Market's
Mid Range Back in the Spotlight While the High End Takes a
Breather
This wound up being the only week in November
without a six-figure sale being reported. After ten sales were
logged at that level over the past three weeks, $70,000 wound
up being good enough to take the top spot on this week's all
extension Top 20 Sales Chart - an honor that went to DomainNameSales.com
for their sale of MiniPlay.com.
Of course, the past week was a very short
one business wise due to the Thanksgiving holiday in the United
States. Many companies shut down both Thursday and Friday as a
result. Still, the market's mid range flexed a lot of muscle during
the abbreviated work week with 23 five-figure public sales being
booked, including Afternic's
$60,000 sale of #2 Styles.com.
The week's biggest country code sale
shared the #3 spot with another .com. ExcellentDomains.ca
sold Canadian ccTLD VU.ca for $30,000 while UpMarketDNs.com
rang up the same amount for iTrust.com. Some of you might be
saying - wait a minute - didn't I see iTrust.com on the chart just
three weeks ago? Yes, you did. The name was picked up for $20,000
at Sedo earlier this month then quickly flipped for a very nice
profit this week through UpMarketDNs.
By
Ron Jackson
Sedo
rounded out the first five with Juegos-Gratis.com at $25,800
and they went on to pile up 11 of the 23 chart entries (the extra
three spots resulted from a four-way tie for the final position).
Their haul included all three of the non .com gTLD domains on the
leader board, a trio led by #10 Banque.net at $15,480.
That was another example of a terrific flip. The seller had acquired
the domain for a mere $4,000 last April at Afterniic.
The ccTLDs also had a good outing with
four names on the Big Board. #6 Lead.co joined VU.ca on the
top half of the chart after it was disclosed that independent broker
Maureen Sullivan found a buyer for the .CO Registry at
$25,000. The deal was actually completed earlier this year
but was just now disclosed. BrightNames.com
also had a good country code sale with #20 (tie) Mur.al at $10,000.
They sold the Albanian ccTLD to Tactivos.com,
the people behind Mural.ly.
BrightNames also had another one of the
four sales that share 20th position - Cosmonauts.com at $10,000
- one of 16 .com domains on the elite list. Chart honors also went
to Flippa.com for their sale of #8 Thriller.com at $19,000.
Flippa is best known for selling developed websites but they also
make a number of domain only sales like this one.
Tthere is one other notable transaction to
tell you about this week. While digging through SEC filings, George
Kirikos spotted a report that Quamtel, Inc. had
sold the domain name 800.com to its former sole shareholder, Steven
Ivester, for $850,000. The problem is no money changed
hands. Quamtel said the $850,000 valuation came Ivester agreeing to
take the domain in exchange for deducting that amount from a
liability the company owned him. Ivester had originally bought
800.com for the company in a bankrupcty auction at a cost of $250,000.
Andrew Allemann wrote more about this transaction at DomainNameWire.com.
Now back to the business at hand. Here is how the
sales leaders stacked up for the
week ending Sunday, Nov. 25:
The
DN Journal Top 20
Reported
Domain Sales - Mon. Nov. 19, 2012 - Sun. Nov. 25, 2012 Euro/Pound to Dollar Conversions (€/£ to $) is Based
on Rates in Effect Nov. 28, 2012
Domain
Sold For
Where
Sold
1.
MiniPlay.com
$70,000
DomainNameSales
2.
Styles.com
$60,000
Afternic
3.
tie
iTrust.com
$30,000
UpMarketDNs
3.
tie
VU.ca
$30,000
ExcellentDomains.ca
5.
Juegos-Gratis.com
€20,000 = $25,800
Sedo
6.
Lead.co
$25,000
.CO Registry/
Maureen Sullivan
7.
Grafeno.com
€15,000 = $19,350
Sedo
8
Thriller.com
$19,000
Flippa
9.
Upware.com
$18,000
DomainNameSales
10.
Banque.net
€12,000 = $15,480
Sedo
11.
tie
EventLoop.com
$15,000
Sedo
11.
tie
Incorporators.com
$15,000
DomainNameSales
13.
Payment.mobi
€10,000 = $12,900
Sedo
14.
tie
Deutschland-bewegt-sich.de
€9,900 = $12,771
Sedo
14.
tie
NZE.com
€9,900 = $12,771
Sedo
16.
Sadomaso.com
€9,988 = $12,756
Sedo
17.
tie
JTF.com
$12,000
Sedo
17.
tie
Solaire.net
$12,000
Sedo
19.
Yuna.com
$10,008
Sedo
20.
tie
Cosmonauts.com
$10,000
BrightNames
20.
tie
MaxPoint.com
$10,000
DomainNameSales
20.
tie
Mur.al
$10,000
BrightNames
20.
tie
Pinyata.com
$10,000
DomainNameSales
Keep in mind that these are the highest
value 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.
Forthe many newcomers entering the domain
industry we also want to point out that the reasons why a domain name sells for a certain price can be varied and are not always clear to those who are unfamiliar with the domain market.
If you do not understand why specific domain names command the
prices they do, you are likely to make unwise domain registrations or purchases.
We highly recommend that you do some basic research beforeyou buyanything! As a starting point we have
built a sister site specifically for you at NameNewbie.com.
Sedo led the four-figure .com supporting cast
with FoodPic.com at $9,500. LoveSkiing.com skidded
to an $8,500 stop, APGM.com drew $8,000 and
GreenDuck.com waddled home with $5,800. GameLight.com
and InternationalCallingCards.com dialed up $5,500
each and two others; 99Cars.com and ScreenFix.com
fetched $5,000 apiece. EventZoo.com added another
$4,500.
Sedo had 41 more four-figure
sales ranging from $2,000 to $4,000 that are
listed in the table below:
Additional
Sedo .com Sales Between $2,000 - $4,000
herds.com
$4,000
kaison.com
$2,500
letscreatetogether.com
$4,000
mantrahotels.com
$2,500
mcorporation.com
$4,000
ubmawards.com
$2,500
next2u.com
$4,000
simris.com
$2,419
bookmylimo.com
$3,870
waffir.com
$2,400
consus.com
$3,870
digital-leads.com
$2,300
petroco.com
$3,870
dignicap.com
$2,283
meteoworld.com
$3,799
peoplewelike.com
$2,200
mylust.com
$3,741
daddybaby.com
$2,177
stromtarifvergleich.com
$3,741
rainbowcarpet.com
$2,100
amazoil.com
$3,530
starlings.com
$2,095
idealtoys.com
$3,500
blanja.com
$2,000
signalsense.com
$3,500
bmember.com
$2,000
exterieur.com
$3,225
fahf.com
$2,000
trusta.com
$3,225
gotakanal.com
$2,000
e-integration.com
$3,148
horizontalbandsaw.com
$2,000
luhai.com
$3,000
onlytalk.com
$2,000
kansascitybodyshop.com
$2,700
serag.com
$2,000
profitcode.com
$2,574
sigaretteelettroniche.com
$2,000
metallbau.com
$2,567
spiron.com
$2,000
androidviruses.com
$2,500
At DomainNameSales Norell.com notched $9,000
while CandyIce.com and InkLabs.com landed $8,500
each. They picked up another $8,000 for TileKing.com.
DomainNameSales had 17 more four-figure
.com sales ranging from $2,000 to $7,000 that are
listed in the table below:
Additional
DomainNameSales .com Sales Between $2,000 - $4,000
GlobalDigest.com
$7,000
upcity.com
$5,000
skykit.com
$6,500
watchmonitor.com
$4,500
Haribon.com
$6,000
thinkweb.com
$3,600
8months.com
$5,000
capitalinvestmentgroup.com
$3,200
BirthControlOption.com
$5,000
paradisecity.com
$3,000
disguised.com
$5,000
ScaffoldCanada.com
$2,800
greendata.com
$5,000
hostedcontactcentre.com
$2,000
knuckleball.com
$5,000
luex.com
$2,000
RockabillyClothing.com
$5,000
Terrestrial
Holdings LLC also used the DomainNameSales platform
to sell Salarium.com for $3,000.
Back at Afternic Homeware.com went for $8,000,
Angelac.com captured $6,088 and All-Sales.com
corralled $6,000. FinancialDigest.com and BestBattery.com
lit up $5,500 apiece while LittleWish.com commanded
$5,188. FarmAuction.com and SkyRealty.com
returned $5,000 each and VillaRealEstate.com
attracted $4,888.
Afternic had 70 more four-figure
.com sales ranging from $2,000 to $4,800 that are
listed in the table below:
Additional
Afternic.com Sales Between $2,000 - $4,800
wikispot.com
$4,800
cowstore.com
$2,500
indexexchange.com
$4,788
mydrums.com
$2,500
orchestro.com
$4,681
rotaryevaporator.com
$2,500
camec.com
$4,665
simplytrade.com
$2,500
freshthyme.com
$4,588
spinfinity.com
$2,500
kovic.com
$4,588
teamaloha.com
$2,500
LIFE3D.com
$4,500
marvelousproductions.com
$2,488
wmje.com
$4,177
angelwholesale.com
$2,400
talktextdata.com
$4,088
nohiddenfees.com
$2,400
ciinvestments.com
$4,000
feecalc.com
$2,397
MONSTERMASS.com
$3,977
RoyalEarth.com
$2,395
atlantiz.com
$3,888
TestRunner.com
$2,395
completecleaning.com
$3,815
codecontest.com
$2,388
podari.com
$3,800
effectivepeople.com
$2,388
erecording.com
$3,750
freshjuicebar.com
$2,388
jewelleryemporium.com
$3,688
venussystems.com
$2,388
ngre.com
$3,500
respondonline.com
$2,300
twentyfive.com
$3,499
goldstatus.com
$2,288
AGILIST.com
$3,488
feastival.com
$2,200
easyliquidators.com
$3,396
superiorconnections.com
$2,200
maxserver.com
$3,288
yesdoc.com
$2,188
doublecrossed.com
$3,163
garageproject.com
$2,100
freestylemartialarts.com
$3,025
CoreChurch.com
$2,095
beautyq.com
$3,000
CABJET.com
$2,088
t4e.com
$3,000
giftpix.com
$2,088
gyroexpress.com
$2,788
hostingkit.com
$2,088
enterprisepos.com
$2,750
livefromamerica.com
$2,088
DIRECTHIRES.com
$2,688
smallbizclub.com
$2,088
dynamitefashion.com
$2,588
aloni.com
$2,000
emeraldpalace.com
$2,588
mindstamp.com
$2,000
shopglow.com
$2,588
stocktheory.com
$2,000
unitedfuel.com
$2,588
whiteviolet.com
$2,000
theproteinstore.com
$2,512
workforall.com
$2,000
accessfunding.com
$2,500
Yellow360.com
$2,000
citycakes.com
$2,500
Yellow365.com
$2,000
Country Codes
The ccTLDs were led by the quartet of five-figure
sales you saw on the all extension Top 20 Chart above. The highest sale
in this category that you haven't seen yet is #5
on this week's Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart. That is
Casinos.com.mx at $8,904 via Sedo. Broker Maureen
Sullivan sold a second domain for the .CO Registry. In additon to #2
Lead.co at $25,000, she found a buyer for #6 Base.co
at $9,000.
Sedo took the next two slots with #7 BodyCode.de
($7,095) and #8 Paw.co.uk ($6,800) and they went on to
claim 14 of the 22 chart entries (the extra two spots resulted from
a three-way tie for the final position). Rounding out the top ten
were NetFleet.com.au's$6,483 sale of Trampolines.com.au and Sedo's $5,418
sale of Pacta.se.
Germany's .de won the extension race with
five chart entries followed by Great Britain's .co.uk with
three. Five other TLDs each scored twice - Canada's .ca,
Colombia's .co, Sweden's .se, Tuvalu's .tv and
Spain's .es.
Here is how the country code leaders stacked
up for the week ending Sunday, Nov. 25:
Country
Code Top 20
Highest
Reported ccTLD Sales: Mon. Nov. 19, 2012 - Sun. Nov.
25, 2012 Euro/Pound to Dollar Conversions (€/£ to $) is Based
on Rates in Effect Nov. 28, 2012
There were dozens
of additional four-figure ccTLD sales off the chart led by
NetFleet.com.au's $3,522 sale of Turf.com.au. They
also sold GardenShedsOnline.com.au for $1,217.
Afternic collected $3,500 for PokerNight.tv
and another $1,588 for Poke.us.
Sedo continued their usual great ccTLD performance
with 555.tv, Jeuxvideopc.fr and Jouergratuitement.fr
at $3,225 each. Startrampe.de delivered $3,070,
DirektLAN.se connected for $3,064 and FOFF.co.uk kicked
in $3,040. E-Share.de added $2,645 and Art.fm
tuned in $2,600.
Sedo had 47 more four-figure ccTLD sales ranging
from $1,000 to $2,495
that are listed in the table below:
Additional
Sedo ccTLD Sales Between $1,000 - $2,580
mijntele2.nl
$2,580
weinversand24.de
$1,484
pyjamas.nl
$2,580
urlaubsfuchs.de
$1,419
threadveins.co.uk
$2,400
cle.de
$1,321
bemz.de
$2,322
irr.co
$1,300
exit.co
$2,050
afspraakje.be
$1,290
smesh.tv
$2,000
formule1.be
$1,290
gcn.eu
$1,967
give.fr
$1,290
druckpark.de
$1,935
kube.de
$1,290
untis.de
$1,935
moustiques.fr
$1,290
waldholz.de
$1,935
multifunktionstuch.de
$1,290
rexin.de
$1,842
shootout.de
$1,290
ack.de
$1,806
freywohnen.de
$1,289
versatis.de
$1,806
gcf.ch
$1,226
casinospiele.eu
$1,742
neueröffnung24.de
$1,226
microbrands.de
$1,676
formatierung.ch
$1,097
xxy.eu
$1,613
rohrlaserschneiden.de
$1,097
targis.de
$1,562
scheidungsportal.de
$1,097
1x0.de
$1,548
heizungsberechnung.de
$1,032
odenwaelder-lebkuchen.de
$1,548
truckportal.de
$1,031
legrand.in
$1,509
comm.co
$1,013
kompany.tv
$1,500
baidu.in
$1,000
sweetie.co
$1,500
email.com.ng
$1,000
casino.nf
$1,495
rockets.co
$1,000
fliegerlied.de
$1,484
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.
The three five-figure sales you saw on the all
extension Top 20 Chart earlier led the charge for the non
.com gTLDs this week. Sedo claimed all of those as well as the
#4 domain on our latest Non .Com gTLD Top 20 Chart -
CNK.net at $9,888. Afternic rounded out the first
five with Shia.net at $7,500.
Afternic and Sedo wound up splitting the 20 chart
entries 50/50, taking ten spots apiece. Afternic's haul included #6 Bella.org
at $6,200 while #7 Innenausbau.org reinforced Sedo's
roster with $5,160.
The .nets ran away with the extension race by
ringing up 11
charted sales, followed by the .orgs with five. .mobi,
.biz, .info and .pro each had one. Here's how all of the Non .Com gTLD leaders stacked up for the
week ending Sunday, Nov. 25:
Non
.Com gTLDs Top 20
Highest Reported Non .Com Global
TLD Sales
(.Net, .Org, .Biz & .Info) Mon. Nov.
19, 2012 - Sun. Nov. 25, 2012 Euro/Pound to Dollar Conversions (€/£ to $) is Based
on Rates in Effect Nov. 28, 2012
There were several dozen more four-figure sales off the
chart led by Afternic's $2,588 sale of Ecosolar.net.
They added $2,400 for Indaba.net, $2,275 for
GlobalArts.org and $2,088 for AmericanCostitution.org.
Afternic had 16 more four-figure non
.com sales ranging from $1,000 to $2,000. Those are listed in the
chart below:
Additional
Afternic Non .com Sales Between $1,000 - $2,000
udd.org
$2,000
miranda.net
$1,400
bayar.net
$1,988
arab-torrents.org
$1,200
almada.org
$1,888
bergstein.net
$1,188
yields.org
$1,800
cableguys.net
$1,088
planetnetworks.net
$1,688
criminaljusticedegreeonline.net
$1,000
heritagechurch.org
$1,500
genecom.net
$1,000
mpress.net
$1,500
mydrums.net
$1,000
malfa.net
$1,488
serco.org
$1,000
Back at Sedo V6.org sold for $2,579.
That domain has been picked up back in May for $1,388, also at Sedo.
Capacitas.net nabbed $2,322, Angeln.net drew $2,292
and Benzina.org bagged $2,200. Adderall.org
dispensed $2,000, Geldlenen.biz banked $1,935
and MortgageConnect.com produced $1,500.
Sedo also sold Emails.biz, Esthetique.net
and Mails.biz for $1,290 apiece while Badematten.net
booked $1,161 and 3DMovie.net screened $1,032.
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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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
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Editor's Note: If you wish to review previous Domain
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