Sedo Sponsor Spotlight – NamesCon 2016

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This article is the first in a series of interviews with NamesCon 2016 exhibitors and sponsors. The NamesCon domain conference will take place at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas from January 10-13. 1,000 conference attendees are expected to attend this annual domain conference.

Today’s NamesCon Spotlight interview is with Sedo, a marketplace to buy and sell domain names.

Q: What is your company’s mandate, what sets you apart?

Sedo is the leading domain marketing specialist, and the world’s largest and most successful

Sedo Illustrates Chinese Involvement in Domain Market

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Sedo shared a neat infographic on Twitter today to illustrate the amount of Chinese involvement in their marketplace.

The infographic shows that last week there were

Results From Sedo’s Numeric .Club Auction

Sedo ran a numeric auction in conjunction with the .Club registry, and the auction concluded today. Sedo shared the results of the auction, which netted $44,727 in total sales. I have published the results of the no reserve auction below.

From what I understand, all of the domain names that were put up for auction were sold. Obviously since the auction ended this afternoon, all of these auctions should be considered “pending sales,” until they are paid and transferred. I would imagine the sales will all be reported to NameBio once they close.

The top three sales were triple repeating numbers – 555.Club, 111.Club, and 666.Club. The next few sales had the number 8 in them. 16 auctions had bids greater than $1,000. The lowest value sale was 544.Club, which sold for $169.

In total, 37 NNN.Club domain names were sold today.

Here is the full list of domain name sales from today’s .Club numeric auction:

Domain Max Bid

  • 555.club $5,755
  • 111.club $5,320
  • 666.club $3,600
  • 688.club $3,220
  • 118.club $2,260
  • 288.club $2,060
  • 818.club $2,010
  • 333.club $1,801
  • 800.club $1,451
  • 177.club $1,310
  • 988.club $1,300
  • 788.club $1,250
  • 868.club $1,250
  • 121.club $1,250
  • 858.club $1,105
  • 151.club $1,001
  • 181.club $751
  • 878.club $726
  • 898.club $700
  • 120.club $700
  • 882.club $656
  • 200.club $510
  • 211.club $450
  • 166.club $412
  • 816.club $390
  • 869.club $385
  • 255.club $360
  • 171.club $339
  • 122.club $329
  • 711.club $320
  • 131.club $310
  • 815.club $300
  • 806.club $300
  • 112.club $269
  • 251.club $229
  • 864.club $179
  • 544.club $169

EZ.com Sold via Sedo

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EZ.com has been sold, and the domain name was brokered by Sedo for an undisclosed price. The deal has been confirmed this morning, although details about the sale are going to remain private. As such, we will not see the domain name reported in the weekly DNJournal sales report.

When I noticed a change on the sale listing page within Sedo’s website yesterday, I reached out to Dave Evanson, who had been brokering the EZ.com domain  name. At that time, Dave would only confirm that there was a “sale pending” for EZ.com. I asked if he could share any details about the price, and he said he could  not comment.

As of this morning, the Whois registrant information has changed, and the domain name is now registered to Domain Capital, a domain name financing company. I reached out to Vince Harasymiak,

Sedo Updates Search Functionality & Will Host a .Club Numeric Auction

Sedo just announced that it updated its search criteria to allow users to search for numeric domain names on its platform. This should make it easier for domain name buyers to find numeric domain names for sale at Sedo. The new search feature can be found in the advanced search filter options in Sedo’s search engine.

Yesterday, I reported .Club founder Colin Campbell’s tweet announcing that “[a]s of today, all 4 number names are now registered with a few still premium”. In addition to the search functionality update, Sedo also announced that it will be holding a numeric domain name auction for .Club domain names from November 12- 19. I am not sure if the domain names being auctioned are owned by the registry, and I do not have details about whether auction submissions are being accepted. Be in touch with Sedo if you have any questions.

The link to the numeric auction is here.

Here is the news release I received with more information:

What is XXWW.com Worth?

Aside from owning SSSN.com and PRRR.com, I no longer own many domain names that seem to be in great demand to Chinese domain name buyers. I suppose I don’t fully understand the rationale for these purchases and am concerned that if I jump into that market right now I will end up losing money.

I read Shane Cultra’s list of domain names coming up for auction, and he highlighted one that was intriguing to me. In this morning’s post, Shane said, “XXWW.com OK this is the best name on the board. Maybe not in the future but right now.” I clicked through, and I see XXWW.com is up for auction on Sedo right now. The current high bid is $10,000 and the reserve has been met.

To be totally honest, I