Market's
Mid-Range Continues to Hum With Top 20 Sales Totaling Over $440,000
For the second week is a row no
six-figure sales were reported but action remained strong in the
market's mid-range. The top 20 sales averaged over $22,000
apiece with the GoDaddyAuctions$64,980 sale of Britt.com setting the pace.
GoDaddyAuctions went on to claim half of the entries our new all extension Top
20 Sales Chart, including 8 of the top 10.
Frank Schilling'sDomainNameSales.com
(DNS) also had a big week with a hand in six chart entries,
including sole possession of the #2 slot with ModernBaby.com
at $55,000. It looks like that domain was purchased as a shortcut
to a popular blog as it now points to ModernHomeModernBaby.com.
DomainNameSales shared two spots with DomainAdvisors.com who used the DNS
platform to sell #3 Giftr.com for $35,000 and #15
(tie) Shopcaster.com for $15,000.
Sedo
also rang up multiple chart entries, taking four places on the
Big Board with a quartet led by the week's biggest ccTLD
sale, #12 Connect.to at $16,500 (.to is the
country code for Tonga). That was the only ccTLD to make the
elite list this time out.
By
Ron Jackson
With the .coms sweeping up 18 of 21 chart positions
(the extra spot resulted from a tie for #20), the non .com gTLD
presence was also limited. The only representatives from that
category are a pair of three-letter .nets, EDX.net and
XOD.net, that tied for #8 at $18,000 each.
GoDaddyAuctions handled both of those sales.
This week's results would have been even
stronger had one of the key players in the aftermarket, The AfternicDLS,
not been sidelined. Today (July 4) is the national Independence
Day holiday in the United States. Rather than trying to
scramble in an already short work week to get their data out, the
AfternicDLS (who typically reports around a million dollars
worth of sales each week) decided to wait until next week when
they will release two weeks worth of data to catch up.
Here is how the sales leaders stacked up for the
week ending Sunday, July 1:
The
DN Journal Top 20
Reported
Domain Sales - Mon. June 25, 2012 - Sun. July 1, 2012 Euro/Pound to Dollar Conversions (€/£ to $) is Based
on Rates in Effect July 4, 2012
Domain
Sold For
Where
Sold
1.
Britt.com
$64,980
GoDaddyAuctions
2.
ModernBaby.com
$55,000
DomainNameSales
3.
Giftr.com
$35,000
DomainAdvisors/
DomainNameSales
4.
EXPCapital.com
$30,000
GoDaddyAuctions
5.
tie
Onboarding.com
$20,000
GoDaddyAuctions
5.
tie
Paysure.com
$20,000
GoDaddyAuctions
7.
SolarPowerSystems.com
$19,474
DomainNameSales
8.
tie
8o.com
$18,000
GoDaddyAuctions
8.
tie
EDX.net
$18,000
GoDaddyAuctions
8.
tie
SherpaPetGroup.com
$18,000
GoDaddyAuctions
8.
tie
XOD.net
$18,000
GoDaddyAuctions
12.
Connect.to
$16,500
Sedo
13.
OutdoorGuide.com
$16,000
GoDaddyAuctions
14.
LOLBlog.com
$15,777
GoDaddyAuctions
15.
tie
Chiropraticien.com
$15,000
DomainNameSales
15.
tie
GolfNevada.com
$15,000
DomainNameSale
15.
tie
Shopcaster.com
$15,000
DomainAdvisors/
DomainNameSales
18.
Vision247.com
$13,000
Sedo
19.
Iles.com
€10,090 = $12,713
Sedo
20.
tie
NuclearBlast.com
$12,000
Sedo
20.
tie
PartisanReview.com
$12,000
DomainNameSales
Keep in mind that these are the highest
value 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.
Forthe many newcomers entering the domain
industry we also want to point out that the reasons why a domain name sells for a certain price can be varied and are not always clear to those who are unfamiliar with the domain market.
If you do not understand why specific domain names command the
prices they do, you are likely to make unwise domain registrations or purchases.
We highly recommend that you do some basic research beforeyou buyanything! As a starting point we have
built a sister site specifically for you at NameNewbie.com.
There were three more five-figure sales just off
the chart with Sedo posting all of those. That trio included Etarde.com
at $10,710, 4Gold.com at $10,080 and ComputerEducation.com
at $10,000.
.Com Supporting Cast
Sedo led the .com supporting cast of
four-figure sales with Messagex.com at $9,500 and RidingClub.com
at $9,450. LNCO.com added $7,140, BVW.com
kicked in $6,500 and two others, Boevo.com and ElectricalRepair.com,
went for $6,000 each.
NextCRM.com sold for $5,000, Cochecitos.com
corralled $4,410 and Takita.com tacked on $4,158.
Sedo had 35 more .com sales ranging from $2,000
to $4,000 that are listed in the table below:
Additional
Sedo .com Sales Between $2,000 - $4,000
gourmetitaly.com
$4,000
cukierski.com
$2,500
mediamash.com
$3,850
naturalvitaminsupplements.com
$2,500
sennheiseraviation.com
$3,780
petol.com
$2,500
wafd.com
$3,750
pocketed.com
$2,500
kirpich.com
$3,528
onfb.com
$2,400
orchardcms.com
$3,528
ferienhausostsee.com
$2,394
e112.com
$3,500
sanica.com
$2,355
bshop.com
$3,200
easyshares.com
$2,250
accordingto.com
$3,150
ibabes.com
$2,250
wonderpots.com
$3,140
newsbeijing.com
$2,250
bacillus.com
$3,000
firstfactory.com
$2,200
justbuyit.com
$3,000
vnote.com
$2,100
pmsd.com
$3,000
cyberpr.com
$2,000
kauplus.com
$2,897
gorockit.com
$2,000
migao.com
$2,583
loans101.com
$2,000
bmodern.com
$2,520
mittelhessen.com
$2,000
kingscard.com
$2,520
stuartgroup.com
$2,000
companynetwork.com
$2,500
Back at DomainNamesSales.com
BainbridgeIslandRealEstate.com returned $9,000, PoliceMugshots.com
captured $7,000, VaporCity.com inhaled $4,000
and InboundCallCenters.com dialed up $3,000.
DomainAdvisors.com also used the DomainNameSales
platform to sell CancunJuice.com for $2,800.
Country Codes
TheccTLDs were led by the category's
lone five-figure sale, Connect.to at $16,500 via Sedo.
You saw that one on the all extension leader board above, so the biggest
country code sale you haven't seen yet is #2 on this week's
Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart - XNXX.tv at $9,799
via Sedo.
Sedo went on to sweep 16 of the 20 chart entries
including the first three with a trio that included #3 Grazia.kr
(Korean ccTLD) at $8,000. DomainLore.co.uk
was one of the few venues to break Sedo's stranglehold on the
leader board. They scored with #4 CRB.co.uk at $7,850
and #15 HomeSearch.co.uk at $3,297.
NetFleet.com.au
also occupied a rung on the ladder with #13 DatingSites.com.au
at $4,532. The only other non Sedo sale was Ronnie
McKenna's $3,250 sale of #16 Loaded.tv in a private
transaction.
Germany's
.de led
the
TLD race with five chart entries. Three other extensions, .tv,
.co.uk and .it, followed with two each. The remaining
nine positions were divided among nine different countries including
America's .us which scored with #6 Attorneys.us at $7,500.
Here is how the ccTLD leaders stacked
up for the week ending Sunday, July 1:
Country
Code Top 20
Highest
Reported ccTLD Sales: Mon. June 25, 2012 - Sun. July
1, 2012 Euro/Pound to Dollar Conversions (€/£ to $) is Based
on Rates in Effect July 4, 2012
There were dozens of additional
four-figure ccTLD sales off the chart with Sedo accounting for all
but six of those with a list that included OnlineDegrees.in
($2,500), Magazine.me ($2,459) and Wandern.co ($2,394).
eDates.co.uk added $2,379, Singles.me connected
for $2,350 and TEM.co.za drew $2,250.
Sedo had 34 more four-figure ccTLD sales ranging
from $1,000 to $2,205
that are listed in the table below:
Additional
Sedo ccTLD Sales Between $1,000 - $2,205
frostfutterversand.de
$2,205
thomi.ch
$1,323
streetparade.at
$2,205
cornhole.co.uk
$1,260
immotipp.de
$2,147
ecoserie.de
$1,260
freehorseracingtips.co.uk
$1,953
gut-einhaus.de
$1,260
cab.me
$1,900
and6.at
$1,259
glück-und-erfolg.de
$1,890
faltu.in
$1,250
rimes.co.uk
$1,890
eurokommunal.at
$1,247
slotmachineonline.it
$1,890
easyferry.co.uk
$1,178
uitvaartdiensten.nl
$1,758
bcn.us
$1,177
jeansland.eu
$1,733
easypark.es
$1,134
kaltefusion.de
$1,701
tethering.nl
$1,133
dreambooks.co.uk
$1,700
thebash.co.uk
$1,099
valeriane.fr
$1,588
tengo.mx
$1,095
lohnabrechnung.eu
$1,575
argon.ch
$1,071
rainbow.us
$1,500
kieferorthopaeden.at
$1,071
einkaufsgemeinschaft.ch
$1,386
baignoireaporte.fr
$1,008
fliesenladen.de
$1,337
vpb.eu
$1,008
Back at NetFleet.com.au Medical.net.au sold
for $1,700, ContentManagementSystem.com.au yielded $1,562
and Caravans.co.nz contributed $1,090.
At DomainLore.co.uk InjuryLaw.co.uk landed $1,221,
WeddingVideography.co.uk attracted $1,082 and Helplines.co.uk
located $1,022.
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.
The $18,000 sales of EDX.net and
XOD.net that you saw on the all extension leader board earlier,
tied for the top spot on our new Non .Com gTLDTop 20 Sales
Chart this week. Another .net, Darlehensrechner.net,
took the #3 spot with a $7,056 sale at Sedo.
The .orgs made their first (and last)
appearance at #4 with AerialPhotography.org at $4,999
via Sedo. The .infos went one better, taking two spots on the
leader board with #5 MWB.info ($2,888) and #9 GreyWater.info
($1,985). The only other non .net sale was #14 Dubai.pro,
sold by Michael Silver for $1,200 in a private
transaction.
The AfternicDLS has always been a leader in non .com
gTLD sales so with their sales (as noted earlier) not available
until next week, we wound up seeing only 14 sales reported in
this category for the past week. That left positions 15 through 20
on the Top 20 Chart vacant.
Here's how all of the Non .Com gTLD leaders stacked up for the
week ending Sunday, July 1:
Non
.Com gTLDs Top 20
Highest Reported Non .Com Global
TLD Sales
(.Net, .Org, .Biz & .Info) Mon. June
25, 2012 - Sun. July 1, 2012 Euro/Pound to Dollar Conversions (€/£ to $) is Based
on Rates in Effect July 4, 2012
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 [email protected].
We truly appreciate the industry leading
companies who share their sales information
with us to help everyone in the business get a handle on current
domain values. Richard
Meyer of Domain Sales Center also provides invaluable help
in collecting data for these sales
reports each week.
Every Wednesday we publish the highest reported domain name
sales for the previous week. On Mondays and Tuesdays our contributors send us
their sales data for the previous 7 days. We then compile that
information and write this article to give
you the most comprehensive sales report in the industry.
Editor's Note: If you wish to review previous Domain
Sales columns, they are available in our Archive.