Sedo Introduces New Offer Page

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Domain investor Nadia Pessoa noticed a sleek new offer page that appears to have recently been introduced by Sedo. The landing page is clean, shares some information about the domain name, and it makes it very easy and clear that the domain name is for sale and that an offer should be made to buy it.

I am not going to link to this domain name due to parked page TOS, but have a look at Sensor.CO to see the page. When you visit, click on the top non-monetized link that says “The domain sensor.co may be for sale by its owner!.” Once you click on that,

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Sedo Posts Numeric Auction Inventory

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In July, Sedo put out a call for submissions for numeric domain names to be included in a specialty auction. The company recently published the inventory for this numeric domain auction, which will begin on September 3, 2014 and run for one week through September 10.

There are 251 domain names that will be up for auction next month. The domain names are all numeric, and there are a wide variety of extension include – from .com domain names to new gTLD extensions to ccTLD domain names. It runs the gamut. Domain name lengths run from 1 number to several numbers. I am a bit surprised there were no two number .com domain names included in the auction, although there are seven three number .com domain names.

In my opinion, here are 10 notable domain names that are included in this auction:

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Infographic: Sedo Market Study (1st Half of 2014)

Elliot Silver
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This morning, Sedo published its Market Study that includes domain name sales from the first half of 2014 that were completed via the company. Published below is the infographic that has quite a bit of good information from the study. Because of the size of Sedo, I believe this Market Study is a good indicator of the overall domain name marketplace.

Some of the highlights from the report include this information:

  • $35.9 million in sales volume ($70.5 reported all of 2013)
  • 55% of sales were .com
  • Highest new gTLD sale was more than $100k (NDA)
  • Mean sale price $2,214 vs. $1,893 in 2013 year end report

Check out the infographic for more information shared by the company:

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2 Chat Names Sell for Over $220k

Elliot Silver
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Sedo reported its sales from this month’s Great Domains auction, and there are a few notable sales to report. Chat.fr was reportedly sold for 99,999 EUR and Chat.de was reportedly sold for 65,000. The total of these two domain name sales was 164,999 EUR. At today’s exchange rate, this is approximately $221,872.51 USD.

Several of the other domain names up for auction received bids, but in total, only 6 domain names met reserve and sold. The auction totaled a little over a quarter of a million USD.

Listed below are the 6 domain names that were reported to me by Sedoas sold along with their sale prices:

  • losangeles.de EUR 3910
  • refrigerador.com.br $US 999
  • chat.fr EUR 99999
  • jtf.com $US 25100
  • chat.de EUR 65000
  • characterizer.com $US 99

I assume these deals have not closed yet since the auction concluded yesterday afternoon.

Sedo to Run Numeric Domain Auction

Elliot Silver
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With numeric domain names continuing to sell for high prices, Sedo announced that it will be running a “premium numeric domain auction” in September. I assume this means they will be looking for very short numeric domain names (NN, NNN, and NNNN) in popular extensions. Hopefully the lead time will give them a chance to reach out to their buyers and other known buyers to help facilitate deals.

If you are interested in submitting a domain name for the auction, listed below are the important dates to remember:

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How Will Google Domains Impact the Secondary Market?

Elliot Silver
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Now that it seems that Google will operate a public domain registrar, I am curious how this will affect the secondary market for domain names. Reports suggest that Google’s primary audience for domain name registrations might be the small businesses because the company’s research shows that 55% of those companies do not have a website yet.

In my opinion, the vast majority of small businesses who sign up for Google Domains will want to get a domain name that matches their business name. For instance, Jimmy’s Clam Shack will probably want to hand register JimmysClamShack.com. If that domain name wouldn’t be available, Google might suggest Jimmys.Restaurant or ClamShack.Menu.

Although these options will be good for the vast majority of small businesses, there will probably be

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