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Domain
Sales Explosion Continues - Seven 6-Figure Sales Totaling Over $2.9
Million Top This Week's Chart
The
domain aftermarket turned in another dazzling fortnight
over the past two weeks with big sales busting out all over.
Seven of those rang the six-figure bell including RightOfThe
Dot.com's chart topper, Tattoo.com, at $812,000.
That also ranks as the 6th biggest sale reported so
far this year.
You
might recall that RightOfTheDot (ROTD) put that domain up for
sale in a live online auction they staged in late February
when it drew a $750,000
winning bid. Unfortunately, the "winner"
not only failed to pay for that domain, he also reneged
on high bids for both Bird.com ($2.5 million) and Fish.com
($1.6 million), costing everyone involved an enormous
amount of wasted time and money. It has also resulted in
the
bidder being sued
by ROTD and the owner of Fish.com and Bird.com. In
the meantime ROTD President Monte Cahn found a new
buyer who jumped at the chance to own Tattoo.com and the
market has gone on to post a long string of eye-popping sales
week after week.
In
the #2 sale since our last report, as detailed
by Elliot Silver at DomainInvesting.com, NameCheap.com
Founder & CEO Rick Kirkendall plunked down $550,000
to add Wolf.com to the company's ever-growing
collection of premier domain names. James Booth at DomainBooth.com
filled the #3 spot with a sale that, big as it was at $440,000
(paid in Bitcoin), must have hurt at least a little. After
all, it would be tough for any lover of domains named James to
give up James.com - but a price like that does have a
way of persuading people! Rounding out the first four is
another 400K plus sale - Snappy.com at $415,000
(another hat tip to Elliot for filling in the
back story on that deal handled by GetYourDomain.com's
Larry Fischer (representing the seller) and the GoDaddy
Brokerage, who represented the buyer).
The
six-figure sales did not stop there. Shane Kinsch (who sold
FTA.com for $400,000 in March) hit another home run with #5 Bico.com
at $350,000, Sedo banked $181,500 for CopyMarkets.com
and RightOfTheDot rang the bell again with ExchangeRates.com
at $180,000.
While
those .coms were blowing the roof off the place, the ccTLDs
also had another great outing led by .io, a red hot extension
that accounted for four of the five country sales that earned places
on the Big Board. The biggest of those was #8 Avatar.io at $89,999
and #9 Ruby.io at $88,000. DomainBooth also posted one
of the .io sales, collecting $45,000 for #16 Club.io.
The one charted ccTLD sale that wasn't a .io was #19 ESN.co.uk
- sold through SamCharles.com
for £20,000 ($28,200).
By Ron
Jackson
The non .com gTLDs
were limited to one spot on the elite list but it was an
impressive one. They can thank RightOfTheDot for that. One of ROTD's
four charted sales is #13 Organizations.org at $52,500 -
a sale that ranks as the category's 3rd biggest sale of the year to
date.
We have tipped our hat to
George Kirikos for newly discovered domain sales information so
many times the brims are worn off all of our hats! Still we owe him
yet another one for finding theMarch
2021 sale of #15 Cuentas.com ("accounts"
in Spanish) at $47,000 in an SEC filing. Even more intriguing
than that, George found evidence in another filing of Elevate
Credit making a domain sale of $1.25 million but the
mystery (as he he noted inthis
tweet and a follow-up
tweet) is what domain was it? George's question about that
to Elevate Investor Relations has gone unanswered so that one remains
to be unmasked.
Here's how
all of the sales leaders stacked up for the two weeks
ending Sunday, May 9, 2021:
The DN Journal Top 20
Highest
Reported Domain Sales - Mon. April 26, 2021 - Sun.
May 9, 2021 (Foreign
currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in
Effect May 12, 2021)
Domain
Sold For
Where
Sold
1.
Tattoo.com
$812,000
RightOfTheDot
2.
Wolf.com
$550,000
Pvt
Sale
3.
James.com
$440,000
(BTC)
DomainBooth
4.
Snappy.com
$415,000
GetYourDomain/
GoDaddy
5.
Bico.com
$350,000
Shane
Kinsch
6.
CopyMarkets.com
€150,000
= $181,500
Sedo
7.
ExchangeRates.com
$180,000
RightOfTheDot
8.
Avatar.io
$89,999
Pvt
Sale
9.
Ruby.io
$88,000
Pvt
Sale
10.
SuperWorld.com
€45,000
= $54,450
Sedo
11.
Volka.com
$54,000
Sedo
12.
Hina.com
$50,000
Sedo
13.
Organizations.org
$52,500
RightOfTheDot
14.
Rabbit.io
$48,888
Pvt
Sale
15.
Cuentas.com ("accounts" in Spanish)
$47,000
Pvt
Sale
16.
Club.io
$45,000
DomainBooth
17.
PEE.com
$39,900
RightOfTheDot
18.
SpaceCoin.com
$35,000
Sedo
19.
ESN.co.uk
£20,000
= $28,200
SamCharles.com
20.
SimplexTrading.com
$28,000
Sedo
Keep in mind that these are the highest value
cash only sales that have been reported to us in the
past week. This column is meant to be an educational tool, not
a complete list documenting ALL high value domain
sales. Such a list is impossible to produce because many sales
are kept private at the insistence of buyers, sellers or both.
Our procedure for verifying the accuracy of domain sales
reports is available here.
There were 20 more
five-figure sales off the chart led by a $27,500 sale of Evolution.io
by Mark Ghoriafi at MrPremium.com
and a $25,000 sale of YH.io at Park.io.
Sedo followed with GE.de
at $21,780, Scout.vc at $18,150 and ApexNews.com
at $18,000. Sedo went on to pile up 10 of the remaining 15
five-figure sales including Sand.kr at $16,000, Pitch.vc
at $15,000 and Auto.biz at $14,900. OpenProject.euyielded another $12,403, Task.ittacked
on $10,890 and five others - Coders.io,Coinbvase.com,
Flashstream.com, Pornsocket.com and Voye.com
- added $10,000 apiece.
Elsewhere, BuyBrands.com
used Afternic
to sell DataHub.co at $17,500, DomainLore.uk
moved InStyle.co.uk for $15,299, Afternic
sold Dragon.tv for $15,000 and DomainBooth.combanked $11,000 for AsteroidX.com.
.Com Supporting
Cast
Sedo led the .com supporting cast
of four-figure sales with SportsBonuses.com at
$9,995 and PixelPimps.com at $9,500. CryptoChamber.com
chalked up $8,999 while GoldGuide.com and OKStaff.com
drew $8,000 each.
Profilog.com
produced $7,900, Pasithea.com posted $7,700
and Frenny.com kicked in $7,250. Hexomatic.com
hauled in another $6,800 and ProjectFinance.com
fetched $6,050. Sedo had 68 more
four-figure .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $5,501 that
are listed in the table below:
Additional
Sedo .com Sales Between $2,000 - $5,501
albajob.com
$5,501
dental21.com
$3,199
digitalmoment.com
$5,500
academylearning.com
$3,125
ichibankuji.com
$5,500
condomeet.com
$3,025
datatraders.com
$5,143
akker.com
$3,024
detrans.com
$5,000
happycappy.com
$3,000
soundshare.com
$5,000
ltbh.com
$3,000
stkx.com
$5,000
luckyfox.com
$3,000
trust24.com
$5,000
squarebrain.com
$3,000
emergents.com
$4,999
plantsthatproduce.com
$2,999
fantasytrade.com
$4,995
br-design.com
$2,995
givvo.com
$4,995
bentrio.com
$2,904
digisaurus.com
$4,950
leonhardweiss.com
$2,899
partnero.com
$4,930
justinmurray.com
$2,799
tawatur.com
$4,880
thebobblehead.com
$2,778
xguns.com
$4,719
online-wedding.com
$2,588
raregoods.com
$4,500
cakea.com
$2,530
nachlass.com
$4,090
accessid.com
$2,500
alternatively.com
$4,000
casinoporn.com
$2,500
landstock.com
$4,000
urbansuccess.com
$2,499
lockerr.com
$4,000
suboxonenearme.com
$2,475
marrones.com
$4,000
aeoohio.com
$2,448
worldfashion.com
$3,800
leadsfactory.com
$2,420
diploy.com
$3,799
newyorkcrypto.com
$2,375
allreco.com
$3,630
streetcoin.com
$2,300
marie-jose.com
$3,509
hper.com
$2,250
quadroshop.com
$3,509
templateshop.com
$2,203
armatupc.com
$3,500
vupra.com
$2,130
bnormal.com
$3,500
solenge.com
$2,105
newsky.com
$3,500
seedforweed.com
$2,100
speedsquare.com
$3,500
tosing.com
$2,050
travelzilla.com
$3,500
copycap.com
$2,000
lulab.com
$3,388
solarproject.com
$2,000
investyx.com
$3,330
trustmatrix.com
$2,000
immobilie1.com
$3,328
zenigma.com
$2,000
XYNames.com
also used Sedo to sell 4Payments.com for $5,000.
Elsewhere, Steve Orosz sold Hootah.com for $5,500
in a private transaction, Afternic moved FrontlineProperties.com
for $4,500 and BuyBrands.combooked $3,485
for SelfExclude.com.
Country Codes
While .com
sales
always draw more attention because of their bigger numbers,
there is no hiding the fact that ccTLD sales have
also been on fire this
year - especially those of current darling .io. The
past two weeks has been no exception with 17 of the 20
entries on our latest Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart
hitting five figures and the top two flirting with six!
Those were Avatar.io at $89,999 and Ruby.io
at $88,000 (both in private transactions). The top
four sales and six of the top seven were .io domains.
All of those .io
sales cut into Sedo's traditional overwhelming
dominance of this chart a bit, but they still had far more
entries than anyone else, piling up nine spots on the
honor roll, including a .io sale of their own - #17
Coders.io at $10,000. The big guns for Sedo were
#8 GE.de at $21,780 and #9 Scout.vc
at $18,150.
It was actually a
much more diverse couple of weeks than the .io surge
would suggest. 11 different extensions earned chart entries.
The only ones other than .io to take more than one place
were .co.uk with three and .vc with two. Here is how the top ccTLD
sales stacked up for the two weeks ending Sunday, May 9, 2021:
Country
Code Top 20 Sales Chart
Highest Reported
ccTLD Sales - Mon. April 26, 2021 - Sun. May 9, 2021 (Foreign
currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in
Effect May 12, 2021)
There were
dozens of additional sales off the chart led by Sedo's
sales of Foods.cn at $8,000, Luckland.de
at $7,260 and JW.to at $7,259.
Sedo had 34
more
four-figure ccTLD sales ranging from $2,000 to
$6,980
that are listed in the table below:
Additional
Sedo ccTLD Sales from $2,000 to $6,980
identity.me
$6,980
internetworld.ch
$3,485
gostudent.nl
$6,655
ifdq.de
$3,466
diedrich.de
$6,050
mein-event.de
$3,168
european.ai
$6,050
greencable.de
$3,026
sk8.es
$6,050
cryptoclub.de
$3,025
sharenow.ch
$5,990
easymining.de
$3,025
bockshop.de
$5,445
volu.co
$3,025
dfinity.io
$4,999
oneo.eu
$3,024
possible.io
$4,800
portugalreisen.de
$3,001
happyflowers.de
$4,538
palue.de
$2,448
immo-tipp.de
$4,235
buddyrider.de
$2,420
mrcleaner.fr
$4,235
online-bestattungen.de
$2,420
foodfair.de
$4,194
doctor.pe
$2,300
uic.io
$3,999
smi.io
$2,200
sound.es
$3,642
dynamite.io
$2,000
frw.ch
$3,618
invest.cl
$2,000
apy.io
$3,499
promos.io
$2,000
Elsewhere, BuyBrands.com
sold DevLabs.io for $2,195 and, in
another transaction, they used Afternic to sell Olymp.io
at the same price. DomainLore.ukalso
posted another sale, ringing up $1,840 for Raffle.uk.
If there are country code
extensions in our report that you are not familiar
with, you can look up the nation each extension goes with here.
Non .com gTLDs (.net, .org and
others, including new gTLDs)
The Non .Com gTLDs were
limited to a trio of five-figure sales but the best of
those, RightOfTheDot's $52,500 sale of Organizations.org,
is an especially notable one. That is the second biggest
.org sale reported so
far this year (the Non .com gTLD YTD Top 100
is the second chart on the page linked to) and the 3rd
biggest non .com gTLD sale. It also, of course, tops our
latest bi-weekly Non.Com gTLD Top 20 Sales
Chart.
Just as the .io's
stole the spotlight on the ccTLD Top 20 Chart, the .xyz
domains did the same in this category. Thanks to .xyz
specialist Swetha Yenugula atDNGear
releasing their April sales this week, .xyz was able to pile
up nine entries on the leader board with #2 Genesis.xyz
at $21,399 leading the way.
The always strong
.orgs also showed up in a big way again, taking four of the
top five chart entries and seven places overall. Sedo
accounted for six of those .org sales, including a couple of
nice 3-letter sales - ZEF.org and ZRI.org - at
$8,800 apiece. Here is how all of the non
.com gTLD sales stacked up for the two weeks ending ending Sunday, May
9, 2021:
Non
.Com gTLD Top Sales Chart
Highest
Reported Non .Com gTLD Sales - Mon. April 26, 2021 - Sun.
May 9, 2021 (Foreign
currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in
Effect May 12, 2021))
Domain
Sold For
Where
Sold
1.
Organizations.org
$52,500
RightOfTheDot
2.
Genesis.xyz
$21,399
DNGear
3.
Auto.biz
$14,900
Sedo
4.
PeoplePowered.org
$9,000
Sedo
5.
tie
ZEF.org
$8,800
Sedo
5.
tie
ZRI.org
$8,800
Sedo
7.
Protocol.xyz
$8,000
DNGear
8.
tie
BitcoinTrade.net
$7,888
Sedo
8.
tie
Split.xyz
$7,888
DNGear
10.
Investor.club
$7,500
GoDaddy
11.
Property.club
$5,250
GoDaddy
12.
Deca.xyz
$5,001
Sedo
13.
Statistics.org
$5,000
Sedo
14.
tie
Blox.xyz
$4,995
DNGear
14.
tie
Clubhouse.xyz
$4,995
DNGear
16.
StepTwo.org
€3,899
= $4,718
Sedo
17.
CHLB.org
$4,500
Sedo
18.
Soteria.xyz
$4,000
DNGear
19.
Chia.xyz
$3,995
DNGear/Sedo
20.
Proof.xyz
$3,699
Sedo
There were a
dozen more four-figure sales off the chart led by DNGear's
sales of Undefined.xyz ($3,495), Lynch.xyz
($3,250) and Switchboard.xyz($2,995).
They also sold Tora.xyz for $2,750, Waterfront.xyz
for $2,500 and NightShift.xyz for $1,000.
Back at Sedo,
InfiniteCoin.net notched $2,800, Innovation.team
tallied $2,799, Picked.net posted $2,499
and Pistachio.org cracked $2,053.
GoDaddy
also got into the act with two more .CLUB sales - Performance.club
and Trends.club - at $1,500 each.
Now that you're up to date
on what happened over the past week, check out how the leaders stand
year to date in all categories by visiting our Year
To Date Charts page.
*****
As always, we
welcome all verifiable sales reports from companies, private
sellers or individuals with knowledge of an important sale
made through any channel. To contribute information and help
make this column better, just drop a note to editor@dnjournal.com.
We truly appreciate the industry leading companies who share
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business get a handle on current domain values.
Every other Wednesday
we
publish the highest reported domain name sales reported to
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Editor's Note:
If you wish to review previous Domain Sales columns,
they are available in our Archive.