Over $150K In Domains Sold On Sedo On Christmas Day

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When I tell people that domaining is a 365 day a year business and I’m on the computer every day of the year including Christmas and New Years they usually give me that, I don’t believe you look, but today Sedo.com racked up $150K in Sales on Christmas day.

Leading the pack was the $100K bid on QWE.com, which we talked about several days ago when we noticed the it.

Next up was a hyphenated domain  Luxury-Hotels.com which sold for $17,500.

Definitely a nice pop for that domain.

Talking about a nice pop how about the sale of fotos.at for 10,000 Euro’s or around $13,000.  I could swear I’ve seen better .at domains sell at places like Bido for $100.

Then there was the pair of domains, Macaron.com and Macarons.com which went for 10,000 Euro’s or around $13,000 each.

If you don’t know what a Macaron is you can check it out here although you probably have encountered at least one during the holiday season.

Pokern.info went for 5,500 Euro or about $7K.  Pokern is Poker in German and yes I had to look it up.

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

  3. BullS says

    Not only domaining is a 365 day a year business, it is a 7/24 and you are always on-call.

    If you had not gotten up at 3am to register a domain name when you had an idea-then you are not a domainer!!!

    How many of you have gotten up at 2-5am to register a domain?

  6. Tim Seeger says

    In my opinion the Fotos.at deal makes sense: “Fotos” is the German plural of “photo” and German is the prime language of Austria.

    Considering that Austria has approx. a tenth of Germany’s population, roughly the same GDP per capita, a strong domain aftermarket and that Fotos.de has been sold in six figures some years ago, the deal makes sense.

    I would not be surprised, when a German or Austrian market participant is ready to offer 15,000-20,000 Euro in 2011.

  7. M. Menius says

    I haven’t done the math on recently published sales but seems like the market is gearing up for a strong 2011. The last quarter appears to have been characterized by sales at all levels, but in particular hefty 5 and 6-figure sales.

  8. Tony says

    Curious what domains bought on Christmas day.

    I usually pick up a handful of goodies on the drop most days but yesterday there was nada. That tells me people were dropcatching more than usual. I was hoping to snag Etagere.com for supercheap on Snapnames but wound up getting it for a fair $1,857.

    Compare that to my dropcatches (regfee) on Christmas eve:

    Kalkwasser.com
    Carabineers.com (a NameView drop)
    RecoveryPartition.com
    FlutedGlass.com
    PreschoolArtActivities.com

  10. em says

    @ Tim,

    Spot on. Fotos.at went for real cheap. How much would photos.com, photos.net, fotos.de, photos.fr, photos.co or fotos.co sell for? Bundles.

  11. BFitz says

    Is Luxury-Hotels.com “full retail” or reasonable? I have a couple city-hotels.com and one has nearly the same monthly exact search.
    I guess it’s any domain any day but seeing this I am glad I have turned down a few offers.

    Thanks Mike.

  12. LS Morgan says

    Exchanged a few emails on Christmas Day negotiating the sale of a .us domain. Sitting there in the chair surrounded by unopened presents, staring into an IPAD, wearing a Santa hat, MF’ing some clueless European end-user.

    I offered him a gift-from-Santa type price to sell quick and get it on 2010’s books, he countered with a Grinch offer, the name is about to become a ghost of his Christmas Past… As soon as we roll the clock on 01/01/01, that $2K name becomes $8K again. He probably thinks this is a bluff; he’s about to learn a hard lesson on how US tax laws can influence sales prices on stuff like this…

    The industry never sleeps, but this Christmas Day did cause me to question whether this type of constant, real-time involvement is healthy or not. When we’re lying on our death beds, we remember holidays with family, not end users or money.

  13. LS Morgan says

    Is Luxury-Hotels.com “full retail” or reasonable? I have a couple city-hotels.com and one has nearly the same monthly exact search.
    ————

    The hyphen plays differently in other countries. We seem to hate them here in the US but in Europe, they couldn’t care less. Luxury-Hotels.com is a term that isn’t geographically specific, but Chicago-Hotels.com, while a very decent name, is hamstrung by a geographic identifier that pins it down to a region where the people irrationally hate hyphens.

    Still, with that said, IMO I do believe that hyphenated two-keyword .com domains are probably the most underrated domains out there right now, presuming two very strong and sensible keywords (Cheap-Cars, Right-Wing, Gun-Show, Maple-Syrup…) You can get them for peanuts, relative to what the unhyphenated .com would sell for and I don’t think the hyphen represents a ‘flaw’ to the same magnitude as the disparity in price that occurs between hyphenated and unhyphenated. They seem to be a bargain, but I would be cautious offline marketing them in the US. Our consumers aren’t as ‘hyphen-conditioned’ as European users are and you’d probably leak off a lot of traffic.

  14. Silly.TV says

    Hand-reg’d two today:

    Silly.TV
    Folly.TV

    Perhaps C-SPAN would like to stream congress-in-session over either one of my newest acquisitions? 🙂

    – TBC

  20. Domainers Gate LIFETIME 999 says

    “Name.com”

    thanks

    it sell a .TV at only $10.99/year

    but… if a .TV can be sold at a so low price, why GoDaddy(that sells other domains, like .com, at very low prices) wants so much for a .TV ?

    maybe, GoDaddy hate the .TV domains ? 🙂

  21. LS Morgan says

    Bob Parsons had a tizzy about .tv domains. He was flogging them for a while, then, presumably because of a profit share rearrangement with the registry, he did a 180 and started downselling them (“.tv- the official domain for Tuvalu…”), charging prohibitive fees, etc.

    Godaddy has some pretty significant power when it comes to the domain name world. They are the gateway to John Q Public. Their $20 renewals on .us domains are a huge lead weight on that extension, too.

  24. MQJ says

    I wonder a good premium name actors.info going so cheap on sedo. Currently reserve met with a highest bid of $105 dollars.

  26. Markus says

    The meaning of the german word “pokern” is not “poker” (which is “poker” in german aswell), it rather means “to play poker”.

    for example: “Wir pokern heute Abend” means ” We play poker tonight”.
    Most translators get this one wrong unless you use it in a complete sentence.