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Kate Buckley Bags Another Big Sale - One of Two Six-Figure Transactions That Top Our Latest Leader Board

Editor's Note: The first paragraph below includes an updated release time for the next sales column. I originally planned to do one Friday (Jan. 13) and another Wednesday (Jan. 18). Instead we will combine those into a single double-length column for Wednesday which is our usual release day. 

I hope you all had a great holiday season! This is our first time together since before Christmas as the last sales column was on Dec. 21. There was no report Dec. 28 because the offices of many of our sales data suppliers were closed through New Year's Day and none January 4 because my wife and I were away on a holiday cruise. So, with some catching up to do, I will start this double length report that will close out the 2016 sales season. Then I will come back with another double length report next week to be released Wednesday evening (January 18) that will cover the first two weeks of 2017. 

The biggest kudos this week go to Kate Buckley of Buckley Media Group (BMG) for closing a chart topping $300,000 sale of Advance.com to Advance Publications, Inc., a privately held American media company that counts Condé Nast among its holdings. You might recall that last spring Kate sold Rate.com for the Castello Brothers for $725,000, so she now has two of the 20 biggest sales reported in the past year (you can see our final 2016 Top 100 Chart here).

By Ron Jackson

Kate Buckley

 Kate, who is BMG's Principal/Founder, said, “It was clear to me from the beginning that Advance.com was the perfect domain name for Advance Publications. I believe it is essential for a company to own the name that consumers will intuitively associate with their brand.”

The Advance.com sale wasn't the only news Kate had for us. She also revealed that she brokered the October 2013 sale of LagunaBeach.com to a Southern California-based media company for $600,000. That deal was under an NDA but both buyers and sellers  agreed to lift the non-disclosure agreement (that will allow us to retroactively add the sale to our 2013 Top 100 Chart where it will rank among that year's  top 10 sales). Buckley sold the domain for the Castello Brothers along with a marketing blueprint and business plan she created. The Buckley Media Group then consulted on the implementation of that strategy post-sale.

Back to the present, Sedo rang up another six-figure sale, banking $133,000 for TCP.com to take the runner-up spot on our all extension Top 20 Sales Chart. They filled two of the next three slots as well with #3 Cave.com at $61,450 and #5 T4.com at $44,000. Sandwiched in between was a $50,000 private sale of #4 RFG.com. 

Sedo went on to pile up nine chart entries overall while NameJet claimed six, including #6 eLuxury.com at $35,200. Here is how all of the sales leaders stacked up for the two weeks ending Sunday, January 1, 2017.

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The DN Journal Top 20 
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Dec. 19, 2016-Sun. Jan. 1, 2017
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Jan. 11, 2017)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Advance.com $300,000 Buckley Media Group
2. TCP.com $133,000 Sedo
3. Cave.com $61,450 Sedo
4. RFG.com $50,000 Pvt Sale
5. T4.com $44,000 Sedo
6. eLuxury.com $35,200 NameJet
7. HEH.com $33,200 NameJet
8. Barron.com $29,000 Uniregistry Market
9. KMA.com $27,000 BQDN.com
10. DGH.net $24,000 Sedo

11. Zoom.ca $22,100 N49 Interactive
12.
tie		 Datatrans.com $20,000 Sedo
12.
tie		 PRTimes.com $20,000 Sedo
14. Drove.com $18,500 Sedo
15.
tie		 OMQ.com $18,000 NameJet
15.
tie		 UUQ.com $18,000 NameJet
17.
tie		 121.net $15,100 NameJet
17.
tie		 PZV.com $15,100 NameJet
19.
tie		 CAMC.com $15,000 Sedo
19.
tie		 NUCU.com $15,000 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.

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

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 (2003 to Now)

There were 11 more five-figure sales off the chart led by Sedo's $14,500 sale of OpticsNation.com. They added $12,931 for F.gg, $11,130 for InfoSea.com and $10,022 from Klarstein.es. Two others - GoldenGoal.com and Porneia.com - commanded $10,000 apiece. 

NameJet landed $14,188 for Lobi.com while HuskyHealth.com hauled in $12,900, Tryp.com produced $12,600 and 626666.com sold for $12,445.

In another sale at this level N49 Interactive moved Industry.ca for $10,000.

.Com Supporting Cast

Sedo led the .com supporting cast of four figure sales with a trio of names - SmileCar.com at $9,700, MiguelVieira.com at $9,000 and InfinixAthourity.com at $8,550. Ridgeback.com added $7,500, SuccessResources.com returned $6,500 and FindFreedom.com fetched $6,250.

Ficster.com and ShiftShop.com clicked for $6,000 each and V2com.com corralled $5,194. Sedo had 55 more four-figure sales from $2,000 to $5,000 that are listed in the table below:

Additional Sedo .com Sales Between $2,000 - $5,000
cab24.com $5,000   intuitivearrow.com $2,800
fundplace.com $5,000 ch123.com $2,799
georgeroberts.com $5,000 taledo.com $2,750
lambinsurance.com $5,000 joyment.com $2,700
teledentist.com $5,000 debble.com $2,699
walyd.com $5,000 juniperhouse.com $2,600
psventures.com $4,900 skyflower.com $2,600
masking.com $4,850 brandserve.com $2,500
beroy.com $4,200 erkado.com $2,500
froggo.com $4,134 fashionvillage.com $2,500
uni-assist.com $4,134 renamed.com $2,500
convol.com $3,800 x-direct.com $2,500
mestore.com $3,800 opencoding.com $2,495
ascentsystems.com $3,650 tripgame.com $2,400
botty.com $3,500 apego.com $2,332
peshawar.com $3,500 zhoufu.com $2,200
robotchina.com $3,500 jr6.com $2,132
trueaccess.com $3,490 biofutura.com $2,120
iquality.com $3,445 dmaker.com $2,120
sulforaphane.com $3,388 payandgo.com $2,120
innovotech.com $3,300 0oo0.com $2,000
getmot.com $3,000 discover-the-world.com $2,000
nakedsearch.com $3,000 nowin.com $2,000
hotelonline.com $2,999 pañal.com $2,000
cannock.com $2,880 pandaa.com $2,000
fanss.com $2,850 perfumefree.com $2,000
venacabo.com $2,850 safewatch.com $2,000
comacchio.com $2,800  

Back at NameJet Brutus.com brought $8,350, Xiaxue.com captured $8,211 and WebCash.com collected $7,300. Kalos.com kicked in $5,011, MDRN.com drew $4,604, EdgeLogistics.com landed $4,447 and Tendinitis.com tacked on $4,200.

NameJet had 67 more four-figure sales ranging from $2,000 to $4,000 that are listed in the table below: 

Additional NameJet .com Sales Between $2,000 - $4,000
23t.com $4,000   onlinepos.com $2,322
u777.com $3,933 ttlt.com $2,310
communityservice.com $3,756 hhh53.com $2,308
100hot.com $3,733 alkon.com $2,235
aape.com $3,709 31500.com $2,211
campingsupply.com $3,701 qc6.com $2,211
smartchef.com $3,522 v94.com $2,211
er8.com $3,520 bonavita.com $2,200
smartlight.com $3,500 smartek.com $2,156
9wy.com $3,210 processautomation.com $2,112
90b.com $3,200 25800.com $2,110
unsure.com $3,100 cecy.com $2,100
scsm.com $2,966 fxworld.com $2,100
mytherapy.com $2,900 gearworks.com $2,100
j777.com $2,888 67881.com $2,098
newchoice.com $2,820 tcrz.com $2,082
60j.com $2,810 73135.com $2,050
tinytoes.com $2,801 12563.com $2,040
executivegroup.com $2,800 58213.com $2,021
theswancorp.com $2,773 97527.com $2,014
softage.com $2,633 67137.com $2,011
crbank.com $2,609 boogaloo.com $2,011
aiptek.com $2,600 51632.com $2,010
dizzcloud.com $2,600 locatemydroid.com $2,007
ghad.com $2,600 92397.com $2,002
79785.com $2,551 21686.com $2,000
27335.com $2,500 26386.com $2,000
60q.com $2,500 36265.com $2,000
bdcp.com $2,500 59715.com $2,000
bedandbreakfastcenter.com $2,500 capitulos.com $2,000
netbot.com $2,499 dwnd.com $2,000
vixel.com $2,455 fs-security.com $2,000
pensioner.com $2,380 gumm.com $2,000
   kgnl.com $2,000

NameJet also teamed up with SnapNames to sell Sesese.com for $7,010. SnapNames also sold 99AA.com at $3,100 and Iraqi.com at $2,417.

Elsewhere, PECA.com went for $7,000 in a private transaction.

Country Codes

Rick Silver's N49 Interactive took the top spot (and four places overall) on our latest Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart. N49 scored with #1 Zoom.ca at $22,100 and #4 Industry.ca at $10,000 before putting two more Canadian domains on the second half of the leader board. 

Sedo still wound up with the lion's share of the chart as they almost always do in this category. Their 14 chart entries included #2 F.gg at $12,931 and #3 Klarstein.es at $10,022. 

Canada's .ca won the extension race with four chart entries followed by Germany's .de with three. Here is how the country code leaders stacked up for the two weeks ending Sunday, January 1, 2017:

Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Dec. 19, 2016- Sun. Jan. 1, 2017
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Jan. 11, 2017)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Zoom.ca $22,100 N49 Interactive
2. F.gg £10,599 = $12,931 Sedo
3. Klarstein.es €9,455 = $10,022 Sedo
4. Industry.ca $10,000 N49 Interactive
5. SmallBusinessLoans.co $9,999 Sedo
6. OnlineBox.de €7,140 = $7,568 Sedo
7. We.fi €5,400 = $5,724 Sedo
8. Shopify.jp $4,500 Sedo
9. My-Home.de €4,165 = $4,415 Sedo
10. Mitsegeln.ch €4,100 = $4,346 Sedo

11. Carta.eu €3,999 = $4,239 Golem.eu
12.
tie		 Lifestyles.ca $4,050 N49 Interactive
12.
tie		 Waterproofers.ca $4,050 N49 Interactive
14. CSOD.nl $3,500 Sedo
15. Vuelo.es €3,200 = $3,392 Sedo
16. Doha.tv $2,980 NameJet
17. WebCRM.it €2,500 = $2,650 Sedo
18. Koo.co $2,495 Sedo
19. VisitSweden.nl €2,150 = $2,279 Sedo
20. TUP.de €2,125 = $2,253 Sedo

CLICK HERE for our Year-To-Date Charts.

There were six more four-figure sales off the chart, led by Sedo's sales of CTO.nl and K7.se at $2,120 each. Three others - Minitools.cn, Terrenos.com.mx and Wonly.cn - went for $2,000 apiece.

Elsewhere, Golem.eu sold SmartHost.eu for $1,059.

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 were led by the two five-figure sales you saw on the all extension leader board at the top of this list with Sedo setting the pace with DGH.net at $24,000. NameJet followed with a nice $15,100 sale 121.net.

All 20 entries on our latest Non .com gTLD Top 20 Chart went to one of those two venues. Sedo put two more in the top five with #3 HTTPS.net at $9,999 and #5 ILG.org at $8,000 and NameJet had another with #4 WZ.org at $9,200. 

NameJet got in a roll and wound up sweeping 14 chart entries overall including #6 CyberSecurity.net at $4,701. Here is how the non .com gTLD sales stacked up for the two weeks ending Sunday, January 1, 2017.

Non .Com gTLDs Top 20 Sales Chart
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Dec. 19, 2016 - Sun. Jan. 1, 2017
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Jan. 11, 2017)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. DGH.net $24,000 Sedo
2. 121.net $15,100 NameJet
3. HTTPS.net $9,999 Sedo
4. WZ.org $9,200 NameJet
5. ILG.org $8,000 Sedo
6. CyberSecurity.net $4,701 NameJet
7. Legs.net $3,499 NameJet
8. Bauunternehmen.net €2,900 = $3,074 Sedo
9. Slovenia.net $3,002 NameJet
10. Print.city $3,000 Sedo

11. WMFF.org $2,999 Sedo
12.
tie		 HZD.net $2,900 NameJet
12.
tie		 STB.net $2,900 NameJet
14. Puppy.net $2,800 NameJet
15. Gene-Watch.org $2,700 NameJet
16. WCY.net $2,611 NameJet
17. YPB.net $2,610 NameJet
18. NAVH.org $2,599 NameJet
19. NZG.net $2,550 NameJet
20. QSF.net $2,523 NameJet

CLICK HERE for our Year-To-Date Charts.

 

There were many more four-figure sales off the chart led by more of those 3-letter .nets at NameJet including DWJ.net at $2,519. NameJet had 20 more sales ranging from $2,000 to $2,511 that are listed in the table below: 

Additional NameJet Non .com gTLD Sales Between $2,000 - $2,511
hky.net $2,511   xuexi.org $2,410
qxr.net $2,510 wdy.net $2,402
zhg.net $2,510 gsq.net $2,400
pxs.net $2,508 jmx.net $2,390
zbn.net $2,502 elderabusecenter.org $2,330
lkx.net $2,500 ourworldisnotforsale.org $2,115
qgh.net $2,500 blackwomenshealth.org $2,100
nqg.net $2,450 gcrio.org $2,100
nnq.net $2,430 saexplorers.org $2,010
xpm.net $2,411 glp.net $2,000

Back at Sedo, BrainCenter.org and Flexport.org sold for $2,500 each while Blacklist.net brought $2,100 and Dorya.net drew $2,000.

Elsewhere, SnapNames picked up $1,119 for Remont.pro.

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. 

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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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