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End user sales at Uniregistry up to $160,000

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A CBD company, eco-friendly hotel chain, and security company bought domain names at Uniregistry.

Screenshot of the website Grabo.com, showing a man using a suction tool to lift a window

Nemo Power Tools bought Grabo.com to promote its electric vacuum lifter.

Uniregistry has had some strong sales over the past couple of weeks, and many of them have been to end users instead of domain name investors. Here’s a look at 14 domains I found that appear to have been purchased by end users.

GreenRoads.com $160,000 – As I wrote about last week, a CBD company bought this domain after losing a UDRP for it.

KohRong.com $25,000 – Koh Rong is an island in the Sihanoukville Province of Cambodia. The page has a coming soon notice and a logo with a heart in it.

AST.net $20,000 – The domain forwards to AstronautSecurity.com, the website for managed security company Astronaut Security Technologies.

RettSyndrome.com $15,883 – A CSC client bought this domain. Rett Syndrome is a rare genetic mutation affecting brain development in girls.

EcoHotels.com $14,500 – Guldsmeden Hotels is an environmentally-friendly hotel chain.

ChickenSalad.com $12,000 – Pawleys Island Specialty Foods forwards this exact match domain to its websites. It sells chicken salad, among other foods.

ARTHR.com $11,000 – VAS01 Limited is a new company founded in the UK. We’ll see what they do with the domain.

MyAthletics.com $10,100 – The domain resolves to a website for the Southeastern Program of Recreational Team Sports, or S.P.O.R.T.S. for short.

ShowPlus.com $9,500 – Forwards to ShowPlusESP.com, a site for equestrian insurance.

EastandWest.com $7,000 – The Whois is for SC IP Limited, which is in the online gaming business.

Hedonista.com $6,000 – A coming soon page suggests it will be some sort of beauty products company.

TEEU.com $5,000 – A coming soon page notes “TEEU® an Tom&Dom® Company”.

Grabo.com $4,500 – Grabo is a portable electric vacuum lifter by Nemo Power Tools. Looks cool!

ASFG.com $4,500 – American Skin Food Group LLC in North Carolina.

End user domain sales topped by a new TLD

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Clean.tech leads Sedo’s end user chart for last week.

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

Last week’s end user sales at Sedo were led by a new TLD sale at $30,000. A solar power company bought clean.tech.

Here’s a look at some of the domains end users bought. See prior end user lists here.

Clean.Tech $30,000 – Electrious is a solar power company. It says it applies artificial intelligence to solar power.

CSelect.com $10,500 – Seliant ApS offers online tests to assess potential employees. This might be a name for one of its assessments.

HomeStatus.com $7,775 – Simple Commands is a home automation/smart home provider. For now, the domain forwards the domain to SimpleCommands.com.

Prodin.com $7,000 – Prodin is a Guatamalan company that makes car waxes, shoe polish, kids art products and more. It appears to have used the domain ProdinCA.com before buying this domain.

Plomero.com $5,980 – Plomero means plumber in Spanish. A Miami plumber bought the domain. This was a great buy.

Dedicated-Servers.com $5,000 – Hosting company LayerHost.

JoyClub.it €4,250 – Purchased by F&P GmbH, a German full-service creative agency. The domain is presumably for a client.

GreatGig.com $3,500 – Varsityplaza, which forwards this domain to jobs search site GreatGigs.com. It was smart to buy the singular version of the domain name.

Franke.id $2,500 – Forwards to Franke.com, a Swiss company that manufactures and installs kitchen equipment such as stoves and hoods, commercial kitchen systems, high-end coffee systems and water filtration systems.

KidsConcept.de €2,500 – Forwards to KidsConcept.com, a Swedish children’s furniture and room decor manufacturer.

CashlessCampus.com $2,000 – Gabbart Communications, a website company that produces and hosts K-12 school websites. It is based in Durant, Oklahoma.

 

 

End user domain sales led by $50,000 for a .Org

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A baby furniture company, a London-based publisher and a yoga studio in Asheville bought domain names.

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

This week’s end user sales list of domains sold at Sedo is led by two .org domains. It’s not clear yet what the buyers will do with them, but I’m particularly interested in Dawn.org. It sold for $50,000.

Here’s a look at some of the domains end users bought. See prior end user lists here.

Dawn.org $50,000 – The domain resolves to a page that shows the word Dawn and “the new beginning.”

Cats.org $15,000 – An Ohio company called Lands LLC bought this domain. It sells t-shirts.

JobScan.com $12,500 – Forwards to JobScan.co. This service helps optimize your resume and LinkedIn profile to increase your chances of getting hired.

SafeReach.net $9,500 – SafeReach provides emergency alerting systems for companies. The domain forwards to its website at SafeReach.net.

DeltaBaby.com $6,735 – This domain was bought by Delta Enterprise Corp., which does business as Delta Children’s Products Corp. and currently uses DeltaChildren.com for its website. They are a manufacturer of children’s and baby furniture and products such as bassinets, mattresses, pillows, storage and decor, walkers, and strollers.

CLIG.com €5,000 – Forwards to GetClig.com. Click provides an expense management product. Nice upgrade.

Dennis.group $3,500 – Bought by the Dennis Publishing Group, an international media company based in London.

EmailExpert.com $3,250 – A beta preview shows that this site will connect people with email marketing vendors, agencies and consultants.

MER.ch €2,950 – Forwards to shoppingcity.ch/kosmetik. This is an online cosmetic store index for listings within Switzerland.

CypressConsulting.com $2,880 – This domain was purchased by a consulting firm by the same name.

ThreeB.com $2,875 – Three B is a real estate company in Iowa.

Wohnung-Berlin.de €2,500 – A luxury vacation apartment rental and property management company in Berlin. Wohnung translates as “flat”.

DigitalRatgeber.de €2,500 – Wort & Bild Verlag Konradshöhe GmbH & Co. KG acquired this domain and forwards it to Digital-Ratgeber.de. Dropping the hyphen is a nice upgrade.

ByteGrowth.com $2,275 – This was purchased by Beijing Bytedance Network Technology Co., a Chinese internet technology company operating several machine learning-enabled content platforms. It is headquartered in Beijing.

AshevilleYoga.com $2,000 – Forwards to YourYoga.com, a website for Asheville Yoga Center in Asheville, NC.

Who bought domains at Uniregistry this week

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A hardened modular building company, customer service SaaS provider, and scanning software company bought domain names at Uniregistry.

Screenshot of CoverSix website. It shows a modular building with mountains in the background.

CoverSix Shelters acquired CoverSix.com, which it forwards to its longer domain name.

Uniregistry released its weekly top sales today, and a surprising number of them already link to active websites. Here’s a look at who bought what.

1. gorgias.com $34,500 – Gorgias.io bought the .com to forward to its existing website. It provides a customer service platform for e-commerce stores.

2. go2greece.com $21,000 – According to a splash page on the site, the owner of Malia.co.uk is relaunching its website.

3. vuescan.com $10,000 – Hamrick Software offers Vuescan, which is scanning software that works with over 6,000 scanners. The company previously tried to get the domain via UDRP.

4. only.fans $9,490 – OnlyFans is a service for social media that lets you earn from subscriptions. It uses the domain onlyfans.com, and forwards only.fans to its .com.

5. agyl.com $8,800 – Appears to be a domain investor.

6. vegasluxuryhomes.com $8,500 – The buyer is in Nevada, so this seems like an end user.

7. werank.com $8,000 – Someone in Hong Kong.

8. dreamview.com $8,000 – Someone using DreamHost for hosting acquired the domain and has a coming soon page. Maybe DreamHost itself?

9. autis.com $8,000 – Autis is an engineering firm that uses Autis.es. It forwards the .com to the .es.

10. toysforgood.com $7,600 – The buyer is in California.

11. zweck.com $7,500 – Zweck is a Miami company that does vehicle sales, performance, projects & parts focused on Porsche automobiles, as well as storage for all collector cars.

12. squama.com $7,000 – The buyer is in Russia.

13. onlinelawschools.com $6,500 – The buyer is in Iowa.

14. nickelanddime.com $6,250 – The buyer is in California. This is a great domain for many businesses.

15. eclosings.com $6,000 – Florida title company Jax Title appears to have bought the domain. It forwards to JaxTitle.com.

16. civy.com $5,000 – The buyer is in Oregon.

17. coversix.com $5,000 – CoverSix Shelters sells hardened modular buildings. It forwards the domain to CoverSixShelters.com.

18. nzevents.com $5,000 – NZ Events in Texas.

19. ananda.net $4,200 – The domain has Domains by Proxy.

20. braingame.com $4,000 – The Whois record has privacy.

18 end user domain name sales up to $35,000

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A real estate technology company, shuttle transportation provider and hotelier bought domains.

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

Sedo had a lot of solid end user sales this past week, led by a three character domain name with a mysterious ‘coming soon’ page.

Here’s a look at some of the domains end users bought. See prior end user lists here.

DYO.com $35,000 – A splash page says “Coming Soon, Phoenix!”

Searchability.com $12,820 – A coming soon page has a logo for Searchability.

CommercialSearch.com $30,000 – Yardi creates software for real estate firms. This one will obviously be for finding commercial properties.

PrizePicks.com $19,000 – Forwards to MyPrizePicks.com, a fantasy sports website.

ProduktVergleich.de €17,000 – Product Vergleich means ‘product comparison’ in German. This site aggregates consumer reviews and data.

TurboDial.com $7,500 – TurboDial is an autodialer that works with InfusionSoft. The domain forwards TurboDial.biz, so this is a .com upgrade.

Oyo.com.br $7,000 – Forwards to OyoRooms.com, a hotel chain in India.

HotelTransfers.com $4,700 – Forwards to ShuttleDirect.com, a European shuttle search website and airport transportation provider.

CitrusFiber.com $4,300 – This domain was purchased by CP Kelco, a U.S. company specializing in natural ingredient production. It just launched a new product line of citrus fiber.

VDN.ch €2,999 – VDN is a German acronym for “Vernetzt durch netzer” which means “networked with Netzer”. This company offers services and support to those producing their own electricity. They also provide interfaces between various companies in the telecommunication and electricity sector.

RechnungsVordrucke.de €2,500 – Forwards to RechnungsVorlagen.de which translates to “invoice templates”. This site offers various invoice templates for Excel, Word – for free.

MyBits.de €2,500 – Forwards to Telum.de, a German digital project management and software consulting firm. Maybe its for a client project.

Gulf.fr €2,390 – Ovensia, a custom web design shop, bought the domain. It currently forwards to a website about cars that it created.

Bolig.net €2,195 – Forwards to DBare.com, a Norwegian online education portal offering Master’s degree programs in Building Construction and more. Bolig translates to ‘housing’ in Danish.

Idana.com $2,000 – A medical patient information and data protection company.

Kaarisma.com €2,000 – Forwards to MXMDesign.de, which is an advertising agency offering Marketing, SEO, Social media, etc. This domain may have been purchased for a client or a new campaign.

SuedWest24.de €2,000 – Forwards to Mannheim24.de. Mannheim is a city in Germany and this website features local Mannheim news.