14 DAY TRIAL // Currently holding about 11.5 million domain names for sale, Sedo has reported two huge sales this week. The domain name Jesus.net was sold for $124,337, while in a previous sale, Server.com was sold for a huge $770,000.
Before the sale, Jesus.net was redirecting traffic towards Christ.com, since after that all visitors have been forwarded to JesusInternetProject.com. Most impressive is Server.com's 12,000-unique-visitors-per-month record, even if the site points to the standard GoDaddy parked page template.
Sedo has been used for this kind of sales, since the site reported weekly sales of over $600,000 – 700,000 for a good period of time. The reseller first made a name for itself in 2006, when Russian Standard Co. bought, using Sedo brokerage, the Vodka.com domain name for about three million dollars. Since then, users have been flocking to the website to park, list, transfer, buy, or sell domain names. The website is on the right track to go over the one-million mark, if it will score big deals on a weekly basis. In a regular week, a big sale on Sedo will be around the $80,000 mark.
Lately, in domain name sales, the economical crisis seems not to have hit as hard as on the rest of the Internet. Domains have been selling like candy, and we are talking about Candy.com, which sold for three million dollars to G&J Holding. Other notable sales have been the acquisition of Toys.com by Toys “R” Us for $5.1 million, the sale of Pizza.com for over three million dollars and the sale of YP.com to AT&T for 3.85 million dollars.
In other Sedo-related events, starting on August 6th and going until August 13th, the online reseller will host an online auction for adult-related domain names. The main attraction will be the sought-after sextv.com domain name, which is expected to easily go over the $100,000-mark in the first days.