As is the tradition at Sedo, Director of Sales Kathy Nielsen rang the office bell to announce the sale of 3D.com. The company successfully brokered 3D.com for $500,000, in a deal that closed yesterday. The domain name was put up for sale in April of this year, and it appears to be owned by Register.com. The buyer’s identity was not revealed.
Congrats to Sedo on closing this big sale yesterday.
Sedo has hired Tobias Flaitz, previously with a company called Hubert Burda Media, as the company’s new CEO and member of the Board of Management. He replaces company co-founder Tim Schumacher, “who is leaving the Board of Management as of December 31, 2011 for personal reasons.”
Under Schumacher’s leadership, Sedo grew to become the largest domain aftermarket, and a large parking company as well. Schumacher is expected to continue an association with Sedo, as the company that owns Sedo intends to propose Schumacher as a member of its Supervisory Board.
Last August, it was announced that Sedo’s Jeremiah Johnston, was dropping his position as Chief Operating Officer to focus on starting a private legal practice. Johnston continues to be Sedo’s General Counsel.
I wish Schumacher all the best with whatever his next endeavor is.
Press Release:
The Supervisory Board of Sedo Holding AG has named Tobias Flaitz (40), previously with Hubert Burda Media, as the new CEO/member of the Management Board of Sedo. On February 1, 2012, he will succeed Sedo’s current CEO and co-founder, Tim Schumacher (35), who is leaving the Board of Management as of December 31, 2011 for personal reasons. At the next Annual General Meeting 2012 the Supervisory Board is due to be newly elected. In a proposal by United Internet AG, the Supervisory Board intends to propose Tim Schumacher as a new member of the Supervisory Board.
Tim Schumacher co-founded Sedo in 2001, together with Marius Würzner, Ulrich Essmann and Ulrich Priesner, and led the company to become the global leader in domain trading. In 2007, he was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” by Ernst & Young Germany. In 2009, he became CEO of Sedo Holding AG, which is comprised of Sedo’s domain business and ‘affilinet’, one of Europe’s leading affiliate marketing platforms.
Tobias Flaitz holds a degree in engineering and an MBA from the Universities of St.Gallen, Switzerland, and Berkeley, CA. He worked successfully for many years as a consultant for Accenture as well as Booz & Co. in the USA and EMEA. Since 2007 Tobias Flaitz held a management position in Strategy and Business Development with Hubert Burda Media in Munich.
“On behalf of the Supervisory Board, I would like to thank Tim Schumacher for the many years of excellent and trustful cooperation, for his personal commitment and the great accomplishments he has attained for the company. He founded and led Sedo from being a start-up to the world’s largest marketplace for domains and the leading domain parking company,” said Michael Scheeren, Chairman of the Supervisory Board. “We are delighted that Tim Schumacher will be available for further cooperation within the Supervisory Board. At the same time, we are delighted to have obtained the services of Tobias Flaitz, as an experienced manager with competence in digital business models and consulting expertise in strategy development and process optimization, who will drive Sedo’s further expansion during the coming years.”
About Sedo
Sedo, an acronym for “Search Engine for Domain Offers,” is the leading domain marketplace and monetization provider. Headquartered in Cologne, Germany and with offices in London, England and Cambridge, Mass., Sedo has assembled the world’s largest database of domain names for sale, with more than 15 million listings. The success of Sedo’s model has attracted a global membership base of more than 1 million domain professionals and end-users. For more information, visit www.Sedo.com.
Sedo is running a Great Domains auction beginning today, and I want to share some of my top picks for the auction. The auction ends on December 8, and many of the domain names have reserves.
Listed below are my favorites from the auction along with the reserve price range. Feel free to leave a comment with your favorite(s) from the auction.
FYI, the link is NOT an affiliate link – it’s a tracking code I am not being paid for this post nor was I asked to post it I also don’t have any names in the auction nor did I do a Whois search to see who owns what.
The weekly sales report was just released, and Sedo sold a total of 807 domain names worth $1.43 million. The top sale of the week was unterwaesche.de, which sold for 39,999 EUR. qCloud.com was the highest .com sale, and that sold for $39,500. I think my favorite sale of the week was Explorers.com, which sold for $30,000.
Sedo’s public domain sales from last week:
unterwaesche.de 2011-11-23 39999 EUR
qcloud.com 2011-11-28 39500 USD
explorers.com 2011-11-21 30000 EUR
cloudex.com 2011-11-22 30000 USD
tradeouts.com 2011-11-23 23000 USD
primozone.com 2011-11-24 15729 USD
standesamt.de 2011-11-23 14875 EUR
hunger.de 2011-11-24 11900 EUR
vip.me 2011-11-24 11600 USD
starservice.com 2011-11-21 11500 USD
cvo.net 2011-11-23 9888 USD
juegosmahjong.com 2011-11-25 8750 EUR
adpath.com 2011-11-21 8500 USD
id1.de 2011-11-25 7999 EUR
mobiledate.com 2011-11-23 7800 USD
petadvisor.com 2011-11-23 7500 USD
sk.net 2011-11-24 7101 USD
daenemark.com 2011-11-28 7000 EUR
job.me 2011-11-24 6200 USD
anyplay.com 2011-11-22 6000 EUR
gree.es 2011-11-22 6000 USD
hörgeräte.net 2011-11-24 6000 EUR
jalousie.com 2011-11-21 5101 EUR
avalanchestudios.com 2011-11-22 5000 USD
projectfactory.com 2011-11-28 5000 USD
urbanadventure.com 2011-11-21 5000 USD
shg.biz 2011-11-28 5000 EUR
During the past week, Sedo sold a total of 990 domain names through its marketplace, totaling $1.92 million (public and private sales included).
The largest sale of the week was Fab.de, which sold for $50,000. Since the domain name currently resolves to Sedo’s home page and the Whois info reflects Sedo’s transfer service, it’s not known who purchased the domain name. There is a popular daily sale site at Fab.com, so perhaps that company was the buyer. Fab.eu was also purchased last week for 35,000 EUR, and like Fab.de, the domain name resolves to Sedo’s home page.
Sedo sales last week.
fab.de 50000 USD
imigration.com 35000 USD
fab.eu 35000 EUR
games24.com 26500 EUR
sleepcycle.com 20000 USD
cem.org 18000 USD
minds.com 14000 USD
smutty.com 12000 USD
fw.eu 11000 EUR
jobangebote.de 10099 EUR
pagomat.com 10000 USD
cloudlab.com 10000 USD
ha.net 9800 USD
webdots.de 8830 EUR
borsa.net 8400 USD
golf.me 7000 USD
cohost.com 6500 USD
wimp.de 6500 EUR
taner.com 6000 EUR
onetabletperchild.com 6000 USD
inc.me 5600 USD
proboxing.com 5500 USD
vertrieb.com 5100 EUR
learningspark.com 5000 USD
makereal.com 5000 USD
itattoo.com 5000 USD
playsoft.com 5000 USD
4ta.com 5000 USD
müllbeutel.de 5000 EUR
There is just under two hours remaining in Sedo’s .ME auction, being held at Sedo.com/ME. Out of the 178 domain names that are up for auction, 137 of them currently have bids. Many of the auctions do have reserve prices.
Detox.ME is the domain name with the highest bid at $4,999, and it hes met its reserve. A bit more than 50 other auctions have bids at $500 or higher. Below is a list of the 17 auctions with bids currently above $1,000, although there are quite a few at $999.
