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Garry Chernoff posts another top-10 domain sale in 2011 with BlueJeans.com selling for $150,000

Blue Jeans Network

On the heels of the top domain name sale of 2011 that saw gamesforgirls.com sell for $500,000 to Gamegos, Garry Chernoff has confirmed by email today that he has sold another domain name which cracked the Top-10 year-to-date sales chart tracked by Ron Jackson’s DN Journal. 

The domain name, bluejeans.com, changed hands earlier this week on March 24, and, no, it wasn’t sold to Levi’s. 

The domain which fetched $150,000 by Garry’s NetIncome Ventures, was sold to Blue Jeans Network, a start-up that provides cloud-based conferencing services.   Blue Jeans Network has been using bluejeansnet.com as its site’s web address.

“Blue Jeans” is probably not the first thought that comes to mind for cloud-based conferencing services, but for branding purposes, owning the domain should certainly help the company’s online efforts to run a business online.

Garry Chernoff 2011 Domain Sales

Gamesforgirls.com and bluejeans.com aren’t the only domain names that Garry Chernoff has sold in 2011 that rank in the top 10 sales of the year, so far to date. 

In early March, Garry sold the domain, doorhardware.com, for $85,000 to Dynasty Hardware.

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How would you prepare for the end-of-the-world? Someone buys the domain for $20,000

2012 end of the world

While some people are saving up enough money to last them until December 2012, someone has spent $20,000 for the domain name, endoftheworld.com according to Sedo GreatDomains.

The domain name is currently in Sedo’s Transfer Service, so it won’t be known for some time what’s in store for the name.  But it appears a lot of people are interested.

The Google Adwords: Keyword tool, a free service that shows the number of actual Google search queries, reports that nearly 100,000 searches for the exact keywords “2010 end of the world” were performed last month alone.  Over 60,000 searches were performed for “end of the world” and roughly 33,100 searches were performed by people for the phrase, “the end of the world”.

The “2012 phenomenon” suggests the end of the world will occur on December 21, 2012 (which is the end of the Mayan calendar), but that hasn’t stopped people from buying domains. 

In July 2010, the domain name 2012.net, sold for a whopping $49,999 at AfternicDLS. 2012.org, sold for $10,000 via Sedo in 2010.  And what of the fate of the domain 2012.com?  Registered to a Sunil Gupta in Paris, France, the web address doesn’t resolve.

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Mike Berkens’ Worldwide Media reports new sales activity: Lovemybody.com, Freewarranty.com, and more

Discount Bags

Mike Berken’s Worldwide Media publicly reported sales of five new domain names totalling nearly $100,000 USD. 

The reported sales include a pair of domains, electronicsignature.com and electronicsignatures.com, for $50,000.  Electronicsignature.com was purchased for $1,298 in 2006 at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C East 2006/Moniker.com Live Domain Auction – the very same auction where Flowers.mobi was purchased by T.R.A.F.F.I.C co-founder Rick Schwartz for $200,000 and the three-letter domain, own.com, sold for a mere $115,000 to National A-1.   

While flowers.mobi went onto sell for significantly less money in 2010 at just $6,500, if own.com went up for sale, it would likely sell for a tad more than $115,000 now that Oprah Winfrey has launched the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) on own.tv.  According to a rough estimate provided by Compete, site traffic to own.com jumped from a few thousand visitors per month to well over 50,000 unique visitors in January 2011 when Oprah launched her network.

Worldwide Media’s other new publicly reported sales included lovemybody.com for $20,000, freewarranty.com for $15,000, and nationalart.com $6,500.

Just counting publicly reported sales, Worldwide Media has easily reached its target of $750,000 – the cost of the company’s estimated domain registration fees in 2011.   The company’s top two recent domain name sales (within the last 4 months) include visitberlin.com for $230,000 and visitstockholm.com for $77,000.  Worldwide Media also reported the sale of discountbags.com earlier this year for $50,000, tying it for the #3 top domain name sale with electronicsignature.com/electronicsignatures.com.

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Symbolics.com: The first .com domain in the world turns 26-years-old Tuesday, March 15

symbolics.com

This Tuesday the domain name symbolics.com will be 26-years-old. 

While news of the anniversary isn’t frontpage this week, last year at this time, symbolics.com was celebrating its 25th birthday and was the subject of much discussion.  News outlets ranging from Wired to BBC covered the story.   To commemorate the anniversary, Verisign even set up a website (http://www.25yearsof.com/) and threw a .com gala event in San Francisco in May that celebrated the impact 25 years of Internet innovation had on society.

XF.com Investments

In 2009, XF.com Investments, a domain holding and development company run by Aron Meystedt purchased the domain, making the milestone even more exciting for the domain name community. 

Aron has a track record of acquiring some amazing domains. 

In late 2010, XF acquired tablets.com for an undisclosed amount.  Tablets.com is well positioned to become one of the most valuable domain names in 2011.  Over the weekend, Apple reportedly sold nearly one million iPad 2 tablets.  “Gartner research reported this week that tablet sales will grow from 15 million in 2010 to 54 million in 2011 and that laptop sales will slow down dramatically”, reported CNET.

More Birthdays

Since last March, a number of other .com domains have celebrated their 25th anniversary including:  bbn.com, think.com, mcc.com, dec.com, northrop.com, xerox.com, sri.com, hp.com, and bellcore.com.

More domain names will celebrate their 25th birthday this year.  Here’s a look:

03/19/1986   IBM.COM
03/19/1986   SUN.COM
03/25/1986   INTEL.COM
03/25/1986   TI.COM
04/25/1986   ATT.COM
05/08/1986   GMR.COM
05/08/1986   TEK.COM
07/10/1986   FMC.COM
07/10/1986   UB.COM
08/05/1986   BELL-ATL.COM
08/05/1986   GE.COM
08/05/1986   GREBYN.COM
08/05/1986   ISC.COM
08/05/1986   NSC.COM
08/05/1986   STARGATE.COM
09/02/1986   BOEING.COM
09/18/1986   ITCORP.COM
09/29/1986   SIEMENS.COM
10/18/1986   PYRAMID.COM
10/27/1986   ALPHACDC.COM
10/27/1986   BDM.COM
10/27/1986   FLUKE.COM
10/27/1986   INMET.COM
10/27/1986   KESMAI.COM
10/27/1986   MENTOR.COM
10/27/1986   NEC.COM
10/27/1986   RAY.COM
10/27/1986   ROSEMOUNT.COM
10/27/1986   VORTEX.COM
11/05/1986   ALCOA.COM
11/05/1986   GTE.COM
11/17/1986   ADOBE.COM
11/17/1986   AMD.COM
11/17/1986   DAS.COM
11/17/1986   DATA-IO.COM
11/17/1986   OCTOPUS.COM
11/17/1986   PORTAL.COM
11/17/1986   TELTONE.COM
12/11/1986   3COM.COM
12/11/1986   AMDAHL.COM
12/11/1986   CCUR.COM
12/11/1986   CI.COM
12/11/1986   CONVERGENT.COM
12/11/1986   DG.COM
12/11/1986   PEREGRINE.COM
12/11/1986   QUAD.COM
12/11/1986   SQ.COM
12/11/1986   TANDY.COM
12/11/1986   TTI.COM
12/11/1986   UNISYS.COM

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Charlie Sheen gets control of CharlieSheen.com domain name, launches website

Charliesheen.com

A week ago, I was the first domain blogger to write about the celebrity domain name, charliesheen.com and celebrity domain disputes, since the former star of Two and a Half Men had begun his public meltdown. 

As I had written in the story, Jeff Burgar of Alberta Hot Rods, was the registrant of the name, and had been involved in a number of celebrity domain disputes. 

Now, Jeff Burgar no longer owns the name, Charlie Sheen does, and he already has a website online.

Jeff Burgar had been involved in a number celebrity domain disputes.  Cases had involved Pamela Anderson who won pamanderson.com, Ashley Judd who won ashleyjudd.com, catherinecookson.com (transferred), ianfleming.com (transferred), direstraits.com (transferred), tomcruise.com (transferred), larryking.com (transferred), jrrtolkien.com (transferred), and michaelcrichton.com (transferred). 

The web address charliesheen.com (according to DomainTools) is registered to Evan Spiegel of LAVELY & SINGER PC (Attorneys-At-Law) who represents other Hollywood celebrities.

Earlier today, the celebrity gossip news (blog) Celeb Dirty Laundry, wrote a story about the unveiling of the new site.  As Celeb Dirty Laundry pointed out, Charlie tweeted about gaining control of the domain name on Twitter:

[blackbirdpie url=”http://twitter.com/charliesheen/status/46405133042589696″]

Charlie Sheen online achievements

In case you missed the recap of some of the recent Charlie Sheen online antics/achievements that was posted in my previous story, here they are again.  Now you can add winning control of charliesheen.com to the list.

Twitter: Since joining Twitter on March 1, 2011, Charlie Sheen who tweets using the name @charliesheen, has nearly 2 million followers at the time of this story.  Guinness World Records  announced he set a new record for fastest time to 1 million followers, which he achieved in just 25 hours and 17 minutes.

– Prank: CharlieSheen.com for $275,000:  A person posted a video of himself fooling his friend into believing that he registered charliesheen.com for $12, then tricking him into thinking they’re selling it for $275,000.  Watch how it unfolds.