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This past week was spring break for many schools and colleges around the U.S. Looks like domain buyers decided it was a good time to take a bit of a breather too! There were no sales that were strong enough to crack our Year-To-Date leader board but we did have a pair of five-figure deals reported. Those head our new weekly Top Ten, followed by eight domains in a tight pack ranging from $5,400-$6,950. |
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Sedo.com took the next three positions on the big board with MyHeritage.com leading the way at an even $10,000. It was followed by a pair of .de (German country code) domains that tied for third at $6,947 each. Those were PC24.de and Fuerteventura.de (one of the most popular of the Canary Islands). This week's chart features three .de's and a .ch (country code for Switzerland) with Big Daddy .com taking the other six slots. Here are all of the top reported sales for the week ending Sunday, March 28:
Moniker.com/DomainSystems.com claimed positions #5 and #7 with TheLocal.com at $6,650 and MusiciansInsurance.com at $6,055. CEO Monte Cahn told us his venue also had a $15,400 sale but the parties involved requested that the domain name not be revealed. He was able to report a couple that just missed making the Top Ten, TheScubaShop.com at $5,440 and FetalCareCenter.com at $4,650 Seller Adam Maysonet slipped into the #6 slot by wrapping up a $6,500 direct sale of ExpiredDomains.com to DomainsBot.com. Rounding out the Top Ten, a $5,500 Perch.com was caught swimming in a Pool auction. That tasty treat was sandwiched between two more slices of Sedo bread, Fremdw�rter.de at $5,850 and Fuehrerschein.ch at $5,484. Fuehrerschein.ch gives the Swiss country code a rare appearance on our chart. Sedo has several other winners this past week. Suborbital.com splashed down with $5,000 on board. That was followed by another run of high dollar .de's: TintenCenter.de ("ink center") at �4,060 ($4,948), G�stebuch.de ("guestbook) at �4,060 ($4,948) and Waehrungen.de ("currencies") at �4,060 ($4,948). Sedo also attracted $3,995 for iDocuments.com. LuxuryVacation.com lounged at Pool after collecting $5,310. The auction venue also got $4,100 for FarmAuction.com, $3,600 for FileServer.com and $3,556 for DogBone.com. In shallower water, A-V.com and GameRanking.com each went for $1,250. It looks like big sales will be back in vogue next week and Pool will play a big role in those as you will see in the Pipeline below. At Afternic.com, LifeDesign.com was the week's best seller at $2,500, followed closely by IndiaGirl.com at $2,000. AllIAm.com also fetched $1,900 and GayAsians.com went for $1,380. In the Pipeline: It looks like high ticket items will be back in style next week if some deals currently in the works are completed. As we write this on March 30, just a few hours ago an auction for VNShop.com ended at Pool with a high bid of $51,000! As there is no apparent traffic for that domain (zero in Overture with the extension and without) we won't hold our breath waiting for that one to be paid for. We will keep an eye on the WhoIs record though and will let you know if the bidder ponies up the dough to get it transferred from the auction venue. In another stunner at Pool, one day into the three days of bidding for BlogHosting.com (as of March 30) the price had already shot to $26,000. We'll let you know where that lands next week. The buyer of this week's #1 domain, Chris Chena, has two more five-figure purchases in the works. Fotos.com ("photos" in many European languages) is in escrow at �30,000 ($36,536) and Hormones.com is going through the same process after the seller agreed to let it go for $20,000. It takes $25,000 just to make our Year-To-Date leader board, so there were no new members in the 21 Club this week. Here are all of the biggest reported sales so far in 2004:
With prices softer in the old extensions, it is no surprise that the same holds true on the new extension side of the ledger. In fact last week's leader, HMS.info (at $10,492) went for more than all five of this week's New TLD leaders combined. It is interesting that the HMS acronym appears again this week, but this time in the .biz flavor. There is quite a price differential, with the .biz going for over $10,000 less at a Pool auction that closed at $215. Odds are pretty good the buyer was a speculator betting the .info buyer might take a shine to the .biz as well. That may or may not happen, but at $215 we don't see how they can lose in the long run with that acronym. HMS.biz at #5, prevented .info from making another clean sweep of our new extension list. With Livingstone.info leading the way, here are the Top Five reported sales for the week ending Sunday, March 28:
As was the case with our main listings, there were no new extension sales this week that were strong enough to challenge for a spot on our Year-To-Date leader's list. With the first quarter of 2004 now out of the way, here are the best reported sales from the New TLD's:
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]. People like Richard Meyer provide invaluable help by sending us data for these sales reports each week. Every Tuesday we publish the highest reported domain name sales for the previous week. On Monday our contributors send us their sales data for the previous 7 days. We then compile that information and write this report for Tuesday publication to give you the freshest sales report in the industry. We will close with this standard caution. These are not average selling prices - these are top selling domains. One of the biggest impediments to making sales is pricing domains at unrealistic levels. For most of us, pricing domains at the levels achieved on the Top Ten chart will leave us waiting a long time to make a sale! We hope you will use the information presented here as a measuring stick that will help you price your domains at levels that will put more money in your pocket more often! Editor's Note: If you wish to review previous Domain Sales columns, they are available in our Archive. |
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