Igloo.com – The sale of IG.com at $4,7 Million is no Longer Igloo’s Biggest Sale

Igloo.com has recently announced that the sale of IG.com at $4,7 million is no longer the company’s biggest sale to date.

 

The announcement was made by CEO Tessa Holcomb. Tessa Holcomb said that IG.com is not the company’s biggest sale up to date.Igloo.com is associated with some of the world’s biggest domain name sales,including AO.com, Yoga.com,Card.com,Mojo.com and Top.com .

You can read the press release after the jump :

” Igloo.com, a leading broker of ultra premium domain names and websites, has recently shared some exciting data supporting speculations within the industry regarding the predominance of unreported sales. While many sales are recorded on well-regarded industry blogs including DN Journal and Domaining.com, it is exceedingly rare that Igloo.com reports any sale, let alone the actual sale price of a domain name transaction.

In her recent Domain Name Wire Podcast, Igloo.com’s CEO Tessa Holcomb alluded to the fact that last year’s highest public sale of IG.com at $4.7 Million is not Igloo’s biggest sale to date. And, while the Guinness World Record Holder, Sex.com may not actually be the “most expensive internet address domain name” on record, it’s probable we may never know which is. “Our clients are with us for our discretion and value their anonymity,” said Holcomb. “They appreciate that our Domain Advisors are able to work discreetly yet still achieve outstanding results.”

In total, Igloo’s Domain Advisors have closed upwards of $120 Million dollars in domain name transactions and is pleased to have been associated in the sale or acquisition of some of the world’s most valuable domain names including those such as IG.com, CARD.com, AO.com, Top.com, Quote.com, Yoga.com, Mojo.com and Dragon.com to name a few. Like many, Igloo.com experienced tremendous growth in 2013 with gross sales of Intellectual Properties totaling over US $35 Million.

While Igloo.com is honored to have had the opportunity to work with all of their clients, repeat clients are always considered a validation of one’s efforts and the satisfaction thereof. These customers report strong confidence Igloo’s ability to educate and advise brand managers on the value of domain name, as well as the team’s ability to work with a delicate combination of finesse and tenacity to get the job done.

“We were happy to offer the exclusive brokerage of the Top.com listing to Igloo.com after our previous positive experience during the sale of AO.com,” says Alex Kistenev. “Tessa was always communicative, thorough, but most importantly open and honest throughout the entire process. In the end, all parties to the sale were very pleased, and I credit that to Igloo’s market expertise.”

Ben Katz, CEO and co-founder of CARD.com has had the opportunity to work with the team at Igloo.com upon several occasions. “Our broker, Amanda reached out to me when I was working for another company. At the time she represented several great domain names and since I have long appreciated the value of a great domain, we kept in touch. The team at Igloo is not only reliable and efficient, but I also have appreciated their expertise in related legal nuances within the domain industry. I had expected professional representation to be too expensive to use for my smaller acquisitions, but I was wrong. At Igloo, I received the same professional-grade solutions and support during 4 and 5 figure domain sales as I did with a super-mega domain like CARD.com.”

Could Holiday.com Become The Most Expensive Domain Ever. Today.

Holiday.com is up for auction in London with some predicting the domain could be sold for as much as £20m (US$31,787,500). Or more.

If it gets to the £20m mark it will easily eclipse the sail of the sex.com, sold for $13m in 2010, though, according to a report in The Guardian, the founder of one holiday site claims to have paid $35m for VacationRentals.com.

The domain is being sold by Jag Singh from Breathe Luxury, a company that is selling the name on behalf of a client, along with more than 30 others including golfcourses.com and Arab.com. Singh told The Guardian he hopes a travel company, rather than a speculator, buys it, “so it becomes what it’s supposed to become”. The auction commences at 17:30 London time on Wednesday.

Of course, these are all reported sales and there are many unreported sales with some possibly far exceeding these amounts.

“There are one-word dotcoms that are probably acquirable [from their owners] for under $10,000,” Bill Sweetman, a domain names expert who runs Name Ninja, a consulting firm in Toronto, told The Guardian. For the more desirable ones, “you are probably going to be negotiating to buy it for tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars.”

The reserve price for holiday.com is US$5m, the same as arab.com. There are 35 domains in total up for auction with others with seven figure reserves including paradise.com, Kuwait.com, Iraq.com and Iraq.net, Other domains up for auction

Details on the auction are available at breatheluxury.nextlot.com/public.

ICANN’s Updated Proposal for Enhanced Engagement in Africa

WEBINAR OBJECTIVE: This webinar aims to cover ICANN ‘s Africa Strategy framework for 2015 and to elicit community feedback moving forward. ICANN continuously aspires to find means to strengthening our engagement in Africa.

 

We believe one of the key ways to doing so, is by increasing African participation in ICANN through fostering the promotion of the multistakeholder model in Africa at the government, technical community, civil society, academia, and private sector levels.

Sedo Reports $1,4 Million in Domain Name Sales ! Pager.com Topped Sedo’s Weekly Sales List at $45,000

Pager.com topped Sedo’s weekly sales list at $45,000. Highlights also include Koffer.ch,leading the ccTLD category at 17,822 EUR and 6.biz,leading the “Other” category at $12,637.

 

Other notable domain name sales include :

.COM

tro.com     20,500     USD
semsem.com     20,000     USD
gartenmöbel.com     20,000     EUR
rookiepoker.com     20,000     USD
chenhong.com     9,500     USD
enyx.com     8,800     EUR
nvfund.com     8,200     USD
intropia.com     7,500     USD
investex.com     5,000     EUR
skytrain.com     5,000     USD
cruzo.com     5,000     USD
meresetfilles.com     5,000     USD
easycrowd.com     5,000     USD
iteachu.com     4,980     USD
docucert.com     4,500     USD
yapyap.com     4,500     USD
eliteassociates.com     4,500     USD
instalove.com     4,300     USD
mrrent.com     4,200     USD
play2game.com     3,999     EUR
newsmo.com     3,995     USD
mindmedia.com     3,888     USD
idreal.com     3,500     USD
projectlantern.com     3,119     USD
gauri.com     3,000     USD
finreach.com     3,000     USD

ccTLDs

lee.es     9,999     EUR
erbjudanden.se     6,500     EUR
monteurzimmer.eu     6,500     EUR
bounce.se     4,700     EUR
scte.eu     3,375     EUR
elpo.eu     3,000     EUR
re-blog.de     3,000     EUR
ke.ai     2,500     USD
anthem.tv     2,500     USD
karriere-lounge.de     2,000     EUR
kfz-autoversicherung.de     1,950     EUR
elchollo.es     1,600     EUR
116117.at     1,500     EUR
ust.de     1,500     EUR
number.me     1,500     USD
sco.co     1,500     GBP
rings.me     1,500     USD
umzugswelt.de     1,498     EUR
myticket.co.uk     1,495     EUR
fitnessguru.eu     1,400     EUR
bagdad.de     1,350     EUR
saunazubehoer.eu     1,300     EUR
mhi.co     1,288     USD
meinflug.de     1,250     EUR
gpd.co.uk     1,195     GBP
lynda.co.za     1,000     USD
lumis.es     1,000     EUR
bestsecret.gr     1,000     EUR

Other

of.org     8,000     USD
tivi.net     7,500     USD
bitmarket.net     5,000     EUR
hgw.net     4,800     USD
infinitygroup.net     2,500     USD
medicaldevices.net     1,999     USD
guthabenkonto.net     1,350     EUR
highlands.net     1,350     USD
hille.org     1,000     EUR
eurolotto.net     999     GBP
africajobs.net     990     USD
2connect.net     899     USD
checkpagerank.info     800     USD
siper.net     799     USD
domainhandel.net     770     USD
schengen-visa.net     750     GBP

For more information check out Sedo.com here .

ICANN : Upcoming ICG Conference Calls

The IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG) has scheduled its seventh, eighth and ninth conference calls:

 

ICG Call # 7 – Wednesday, 12 November at 20:00-21:00 UTC (time converter here);
    ICG Call # 8 – Wednesday, 26 November at 02:00-03:00 UTC (time converter here); and
    ICG Call # 9 – Wednesday, 10 December at 11:00-12:00 UTC (time converter here).

The community is welcome to attend by way of a listen-only mode Virtual Meeting Room through which audio of the call will be streamed. Translations will be available through relevant Adigo Bridge dial-in numbers and Conference ID codes.

A list of country dial-in numbers can be found here. Should there be no appropriate dial-in number for an interested participant, ICANN will provide a dial-out service to that individual. Correspondingly, language service Conference ID numbers are listed below:

    Français – Conference ID: 75929475

    Español – Conference ID: 68385764

    中文 – Conference ID: 825702

    Pусский – Conference ID: 345720

    العربية – Conference ID: 82855066

    Português – Conference ID: 7597521

Participants who are interested in an English line but are unable to join by way of the Virtual Meeting Room may request a dial-out service.

This announcement was sourced from :

https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2014-11-04-en