as Sun Hydraulics, a global tech firm that develops and manufactures hydraulic and electronic control solutions. Hilo is a shorter and more concise domain.

Skribe.com $10,000 – Skribe looks like it will be a sort of crowdsourced data collection platform. People get paid to collect local data.

UBDI.com $6,000 – Another data play…UBDI compensates people for the data that they produce. This is in response to companies making money from personal data.

Aviti.com $6,000 – Forwards to DSMI.fr, an IT hardware and services provider in France, servicing mid and large size companies since 2011. It’s possible that this domain is for a hosting client.

OmniBiz.com $5,500 – A lead generation and business promotional platform.

AtTheHelm.com $4,000 – Hydeline Furniture, a furniture brand out of the UK. Maybe this domain will be for a new campaign or a for a specific line of furniture.

SASIL.com $3,000 – Forwards to SASIL.org which stands for the Standardization Association of Sinitic Languages and Han Characters. This is a branch of Sino-Tibetan languages consisting of the various local languages and dialects whose speakers share Chinese literacy as their standard language.

Mitten-im-Leben.de €3,000 – “Mitten im Leben” means “in the midst of life”. This domain forwards to Herder.de, the website for a German publishing company whose materials are educational resources for teachers covering the topics of religion, politics, history, philosophy and more.

Wilmaa.ch €2,990 – Forwards to Wilmaa.com, a streaming television provider and app offering 150 TV channels live and for free throughout Switzerland. Channels are available in German, English, French and Italian. They now own the Swiss ccTLD for their website.

Tucarroganga.com $2,798 – Forwards to Tucarroganga.net – an online trading forum for cars in Spanish.

Jaki.co.uk €2,795 – Women’s fashion store Jaki based in London.

Apsan.com $2,100 – Purchased by Apsan Law Offices, LLC, immigration attorneys out of New York, NY and Newark, NJ. They currently use ApsanLaw.com for their main web address.

GEA.be €2,000 – Forwards to GEA.com, the main website for GEA, an engineering and technology supplier for food processing and other industries. The global group specializes in machinery, plants, as well as process technology and components. They now own the Belgium ccTLD of their domain.

PaulValentine.kr $2,000 – Forwards to Paul-Valentine.com, this watch and accessory brand has been buying up several variations of the brand’s domains over the last few months and now own the Korean domain.

16 end user domain name sales up to €50K

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Several digital marketing agencies, two gas companies and a new app bought domain names last week.

graphic of briefcase full of money related to end user domain name sales

Two companies in the retail gas business bought domain names over the past week at Sedo. Other end users bought country code domains in .at (Austria), .se (Sweden), and .de (Germany).

Here’s the list of end user sales from the past week. You can view previous lists like this here.

AppleGreen.com €50,000 – The Whois isn’t public yet, but it appears that Applegreen gas stations in Ireland bought the domain. The company unsuccessfully tried to get the domain through UDRP in 2013.

CarFin.com $25,000 – This website is still in development but says it will be car financing for dealers.

HS.at €10,000 – Forwards to the website for Holzindustrie Schweighofer, an Austrian family-owned sustainable wood manufacturer that produces timber and related products for the European market. Its website is schweighofer.at. This domain was the top ccTLD sale of the week.

CEC.se $6,200 – Motorcycle company CEC.

AmazingAds.com $6,000 – The Whois record shows Suluta Corp and the domain forwards to ThePerformanceCompany.com, a marketing and paid search advertising agency in Orlando, Florida.

MedMentor.com $5,700 – MedMentor is a continuing education and online training courses for medical professionals.

ExpressUpdateUSA.com $5,660 – Forwards to WebDesignandCompany.com, a website design and digital marketing agency which suggests this was a purchase for one of their clients. ExpressUpdate.com is already an active website but I can’t connect the two companies.

EvolvingWeb.com $5,510 – Evolvingweb is a Drupal design firm. The domain forwards to its main website at EvolvingWeb.ca.

ExtensionHealthcare.com €5,000 – Forwards to Vocera.com, a technology company offering wearable and handheld devices and solutions across a wide range of industries including the healthcare sector.

Body-Fit.com £5,000 – A personal training service based in Germany.

Diode.io $3,750 – Diode is an IoT service with device authentication using blockchain technology.

Smarter360.com $2,500 – This domain was purchased by the Irish wireless company Next Wireless,  potentially for a new campaign or brand.

TIQS.com €2,500 – Forwards to TIQS.nl, a new App in development called TIQS by Flow. It’s hard to tell what the app’s purpose will be but buying the .com version of the domain was smart.

Altanza.com $2,000 – Altanza Bodegas is a winery. The domain forwards to its website Bodegasaltanza.com.

GMediaGroup.com $2,000 – This domain appears to be registered by Gill Energy, a New Jersey gasoline seller that claims it is the largest net sales petroleum distributor in the state.

CMC-Versand.de €2,000 – Forwards to Ferngesteuerteautos.net – which features an assortment of remote controlled cars with links to purchasing them on Amazon. Versand means shipping in German.

15 end user domain name sales up to $44k

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A tourism service, pharmaceutical company and restaurant ordering system bought domain names.

graphic of briefcase full of money related to end user domain name sales

The buyers for Sedo’s top three public .com sales this past week aren’t yet known. You can thank a combination of Whois privacy and GDPR for that. But I expect we’ll see the domains developed soon.

It was a good week for ccTLD sales with .de, .im, .nl and .be all making the end user list.

Also, check out the cool Spanish-language brandable that the seller of a men’s goodie box bought.

Here’s the list of end user sales from the past week. You can view previous lists like this here.

KBET.com $43,530 – This is an end user price, but who is the end user? KBET is an AM radio station in Nevada, but my bet is this domain will be used for online gambling.

Mobility.de €35,000 – I’m comfortable charting this domain because it was bought by a CSC client. .DE overseer Denic doesn’t even publish organization names in Whois, so we’re stuck with that for now.

Noxion.com $20,000 – The Whois record is protected due to GDPR but my guess is Noxion Lighting.

AttractionPass.com £15,000 – Attraction Pass sells discounted passes to NYC tourist spots.

OrderMade.com $8,000 – Order Made is an online ordering system for restaurants.

Pop.im €6,000 – Pop Chat appears to be a new chat app coming soon to iOS and Android.

BattleBridge.com $5,888 – Online advertising company Battle Bridge Labs forwards this domain to its existing website at BattleBridgeLabs.com.

Defi.org $5,000 – The buyer posted a message saying, “Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is the movement that leverages open source software and decentralized networks to transform traditional financial products into trustless and transparent protocols that operate without unnecessary intermediaries. We are committed to defining and improving DeFi’s architecture, make finance benefit more from its decentralized ecosystem.”

H1Z1Revolution.com $5,000 – This was a quick flip for the registrant, but I don’t know if the company behind this Playstation 4 game is the buyer.

Betamo.com $4,500 – Betamo is an online casino.

LWR.nl €3,734 – Locomotive Workshop Rotterdam B.V. bought its acronym to use for its website.

Tiranosaurio.com €3,520 – A Mexican gift box company bought the domain as its brand. Tiranosaurio is Spanish for tyrannosaurus.

Aimovig.be €2,600 – Novartis AG bought this domain for its migraine prevention medicine. It forwards to the .com version of the site.

NewCentury.org $2,100 – New Century is an event venue in upstate New York.

LiveWebinar.com €2,000 – RTCLab sp. z o.o. specializes in streaming live events.

16 end user domain name sales up to $25k

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A Black Friday site, a gaming company and an apartment community bought domain names last week.

graphic of briefcase full of money related to end user domain name sales

Sedo had a variety of end user domain name sales this past week, including a rare appearance by .travel. As usual, it was an international list of buyers.

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

Vivlio.com $25,000 – A French company called Tea, which bills itself as The eBook Alternative, bought the domain. A rebrand in the works?

Mandom.com €20,000 – Japanese company Mandom Corporation.

BF.de €15,000 – Forwards to black-friday.de, a site in German about Black Friday deals and a countdown to retail’s biggest day of the year. This is a nice, shorter version of the domain.

Artificer.com $12,000 – This site is still in development with a message that says, “CRAFTING GOOD GAMES: We are Artificer, a new veteran studio…” Looks like it will be a game developer.

Ostsee.travel €9,500 – Kuehlungsborn Travel KG bought this domain. Ostsee seems to be German for Baltic Sea.

PostCodeSoftware.com $8,495 – MRI Software in Ohio specializes in real estate software.

Endumax.com $8,400 – TriMM, an internet agency in The Netherlands, bought this domain name. It’s likely for a client.

ExportPartner.com €4,300 – Export Partner BV, a Netherlands company that specializes in international exporting of products and consumer goods. The website is still in development.

SaludDigital.com €3,800 – Fundacion Carlos Slim (the foundation for the 5th richest man in the world) bought this for its healthcare service.

WestridgeApartments.com $3,181 – Glenco Apartments Incorporated bought this domain for its luxury apartment community in Burlington, Wisconsin.

Aero.pk $3,000 – Forwards to Aero.de, a news site in German covering aviation topics. .PK is the country code for Pakistan.

Magniva.com $2,895 – Lallemand is a global leader in the development, production and marketing of yeast, bacteria and specialty ingredients. Magniva sure sounds like a bacteria product.

SightseeingToursAustralia.com $2,714 – True to its name, this is a travel site for Australian tour providers and other travel services down under.

TwistedAlchemy.com $2,500 – A new company producing high-end mixers for cocktails from freshly squeezed juices.

CoolQuotesCollection.com $2,500 – This might have been a website purchase as it had an existing site featuring quotes. The site hasn’t been updated since 2012.

Pulte.net $2,500 – A guy whose last name is Pulte.