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Two-Letter .Com Sells for Over $3.7 Million in the Year's Highest Reported Sale to Date

With just one month left in the 2016 sales season we have a new king of the hill. In the biggest domain sale reported so far this year,  Chinese wine company WanJiaHuanGou laid out CNY ¥26,000,000 ($3,770,000) to acquire HG.com  in a private transaction. The sale easily eclipsed previous leader Vivo.com, a name that just took the top spot three weeks ago with a $2.1 million sale. HG.com also takes a spot on our All-Time Top 20 Domain Sales chart as the 12th biggest sale reported since we started tracking and verifying aftermarket sales in 2003. 

HG.com (which stands for HuanGou) currently redirects to the company's website at WJHGW.com. Obviously HG.com gives the firm a massive step up from the unwieldy 5-letter acronym that has been their online home. 

While no other sale came close to HG.com on our latest weekly all extension Top 20 Sales Chart, the runner up was still noteworthy. Undeveloped.com sold new gTLD Auto.loan for $45,000, claiming the #2 slot with a perfect keyword-extension match.  A pair of .coms followed with Sedo selling #3 Sanwa.com for $31,500 and Flippa moving #4 SMSMarketing.com for $20,000.

By Ron Jackson

The ccTLDs made their first appearance at #5 where another Undeveloped.com sale - Telefoonhoesjes.be ("phone cases" in Dutch) tied Sedo's sale of PrimoTV.com at $18,000 each. The country codes went on to pile up eight chart entries overall, six of those coming from Sedo's recent auctions of ultra-short Austrian .AT domains, including three one-letter domains that reached the top half of the elite list. Sedo also sold #19 New.us for $8,400.

The non .com gTLDs were limited to two entries - both new gTLDs. #18 Laptop.review joined Auto.loan on the Big Board with an $8,500 sale at Undeveloped.com.  

The .coms swept everything else including SnapNames.com's timely sale of #7 Fidel.com at $17,000. Here is how all of the sales leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, November 27, 2016:

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The DN Journal Top 20 
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Nov. 21, 2016 - Sun. Nov. 27, 2016
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect November 30, 2016)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. HG.com CNY ¥26,000,000 = $3,770,000 Pvt Sale
2. Auto.loan $45,000 Undeveloped
3. Sanwa.com $31,500 Sedo
4. SMSMarketing.com $20,000 Flippa
5.
tie		 PrimoTV.com $18,000 Sedo
5.
tie		 Telefoonhoesjes.be
("phone cases" in Dutch)		 $18,000 Undeveloped
7. Fidel.com $16,000 SnapNames
8. MrLawyer.com $14,000 Sedo
9. B.at €11,100 = $11,766 Sedo
10.
tie		 D.at €10,100 = $10,706 Sedo
10.
tie		 I.at €10,100 = $10,706 Sedo

12. Ep.at €10,099 = $10,705 Sedo
13. VitalShop.com €10,000 = $10,600 Sedo
14. Casinosolverde.com €9,250 = $9,805 Sedo
15.
tie		 24.at €8,408 = $8,912 Sedo
15.
tie		 Ag.at €8,200 = $8,692 Sedo
17. Millu.com $8,503 Sedo
18. Laptop.review $8,500 Undeveloped
19. New.us $8,400 Sedo
20.
tie		 Digital-Bank.com $8,000 Sedo
20.
tie		 Nutriseed.com $8,000 Undeveloped
20.
tie		 Thinkers.com $8,000 Flippa

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.

CLICK HERE for our Year-To-Date Top Sales Charts

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The All-Time Top 20 All-Cash Domain Sales Reported By DNJournal.com
 (2003 to Now)

.Com Supporting Cast

SnapNames led the .com supporting cast of four figure sales with 596666.com at $6,256. Renrenjia.com added $4,000 and 29295.com fetched $3,200. Zhuanrong.com commanded $2,710, Linzhen.com landed $2,026 and Geometra.com made $2,003. 

Back at Sedo, CarsMiddleEast.com drew $5,989, DestinyCapital.com dispensed $5,200 and Klicktipp.com claimed $5,088. Sedo had 28 more four-figure sales ranging from $2,000 to $5,000 that are listed in the table below:

Additional Sedo .com Sales Between $2,000 - $5,000
enabletravel.com $5,000   pgtwindows.com $3,000
fstfwd.com $5,000 bodiflex.com $2,800
loterías.com $4,980 woodura.com $2,800
neoplan.com $4,900 oneres.com $2,750
laserlok.com $4,888 balleh.com $2,500
netent-casino.com $4,880 sporarena.com $2,500
liferobotics.com $3,888 vinetech.com $2,499
cofoundersfund.com $3,710 makla.com $2,488
trashtag.com $3,500 sensoryreality.com $2,332
areyoureal.com $3,020 seum.com $2,120
jaywilliams.com $3,010 gerua.com $2,000
aiyoumi.com $3,000 mdfgroup.com $2,000
arrowfilms.com $3,000 ozai.com $2,000
itechnician.com $3,000 xrec.com $2,000

Elsewhere, Tod Caton sold KimberleyAccommodations.com for $2,850 while Flippa found buyers for Mutually.com ($5,000), Decrypted.com ($4,900) and AirplaneMode.com ($4,500). 

Country Codes

The ccTLDs were led by the eight sales you saw on the all extension leader board above with Belgian domain Telefoonhoesjes.be leading the pack at $18,000. The highest sales in this category that you haven't seen yet is #9 on our latest Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart. That is Sedo's sale of Me.at at $7,955. They rounded out the top ten with another Austrian domain, this one an IDN - ö.at - at $7,844.

Sedo went on to sweep 16 of the 20 chart entries including a dozen spots that went to names they sold in their November .AT auctions. Here is how the country code leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, November 27, 2016:

Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Nov. 21, 2016 - Sun. Nov. 27, 2016
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect November 30, 2016)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Telefoonhoesjes.be
("phone cases" in Dutch)		 $18,000 Undeveloped
2. B.at €11,100 = $11,766 Sedo
3.
tie		 D.at €10,100 = $10,706 Sedo
3.
tie		 I.at €10,100 = $10,706 Sedo
5. Ep.at €10,099 = $10,705 Sedo
6. 24.at €8,408 = $8,912 Sedo
7. AG.at €8,200 = $8,692 Sedo
8. New.us $8,400 Sedo
9. Me.at €7,505 = $7,955 Sedo
10. ö.at (IDN) €7,400 = $7,844 Sedo

11. Casadiriposo.it €7,000 = $7,420 Sedo
12. QR.at €6,600 = $6,996 Sedo
13. Famille.ch €6,500 = $6,890 Sedo
14. Croupier.co.uk £5,000 = $6,250 Sedo
15. MH.at €5,300 = $5,618 Sedo
16. Pr.at €5,150 = $5,459 Sedo
17. Iv.at €5,101 = $5,407 Sedo
18. Hotelkamer.nl €5,000 = $5,300 Catawiki
19. EasyTravel.eu €4,999 = $5,299 Golem.eu
20. Forestry.co.uk £3,700 = $4,625 DomainLore.co.uk

CLICK HERE for our Year-To-Date Charts.

There were dozens of additional four-figure sales off the chart led by Sedo's $4,240 sale of OnlineCasino.com.ng. Leads24.de delivered another $4,239 and Blockchain.at chalked up $3,710.

Sedo had 30 more ccTLD sales ranging from $1,560 to $3,558 that are listed in the chart below:

Additional Sedo ccTLD Sales Between $1,560 - $3,558
ja.at $3,558   skinstore.com.au $2,650
pc.at $3,498 xxl-sport.at $2,650
bg.at $3,410 band.la $2,500
0.at $3,339 ps.at $2,493
pb.at $3,286 dr.at $2,492
voorverkoop.nl $3,074 km.at $2,386
is.at $3,068 kw.at $2,280
spencer.co $3,000 jm.at $2,279
fx.at $2,969 ms.at $2,173
oö.at $2,969 ok.at $2,173
bh.at $2,862 tulip.me $2,150
zentrale.ch $2,862 öl.at $2,121
pv.at $2,692 anginas.es $2,120
creditoitalia.it $2,650 primetime.me $2,000
hochzeitsanstecker.at $2,650 856.tv $1,560

At Golem.eu, Crypto.eu yielded $4,239, Croco.eu cracked $3,179 and Wendt.eu went for $1,590. Elsewhere, SnapNames sold 856.tv for $1,560 and Catiwiki.com moved Paardenverzekering.nl for $1,484. DNPric.es sold three others - MyCard.me for $1,100 plus Condifenti.al and Superb.ly at $1,000 apiece.

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, .biz, .info & others, including new gTLDs)

The non .com gTLDs still seem to be running on fumes. Only four sales were reported for this entire category and that comes on the heels of two consecutive weeks with only eight reported sales per week. In all, 20 sales in three weeks - barely enough to fill one Top 20 chart. 

On the plus side, the group did yield the week's 2nd biggest sale in Auto.loan at $45,000. We also should see a bump up in the number of sales next week when NameJet will likely release all of their November sales. Another damper on the past week was the fact that it was cut very short, business wise, by the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S. Many had only a 3-day work week as a result.

Here is how the non .com gTLD sales stacked up for the week ending Sunday, Nov. 27, 2016:

Non .Com gTLDs Top Sales Chart
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Nov. 21, 2016 - Sun. Nov. 27, 2016
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect November 30, 2016)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Auto.loan $45,000 Undeveloped
2. Laptop.review $8,500 Undeveloped
3. HelpDesk.org $3,000 Flippa
4. EFG.net $1,505 SnapNames

CLICK HERE for our Year-To-Date Charts.

 

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. 

Domain Name Industry Newsletter

 

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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. 

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.

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