This guy is totally stoked to get his domain name! (End User Note)
Car rental firm Enterprise and a guy named Sam among those buying domain names this past week.
What does it feel like when you’re able to acquire a domain name matching your common first and last name? This is what San Francisco resident Sam Bishop posted at SamBishop.com following acquiring the domain name:
That’s the entire website. And I know the feeling!
Sam was just one of many end users buying domain names at Sedo this past week. The firm handled 788 domain name transactions for $1.3 million.
Once I picked through all of the three and four letter domains, and the numeric domains bought by Chinese investors, I found 24 end user sales.
Some domain names, like DraftPicks.com, are still in escrow. The buyer paid only $8,000 for this domain — does that seem like a steal to you?
Here’s a look at end user domain name sales from the past week on Sedo:
(You can view previous lists like this here. If you’d like to learn how to sell your domain names like these on Sedo, download this note.)
Wine.mx $25,001 – Following paying $25,000 for Wine.co, the online wine store at Wine.com.br paid $1 more for the .mx domain name.
ABM.co.uk £1,650 – ABM Facility Services UK Limited is a division of the facilities management firm that owns ABM.com.
AMTAmassage.com $1,955 – American Massage Therapy Association, a trade organization for the massage therapy business. This is an example of a firm buying an obvious trademark since it was probably more practicle (and cheaper) than filing a UDRP.
KrollBondRatings.org $2,000 – Kroll Bond Ratings agency uses the matching .com domain name. Here’s another obvious trademark purchase.
StTammanyLibrary.com $900 – St. Tammany Parish Library in Louisiana. It by now owns the shorter domain stpl.us.
Serelys.com $850 – S.A.M. Serelys Pharma is a pharmaceuticals firm in Monaco. It uses the domain name SerelysPharma.com.
Smartsage.com $1,400 – Network services firm Hughes Network Systems must have bought this domain for a fresh product line or marketing message.
CodeCandy.com $1,000 – User interface firm Conze bought this clever domain name. This is one of my favorite buys of the week.
SkinnyWorld.com $2,250 – The weight loss firm behind Skinny-World.com dropped the hyphen.
BeTheChange.com $9,988 – Teleperformance is some kind of marketing firm. Following a couple minutes of trying to figure out what it does (on its English language site), I decided it’s not very good at marketing.
Qbit.com €7,350 – Qbit GmbH, seller of audio equipment, uses Qbit.de.
DayShopping.com $2,000 – Brazilian marketing agency Daybook.
YourAuctionInc.com $2,669 – It’s still three words, but it’s a lot shorter than Your Auction, Inc’s other domain name yourauctiontampabay.com. YourAuction.com is protected by whois privacy.
Vissmann.com $1,500 – I suspect this is a common misspelling for Viessmann IT Service GmbH.
ARMSbusiness.com $3,000 – No, car rental firm Enterprise isn’t getting into the guns business. ARMS stands for Automated Rental Management System.
SamBishop.com $795 – This is the Sam Bishop I mentioned in the lede. At $795, I wonder why it took so long?
Novian.com €1,250 – another name purchase. Artist Mina Novian forwards her fresh, shorter domain name to MinaNovian.com.
TouchMonitor.net $995 – Utah firm Touch Screens, Inc. I wonder when the term “touch” will become assumed and redundant when mentioning screens?
Misters.com $775 – Somehow I doubt Zahrt Holdings is into the patio misting business since it’s in Wisconsin, but this is a heck of a deal on this domain name.
AllApp.com $1,288 – This domain forwards to UseAllApp.com, but the website doesn’t say much regarding the business.
PaymentIntegrity.com $777 – although not registered in a firm name, the email address of the registrant ties this back to private equity group West End Holdings.
Fenopy.eu $800 – The whois doesn’t disclose the owner, but the site right now hosts a torrent site.
EarlyBlackFriday.com $877 – 2Prices LLC bought this domain name, which has a website posting Black Friday ads in advance. Early.blackfriday is registered by someone else and doesn’t resolve.
SweetLips.com $1,450 – all I’ll say is this is a sex device. The Norway firm behind it uses the matching .no domain name.
