As announced in a press release today, Good Sam, a provider of products for the RV and outdoor recreation consumer  purchased RV.com for an undisclosed sum. The domain name was owned by Dometic Group, another supplier for the RV and Marine Industries.

The company is planning to develop the domain name into a new site by August 2013 and is hoping to benefit from 20,000 links the site currently has according to the press release. The site will cater to the “Good Sam Club” member base and offer information, access to new and used RVs, how-to videos as well as social components.

“The term “RV” defines not just a type of vehicle, it defines a lifestyle,” said Good Sam Chairman and CEO, Marcus Lemonis. “We strive to be the one-stop shop for everything in the RV lifestyle and integrating www.RV.com into our suite of Web-based services for RVers further solidifies our position as the leader in this industry.”

The whois of the domain has yet to be updated to the new owner.

[Hat tip to Mike of Domain Guardians]

ICM Registry, the registry operator for the .XXX top-level domain (TLD) exclusively used for online adult entertainment, announces today that IRIS SARL, based in Luxembourg, has secured an additional 25 Premium Domains in a deal worth $185,000.  This is the second significant order from IRIS who previously acquired $650,000 of premium names back in September 2012.

The new .XXX names include singles.xxx, sexvideos.xxx, adultchat.xxx and many more popular niche sectors of the adult market.

The Chairman of IRIS commented.” We have spent several months analyzing the key adult search terms and with our SEO experts and have chosen a further 25 Premium XXX names that are highly popular adult search terms. In addition, the recent changes by Google have seen a dramatic increase in traffic to our other .XXX sites and this is without doubt, a solid investment in the future”

Steve Winyard, ICM Registry Vice President, added, “IRIS have been diligent in their approach to launching their initial sites and have some leading technology and ideas which will make a huge impact when launched. We are once again delighted with this further investment and will work to support them and introduce them to the very best partners we know, in order to help them achieve their goals.

[via Press Release]

Over the past week, 800 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1.57m. Over 41% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.

Highlights of public sales include:

• Top .com: apuestas.com (bets in Spanish) at 165,000 EUR, almost 222,000 USD
• Top ccTLD: veterinar.se  (Veterinary in Spanish) at 8,000 EUR (=$10,750 USD)
• Top “other” TLD: hausverwaltung.net (Property Management in German) at 5,900 EUR ($7,930 USD)

We’ve also received word of the following domains being sold outside of any marketplace:

• dach.eu (roof in German) 5950 Euro (=$8,000 USD)
• Massivhaus.eu (Solid Construction in German) 5950 Euro (=$8,000 USD)
• papier.eu (Paper in German) 5950 Euro (=$8,000 USD)

See all of the reported Sedo sales of the last week after the jump.

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Sedo is brokering Internet Real Estate Group’s Chocolate.com and the web business. The site is a marketplace for fine chocolates that lists 250 vendors and their over 5,000 products.

“The Chocolate.com domain name and address is one of the most sought after plots of virtual real estate on the Internet,” said Andrew Miller, Managing Director of Chocolate.com. “It is the global equivalent of the best address on Madison Avenue, Rodeo Drive, or Champs-Élysées.”

“When a rare, internationally-appealing name like Chocolate.com is put up for sale, it has the power to shift an entire market,” said Kathy Nielsen, Director of Strategic Alliances at Sedo. “With record-breaking domain sales under our belt and a strong network of potential buyers, we’re optimistic that Chocolate.com will be a landmark sale and are excited to help make it happen.”

The name and website has been listed before for $6MM USD and then lowered to $4.95MM USD. Sedo has not published an asking price and the domain has yet to actually be listed in the marketplace.

[via Press Release]

Disclaimer: DNN’s co-founder and managing editor, Frank Michlick, consults SedoMLS through his company DomainCocoon.

Flippa.com sold StockPhoto.com at the asking price of $250,000 earlier today. The name was owned by Black Start, a photographic agency since 1995 based in White Plains, NY. The current site is not included in the sale.

This week, 945 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.48 million. Over 39% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.

Highlights of public sales include:

• Top .com: ulink.com at 20,000 USD
• Top ccTLD: matik.ch at 11,000 EUR
• Top “other” TLD: traspaso.net at 4,000 EUR

See the full list of reported sales after the jump.

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Domain Marketplace Sedo launched a new version of their German homepage today. According to an email sent at launch the focus of the redesign was the domain buyer:

• Easy access to domain search and search results
• The focus on buyers means that the homepage tries to answer the most frequently asked questions from buyers.
• The display of Showcase, Top domains and Domain sales has been updated.

[via Consultdomain (German)]

Disclaimer: DNN’s co-founder and managing editor, Frank Michlick, consults Sedo through his company DomainCocoon.

As already reported by others FindYourDomain.com sold Trumpet.com on Namejet for a price of $57,500 domains on Namejet. DNN reached out to the buyer, Nokta Domains. Arif Şengören told DNN:

As NoktaDomains.com, we are still going on buying premium domains in order to refresh and improve our domain portfolio. We are mainly focusing on one-word or two-word generic, commercial domains and Trumpet.com was one of them.

We believe that, $57,500 is a fair price for a one-word domain and we are proud to be the owner of this domain. In a very near future, it will be impossible to find a one-word domain with 5 figure prices.

What do you think of the purchase price? What would you do with the domain?

This week, 900 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling over $1.52 million.

Over 42% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings.

Highlights of public sales include:

• Top .com: endgame.com at 80,000 USD
• Top ccTLD: k1.de at 12,000 EUR
• Top “other” TLD: stromrechner.net at 9,100 EUR

See the full list of reported Sedo sales over the last week after the jump.

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Media company investing in .com – investing.com

As reported by TechCrunch Investing.com was bought for $2.45 Million USD by Virgin Island based Forexpros/Fusion Media Ltd.

As TechCrunch writes, with the purchase, Forexpros will today launch a global financial portal under the Investing.com URL, where it plans to offer a free resource for novice and semi-professional traders and investors to find realtime quotes and charts, breaking news, financial tools, technical analysis and calendars.

The last snapshot of the site by Archive.org shows that in February of 2011 the site was just an under construction page. ForexPros was launched in 2007 and employs 70 people world wide. Now the site has been rebranded to Investing.com and the domain name ForexPros.com redirects to Investing.com.

[Hat tip to George Kirkos and Donna Mahony]