Animation.com Goes for $150,000 To Take A Place Among The Year's Top Ten Reported Sales

by Ron Jackson  

The domain becomes part of one of the best portfolios in the business. Chena is a veteran  investor in both English and Spanish language top tier domains. He has spent much of this year sweeping up superb one-word Spanish domains and he added still another this week, landing Cocina.com ("kitchen/cooking" in Spanish) for $30,000. Coupled with Animation.com that gave him the top two spots on the big board this week. Both were private transactions.

A seller who listed at Afternic.com became $20,000 richer after that venue moved Become.com in the highest reported sale among the commercial sites. That was good for #3 on our new list. Enom's Club Drop and Sedo.com were also big winners these week as each claimed three positions in the Top Ten. The lead dog in Club Drop's trifecta was #4 HisFirstTime.com at $15,730. Sedo's trio was fronted by NevadaMLS.com which tied for 5th at $15,000. The other domain hitting that mark was eCoffee.com, sold by Chad Wright in a private transaction.

Let's take a look at the complete chart, then we'll continue to run down another busy week for the domain business in a year that will be remembered as the time the industry enjoyed a historic turnaround:

Enom's Club Drop and Sedo alternated positions to close out this week's leader board. Club Drop fattened up on TheZoneDiet.com at $10,107 and MaturePics.com at $7,807 while Sedo kicked back with EasyLiving.de  (the only non .com on the list) at $9,862 and JavaJobs.com at $7,507. The success for both venues continued well beyond the Top Ten chart. 

In addition, Sedo banked �4,500 ($5,543) for Marktforschung.com ("market research" in German). They also rode the German country code, .de, to another winning winning performance (.de just crossed 8 million total registrations this week, second only to .com in total regs worldwide). FondDiscount.de ("stock discount") sold for �4,000 ($4,927), AutoItalia.de had �3,500 ($4,311) under the hood and two others, Korea.de and TopFoto.de, commanded �2,500 ($3,079) each. A .at domain (from Germany's next door neighbor, Austria), Blasen.at ("blow" in German) went for �3,399 ($4,187). Sedo also collected �2,500 ($3,079) for MovieDatabase.net, $2,000 for 247Mobile.com and $1,000 for MOTW.com (a strong number for a four-letter acronym with no apparent existing traffic). 

Club Drop mopped up with BambooFloors.com at $3,410 and JIP.com at $3,409. At $2,209 Vite.com kept the energy level high until it was time for a  NAP.net ($2,107). Club Drop's Pacific Northwest neighbors, SnapNames.com, also had ample opportunity to ring the cash register this week. Whispers.com spoke loudly of Snap's improved performance after going for $5,050. TradingOnline.com added $3,700 and FunnyFarm.com brought even more smiles at $3,600. BibleGames.com provided a $3,225 blessing and .org even got into the act, with USMetric.org measuring out an even $1,000.

Back on the East Coast, Afternic turned in another good show with OnRequest.com dedicating $6,000 to the bottom line. FreeMovies.net attracted a paying customer who laid out $5,000 for his admission ticket. HSBCAutoCredit.com added $4,326 (HSBC is a well-known bank) and PrepaidCellularPhone.com dialed up another $3,888. 

Looks like the tide was out at Pool.com this week as the only one we heard about was BoxingClub.com at $3,001. Elsewhere, a couple of members at the DomainState.com forum worked out a $2,000 deal for CrazyEights.com (the domain going from Zoot to Targetpro).

In the Pipeline: A $65,000 deal for iFly.com is nearing completion at Sedo. We've been in touch with the buyer as well as Sedo and there appears to be little doubt that this one will be soaring to the upper reaches of our Top Ten soon. We'll have more on the deal (and acquiring company) when the transfer takes place. Meanwhile the four domains in that reported $1 million dollar deal we told you about in the Pipeline last week have still not been transferred. We'll keep an eye on them for you. 

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Our Year To Date chart gets two new members this week. Animation.com takes up residence in the Top Ten alongside Beef.com (the two are tied for 9th at $150,000). Meanwhile Cocina.com moves into an eight-way logjam tied for the 55th spot at $30,000. Here is the complete rundown of big winners so far in 2004: