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BettingOdds.com and HorseRacing.net lead end user domain sales

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A honey distributor, a nutritional supplement brand and a Cannabis product company bought domain names this past week.

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

Earlier this week I wrote about how GamingUSA (a company actually in the UK) bought BettingOdds.com for £390,000. It turns out they also bought HorseRacing.net for $60,000. These two domains led Sedo’s end user domain sales for the week.

Here’s a look at sales to end users that recently closed at Sedo. See prior end user lists here.

BettingOdds.com £390,000 & HorseRacing.net $60,000 – Both of these gambling names are not yet developed but were purchased by the GamingUSA Group.

Manuka.de €45,000 – The domain forwards to a site for Neuseelandhaus by Manuka Health. It sells honey products from the Manuka region in New Zealand.

SingleBoersen.de €20,000 – Forwards to SingleBoerse.de by German company Phonemotion GmbH. The site compares online dating sites.

HireTimes.com $5,000 – This play-on-words domain was purchased by Elite California, a Cannabis product company.

ArtBrut.org €5,000 – This French website features an art collection from various artists.

Dayy.com €4,000 – A web and app development company that worked on a new RedBull.com site and a Volvo app, among others.

OPDC.com €2,800 – Forwards to opdc.co.uk, a consultancy group specializing in leadership skills and team building.

Hospital2Home.com $2,340 – Forwards to TexasHealth.org, a faith-based, nonprofit health care delivery system based in the North Texas region.

Vertix.org $2,157 – This was purchased by the ECRI Institute, a nonprofit organization that supports medical practices and products with the safest, most cost-effective care in mind. There are a lot of trademark applications for this term but I don’t see any from ECRI.

MuscleFit.com $2,150 – A Mexican nutritional supplement company.

Wellness.jp $2,100 – A Japanese site in development for health and wellness services.

BettingOdds.com domain sells for £390,000

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Company pays nearly $500k for betting domain name that was once an active site.

Picture of soccer game on TV in background with person holding betting slip with odds from bookmaker

The domain name BettingOdds.com just sold for £390,000 on Sedo. That’s about $488,000 at today’s exchange rate.

GamingUSA, a company actually located in the United Kingdom, is listed in Whois as the buyer.

According to a press release from 2007, the domain sold for $3,630 in a Moniker auction back then.

But the domain has been developed since then. Backlink checkers show thousands of links pointing to the domain name.

GamingUSA apparently didn’t acquire the site, however. It has a coming soon placeholder on the domain name.

The seller also owns BettingOdds.co.uk. That domain sold for about $11,000 in 2014.

23 end user domain name sales

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United Technologies, a floriculture company and a business that buys cars for scrap bought domain names.

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

This week’s end user domain sales report doesn’t have the high dollar sales of last week, but I uncovered 23 sales to report.

Here’s a look at sales to end users that recently closed at Sedo. See prior end user lists here.

DigitalPrinting.ie €16,000 – This online printing company owns DigitalPrintingIreland.ie and DigitalPrinting.co.uk.

Timata.com $9,888 – Equitativa is a REIT in the Middle East. The domain currently resolves to a website for Enata Industries, which does R&D and manufacturing in the marine, aerospace and architecture spaces.

CISedu.com $7,500 – That’s short for Cambridge International School in Russia.

MultiTap.com $7,000 – MultiGift Relatiegeschenken B.V. offers promotional gifts.

WTMC.com $7,000 – WTMC is a building a digital travel management platform.

FreshPortal.com $6,900 – FreshPortal is an ERP company for the floriculture industry. If you don’t know what that is, ask Shane Cultra. It uses the domain FreshPortal.nl.

CozyCozy.com $6,500 – Joliroom SAS bought the domain for a travel comparison website.

Coin.bet €5,500 – CoinBet.com, a site that lets you gamble with bitcoin, bought a new TLD hack. (Question: isn’t just owning bitcoin gambling?)

EdFlex.com $5,500 – The domain forwards to My-Mooc.com. MOOC is short for massive open online course. EdFlex makes sense as a brand for a MOOC.

Plastiq.it $5,072 – Plastiq Pty Ltd bought this domain and forwards it to Plastiq.com.au. The website appears to copy lots of elements from cashback app Dosh.

PetCremations.com $5,000 – The buyer runs funeral homes in Pennsylvania.

Fitness-Nation.com $4,995 – ZIVA Digital operates a European fitness community called ZIVA Fitness Nation.

CashForScrapCars.com $4,995 – The buyer is connected to an Australian business, Metal Recycling Brisbane, that breaks down cars for scrap metal.

Ves.co $4,960 – VES Environmental Solutions bought this shorter version of its domain name vesenvironmentalsolutions.com.

Meepl.com $4,900 – Fision Technologies is a body scan company. Meepl is an upcoming product or rebrand for them.

CarrierCompany.com €4,400- United Technologies, which owns the Carrier HVAC company.

InPlace.de $3,300 – InPlace helps people find jobs. Its website is InPlace-Hamburg.com.

MyHormones.com $2,999 – BodyLogicMD offers hormone replacement therapy.

SoundShelf.com $2,995 – A holding page says this will be for an audiobook company.

ParcelPost.com £2,500 – SentMyBag (NI) Ltd ships bags and boxes. Parcel post is the name for mail that is too heavy for normal letter post.

InterFreight.com €2,300 – The domain forwards to InterFreightBulgaria.com, run by a freight company in Europe.

Automation.kr $2,000 – Data Logic Automation provides Excel automation technologies at DataLogicAuto.com.

Tesy.cn – $2,000 Tesy sells water heaters and heating appliances. Its domain name is Tesy.com.

C’mon domain marketplaces, let’s make search better

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Another good search tool is gone, and I hope the domain marketplaces fill the void.

Graphic with the words Domain Search above a search box

I’ve commented before about how it’s frustrating that domain marketplaces such as Sedo and Afternic have horrible search. They are leaving lots of money on the table by not making their entire inventory searchable by more metrics.

This weekend I went to DomainTools’ marketplace section. It used to have a nifty tool to search for domains in the aftermarket. It scored each domain, giving a relative quality marker to its sorting algorithm.

Alas, DomainTools shut down its marketplace tools earlier this year. A message on its website states “DomainTools has retired the Domain Marketplace functionality as we increase focus on our security mission.”

I really hope marketplaces will take notice and make it easier for investors to search through their inventory. Sedo took some baby steps with its expired domain inventory but it’s time to do more.

I think that marketplaces could have a significant impact on liquidity and sell-through rates by improving the search experience.

End user domain sale bonanza!

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20 end user domain sales including three for $100k+

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

Sedo had a very strong week for end user domain name sales. It’s not just the number of domains I uncovered (20) but also dollar amounts. Three end user sales went for six figures. Salesforce bought a .ai domain for $50,000. And a so-so .net domain sold for $48,216!

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

Links.com €700,000 – As I reported earlier this week, it appears that AllMyLinks acquired the domain.

Casinos.org $400,000 – I don’t know who bought it, but given recent end-user purchases of casino domains and the price, I’m going to call it an end user.

Auer.com $100,000 – AUER Packaging is a plastic storage container company in Germany.

21.de €79,730 – This top ccTLD sale forwards to Einundzwanzig.de, which is operated by the German company DSW21 (Dortmunder Stadtwerke AG). The site brands as 21, so this is a nice pickup.

Analytics.ai – $50,000 – Salesforce bought this domain for its Einstein Analytics product.

Tomorrow.net $48,216 – TeamWork Management SA is a technology company that uses TeamWork.net. Not to be confused with TeamWork.com.

ForSchool.com $42,000 – Red Jumper Limited offers Book Creator, an app for building digital books in the classroom.

MedicareBenefits.com $25,000 – National General Insurance bought this great keyword generic name.

RentJerseyShore.com $10,000 – An apartment listings site for Jersey Shore, New Jersey.

Accelerate.ai €8,500 – The buyer is an artificial intelligence company. It’s an interesting left-right of dot play here, as they promise to help you accelerate your AI.

Screenless.com €8,000 – Screenless Technologies Pty Ltd is an Australian company formed last month.

Adivo.com $5,000 – Forwards to i-pos.nl, a point of sale transaction service provider out of France. I’m not sure what they want the domain for.

PetsForum.com €4,195 – An exact match domain, the buyer appears to be setting up forums to discuss pets.

Joinly.com €4,000 – E-Cotiz is a French company that provides online tools for managing membership-based organizations. A rebrand in the works or just a new service brand?

Contact.Agency €4,000 – The Contact Agency Limited is a UK company formed last year.

OJO.ca $4,000 – OJO is a Canadian property listing company that alerts users to homes based on specific requirements. It uses the domain OJOhome.ca.

Temsa.de €3,500 – Temsa is a luxury bus manufacturing company operating out of Turkey that uses the domain Temsa.com.

Code.in $3,500 – Forwards to TheHackingSchool.com, a computer boot camp program for students in India.

Podpal.com $3,350 – Pod Pal LLC is a company in Atlanta formed last year. I believe it’s the company that owns PodPal.io, a podcasting service.

GoodnessMe.com $2,500 – This catchy name was purchased by Godrej Consumer Products Limited, an Indian consumer goods company. Its products include soap, toiletries and liquid detergents.