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Here are 21 domain purchases made by “end users”.

This week’s chock-full end user sales report has 21 end user domain purchases. Notable buyers include Fool.com, Novartis, Southern Company, and The Future Project.

All sales were at Afternic unless otherwise noted.

Field Fresh Foods, Inc. paid $2,088 for FreshSnacks.com

501c3 The Future Project bought Dream.org for $25,000.

Electronics repair company Tekmedia Group, Inc bought TechMediaGroup.com for $1,088.

Seattle based fitness chain Allstar Fitness paid $1,788 for CrossSport.com.

Bath remodeling contractor Leading Renovations Inc got the descriptive name AffordableBathrooms.com for $1,888.

Landscape company Austin Outdoor (not in Austin, TX), which owns AustinOutdoor.net, upgraded to the .com for $2,733.50.

American Taekwondo Association bought WMAOnline.com for $1,621, no doubt for “World Martial Arts” online.

A California man bought FireCongress.com for $5,000.

Fool.com invested $2,000 for EditorsPick.com. For stock picks, perhaps?

Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd paid $1,700 for ValueLease.com.

Micro credit company 4finance Group bought 4Finance.net for $1,088.

Sho Cho Sushi Shop in Dubai bought Sushigo.net for $1,488.

Environmental Health Testing LLC paid $X for FoodSafetyAtHome.com for $1,788.

CampingWorld.com returned to the domain aftermarket to buy RVInsuranceAgency.com for $2,700 at Sedo.

DayTripper Tours, which already owns DayTripper.com, protected itself by buying DayTripperTours.com for $1,941.

Apollo Video Technology improved its web address AVT-USA.com for $2,288 by dropping the hyphen.

Pharmaceutical giant Novartis AG bought MenInfo.com for $2,300.

Rain Forest Tram, Ltd, which owns RainForestAdventure.com, bought CoralReefAdventures.com for $1,788.

Hosting forum company ProBoards bought FreeForum.net for $5,000.

Pacific Links International, owner of ThePacificLinks.com, shortened its web address to PacificLinks.com for $5,488.

Energy company The Southern Company, which owns George Power Company, bought SelectGeorgia.com for $1,295.

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Originally posted by Domain Name News (DNN)

The following list shows the reported domain name sales for the previous week. The top 10 reported sales were:

We’ve included sales from Afternic, Bido, DomainMarket, Flippa and Sedo in our report.

See the full list after the jump.

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Domain Guardians sees increased demand for domain brokerage.

Domain Guardians has added a domain sales newsletter to its mix.

The company, founded in part by former Fabulous employees Mike Robertson and Jen Sale, has increased its brokerage activity lately. Last year it sold eSignature.com for $150,000.

Domain Guardians’ primary product is estate planning and management for domain name owners. But it has expanded its offerings based on the skillset of Robertson and Sale, who spent many years managing and promoting Fabulous.com.

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Originally posted by Domain Name Wire

16 companies buy the right domain in the domain aftermarket.

Here’s Domain Name Wire’s weekly look at end user domain sales. All of these sales took place on Afternic unless otherwise noted.

The owner of eClassie.com wised up to the radio test and bought eClassy.com for $3,500.

Another domain registrant made a smart move by dropping a hyphen. The owner of Fifth-Axis.com bought FifthAxis.com for $2,149.70.

Williams Chevrolet Honda Geo of Traverse, Michigan paid $1,500 for WilliamsMotors.com.

Arysta LifeScience Corporation bought Arysta.com for EUR 7,000 on Sedo.

Pest management company Beneficial Insectary bought FlyControl.com for $4,588.

A company called Effective Fundraising Strategies bought EffectiveFundraising.com for $1,188.

Here’s an example of a company that owns a category killer domain buying a more niche domain to go along with it. Wild Attire Inc., which owns Ties.com, bought CorporateTies.com for $2,921.

Another upgrade, this time from .me to .com. The owner of Entheos.me bought Entheos.com for $8,000.

Unknown.com, Inc. paid $1,177 for UnknownPublisher.com.

Book publisher Thomas Nelson returned to the domain aftermarket to pick up TimeWithGod.com for $1,188.

New Jersey based heating and cooling repair company Airflow Systems, which does business as The Weather Busters, bought WeatherBusters.com for $2,488.

The company behind AdKeeper, which has garnered lots of press, registered DealKeeper.com for $2,088. I think you can guess what that domain will be used for.

Emerald Performance Materials, LLC paid $1,295 for EmeraldChemicals.com.

New York City car wholesaler and exporter Targa Motor Group bought Carporter.com for $1,000.

Professional staffing company Strategic Professional Staffing Inc. bought AttorneysonDemand.com for $1,500.

CampingWorld.com bought FastRescue.com for EUR 1,000 at Sedo.

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Originally posted by Domain Name Wire

Extended auction on SnapNames platform ends this Thursday.

Moniker’s extended auction from this month’s DOMAINfest ends on Thursday afternoon. Already 29 of the 324 domains in the auction have received bids.

This extended auction is a bit different from previous ones because it has reserves. In the past the extended auctions didn’t have reserves, which effectively meant the company disclosed the reserve price of domains that didn’t sell in the live auction and were placed in the extended auction. I don’t recall when this change was made.

Of the 29 domains with bids so far, 12 have met their reserve prices. CareerTools.com at $2,360 leads the pack of domains that have met their reserve. 46 domains have no reserve but bidding starts at $300.

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A phenomenal .pro sale among domain sales on GoDaddy Auctions.

GoDaddy Auctions sold 38,366 domain names last month, about 1,000 fewer than it sold in December.

That includes the eye popping sale of Go.Pro for $40,000.

That’s not a typo. The domain was purchased by a doctor in Maryland.

Other top sales for the month include:

diy.org $60,000
bestrecipes.com $45,000
uros.com $30,000
quod.com $30,000
10-4.com $16,000
eventguru.com $15,925
retireme.com $15,495
definedbenefitplan.com $15,000
gamebreak.com $12,650

About half of the domains were sold via auction and the other half via “buy now” listings.

The top word included in domains sold was “online”, followed by “best”, “blog”, and home. Other popular keywords include:

news
music
free
casino
business
insurance
design
home
video
shop
health
site
club
your
world
auto
life

“Online” is almost always the most often included keyword you’ll find in GoDaddy’s domain sales report. Domainers should take note.

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DealDash buys defunct rival’s domain name.

Remember Swoopo.com, the auction site where you had to pay for each bid? It shut down amidst controversy, and now a competitor has purchased its domain name via Sedo. UK based DealDash Ltd paid 10,000 euros for Swoopo.com and now forwards it to DealDash.com.

This was just one of many “end user” domain purchases over the past week. Here’s a look at 22 others. All took place at Afternic unless otherwise noted.

College Travel Experts bought FallBreak.com for $1,500. That’s a very smart purchase at a great price.

Property management company The Landlord’s Agents, Inc. paid $1,688 for RentalSuccess.com.

Publicly traded Pethealth Inc. bought PetsLocal.com for $2,000.

St. Louis based Automation Service bought AutomationServices.com for $3,788. Its main web site is AutomationService.com.

Digital Measuring Service, Inc bought DigitalMeasuring.com for $1,695.

College social networking site CampuSquare.com made a very necessary purchase, picking up CampusSquare.com for $1,500.

UMB Financial Corporation bought UMBBank.com for $2,000 at Sedo. This is interesting given that the company recently used UDRP for a domain name — and lost. (It was a different domain.)

The Land of Nod bought LandofNod.org for $795 at Sedo with the help of domain recovery firm CitizenHawk.

VisionCritical bought InnovationForum.com for $3,188.

McKinley Mortgage Company bought BackyardBanker.com for $1,095.

Law Bulletin Publishing Company paid $1,595 for LawyerPort.com

Someone bought Egg.org for 3,500 GBP. Was it Citibank, which owns Egg.com?

Freight company MegaPack bought SingleDelivery.com for $1,195. That’s a clever domain for a freight company.

TFH Gazebos, a UK company that sells pop-up Gazebos, bought PopupGazebos.com for $1,500. A perfect domain purchase.

Proactive Publications Ltd, which owns InsideIndustry.net for its magazine Inside Industry, bought InsideIndustry.COM for $1,650. Smart move and a cheap price.

Jorge Cruise, who promises to help you lose weight, bought SixPackDiet.com for $1,788.

Real estate firm LJ Hoocker Palm Beach bought PalmBeachHolidayRentals.com for $1,688.

Germany’s Metalive covered its bases by purchasing Metalive.com for only $1,000. It owns Metalive.de. Very nice buy for Metalive.

LCNB National Bank bought YourHometownLender.com for $2,588.

Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association bought FlightTraining.org for $5,977.

Aqua Laboratories, Inc. shortened its domain from AquaLaboratories.com to AquaLabs.com for $3,900 at Sedo.

Cole Street Consulting also shortened its domain. It bought ColeStreet.com for $1,488. It currently uses ColeStreetConsulting.com.

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American Airlines, The Nature Conservancy, New York Life, and other end user domain buys.

I tried to do last week’s end user domain sales report during DOMAINfest, but some whois servers didn’t like my mobile connection. So it’s a bit late, but hopefully just as useful.

Let’s start off with sales from Afternic.

American Airlines bought the name of its Chairman, TomHorton.com, for $1,000. This was a smart move given that the company is about to battle its unions in bankruptcy. Its public relations firm owns TomHortonSucks.com.

Nashville Wraps, which sells wrapping paper, gift bags, and other packaging supplies, paid $1,700 for GiftWrap.net.

New York Life bought ExecutiveBenefit.com for $1,510.

Dance entertainment producer Break The Floor Productions bought DanceNation.com for $7,500.

Precious Moments, Inc., maker of collectible figurines, paid $X for YourPreciousMoments.com. for $1,088.

Ontario rock climbing gym Climbers Rock Inc. bought KeepClimbing.com for $1,521.

Used bicycle retailer Cycle reCycle of San Jose, California bought BicycleBlueBook.com for $6,500. It’s safe to say the company is working on a used bicycle price list.

The Wind River Visitors Council bought WindRiver.org for $2,788.

Lawyer referral service MyLawsuit.com picked up PatentReview.com for $2,250.

Bloomington, Illinois dentist Mike Milligan paid $1,200 for SnoreStoppers.com.

The Nature Conservancy bought PlanetChange.com for $2,625.

These two sales were at Sedo:

Social Finance, Inc., which hopes to shake up the world of student loans, upgraded its domain from Sofi.org to Sofi.com for a five figure sum (the sale price was retracted).

Virgin Music (EMI Group) paid $8,000 for TheNight.com at Sedo. Any music fans out there know what this is for?

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Domain has new owner but identity is unknown.

Occupy.com, which was pitched for sale to the Occupy Movement last year, has sold.

It’s not clear who purchased the domain name since its whois record is protected by whois privacy.

But the buyer definitely wants to capitalize on the movement.

It started a logo design contest on 99designs that states:

This logo will live on occupy.com and @occupy on twitter. It will go on billboards, on TV, in magazines, on sidewalks, street walls, T-shirts, hats, postcards, on everything you can imagine — all over the world.

We are challenging designers to think beyond the iconic Clenched Fist and create a new iconic symbol for resistance, solidarity and empowerment in the 21st century. It should appeal to a broad base and reflect the diversity of the 99%, while encompassing the values of the Occupy Movement – among them, integrity, justice, freedom, equality, compassion, community and true democracy.

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Sedo’s monthly GreatDomains auction ends today. At the time of this post, 53 out of the listed 71 domains have received bids. The auction ends today (Jan 26) at noon Eastern Time.

Disclaimer: Managing Editor Frank Michlick is also consulting for Sedo through his company DomainCocoon.

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