Christmas Comes Early for the Domain Business With a Half-Dozen 6-Figure Sales Topping This Week's Chart

Christmas came early for the domain aftermarket this week as sellers rang up a half dozen six-figure sales, led by the year's biggest ccTLD sale - Jobs.ca at $450,000 in a deal brokered by Sedo's Dave Evanson. 

There was one downside to that transaction as seller Shaun  Pilfold originally paid $600,000 for the domain in 2008. Shaun went on to build a very nicely developed site on the domain, so he likely recouped at least some (if not all) of the price differential in revenue generated by the site over the past five years. Pilfold sold the domain only, not the content and he has already announced plans to launch a new jobs-related site at TorontoJobs.com in late February (he has several other solid "jobs" domains in his portfolio that can serve as homes for the content he has already developed).

By Ron Jackson

A trio of this week's six-figure sales came from Heritage Auctions who closed the first round of sales from their first ever domain auction three weeks ago. That gave them the next three spots on this week's all extension Top 20 Sales Chart - #2 QR.com at $230,000, #3 XZ.com at $138,000 and #4 Animation.com at $112,125. HA went on to pile up seven chart entries overall, tying Sedo for the most charted sales. They also would have had the top spot on this week's chart if their sale of MutualFunds.com had not been subject to a non disclosure agreement.

Sedo's roster included a pair of domains that tied for the #5 spot - Musique.com and Pizza.nl at $103,500 apiece. Pizza.nl was one of four country codes domains taking places on t he Big Board and three of those (including NameJet's $67,611 sale of #8 5.co.uk) rank among the year's ten biggest ccTLD sales.

While the country codes had a banner week, the non .com gTLDs were not as fortunate. That group not only had no chart entries, it had no reported sales that reached even five figures. 

With no opposition from their non .com gTLD counterparts, the .coms were able to sweep 16 of the 20 chart entries including #7 Symbols.com at $85,000. Yigal Ben Efraim told me his company bought the domain in a private transaction to serve as the foundation for a new symbols dictionary website that will tie together 11 other reference related websites they own.

 Here is how all of the sales leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, Dec. 15:

There were 18 more five-figure sales off the chart led by a pair of $15,000 sales at Go Daddy/Afternic - one for HeadsUpDisplay.com and the other for Remotely.com. They also sold Fiaba.com and SimplySpotless.com for $14,000 each. LoanPal.com posted $12,000, NaturalMarket.com notched $11,350 and two others, MutualFundDatabase.com and TourismBermuda.com, brought $10,000 apiece. 

At Sedo PokerTalk.com dealt out $13,800, JumpCut.com clipped $11,500 and TopForex.com fetched $11,000. HeartProject.com provided $10,725, PH-D.com drew $10,500 and CloudApp.com clicked for $10,100. Three others - CrimeToday.com, ExitPlan.com and GolfApparel.com - chipped in $10,000 each.

Heritage Auctions also had another one in this range - DoctorateDegree.com at $11,500. 

.Com Supporting Cast

Sedo led the .com supporting cast of four-figure sales with Moos.com at $9,995. They added $8,500 for BetBit.com, $8,280 for CursosOnline.com and $8,049 for PingMe.com. Casino-E.com cashed out at $8,000, Comparoptic.com spotted $7,900 and Cosmethics.com covered $7,590.

PowerCare.com produced $7,000, Vozip.com drew $6,900, TerminalBlock.com booked $6,700 and Zido.com delivered $6,210. Sedo had 30 more four-figure .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $5,999 that are listed in the table below:

At Go Daddy/Afternic, iFollow.com fetched $9,700, ClickMD.com dispensed $9,500 and Intrinsic.com captured $9,000. Rugula.com returned $8,900, LEDPro.com lit up $8,500 and FStore.com stocked $8,024.

LookAtMyBaby.com attracted $8,000, BestBlenders.com mxied up $7,500 and  two others - DXS.com and GunsAndButter.com corralled $6,500 each. Knifeman.com sliced off another $6,500 and SportsBreak.com spawned $6,476.

Go Daddy/Afternic had 97 more four-figure .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $5,000 that are listed in the table below:

Back at Heritage Auctions DupontCircle.com sold for $8,050. GIU.com generated $7,475 and SellShort.com secured $6,900. SmartTVs.com tuned in $6,325, FFQ.com commanded $5,750, PHQ.com cornered $5,175 and OJX.com clicked for $4,126.

Elsewhere, Flippa.com rang up $8,950 for QRP.com. 

Country Codes

There were several additional four-figure sales off the chart led by Flippa's $1,555 sale of Heaven.info. They also moved Addicted.info ($1,250) and Convert.info ($1,000).

At Go Daddy/Afternic the hit list included VBNet.org ($1,500), HCAOA.org ($1,380) and TeamLab.org ($1,250). 51ise.info added $1,225, WomensHealthSite.net secured $1,199 and AmericanMom.net earned $1,188. AmericanMom.org and CSGC.org generated $1,088 each while Tahrir.net notched $1,001 and WhiteHeart.org gained $1,000. 

At Sedo Mitfahrzentrale.org drew $1,380, ElectroCar.net plugged in $1,299 and EarnMoneyOnline.org banked $1,100. AFSD.org, DotSoft.net and GlobalCounsel.net delivered $1,000 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.