Making Money With Domains

Moniker Spring auction results

domainnamewire — Fri, 18 May 2012 04:00:12 +0000

Moniker auction nets close to $20,000 in sales. The Moniker Premium Spring Auction at SnapNames just concluded. Here are the (unofficial) results: drivinggloves.com 6450 – this is a recently developed site. Auction included Facebook page (with 2,000+ likes) and Twitter handle. florists.info 3050 – good keyword, but not a bad price given how marketplace for [...]

MLB buys Athletics.com domain name

domainnamewire — Fri, 18 May 2012 04:00:11 +0000

Major League Baseball makes another big domain acquisition. Just a couple days ago I was revisiting a post I wrote in 2010 about Major League Baseball’s domain names. The only change to the list since I posted was MLB picking up Angels.com. But this week MLB picked up another one. Jamie Zoch of dotWeekly discovered [...]

Intuit buys Apps.net for 24,100 EUR among 25 end user domain sales

domainnamewire — Fri, 18 May 2012 04:00:08 +0000

Intuit picks up Apps.net domain name and other notable domain purchases. The biggest name on this week’s end user domain sales report is Intuit. The company (of Quicken and Quickbooks fame) bought Apps.net for EUR 21,400 at Sedo. It already owns Apps.com. It offers Intuit Apps for many of its products. Here are other domain [...]

Oversee.net hires GM for $40M+ travel vertical

domainnamewire — Thu, 17 May 2012 16:36:24 +0000

Oversee.net hires GM from online travel industry to run its travel network. Oversee.net has hired Raj Beri as General Manager of its travel vertical, the company announced today. Beri was previously Director and COO of IgoUgo, a travel site owned by Travelocity. The travel vertical is part of Oversee.net’s “vertical markets” business that includes fully [...]

Zimbabwe.com seller takes huge loss

domainnamewire — Wed, 16 May 2012 04:00:10 +0000

Zimbabwe.com sells for a fraction of what it sold for in 2007. We always hear stories about people who bought domains and flipped them for many times their purchase price. But the opposite also happens. Take the case of Zimbabwe.com, which just sold for $42,500 at Sedo. The last time this domain (reported) sold was [...]