There’s another solid lineup of expired domain auctions at Godaddy.com today. I have an affinity for keyword domains and while there isn’t one standout domain in the list, my “top picks” section is larger than normal due to the abundance of good ones. This is all based of my opinion of course.
There’s also a variety
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The biggest name on this week’s end user domain sales report is Intuit. The company (of Quicken and Quickbooks fame) bought Apps.net for EUR 21,400 at Sedo. It already owns Apps.com. It offers Intuit Apps for many of its products.

Here are other domain name purchases by end users over the past week.

Sedo

Ad network Multi-View, Inc. made this week’s big $ 112,000 purchase of AHHA.com.

Travel Networks Europe Ltd, owner of rental car finder CarJet.com, paid 3,000 GPB for CarHirecover.com

Jasper Engines & Transmissions paid $ 2,000 for MyJapser.com.

The restaurant data company behind FoodServiceReport.com bought RestaurantData.com for $ 1,299.

Travel services company HOTELBEDS SPAIN, S.L.U. bought AttractionStore.com for $ 1,895 and ResortActivities.com for $ 1,295.

University of Toronto mathematician James Colliander bought CrowdMark.com for $ 995. It will be interesting to see what he does with it.

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Westport, Connecticut cycling/spin studio JoyRide Cycling Studio picked up JoyrideStudio.com for $ 1,495. It currently owns Joyride-Cycling.com and JoyrideWestport.com.

Embassy Loans bought the singular version of its domain name — EmbassyLoan.com — for $ 1,500.

Healthcare company Primary Care Partners in South Florida bought HealthyPartners.com for $ 3,788.

The Catamaran Company, seller of catamarans (a type of boat), paid $ 2,088 for LagoonCatamarans.com

Elite Estate Buyers Inc, which already owns EliteAuction.com, bought EliteConsignment.com for $ 2,088.

Business intelligence company Third Time dropped the hyphen in its domain name for $ 1,200 by picking up ThirdTime.com. Nice purchase.

Book publisher Health Communications, Inc, whose slogan is “The Life Issues Publisher”, bought LifeIssues.com for $ 8,800. Nice sale.

Godat Landscape Construction Company paid $ 1,388 for Godat.net.

ShortTermStays.com, an L.A. short term rental referral service, bought ShortTermStay.com for $ 2,100.

It appears that Lufthansa Technik has purchased LTCS.com for $ 2,500. The whois record for the domain doesn’t mention the company, but the registrant’s email address is LTCS.aero, which is owned by Lufthansa. The actual registrant is Gordon Weller, Sr. Director Customer Service & Account Management for the company.

Max New York Life bought MaxLifeInsurance.com for a whopping $ 21,000.

Affordable Power, L.P., which goes by the name APG&E, picked up APGE.com for $ 5,088.

The owner of Waverlyhomes.ca bought Waverlyhomes.com for $ 2,000.

Calgary Co-operative Association Ltd. bought YourCoop.com for $ 2,655.

A brand new company called Canada Carbon has purchased none other than CanadaCarbon.com for $ 1,995.

Instant Home Loans, Inc. d.b.a. Instant Capital, bought InstantCapital.com for a strong $ 14,500. Its web site is MyInstantCapital.com.

American Trash Management, a unique company whose mission is to “reduce the environmental impact, costs and problems of trash”, bought SmartTrash.com for $ 2,188.

Production company Flatland Pictures bought MusicProfessor.com for $ 1,888. Perhaps the title of an upcoming film?

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We always hear stories about people who bought domains and flipped them for many times their purchase price. But the opposite also happens.

Take the case of Zimbabwe.com, which just sold for $ 42,500 at Sedo.

The last time this domain (reported) sold was in 2007. Purchase price: $ 130,000.

It’s possible the domain also changed hands in 2008. Regardless of if it has changed hands since 2007, the domain took a total haircut of $ 87,500 during that period.

Not pretty.

There’s not a whole lot you can do with Zimbabwe.com from a commerce perspective other than offer elephant hunting trips.

Ideally a buyer would use the domain to help shed more light on Robert Mugabe’s atrocities.

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VeriSign has enhanced its DomainScore tool to provide more insight into the traffic unregistered domains receive.

DomainScore provides a relative score for the amount of traffic an unregistered domain name receives. But this so-called “NXD” traffic doesn’t qualify the type of traffic very well. That’s part of the reason people complain that they register a domain with a high score based on VeriSign’s data and don’t get any traffic.

The latest update includes time-of-day and location information about unregistered domain traffic.

The column chart above is an example of the traffic insight you can get. Lots of requests but few unique requests? That should be a warning sign. When the traffic comes in may have to do with the type of site.

The geo location data is helpful for a number of reasons. One obvious one: if you’re going to park the domain, you probably want traffic from the U.S. rather than China because it monetizes better.

VeriSign has also enhanced the user interface and historic data for its DomainView tool.

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