Zooz uses 1% of its funding to buy Zooz.com

A start-up spends 1% of its recent funding round on a domain name and other interesting domain name purchases. It’s time for the weekly roundup of end user domain name purchases

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Gold.biz attracts 16,000 EUR bid at Sedo

.Biz domain glistens at Sedo. The prices of gold is sky high right now, and a golden domain is about to sell at Sedo. Gold.biz has a 16,000 euro bid and is scheduled to close on January 6

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A .Net Gives That Extension a Rare Win in This Week’s Domain Sales Race

The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. The next to last week of the 2011 sales season came with a surprise – the rare appearance of a .net domain at the top of our all extension leader board.

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USDA, NHRA and EverBank put domain names under the Christmas tree

Which end users put domain names under the Christmas tree this week? Here’s Domain Name Wire’s weekly list

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Two Sales That Rank Among the Year’s 20 Biggest Top This Week’s Domain Sales Chart

Two high end domain sales, one that soared all the way into the top ten for 2011 and another that reached the year’s top 20, lead DN Journal’s latest weekly domain sales chart. There is an interesting back story to the previously unreported $280,0000 sale of the domain in the #2 slot that we will tell you about.

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Holidays are good time to score deal on domain auctions

You might just catch a bidding foe sleeping. Is it possible to catch other domainers sleeping? It’s not easy, but the holidays are your best chance

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191 domain .co auction ends today

No reserve auction attracting lots of bidding attention.

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Major League Baseball and Current TV buy domain names

A look at end user domain name sales from the past week. My list of end user domain purchases for the week is a little bit shorter than usual, but contains big names including Major League Baseball. All sales were at Afternic unless otherwise noted.

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Two-Letter .Com Changes Hands for Six Figures to Top This Week’s Domain Sales Chart

The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. The six-figure sale of a two-letter .com through Moniker/SnapNames leads our latest Top 20 Sales Chart. It becomes one of seven two-letter .coms that rank among the 100 biggest sales year to date. Six ccTLDs also made this week’s leader board.

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How Hall.com picked its name and bought it for $20,000

Company founder has great message about the importance of (domain) names. Brett Hellman of chat and collaboration company Hall.com today posted an intriguing insight into the company’s naming process. It explains how the company’s initial ideas for names, such as medium.com and foundation.com, were just too expensive. The owners wanted $300k+. Then they decided on Hall.com but couldn’t get in touch with the owner

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A Trio of Six-Figure Sales Sets the Pace in Another Busy Week for the Domain Aftermarket

The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com.

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55,367 .xxx domain names registered in first 24 hours

Big numbers in latest top level domain release. I just got an email from ICM Registry about .xxx registration results in the first 24 hours.

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LiveDrive buys LiveCloud.com for $92,000 and 10 other domain sales

An online storage company makes a big splash in the domain market.

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Tim Schumacher announces departure from Sedo

Longtime domain industry vet Tim Schumacher is moving on.

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Mid Six-Figure Sale of Answer.com Sets the Pace on This Week’s DNJournal.com Sales Chart

The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. Moniker/SnapNames claimed the top spot on the all extension Top 20 Chart after closing a big mid six-figure sale of Answer.com. It is the sixth biggest sale reported so far in 2011. 14 .com and 6 ccTLDs made the elite list while the non .com gTLDs were shut out.

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8 interesting end user domain sales

Eight domain names that sold to end users last week. Here are eight end user domain name purchases completed over the past week. All sales were at Afternic except for GameTraining.com, which sold at Sedo. Anytime Fitness president David Mortensen.com now owns DavidMortensen.com after dropping $1,788. Internet marketing firm Adventure Marketing upgraded its URL from AdventureMarketingLLC.com to AdventureMarketing.com for $1,000

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Aftermarket.com Celebrates 1st Anniversary With Big Domain Sale Topping the $500,000 Mark

Last year at this time Thought Convergence was busy launching their new domain sales platform at Aftermarket.com. With a 1st anniversary to celebrate, the company came up with the best possible way to mark the occasion by booking a blockbuster domain sale – a deal that came in above the half-million dollar mark.

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SkullCandy, L.A. Clippers, McKesson buy domain names

Big companies by domain names in the aftermarket. Wow! What a busy week for end users buying domain names. Here are some highlights: (all sales via Afternic unless otherwise noted) Headphone company SkullCandy bought SupremeSound.com for $1,375. Pastebin.com , which says it’s the “#1 paste tool since 2002″, bought pastebin.net for $2,500. FutureDontics , the company behind 1800Dentist.com, picked up DentalSaver.com, DentalSavers.com and DentalSaver.net for a grant total of $6,300.

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