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

At the end of every quarter, Sedo publishes a Domain Market Study to give people an overview of the previous quarter at Sedo. The report can be helpful to domain investors to see marketplace trends and know what’s happening on the ground at one of the largest domain aftermarkets.

Posted below are some interesting facts (in my opinion) from Q3 that were just published by Sedo. You can read the full Q3 Domain Market Study  (pdf)  on Sedo’s website.

• .COM and .DE were the most frequently sold domain extensions
• Fewer than 50% of all sales were .COM domain names. In total, 49% of Sedo’s sales were .COM
• .CO saw a drop off last quarter, and totaled 2% of all sales
• .TV was not one of the top 10 selling tld
• Total sales volume was just under $20,000,000
• 38% of all sales came from offer-counter offer negotiations. 32% of sales was from buy it now listings.
• Nearly half of all sales were for $500 or less.
• Sales of $50,000 or more accounted for only 1% of all sales
• Average .com sale dipped to $2,496 this quarter from $3,114 last quarter
• Software was the top selling category

It’s always  frustrating  when you click the “buy it now” button at a domain aftermarket website and later find out that the owner had previously sold the domain name but forgot to remove the listing.

A few years ago, I bought a name on Sedo, sent payment immediately, only to find out days later that the name was no longer owned by the seller. With the introduction of the “Sell Now Assurance” program, this scenario should no longer happen to buyers.

According to a press release from Sedo this morning, “with Sell Now Assurance, any domain listed with a Buy Now price will be checked at the point of making a sale in order to ensure that it is still currently owned by the seller listing that domain name with Sedo.”

With this new feature, whenever a buyer starts the purchase process for a Buy Now domain, Sedo checks that domain name’s ownership information at the registrar level. If the ownership information matches that of the seller, the purchase process will proceed as a standard Buy Now sale. If the check does not match, that domain listing will be converted into a Make Offer listing, allowing the buyer to place a bid on the domain and the seller to review whether the domain is still in their control before committing to a sale.

This is a smart new feature to the marketplace, and I am very glad it’s been instituted.

Sedo reported $1,310,000 in domain sales last week, including all public and private transactions (754 total sales). The leading sale of the week was Solo.com, which changed hands to the tune of $131,000. Two .DE domain names were next on the sales list at 35,000 Euros for Frage.DE and 34,000 Euros for GPS.DE.

Full sales list from last week is below.

solo.com 133000 USD
frage.de 35000 EUR
gps.de 34000 EUR
opn.com 25000 USD
nsp.com 22500 USD
gsma.com 22000 EUR
xensation.com 20000 USD
shop-list.com 10000 USD