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Six-Figure Sale of BTI.com Bags Top Spot on This Week's Domain Sales Chart - ccTLDs & Non .Com gTLDs Did Well Too

This was one of those weeks that gave everyone something to cheer about. Yes, the .coms were their usual dominant selves, taking the first four spots on our all extension Top 20 Sales Chart and 12 places overall. However, the ccTLDs also showed up strong, muscling their way into five slots on the honor roll, including two in the top ten. The non .com gTLDs took a few bows on the Big Board too, claiming three positions, including two of their own in the top ten. 

BTI.com set the pace with a $100,000 sale co-brokered by Uniregistry and DomainBooth.com. The name of the latter sales venue may look unfamiliar to you but that is just the new trade number for James Booth, the very successful young broker who has made countless appearances on our charts in recent years. James originally operated from BQDN.com (an acronym for Best Quality Domain Names) before switching to Phenom.com last year. As great a name as that is, the new moniker (that Phenom.com currently forwards too) does allow him to put both his product and his personal name front and center.  

Joe Uddeme at NameExperts.com posted the #2 sale this week, making waves with his $57,500 sale of JetSki.com. A private sale of Fluxon.com at $36,000 filled the #3 hole while Michael Mann's DomainMarket.com rounding out the .com com quartet at the top with Flammen.com at $30,000. That name was purchased by a large restaurant chain of the same name that is based in Denmark. DomainMarket put two more names in the top ten with Cascad.com and PuffBar.com tying for #9 at $20,000 each.

By Ron Jackson

The first non .com in the line up is the Afilias/Afternic sale of #5 Art.pro at $25,999 in a deal that was brokered by Mark Ghoriafi, the Director of Premium Domains at Afilias, in association with the sales team at Afternic. Mark also handled the $20,500 sale of #8 Free.bet. There's an interesting back story on that one. It was bought by Andy Bell, the guy who sold BettingOdds.com for $487,500 last summer. Bell has been a key player in gambling related domains for some time and has started offering some of his inventory (including names not related to the gaming space) on his own sales site at DomainsForSale.co.uk.

Sedo's $24,300 sale of #6 Buchhaltung.de ("accounting" in German) got the ccTLD train rolling and RapidNames.com helped it build it up steam with their $22,500 sale of #7 CoinPay.io. Sedo continued to fuel the fire by putting three more country code sales on the elite list. 

Uniregistry wound up claiming the most chart entries with seven - all .coms except for a nice $10,000 new gTLD sale of #17 (tie) Sugar.baby. Uni's .com roster included a $16,500 sale of #11 Gelal.com they made for Kipa.com's Muhammet Dogan.

 Here's how all of the sales leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, February 16, 2020:  

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The DN Journal Top 20 
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Feb. 10, 2020 - Sun. Feb. 16, 2020
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Feb. 19, 2020)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. BTI.com $100,000 Uniregistry/
DomainBooth
2. JetSki.com $57,500 NameExperts
3. Fluxon.com $36,000 Pvt Sale
4. Flammen.com $30,000 DomainMarket
5. Art.pro $25,999 Afilias/Afternic
6. Buchhaltung.de
("accounting" in German)		 €22,500 = $24,300 Sedo
7. CoinPay.io $22,500 RapidNames
8. Free.bet $20,500 Afilias
9.
tie		 Cascad.com $20,000 DomainMarket
9.
tie		 PuffBar.com $20,000 DomainMarket

11. Gelal.com $16,500 Kipa.com/
Uniregistry
12. Signifikant.com $12,000 Uniregistry
13. TheAdvocates.com $11,500 Uniregistry
14. ShopShowroom.com $11,000 Uniregistry
15. Tiptop.ch €10,000 = $10,800 Sedo
16. SexToyShop.com €9,900 = $10,789 Sedo
17.
tie		 FFBI.cn $10,000 Sedo
17.
tie		 Memories.co $10,000 Sedo
17.
tie		 Purifico.com $10,000 Uniregistry
17.
tie		 Sugar.baby $10,000 Uniregistry

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

The .com supporting cast was led by Sedo's sales of OneBoard.com at $9,500 and CultStatus.com at $9,100. UpFix.com added $6,000, Elagage.com drew $5,670 and BetCheck.com chalked up $5,400. Two others - CVWeb.com and Slinda.com - sold for $5,000 each.

Sedo rang up 19 more sales ranging from $2,160 to $4,995 that are listed in the table below:

Additional Sedo .com Sales Between $2,160 - $4,995
capbay.com $4,995   ceratek.com $3,000
playzo.com $4,995 novarise.com $2,750
displayman.com $4,980 nextchem.com $2,700
coppertoxicity.com $4,500 guanacastehoy.com $2,699
cyber-eye.com $4,500 zoolingo.com $2,650
jumpwireless.com $4,500 neworleansfootball.com $2,500
rulz.com $3,750 flashshare.com $2,488
light-beam.com $3,726 cufx.com $2,434
rhinobrand.com $3,500 rotterdamcentrum.com $2,160
proexpo.com $3,240  

Back at Uniregistry, Ajer.com and Bernette.com booked $8,000 apiece. OnTheTrack.com crossed the finish line at $6,300, CustomLandscapes.com attracted $5,000 and DebtToWealth.com went for $4,500. Two others - Cabrino.com and LuxurySailing.com - landed $4,000 each while CafeBlue.com welcomed $3,750. SportBuff.com spawned $3,560, EconomicsOnline.com clicked for $3,500 and AmericanProvider.com produced $3,000.

Elsewhere, VRLife.com was acquired through GoDaddy for $6,106.

Country Codes

The ccTLDs were, of course, led by the quintet of sales you saw on the all extension leader board above with Sedo's $24,300 sale of Buchhaltung.de ("accounting" in German) setting the pace. The highest sale in the category that you haven't seen yet is #6 on our latest weekly Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart. That is another Sedo sale - OneTrust.it at $8,046.  

Sedo went on sweep 16 of the 20 chart entries. The only other venue with more than one was MagnumDomains where two domains that tied for #8 - Packed.co and QEF.co - sold for $4,980 each.

.IO won a tight extension race with four chart entries. Three other TLDs were just a step back with three. Here is how the top ccTLD sales stacked up for the week ending Sunday, February 16, 2020:

Domain Name Industry Newsletter

Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart
Highest Reported ccTLD Sales - Mon. Feb. 10, 2020 - Sun. Feb. 16, 2020
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Feb. 19, 2020)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Buchhaltung.de
("accounting" in German)		 €22,500 = $24,300 Sedo
2. CoinPay.io $22,500 RapidNames
3. Tiptop.ch €10,000 = $10,800 Sedo
4.
tie		 FFBI.cn $10,000 Sedo
4.
tie		 Memories.co $10,000 Sedo
6. OneTrust.it €7,450 = $8,046 Sedo
7. FlashScore.cn $5,999 Sedo
8.
tie		 Packed.co $4,980 MagnumDomains
8.
tie		 QEF.co $4,980 MagnumDomains
10. Needs.ch €3,800 = $4,104 Sedo

11. BDG.io $3,899 Sedo
12. Think-Tank.de €3,570 = $3,856 Sedo
13. Weird.io $3,555 Sedo
14. MPI.at €3,099 = $3,347 Sedo
15.
tie		 Refund.cn $3,300 Uniregistry
15.
tie		 Trackz.de $3,300 Sedo
17. Clarify.uk £2,500 = $3,250 Sedo
18. Opera.it €3,000 = $3,240 Sedo
19. Step.io $3,000 Sedo
20. BetCheck.pt €2,750 = $2,970 Sedo

CLICK HERE for our Year-To-Date Charts.

Domain Name Industry Newsletter

There were seven more four-figure ccTLD sales off the chart, led by five at Sedo. Ona.com.au yielded $2,750, Cup.co captured $2,608 and Rep.co returned $2,600. Zou.fr added $2,581 and Aldebaran.fr brought $2,160.

DomainLore.uk posted the other two, picking up $1,625 for Watford.uk and $1,008 for Aintree.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 led by that trio of five-figure sales you saw on the all extension leader board above with Art.pro leading the pack at $25,999. The biggest sale from this group that you haven't seen yet is #4 on out latest weekly Non .Com gTLD Top 20 Sales Chart. That is a $7,000 sale of Med.club that was made through GoDaddy.

You will notice a new data contributor, Afilias, all over the leader board this week. As many of you know, Afilias is the world’s second largest Internet domain name registry, with more than 20 million names under management. Afilias also provides the infrastructure that the powers at least two dozen of the web's top-level domains. The company's Director of Premium Domains, Mark Ghoriafi, provided us with a list of the top Afilias sales made since the start of 2020 and a dozen of those landed on this week's Top 20, including #5 C.black, a domain Mark brokered himself for $5,000. Afilias had especially good luck with .bet, putting seven two-letter .bet domains on the leader board. Going forward Mark plans to update us on the top Afilias sales weekly, a welcome new window that will give us a good deal more insight into the non .com gTLD category.

Here is how the non .com gTLD sales stacked up for the week ending ending Sunday, February 16, 2020:

Non .Com gTLD Top 20 Sales Chart
Highest Reported Non .Com gTLD Sales - Mon. Feb. 10, 2020 - Sun. Feb. 16, 2020
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Feb. 19, 2020)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Art.pro $25,999 Afilias/Afternic
2. Free.bet $20,500 Afilias
3. Sugar.baby $10,000 Uniregistry
4. Med.club $7,000 GoDaddy
5. C.black $5,000 Afilias
6. Computers.biz $4,875 Sedo
7. 4S.net $3,433 Sedo
8.
tie		 FH.bet $3,250 Afilias
8.
tie		 ITS.llc $3,250 Afilias
8.
tie		 MI.bet $3,250 Afilias
8.
tie		 TK.bet $3,250 Afilias
8.
tie		 UC.bet $3,250 Afilias
8.
tie		 WM.bet $3,250 Afilias
8.
tie		 WN.bet $3,250 Afilias
15. CoinCollecting.org $3,000 Uniregistry
16. Accord.tech $2,999 Sedo
17. IP.bet $2,900 Afilias
18. Hos.tel €2,500 = $2,700 Sedo
19. Streamingdienste.net €2,000 = $2,160 Sedo
20. Pic.llc $2,100 Afilias

There were six more four-figure sales off the chart led by the $2,000 sale of Lab.club through Google's registrar. Afilias accounted for the other five, banking $1,950 for 4U.green, $1,625 for CSM.llc, $1,500 for BX.blue, $1,300 for Scott.kim and $1,000 for Bookies.bet.

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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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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