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Under the Radar 4 Digit Sales

April 3rd, 2009

freshsalesEveryone knows about Results.com going for $500,000 via Sedo. But there continue to be interesting sales at all price levels. Some recent four figure + sales include …

  • CountryMusic.biz – $2800 at Sedo
  • Agua.info (water is Spanish) - $8300 at Afternic
  • Trading.info – $10,476 at Sedo
  • Sport.US – $5101 at Sedo auction
  • VegasSlotCasino.info – $6022 at Sedo
  • OnlinePokerGames.US – $5715 at Sedo
  • MMS.US – $2750 at Sedo
  • DE.TV – $14,957 at Sedo
  • FilmMakers.TV – $10,000 private sale reported DNJournal
  • UV.TV – $13,650 at Sedo
  • Newcastle.TV – $3495 at Sedo
  • VIP.mobi – $10,099 at Sedo
  • MovieTickets.mobi – $3600 at Sedo
  • Shoes.mobi – $4600 at Sedo
  • FurnitureDepot.com – $5275 at Afternic
  • SinglesBars.com – $3401 at Sedo/Great Domains
  • GovernmentGrant.net – $3000 at Sedo
  • Trips.net – $4600 at Sedo Auction
  • InternetPoker.org – $6000 at Sedo Acution
  • GolfShops.org – $3100 at AfternicDLS
  • CTP.biz – $1950 at Sedo

An interesting experiment is to recheck a domain two months post-sale to see how the domain name is being utilized. I find a pretty equal distribution between being parked for advertiser revenue, in some stage of content development (sometimes a fully completed website), possibly redirected to another existing website, or occasionally not resolving at all or resolving to a domain name for sale page.

regriseSide note: It appears that domain registrations continue to rise in a majority of domain name spaces. In just a little over a month, total registrations have gone from …

  • .BIZ (2,008,779 to 2,044,714)
  • .US (1,385,171 to 1,611,327)
  • .COM (79,243,372 to 80,382,080)

Domain Sales, Internet Domains