As far as the original question goes, I won't go too much into it because someone already shared a link to our article on the topic. The sales in our database are what the auction ended at, but we don't have a way to know if they actually completed for some of the venues.
Regarding wholesale vs. retail there's not really that clear-cut of a distinction. Some will obviously be retail, like if you see the venue as DomainNameSales, MostWantedDomains, MediaOptions, etc. Some will have a good chance of being retail, like Sedo. Some will usually be wholesale like GoDaddy, NameJet, DropCatch, etc. Flippa is kind of a mix of end users and investors. Sometimes an end user will find his way onto a wholesale platform. I wrote a pretty long post about it here that might be easier to refer you to:
https://www.namepros.com/threads/usefulness-of-namebio-for-enduser-pricing.888118/#post-5074175
I bought TEHY.com on Flippa for $450 but Seller refused to sell even after he added BIN price + I clicked BIN + Seller accepted BIN but refused later because seller was not aware of 10% Flippa Final value fees. I open dispute. I won dispute. Seller sold Name on Ebay.com for $500 or something. Still Namebio.com showed TEHY.com sold for $450 which is not correct because Seller refused after Listing is over.
Another example is I bought OOOI.com on Godaddy for $3050. It was expired name. Member renewed name and I got refund. Still Namebio.com reported as sold listing.
Thansk
These sales have been removed. Kevin from Flippa has been a little slow lately on sending us sales that didn't complete so we can remove them, but he's been pretty busy. He always does eventually get around to it though.
The GoDaddy one there's not really anything we can do about it other than research it and respond when someone mentions an expired auction getting renewed. I wish more people would tell us about this happening, it isn't practical for us to check hundreds of auctions per day to find a small handful that were renewed.
Hi,
Another thing. I sold 2V.io for $299 on Sedo 6 months ago. It was completed transaction but never added in Namebio.com for some reason. I don't know why???
Thanks
For Sedo we only track their RSS feed and get weekly reports from them, but they generally only include four-figure sales in either of these sources. We don't watch their auctions in real time and record the results like we do for other venues, but we may eventually now that their auctions are picking back up again. Their auction section was a ghost town for several years.
