Picks from the Great Domains Auction

Elliot Silver
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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.

  • Modeling.com  ($100,000 – 249,999 USD) – Can be used by a fashion model agency or by a statistical / database modeling company.
  • Stunner.com   ($1 – 499 USD) – Great brand name for under $500.
  • TCP.com ($5,000 – 9,999 USD) – Three good letters and LLL .com names are almost always liquid.
  • Orangutans.com  ($500 – 999 USD) – An animal name for under $1k is usually a good deal. Start a sports team 🙂
  • Accommodates.com ($1 – 499 USD) – May not be the exact match term, but for under $500 it’s solid.
  • Making.com ($5,000 – 9,999 USD) – Great action domain name

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.

Sedo Sells $1.43 million in Domain Names

Elliot Silver
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SedoThe 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

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Sedo Sells Nearly 1,000 Domain Names for $1.92 Million

Elliot Silver
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SedoDuring 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

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Sedo .ME Auction Ending Today

Elliot Silver
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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.

  • detox.me
  • london.me
  • vip.me
  • top.me
  • realestate.me
  • taxi.me
  • job.me
  • cam.me
  • property.me
  • golf.me
  • chinese.me
  • 888.me
  • football.me
  • fitness.me
  • lifeinsurance.me
  • jewelry.me
  • lottery.me

Sedo Distributes Q3 2011 Domain Market Study

Elliot Silver
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SedoAt 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

Sedo Offers “Sell Now Assurance”

Elliot Silver
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SedoIt’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.

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