Huddle.com Sells For Whopping $131,400 On NameJet.com

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Wow.

The domain name Huddle.com just sold for $131,400 on NameJet.com today.

The Winning bidders Id is simply “bnd” who outbid “newyorker” to get the domain.

Huddle.net is a huge site which gets over 100,000 visitors a month according to Compete.com and has a 21K ranking on Alexa.

Huddle.net is registered under privacy at Tucows.

Here is what Huddle.net site says:

Huddle Enterprise enables secure collaboration between organizations. It helps all people involved in the success of your business – employees, customers, partner and suppliers – and enables everyone to work better together. Our customers recognize that being able to work across organizational boundaries is critical to delivering greater productivity and efficiency, making IT a key driver in bottom line profitability for their business.”

Interestingly the domain name Huddle.co, was registered on June 30, 2010, apparently under the Sunrise trademark period to “Ninian Solutions Ltd t/a Huddle”

Here is what the way back machine has for the last site up on Huddle.com from 2008:

“”Welcome to Huddle.com””

“”This domain can be purchased, but will not be cheap. Serious parties should send an email to dave AT webforge DOT com””

“Will not be cheap”

Guess that was a pretty good prediction.

Another nice domain sale at NameJet.com today was Trafficbuilder.com which sold for $11,201

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

Comments

  1. Josh says

    Hhhmmm… things like this only make me ask what kind of shady shit is going on. Follow me for a second, we all can agree ( I imagine ) that a domain such as huddle.com on the open reseller market is in the very low 5 fig range. Forget about brandability and all that BS, straight up reseller it wouldnt see more than low 5 figs at best, if.

    Now fast forward to the auction, even if there was an end user bidding for it, who is the domainer who went to over $131,000 before losing? Again we all can agree that some are in love with tm names so much they spend good money without blinking but over $131K with the intention to infringing? And there is the possibility they ultimately won.

    No no no no no, something isnt right, one of three options.
    1) Its all on the up and up, end user bought it, got jacked by a crazy typosquatting domainer who was high on drugs and life or vice versa.
    2)It will not close and like several other high dollar auctions get reauctioned.
    3) Do I really have to say it out loud?

    Eh, jmo.

  3. DomainShane says

    $100K may be a ton of money to some and a drop in the bucket for others. There are times I hesitate on spending $1000 in my business and later that night a commercial runs for 30 seconds on a TV show that cost me $5K. It’s all relative. Sometimes you have to have a few million in your pocket to understand why something is worth that much

  4. Dean says

    Huddle?
    the only Huddle I know is Huddle House. which reminds me of an off color joke, but I will spare everyone my sordid attempts at humor.

    Nice $ale I woulda never thunk it.

    🙂

  5. Nic says

    This obsession with generic “terms” that this industry has is short sighted. Huddle.com is an excellent brand name.

    If pure generic domains are so good, why is no one in this industry paying huge dollars for domainname.com, or names like it? The reason is that “generic” names like that are indistinguishable and mean nothing accept “please help me get lost in the crowd”.

    Congratulations NameJet and the buyer. More fool you, the former registrant.

  8. Gazzip says

    There ain’t very many domainers that would pay that much for it, one or two IMO, maybe the .net owners were up against one of them??

    ….or Halvarez got a new job 🙂

    We shall see.

  9. MHB says

    Josh

    To answer your question it depends.

    On Namejet there are two kinds of domains, expired domains, in which case the former owner receives no part of the sales price and owned domain in which case NameJet.com gets a 15% sales commission and the domain owner gets the rest.

    This was an expired domain

  10. Bryan says

    This is the biggest problem with the domain industry. A big sale happens and just because individual domainers do not understand the why behind the purchase they scream scam and other derogatory words about it.

    I have no idea who bought it but as a follower of tech sites it is clear to me it is someone capitalizing off of hudl.com a sports related editing software that in which I am sure if someone hears it said and not spelled will go to huddle.com instead.

    I personally wouldn’t spend 130k+ for it but for someone with deep pockets and likes the risk it is worth a gamble.

  11. Gazzip says

    “This is the biggest problem with the domain industry. A big sale happens and just because individual domainers do not understand the why behind the purchase they scream scam and other derogatory words about it.”

    If you’re referring to my “Halverez” comment, I was joking.

  13. Alex says

    I was in the auction and the highest bidders were like this :

    bnd $131,400 Jul. 22, 2010 2:15 PM PT
    newyorker $131,300 Jul. 22, 2010 2:12 PM PT
    hankfree $40,200 Jul. 22, 2010 11:27 AM PT
    dillc $40,000 Jul. 22, 2010 11:25 AM PT
    wowogame $12,600 Jul. 22, 2010 9:39 AM PT

    So we see that bidder “newyorker” kept bidding for almost two and a half hour , and he kept bidding in the last minute, just for torturing the other bidder ,for me “bnd” is a strange alias at NameJet , but “newyorker” is a well known for inflating the prices , he rarely wins , but mostly he inflate all the high quality domains prices .

    The strange thing is that he has failed in the past to pay for many auctions , and then he back to the game again !

    Dose it need to be genius to doubt this bidder ?

    I think that the solution for this BS is to go to the court and to force the auction house “NameJet” to allow a third party service to certify it’s bidders so we can all be sure that there are no fake bidders , and there shall be rating system in which each bidder has a rating near to his alias , like what we see in the freelancers sites !

  15. fizz says

    Looks like an end-user purchase as the whois shows huddle.net as the e-mail contact:

    Registrant, Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
    McLoughlin, Andy andy@huddle.net
    180 Bermondsey Street
    London SE1 3TQ
    GB
    1.08709772212 fax: 1.

  16. fizz says

    Interesting to see that throughout the huddle.net website they always refer to their product simply as Huddle, so the transition to using their new domain huddle.com will not require a major re-branding at all.

  17. fizz says

    MHB: “Alex, You have some examples of domains “newyorker” won and didn’t pay for?”

    Ditto on that request.