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.
Every time a new domain extension becomes available for the general public to purchase, domain investors always want to know where they can sell the domain names they just purchased. This morning, someone asked “Where/how can i sell or auction a .xxx domain that i don’t want?”
Here are a few suggestions:
Sedo.com – There’s an adult section called “XXX – Adult,” and I am pretty sure they will permit .XXX domain names to be listed in that section. I am awaiting confirmation.
Afternic – Although .XXX is currently not included in the drop down menu of extensions, I would imagine Afternic will permit .XXX domain sales, since there are other adult related domain names on the site. I am awaiting confirmation, since they currently do not permit .XXX listings.
DN Forum – There is a section on DNF for adult domain sales, and there may be a separate .XXX section opening up. Perhaps Adam Dicker will open DNForum.XXX 🙂
NamePros – There is an adult sales forum and there’s also a .XXX domain discussion forum on NP.
Domain Brokers – My bet is that a number of private brokers like Andrew Rosener, Toby Clements, Justin Godfrey, and Rob Sequin will allow premium .XXX domain names to be included in their newsletters and via their brokerage.
Adult Webmaster Forums – I know many adult webmasters are not in favor of .XXX domain names. However, the sale of .XXX domain names may be permitted on an adult forum.
Do you have any suggestions for sales venues for .XXX domain names?
I just received the weekly Afternic sales report, and the company reported a total of $1,263,330 (which included public and private sales). BonnieAndClyde.com was the largest sale at $13,000 followed by ParkModelHomes.com for $12,696. The Whois hasn’t changed on either domain name, so the buyers are not yet known.
In addition to the sales report, Afternic also announced that it is the exclusive broker on three top domain names: Quiz.com, OfficeSupply.com, and DateOnline.com.
Afternic sales from last week:
bonnieandclyde.com $13,000.00
parkmodelhomes.com $12,696.00
shapewear.co.uk $12,265.00
goldenpoint.com $11,850.00
xlplay.com $9,130.00
thesafechoice.com $6,400.00
NNQ.com $6,251.00
greenereveryday.com $6,160.00
viewyou.com $6,000.00
sitereviews.com $6,000.00
pilateschallenge.com $5,500.00
General availability for .XXX domain names begins today at 11am EST. The ICM Registry has been advertising the launch of .XXX for quite some time, and as a result of the controversy surrounding .XXX domain names, there has been a TON of free publicity for the launch. In fact, there’s a video about it on the home page of CNN right now, as Mike Berkens blogged this morning.
Here are the details about what .XXX General Availability means, per the ICM Registry website:
General Availability begins December 6, 2011, and remaining .XXX domain names will be allocated to applicants on a first come, first served basis.
All members of the adult Sponsored Community can apply without pre-existing rights or qualifications unlike in the previous launch periods.
I would imagine some of the large registrars are going to see significant traffic spikes. I don’t think I am going to invest in many .XXX domain names, but I will probably try to register a few this morning if they’re available.
Andrew posted a price list if you want to know how much .XXX domain names cost.
In early February, Ron Jackson reported that Screenshots.com had sold for $32,500. The third largest deal of the week was completed by Eric Rice, and the buyer was DomainTools (as Mike Berkens noted a while back). The company has been offering historical screenshots of websites via its Whois lookup page. For instance, you can see the old format here.
A press release went out this morning announcing that DomainTools is now using Screenshots.com to display historic website screenshots. The new website is free to use for any visitor, and anyone can view or download the screenshots. You do not need a DomainTools account to use Screenshots.com.
This is a standalone website, and like other DomainTools’ websites, it provides much more information than just screenshots. For instance, when you search a website, Screenshots.com lists the # of domain names owned by the registrant of that domain name as well as the # of domain names on the same nameservers. It’s a handy new site, and I can imagine a whole host of uses for it.
Press release below:
DomainTools, the recognized leader in domain name research and monitoring, today launched Screenshots.com, a website that allows users to view screenshots of what a website looks like now and throughout its history. Screenshots.com provides a web archive of images and data sets that can be used for discovering and evaluating the history of website homepages. Users can track, and more fully understand, how a website’s homepage content has changed in its lifetime.
DomainTools has rebuilt the thumbnail engine that for years has provided a visual context to the powerful domain name detail information available at DomainTools.com. By launching on the premium domain name Screenshots.com, DomainTools is able to feature this important content in a more functional way for users that are specifically interested in home page archives.
Screenshots.com was created with key features in mind to help users better research competitive websites, easily scroll through a website’s image history, and discover details about the website. Visitors can quickly uncover the year the domain was first registered, find similar type websites and learn how a website looked over time. The site includes the ability for users to request an updated screenshot at any time. The Featured Screenshot section on the home page scans news feeds for domain name references and showcases them on a rotating basis.
The DomainTools thumbnail image capture system, the back-end service for Screenshots.com, was originally developed in 2004. The current version now checks up to 1,000,000 websites a day and, unlike other screenshot services, captures critical external resources like ads and images. With Screenshots.com, what you see is exactly what a visitor would have seen when they visited the site. Domain investors, trademark attorneys and brand agents alike have relied upon DomainTools’ screenshot history tool to make more informed business decisions and to investigate and defend potential trademark-infringing domain names.
For nearly 10 years, DomainTools has provided users with the most comprehensive data about domain names, and the launch of Screenshots.com helps extend that mission. Together with DomainTools.com, DailyChanges.com, ReverseWhois.com, and Reversemx.com, individuals, small business owners, and many large enterprises use DomainTools’ breadth of tools to do everything from finding a good domain for a new business to verifying DNS and WHOIS information on corporate portfolios of thousands of domains.
About DomainTools
DomainTools is the recognized leader in domain name research and monitoring. Like the white pages of the Internet, DomainTools provides a directory that serves a comprehensive snapshot of past and present domain name registration and ownership records in addition to powerful research tools that help to uncover and discover everything there is to know about a domain name. DomainTools is a Top 200 site in the Alexa rankings. DomainTools is based in Seattle, Washington.
As expected, Go Daddy is going to have a television presence during the Super Bowl. The company announced that it will advertise for the eighth consecutive year, and it has purchased two – 30 second commercials.
The company also reported that Go Daddy will feature .CO in one of its commercials during the big game on February 5, 2012.
This evening, Bob Parsons posted a tweet on Twitter announcing that he’s “At GoDaddy.co (that’s right .co) Superbowl Ad shoot with Danica, Jillian & our new.co girl.” A link to photo was posted along with the message. Update: It seems that the tweet and photo with Bob Parsons, Danica Patrick, Jillian Michaels, and the new .CO girl were removed very quickly. Perhaps a case of pre-mature publication?
Although I don’t know the name of the new .CO girl, she is much more attractive than last year’s .CO girl, Joan Rivers.
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