6-Figure Sale of eSignature.com Puts DomainGuardians on Top of New DNJ Sales Chart
4:00 AM PST, 8/12/2011
6-Figure Sale of eSignature.com Puts DomainGuardians on Top of New DNJ Sales Chart
Six-Figure Sale of eSignature.com Gives DomainGuardians Their 1st Appearance at the Top of Our Weekly Domain Sales Chart
Last spring two highly regarded former Fabulous.com executives, Mike Robertson and Jen Sale, joined three domain industry veterans; Adam Strong, Paul Keating and Bill Vanderent, to launch a new domain services company at DomainGuardians.com. While the company's main line of business is providing estate planning and management services to domain professionals the highly experienced co-founders can handle just about any domain related task you might want to throw at them. That's why veteran domain investor Roy Flanders called on Robertson to broker eSignature.com for him and Roy's confidence was rewarded when Mike found a buyer at $150,000, giving DomainGuardians the #1 position on this week's Top 20 Sales Chart. The buyer is a company called EchoSign that was acquired concurrently with the domain acquisition by tech giant Adobe.
Flanders said, "I guess I know most all of the players over all these years, and I can't think of many who are more well thought of than Mike (I call him 'Bieber,' just for fun.) Truth is we had this deal finished - both ways - even before Escrow.com had the paperwork out!" There was a lot of trust between all parties, and time was very much of the essence. (According to things I hear, I'm not always easy to work with, but Mike helped us all come out shining.)"
By Ron Jackson
Robertson noted, "Roy's one of the real originals in this business. I've seen domains he registered back in '94-'95. I'm happy to have worked with him for the last number of years while at Fabulous. So when he called at my new company to see if I wanted to broker this domain, I jumped at the chance. Mostly because he very rarely sells anything, he is shy about any publicity, but also because he thought it might help give our new start-up a good lift."
Roy knows a good company when he sees one and anyone who knows the principals in DomainGuardians will understand why Flanders wanted to work with them.
Sedo took the next two spots on this week's leader board with iCinema.com and Koudai.com bringing in $50,000 each to tie for the runner-up position. Sedo went on to have a monster week, sweeping 17 of the 20 chart entries. Their roster included all four of the ccTLDS on the elite list, with #5 Men.co leading that group at $32,000. Two other country codes also reached the top ten; #8 AHD.de at $16,898 and #9 Infos.fr at $14,200.
The non .com gTLDs had two representatives on the Big Board led by the UpMarketDNs.com sale of #4 Blogs.net at $34,500. The other charted domain from this category also reached the top ten. That was #10 Umstandsmode.org ("mail order company" in German), a domain that sold through Sedo for $11,660.