Erotica.com sells for $850,000

Erotica.com sells for $850,000:

Sexy Internet domain names still big business…………….

Recession or no recession, the market for sexy Internet domain names still means that some enterprising entrepreneurs with the rights to URLs like Erotica.com can cash in: business.avn.com, the new arm of the Adult Video Network, is reporting that the Erotica.com domain name went for $850,000 in a pre-auction deal at the Internext domain name auction in Las Vegas.

Of the nine Internext domain name auctions that went over $10,000, six of them were for adult-sounding domains.

From the AVN report:

Top-selling domain names during or after auction included FootJob.com, which sold for $53,388 in silent auction after the show ended. SexyLadies.com sold in another post-auction bid for $29,420.

Sadly, there doesn’t appear to be much in the way of actual erotica over at Erotica.com – don’t even bother clicking over, because aside from being NSFW, it’s currently just another porn clip aggregator.Article Source: Erotica.com sells for $850000

Examiner.com

YP.Com Sold - $3,850,000

YP.Com Sold - $3,850,000

YP.com has been sold for almost 4 million $ to Yellow Pages LLC

29-Dec-2008 Annual Report

Sale of YP.com - domain name

On November 5, 2008, the Company and YellowPages.com LLC (the “Purchaser”) entered into a Domain Name Purchase and Transfer Agreement pursuant to which the Company agreed to sell the Internet domain name “www.YP.com” to the Purchaser in exchange for cash totaling $3,850,000. Our primary source of ongoing revenues is the sale of Internet Advertising Packages, which targeted users of our www.yp.com property. We are in the process of transitioning these customers to advertising on LiveDeal: Target local, online prospects, generate quality leads and continually optimize the process to create a high value marketing solution and are hopeful that any loss of customers resulting from our divestiture of www.yp.com will not be significant or adversely impact our future revenues. However, certain customers may cancel their service in response to this transition, and there can be no assurance that such cancellations will not have an adverse effect on our financial condition or results of operations.”

http://biz.yahoo.com/e/081229/live10-k.html

FinancialAid.com $480,000

FinancialAid.com sold for $480,000 at Moniker Traffic New York Auction. The sale completed this week.

Also the same buyers Xedoc Holding SA bought FinancialAide.com for $320,000 selling at the same venue.

SolarEnergy.com sold for $1,650,000

SolarEnergy.com sold for $1,650,000. The buyers are SOLAR ENERGY INITIATIVES, INC.

Here is a snippet from their quarterly report:……………..

Significant Capital Expenditures
During the quarter ended October 31, 2008, we acquired approximately $1,662,755 of business assets, and furniture and equipment for office purposes. $1,650,000 of the capital expenditures were for the purchase of the domain name, solarenergy.com, We have used these assets to begin our business operation.

Subsequent Events
In November 2008, the Company entered into a convertible debenture agreement for $325,000 with four private investors. The debenture is convertible into 1,300,000 shares of common stock and includes 1,300,000 “A” Warrants and 1,300,000 “B” warrants exercisable on a cash basis equal to$0.50 and $1.00 respectively.

The Company issued 175,000 shares of common stock to a group engaged to provide investor awareness and other services in December 2008.

In December, 2008 Pierre Besuchet was issued 100,000 common stock shares in exchange for a Board of Director position. He was also issued 100,000 Board Member Warrants which are exercisable at $0.50 per share and have an 18 month term.

In December, 2008 Brad Holt resigned as CEO and assumed the Chairman of the Board position. Michael Dodak has accepted the CEO position.

More: http://biz.yahoo.com/e/081224/snry.ob10-q.html

sc.com sold $300k

sc.com leads the big sales this week at $300k sc.com

sold at sedo.com , member ‘impulse leads’ sold this via broker to standered chartered bank.

If you see the domain now redirects to their site .

Another couple of big sales occurred at Traffic in Australia, by Rick Latona:

cr.com $150k & sanjuan.com for $150k

kredit.de sells for 892,500 Euro

Sedo just announced via press release the highest selling .de domain sale with kredit.de  selling for 892,500 Euro (=1,134,867 USD).
Kredit is German for ‘Credit’.

The new owner of the domain is Unister GmbH from Leipzig, Germany, which operates portals such as geld.de (money), auto.de (cars) and preisvergleich.de (price comparison).

Up to now the 3 top published .DE sales on Sedo were chat.de (320,000 Euro, appx. 408,000 USD) arbeitsmarkt.de (=job market, 200,000 Euro, appx. 254,000 USD) und suchmaschinenoptimierung.de (=search engine optimization, 84,000 Euro, appx. 106,000 USD).

For the seller Markus Berger-de Leon of Abacho AG noted that they will list additional domains names from their portfolio (such as “kredit.com”) via Sedo after this positive experience. The company operates MyHammer, a marketplace for services and tradesmen that operates in Germany, Great Britain and Austria.

We often see these huge sales when the buyer AND seller are minted! Also the buyers have a clutch of the top generics possible, whilst the seller still holds the .com

What an incredible position to be in with 900 thousand euros just deposited in your account to boot!

Banners.com $360k LowFare.com $365k

 Sedo.com  closed two big sales today - Lowfare.com at $365,000  and Banners.com at
$360,000.

This week is going to be a very strong week for domain sales.

Vibrators.com sells for $1 million

okok.com has seen this BIG sale reported on domainnamenews.com

Another $ Million Sale!

“Domain Name News received word today that PriveCo Inc has purchased Vibrators.com for $1 Million. The Michigan based company has been running the website at Vibrators.com since 2002.  PriveCo runs several other e-commerce websites focusing on the sale of items which people often prefer to buy in privacy via the internet. Some of PriveCo’s sites include ShopInPrivate.com, Bachelorette.com, BacheloretteParty.com, BacheloretteParties.com and SexToyParty.com.

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StartUps.com sold for $500k

KillerStartups, a blog that covers killer startups  has acquired the domain Startups.com for “mid six figures” in cash, CEO Gonzalo Arzuaga says. So let’s call it $500,000. That is within reason for a premium domain name. Business.com was originally bought for $7.5 million and was ridiculed by many until being built into a business that sold for $350 million.

Contrast that against the $17.2 million that Startups.com raised during the dotcom boom before shutting its doors in January, 2002. Back then, Startups.com was a startup incubator, offering office space, HR, and other business services to startups (Guy Kawasaki was on its board). The only asset that survived was its URL.

KillerStartups, which is backed by $250,000 in angel money from South American domain-name entrepreneur Matias de Tezanos, plans to create a network of startup-related business sites around the new domain. The company will rename itself Startups.com Network, but will keep the name KillerStartups for the blog. After plunging to 160,000 unique visitors worldwide in July (their servers melted, it is fixed now), KillerStartups shot back up to a respectable one million uniques in September, according to comScore. (Arzuaga says the site is attracting 1.5 million uniques a month). He says:

We would never kill this concept. It’s a stepping stone to build our network of business-related websites.

Diversifying is always a good idea. Arzuaga adds that the acquisition was funded from cash flow. Sounds like a killer startup in the making.

FinancialAid.com sells for $800,000

Some of the bigger sales at Moniker’s Live Auction in New York on the 25th September included the whopping sale of FinancialAid.com for $800,000

Some other notable sales were:

floor.com $275,000
camps.com $110,000
lt.com $100,000
cleaning.com $100,000
searching.com $85,000
ceo.info $32,500

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