The domain name Lend.com has been sold at Sedo.com. The sales RSS feed is stating $300,000 but that seems very low for this caliber of a domain name, so this domain may be sold including "payments"… with the first one being $300,000. This recently happened with the sale of WellnessFinder.com which sold for $300,000 EUR but the Sedo sales RSS displayed $150,000 EUR. The WellnessFinder.com sale also included a website (and maybe more) and the reason the $150,000 EUR price was displayed in the RSS feed was because it was payment #1 of 2.
Lend.com was owned by P.A. Gordon according to whois records and was recently (April 2011) exclusively brokered by Sedo.com according to senior broker Dave Evanson and a post on DomainSalesCenter.com .
The domain name went to privacy protection at GoDaddy on 6/28/2011 according to whois history records on DomainTools.com
Interestingly enough, the domain names DNS was changed after purchase to GoDaddy’s parking, using the CashParking.com DNS.
Lend.com was created on June 18, 1997 and has had a couple owners since at least 2001. The currently seller has owned Lend.com since about mid 2006.
I would expect the "full price" to be revealed shortly if it isn’t $300,000. I have an email into Sedo for confirmation.
Francois
Hehe, it’s the one I asked to acquire two months ago
Jamie Zoch
@Francois,
Interesting! Do you think it sold for $300K or what were you thinking of offering for it?
Leonard Britt
…interested in the final price as I hold the domain in another TLD…
RKB
I own Lend.info
Francois
Much more because he not even responded to my offer.
You Sure?
Are you sure about the sale? I don’t see it on the Sedo sale RSS feed and it looks like the name went private, which doesn’t mean it sold.
Jamie Zoch
@You Sure?
100% sure! Sedo pulled another “reported a private sale” situation by posting the sale in the RSS feed, then removed it. Then they asked me “We ask that you not publish or report the Lend.com sale so as to maintain privacy for the parties involved” after I already posted it. I don’t see the reason of removing the post now and since they were the ones to post the sale in the first place, it’s Sedo’s fault, not mine.
Elliot
“I don’t see the reason”
Jamie,
IMO, it’s not the buyer or seller who revealed the price, and they are the ones who will now suffer as a result – not Sedo. If you bought a name that you wanted or expected to remain private but someone accidentally posted it on the rss feed, wouldn’t you hope that someone would have the courtesy of removing the sale from public consumption? As you mentioned, it’s quite possible that the figure you quoted is inaccurate, so what’s even the point in keeping it published other than a desire to drive traffic to your site.
On at least two occasions, Ron Jackson removed purchases i made that were suppose to remain confidential. I was very appreciative of him for doing it, and I bet the buyer and/or seller would feel the same if you removed this.
Of course you don’t have to take it down, but I think it would be the nice thing to do given the circumstances.
Jamie Zoch
@Elliot,
The problem I have is the seller or buyer paid a fee to Sedo to keep the domain sale private (2.5% of the purchase price) and Sedo didn’t keep it private. Not my fault, Sedo’s. Sedo released the information to a public portion of its site, I saw it and reported on it. I stated from the start that the $300K may be a partial payment.
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If I did remove it, that won’t remove the article from the many other sites that “aggregate” my content, blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Search Engines etc. Those will not be removed, so I do not see a point in removing it. I remove it since I wrote about it first and then the other sites still archive the data that I wrote and it’s still seen. It’s like firing a gun and trying to catch the bullet as it flies.
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The problem here is SEDO. They were asked by the buyer or seller to keep the domain sale private and they didn’t. Sedo should suffer for doing it, because they are the ones that did it and as you know, this isn’t the first time. They have a flawed system and they need to fix it. If a domain sale is private, then there should be a safeguard in place to prevent it from being published on a public RSS feed. They need to use this as an example and take some action so it doesn’t happen again.
Justin Allen
Perhaps the more interesting issue at hand is the reported sale by Sedo not being kept confidential when it was supposed to be.
I see this issue going either way, I dont blame Jamie for keeping the article posted, its impossible to put the cat back in the bag at this point in time.
Jamie Zoch
@Justin,
Nice to see you around again! I agree and it really could go either way, but the issue here is Sedo… because if they didn’t have the flawed system and the domain wouldn’t have been publicly published in the first place, I wouldn’t have seen it. AFTER I publish it is a bit late when the domain is the featured story and spreading across the web minutes after I publish it.
tony
@Jamie
the solution is SEDO get back to the old recent sales list placed on a image!
another major screw up by SEDO…
you are right in not taking the post from your site. even if there was no share of content yet these screw ups should be known.