FlashCards.com Sells for $250,000 via Sedo

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According to a tweet this morning (embedded above), Sedo broker Dave Evanson  has brokered the sale of FlashCards.com for $250,000.  FlashCards.com has been registered under privacy protection at Fabulous since 2009, so I am unable to share information about the buyer or the seller. I will attempt to reach out to the company that owned the name back in 2009 to see if they were the sellers and if they can provide any details.

I reached out to Dave Evanson to see if he could share any additional information about the sale, and he was unable to do so. He  let me know that the buyer is an end user buyer, so I would assume this domain name will be used at some point in the future. As of this morning, the domain name is still parked, but perhaps the usage of the domain name will shed light on who bought it.

$250,000 seems like an excellent price for this domain name. In February of 2009, Ron Jackson

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.Club Explains Landrush in Infographic

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If you’re like me, you may have been a bit confused when you first heard about what a “domain landrush” is. I have to assume that most people in the general public don’t have any idea what a domain landrush is, and I think domain registrars could probably do a better job explaining what the term means. For example, it doesn’t seem like registrars are using the “landrush” terminology in favor of calling it “pre-registration.”

For those of you who still don’t know what a domain landrush is, I want to share this infographic from the .Club Registry that explains how the domain landrush process works. Some new gTLD extensions will run landrush in a different way, especially as it relates to running auctions for domain names that have more than one applicant (.Club is working with Sedo to run these private auctions).

The .Club landrush concludes on May 1, when .Club domain names become available to hand register on a first come, first served basis.

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Massachusetts Businesses Closed for Patriots’ Day

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I am sure you already know that the Boston Marathon is being run this morning. Today marks the 118th running of the Boston Marathon. You might not know that today is a holiday in Massachusetts called Patriots Day, and many Massachusetts companies and businesses are closed.

There are several domain name and associated companies located in Massachusetts, and even though most are open in some capacity (like Sedo’s Great Domains auction), I believe that most Massachusetts-based employees have the day off today. If you are doing business with someone located in Massachusetts, you might not be able to get in touch with them today because of Patriots Day (not necessarily because of the Boston Marathon).

I’ll still be working as always, but we will be watching the Boston Marathon from mile 13, just like we did last year.

Sedo Great Domains March 2014 Auction Results

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Sedo’s March Great Domains auction concluded yesterday, and the results are listed below. The largest sale was for the Gab.com domain name, which sold for over $200,000. In total, the auction closed at a little under $250,000 USD. I noticed a couple of other domain names that had decent bids, but they did not meet the auction reserve price.

Great Domains March 2014 auction results:

Domain Currency Max Bid
gab.com $US 200002
rmx.com $US 10000
faho.com $US 4800
horizontal.net EUR 3602
goia.com $US 3533

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.Club Auction Ad in Wall Street Journal

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Dot Club smallThere is an advertisement in for the .Club winter sports domain name auction in the Wall Street Journal today, and I want to share it with you. The .Club auction began today, and it will run through February 26, 2014. The auction includes 25 winter sports-related domain names in the .Club new gTLD extension. Some of the domain names include Snowboarding.club, Skiing.club, IceHockey.club, Skate.club, and others.

The last time I heard about a domain name related advertisement in a major newspaper like the WSJ was when Heritage Auctions ran one for its inaugural live domain auction in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal in November of last year.

I am not sure whether

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Infographic: Sedo 2013 Domain Market Study

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Sedo shared an illustrative infographic with the details from its 2013 Domain Market Study. For your convenience, I have shared the infographic with you below, but you can visit Sedo’s website to see the infographic in its original (larger) size.

While the report is limited to sales and date from Sedo’s marketplace, I think it is a good barometer for the domain industry in general because of Sedo’s reach and the amount of business the company does annually.

Here is some data from the study, highlighted by Sedo:

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