New winner at SEDO

[yesonline]

Just released news at SEDO.com:

chat.de 360,000 EUR

Great!!

 

[lukeeales]

Man, that's huge.

 

[stuff]

as far as I know it did not inlucde the content?
Only the domain chat.de ?
Nice domain, most get great traffic, overture is not huge, but still.
de overture is over 7300 with ext.
Very nice.

 

[seeker]

that gives a good kick start for 2005

 

[cyberpacific]

WooW

 

[namewaiter]

WOW!!!! that's like $450,000 US?

 

[cyberpacific]

WooW

 

[URLtrader]

Omg !!!!

 

[fatter]

betta all those guys with chat.us and chat.uk etc are jumping up and down

 

[stuff]

chat.com - cnet is the owner, another nice one

 

[Anthony Ng]

Threads merged. Thanks.

 

[Theo]

It was removed from the front page of Sedo / sales pretty quickly. Apparently it was a stunt.

 

[seeker]

Theo, can you confirm?
whois for chat.de is showing a change.

 

[Theo]

At http://www.nic.de I see:

TOMORROW FOCUS Technologies GmbH
Steinhauserstr. 1-3
D-81677 Muenchen
Germany


Who was the previous owner?

I just find it odd that such a huge sale would be removed from Sedo's recent sales, while the commerce.com sale is still there, which was sold at 1/3 of the alleged chat.de price.

 

[seeker]

I had the same result when I first checked, so.....
it being removed is not a good sign.

ok, guys, I decided to keep chat.de, I was 'atached'
LOL

 

[stuff]

You can read here:

http://forum.chat.de/PCH/PCHF/PCHFN/pchfn.htm?thread=12242
There is still this, if You can understand german

 

[seeker]

no, we cant

 

[stuff]

no, we cant

Then its time to learn it

"Mit heutigem Datum haben wir die Domain "Chat.de" verkauft und werden wohl schon in der nächsten Woche unseren Chat und das Forum, nicht mehr unter der bisherigen Domain anbieten. "

in english: Today we have sold the domain chat.de, and we will move our site away in next weeks, so the chat and forum will not work here anymore.

and so on..

 

[Anthony Ng]

Then its time to learn it

LOL! I only know "danke" and "eins", taught by my little girl friend in high school who was learning German at that time. :-D

 

[Edwin]

Perhaps the new (or old) owners weren't happy that SEDO publicized the sale and amount. It seems the default is "publicity" unless you explicitly tell SEDO in advance to keep the specifics of a deal quiet.