I have not reported that many Afternic.com domain name sales lately, so here are a couple that stick out to me that have sold this week.
Afternic reported the sale of Zeal.com for $50,000. Zeal holds the dictionary meaning of "Passionate devotion to or interest in a cause or subject".
One interesting thing about the purchase.. the company that sold it was named Zeal Media Group LLC. It appears that company either folded in or around 2006 or lost interest in the site. Normally we see an exact match company buy the domain, not sell it, but is understandable if the company went out of business. If this was the case, the domain appears to have been a nice asset.
A message from the new domain owner states on the site currently:
I know that many of you Zealots like myself were very saddened by the loss of Zeal in March 2006.
For those of you who don’t know me, I was a former volunteer editor at Zeal before it shut down.
As the new owner of this domain, I hope to rejuvenate Zeal and bring it back to its glory days. I’ve been a software engineer for over 10 years and hopefully, I can use my programming skills to develop a web directory worthy of the name Zeal.
Here are some other notable domain sales from this week at Afternic.com.
SmartBride.com $5,750
PlacesToGo.com $8,995
DreamKeepers.org $2,000
LegalFinancing.com $3,500
MultiHost.com $2,400
LocalWater.org $1,080
Livy.com $1,199
TestEquipment.org $1,000
YouAndI.com $5,400
Santarosaca.com $3,000
InsureYourWorld.com $1,500
WeightChart.net $2,250
Also to note, Afternic had several sales of two word .org sales in the mid $xxx range which is nice to see as I am an investor in .org as well.



That’s awesome news. I snapped up Zealotry.com a while back in part because I love the connotation. I hope he does well with it.
August 14th, 2009