Santa Delivers 15 Five-Figure Domain Sales Christmas Week

by Ron Jackson
  

It looks like the crews at Sedo.com and SnapNames.com were especially good little boys and girls this year, as each company found nine Big Board entries under their tree. Sedo's haul included the #1 domain, a very nice 3-letter .com, ASB.com at $50,000. Sedo also placed two German .de's and a double hyphenated .com in the first ten. #4 Hausarzt.de ("family doctor" in German) went for �23,200 ($27,446) and #8 AutoAuto.de delivered �11,600 ($13,723). The real shocker was #6 True-To-You.com at �10,000 ($17,272), an exceptionally high price for a domain with two hyphens (or even one for that matter). The WhoIs information is privacy protected, but the domain appears to have been purchased by a motivated buyer, the owners of a popular Morrissey ezine and fan site at True-To-You.net. The .com now redirects to that .net. 

SnapNames racked up six of the first ten entries and all but one of their nine listings on the expanded leader board were .coms. #2 TravelPlans.com led the SnapNames assault at $35,472 with #3 AutoShippers.com next in line at $28,251. #5 CocktailDress.com zipped up another $17,750 and #10 CanadianGirls.com attracted $12,750. 

Afternic.com and Enom's Club Drop were the only other venues to earn a spot on our new chart. Afternic did it with #7 QTrip.com at $15,000 while Club Drop scored with #8 MattressPad.com at $14,100. Overall, .com took 13 entries, followed by .de with four, .net with two and .co.uk with one. Here is a look at the complete leader board for the week ending Christmas Day, December 25:

Sedo and SnapNames each had five entries in the second ten. The SnapNames roster included the top .net, NewCars.net at $10,288. Sedo swept the last four positions on the list and all of those were non .coms including #17 FunnyMovies.net ($9,500) and three country code domains which are always a source of strength at Sedo. Their other sales included still another ccTLD, Franchising.de at �3,625 ($4,289) and a mid five-figure .us sale that tops our new extension chart (more on that later). Sedo's .com sales included Snob.com at $5,880, Afrosoft.com at $4,100, Antiq.com at $4,000 and SBF.com at $3,800. They also banked �4,000 ($4,733) for a hyphenated .net, e-Gold.net.

Back at SnapNames, Tempura.com stirred up $7,100, eConsumer.com contributed $6,500 and InternationalFreight.com weighed in at $6,400. Another long one, NightVisionCamera.com, caught $6,200 and a sweet 3-letter .net, LTD.net, went for $6,100. Descriptions.com also commanded $6,100, BowlingBag.com booked $6,000 and VehicleGraphics.com drew $5,100. 

SnapNames also had the week's best .org sale, M1.org at $4,877. Their other winners included WebDesignClasses.com ($4,770), CarWheel.com ($4,500) and ThreeSisters.com ($4,311). AnimalArtGallery.com and SandwichShops.com gobbled up $4,300 each and AllSeasonTires.com rolled up another $4,200. SnapNames had another three dozen sales ranging between $2,000-$3,800. Here's a look at that those:

Afternic added to their bottom line with PerClick.com and CommercialConstruction.com at $5,000 each. BabyFootprints.com brought $3,500, BeautyConsultant.com billed $3,000 and CareerSpace.com kicked in $2,488. Also at Afternic, VisitingMD.com dispensed $2,350 and MojoNet.com went for $2,222 while MCFX.com and FinancialTips.com fetched $2,000 each. In a couple of other sales at Enom's Club Drop, PayingFast.com deposited $3,300 and Passaport.com posted $2,100. 

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It currently takes $66,000 to crack our Year To Date Top 60 Chart so no new members qualified for the elite club this week. Here is a look at the complete 2005 YTD leader board through Dec. 25: 

New TLD Section

The $5,500 sale of a three-word .US domain leads the new extension sales parade this week. BuyAndSell.us attracted that sizeable sum at Sedo.com. .Info took the next three positions, all four-figure sales, with #2 Manhattan.info leading the way at $4,500. That sale at DNForum.com was actually completed four weeks ago but the seller wasn't able to get the information to us until this past week (still within the 30-day window we allow to include sales on our weekly report rather than send them directly to the Year to Date list). 

Also scoring for .info were #3 Uniforms.info at $3,250 and BottomLine.info at $1,499. Uniforms.info helped Sedo button up four of the six sales reported to us this week. BottomLine.info changed hands as TheNameStore.com. .Biz also earned a spot with #5 Alpha.biz booking �670 ($793) at Sedo. We trimmed two positions from the new chart since the six sales below were the only ones reported during this holiday week. 

Someone picked up a good deal on DefenseAttorney.us, paying just $400 at Sedo to complete our new list. 

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Our Year-To-Date New TLD Top 50 chart got two new members this week with BuyAndSell.us and Manhattan.info both finding places in the elite list. That bumped two others off and raised the entry fee to just over $3,600. Here are 2005's highest reported New TLD sales through Dec. 25:

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 represented on our charts who share their sales information with us to help everyone in the business get a handle on current domain values. Individuals like Richard Meyer of the American Marketing Corporation also 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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