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Credit.fr sold for $850,000

Sedo has reported the sale of Credit.fr for $850,000

Another six figure sale reported was Migrane.com for $125,000

Russia.com domain sold for $1.5 million

Techcrunch reported a nice black friday domain name sale:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/27/this-week-on-techcrunch-post-thanksgiving/

 

Russia.com $1.5 million

 

According to compete.com the domain gets modest traffic of about 9,000 visitors a month.

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/russia.com/

 

The name was reportedly sold through Sedo.com, the largest domain name brokerage firm, and the seller was NewMedia Holdings, Inc. The name had been previously licensed to Paley Media, which operates platforms for numerous generic domains:

http://www.paleymedia.com/

 

NewMedia Holdings, Inc. reportedly also owns other generics such as: Algeria.com, Morocco.com, PuertoRico.com, SouthAfrica.com, Scotland.com, Ukraine.com, and others, and has previously listed Scotland.com for sale for $3m, and PuertoRico.com for $3.5m.

Best.com sold $331,561

Moniker auctioned off Best.com last week for $331,561, and Best.net was also sold for an additional cost $36,840, approximately 11% of the cost of the dot com, totalling $368,401 for the pair.

Sedo reports 37% increase in domain aftermarket prices

Sedo.com, the leading online aftermarket domain name  brokerage firm, reports that year over year, sales volume has increased 5.5% and average sales prices showed a sharp uptick of 37%. Recession? Not in domain name sales. Likely however, an impact of greater interest in internet startups, as other parts of the economy have slowed.

Ancestry.com successfully IPOs today

Its been quite a while since 40z reported on a dot com IPO, but there was one today. Ancestry.com raised $100 million with a successful offering and began trading on the NASDAQ with the ticker ACOM. A total of 7.41 million shares were sold for 13.50 per share in the intial public offering, valuing the company at $572 million. In trading Thursday, ACOM reached an intraday high of $16.32.

Rio.com sells for $450,000

Reported by domain blogs, Rio.com has sold at auction at the Traffic domain conference in New York, for $450,000.

Resumes.com sold for $400,000

Reported by DNJournal.com Resumes.com was sold by domain broker Sedo for $400,000

Another nice sale reported was Software.co.uk for $249,000

Insure.com sold for $16 million

In what appears to be the largest domain transaction to date, Insure.com has been sold for $16 million. Insure.com Inc., a publically traded company (Nasdaq ticker: NSUR), will change its corporate name to Life Quotes, Inc. and will continue its business. Revenue from the asset sale transaction, will be recorded as a one time extraordinary gain.

The buyer? QuinStreet, who recently acquired internet.com for $18 million. According to their description at aboutus.org as "a pioneer in pay-for-performance marketing and lead generation" it would appear their intention is sales lead generation.

Insure.com was acquired in December 2001 for $1.6 million.

TechCrunch covered the news, and has become much more active tracking big ticket domain sales of late.

Ticket.com sold for $1,525,000

Another big ticket domain name sale, pardon the pun, hit the news today.

Ticket.com sold at domain broker Afternic for $1.525 million... Top tier generic domain sales continue at a torrid pace...