First
Week of the 2013 Domain Sales Season Finds Trio of
DomainNameSales.com Transactions at Top of the Chart
And they're off! The 2013
domain sales season is officially underway with the first week of
data in from popular aftermarket venues, private buyers and sellers.
With the past week shortened by the New Year's Eve/New Year's Day
holiday, overall opening week sales were understandably light. There
were no six-figure sales reported but DomainNameSales.com
(DNS) logged a trio of solid five-figure sales that fill the first
three slots on our new weekly all extension Top 20 Sales Chart.
DNS put NGames.com in the top slot
at $50,000, followed by #2 TEMT.com at $45,000
and #3 Bizy.com at $40,500. Sedo
then reeled in the next six chart entries in a row with their roster
led by the week's two biggest country code sales - #4 Aandacht.nl
(a Dutch ccTLD that means "attention" in English) at $23,777
and #5 Host.de, a German ccTLD that drew $19,650. Sedo
piled up 10 charted sales overall.
By
Ron Jackson
Afternic.com
also had a very solid outing, putting five domains on the elite list
led by the pair that completed the top ten - Audioteka.com and
DesignerAccess.com at $12,000 each. Afternic, Sedo and
DomainNameSales (with five charted names) were the only venues that
claimed multiple chart entries, but NetFleet.com.au
got on the board with #17 Liqueur.com.au at $9,063 as
did Jeff Williams after he sold #20 (tie)下载.中国 (a
Chinese IDN ccTLD translates to Download.china) for $8,000
in a private transaction.
.Coms wound up sweeping 16 of the
22 chart entries (the extra spots resulted from a three-way tie for
the final position). The remaining six slots all went to ccTLDs,
including two more top ten entries - #7 Sixt.cn at $17,030
and #9 WorkingAbroad.co.uk at $12,880, with both of
those sold at Sedo. The non .com gTLDs were shut out this
week as the highest sale in that category was just over $7,200
(details on that are in the Non .com gTLD section later in this
report).
While no blockbuster sales were reported
this week, we already know that will not be the case
nextweek. Our weekly columns cover sales completed over the
seven-day period that ends with the Sunday preceding our Wednesday
reports. Today it was reported
that Major League Baseball purchased the domain name Rockies.com (to represent
MLB's Colorado Rockies) for $1.2 million. If verified,
that sale
will be eligible for next week's chart and, with only two
seven-figure sales reported in all
of 2012, it would almost certainly top our next weekly
leader board and get the first month of the new year off to a
rousing start. (Update: On Jan.
9 an MLB
official said the $1.2 million price reportedly paid for
Rockies.com was not accurate. He did not say what the sale
price was noting that it was under a non-disclosure agreement.
The sale will not be eligible four our charts as a result).
Here is how the
sales leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, January 6:
The
DN Journal Top 20
Reported
Domain Sales - Mon. Dec. 31, 2012 - Sun. Jan. 6, 2013 Euro/Pound to Dollar Conversions (€/£ to $) is Based
on Rates in Effect Jan. 9, 2013
Domain
Sold For
Where
Sold
1.
NGames.com
$50,000
DomainNameSales
2.
TEMT.com
$45,000
DomainNameSales
3.
Bizy.com
$40,500
DomainNameSales
4.
Aandacht.nl ("attention" in English)
€18,150 = $23,777
Sedo
5.
Host.de
€15,000 = $19,650
Sedo
6.
DGR.com
€14,200 = $18,602
Sedo
7.
Sixt.cn
€13,000 = $17,030
Sedo
8.
Testsieger.com
€11,400 = $14,934
Sedo
9.
WorkingAbroad.co.uk
£8,000 = $12,880
Sedo
10.
tie
Audioteka.com
$12,000
Afternic
10.
tie
DesignerAccess.com
$12,000
Afternic
12.
DropOut.com
$11,000
Afternic
13.
555555.com
$10,000
Sedo
14.
PresidentialPolls.com
$9,999
Sedo
15.
WSPN.com
$9,500
DomainNameSales
16.
Betting.ca
$9,300
Sedo
17.
Liqueur.com.au
8631 AUD = $9,063
NetFleet.com.au
18.
tie
Mosk.com
$9,000
Sedo
18.
tie
TheHalo.com
$9,000
Afternic
20.
tie
DailyHit.com
$8,000
DomainNameSales
20.
tie
GetParts.com
$8,000
Afternic
20.
tie
下载.中国 (Chinese
ccTLD IDN translates to Download.china)
$8,000
Pvt Sale
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.
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 .com supporting cast of
four-figure sales with Tempt.com at $7,700 and Interpreta.com
at $7,421. CharterMe.com chalked up $6,000, KartinaTV.com
clicked for $5,999 and WeAreYoung.com yielded $5,700.
PeoriaIllinois.com posted $5,000, RockLegend.com
landed $4,585 and four others; ATS-Net.com, BoomGaming.com,
Maroochydore.com and SwissWin.com captured $4,000
apiece. Sedo had 24 more four-figure
sales ranging from $2,000 to $3,930 that are
listed in the table below:
Additional
Sedo .com Sales Between $2,000 - $3,930
suol.com
$3,930
3tags.com
$2,500
e-logics.com
$3,900
olleria.com
$2,500
floridabusinessinsurance.com
$3,750
superflug.com
$2,489
levelcheck.com
$3,599
symacom.com
$2,489
ad-studio.com
$3,500
sprinters.com
$2,473
colourful.com
$3,500
oceanindustry.com
$2,300
coupes.com
$3,275
nourishorganic.com
$2,250
hostcontrol.com
$3,275
pvog.com
$2,250
4dx.com
$3,000
directorynetwork.com
$2,200
tuffsew.com
$3,000
kineta.com
$2,200
youkong.com
$3,000
consultantneurologist.com
$2,000
whatisseo.com
$2,750
electriclogos.com
$2,000
DomainAdvisors.com
used the DomainNameSales.com platform to sell Ovace.com for $6,000,
VideoProduktion.com for $5,000 and ChildMolestationAttorney.com
for $3,500.
Meanwhile DomainNameSales continued piling up sales of
their own with BondTech.com and TaxiBooking.com at $5,000
each and CasaDelCafe.com at $3,900. Three others; DesktopThemes.com,
LondonNightOut.com and Trinys.com kicked in $3,500
apiece. NoteTrader.com added another $2,000.
Back at Afternic MobilitySolutions.com secured $5,500,
YourSnow.com shoveled $5,000 and Comea.com
commanded $4,388. NaturalSkin.com attracted $4,250
while FinancialCompliance.com and BlackRubber.com burned
$4,188 each.
TruckBuyer.com braked at $4,088 and four
others - BetterLenders.com, DFCOnline.com, FatMD.com
and Stellax.com deposited $3,888 apiece. SportsFacility.com
tacked on another $3,835.
Afternic had 69 more four-figure
.com sales ranging from $2,000 to $3,750 that are
listed in the table below:
Additional
Afternic .com Sales Between $2,000 - $6,488
The ccTLDs got the new year off to a good
start with a quartet of five-figure
sales among the seven country code transactions that made the all
extension leader board you saw at the top of this report. The
highest ccTLD sale you haven't seen yet is #8 on our new weekly
Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart - that is CarteDeCredit.fr,
a French domain that changed hands for $6,943 at Sedo.
Sedo rounded out the top ten with eServer.eu
and Travailadomicile.fr at $6,550 each and went on to
sweep 17 of 20 entries overall. NetFleet.com.au nailed down two of
the remaining spots including #11 with Scaffolding.com.au at $6,069.
It was a remarkably diverse week with 14 different
extensions represented on the leader board. Germany's .de had
the most entries with three, followed by four others with two each -
Great Britain's .co.uk, Australia's .com.au, France's
.fr and the European Union's .eu.
Here is how the country code leaders stacked
up for the week ending Sunday, January 6:
Country
Code Top 20
Highest
Reported ccTLD Sales: Mon. Dec. 31, 2012 - Sun. Jan.
6, 2013 Euro/Pound to Dollar Conversions (€/£ to $) is Based
on Rates in Effect Jan. 9, 2013
Domain
Sold For
Where
Sold
1.
Aandacht.nl ("attention" in English)
€18,150
= $23,777
Sedo
2.
Host.de
€15,000
= $19,650
Sedo
3.
Sixt.cn
€13,000
= $17,030
Sedo
4.
WorkingAbroad.co.uk
£8,000
= $12,880
Sedo
5
Betting.ca
$9,300
Sedo
6.
Liqueur.com.au
8,631
AUD = $9,063
NetFleet.com.au
7
下载.中国
(Chinese ccTLD IDN translates to Download.china)
There were several dozen more four-figure ccTLD sales off the chart led by
three Sedo sales - 1001.ch at $2,489, Advertorial.de
at $2,424 and Wireless.eu at $2,300.
Sedo had 31 more four-figure ccTLD sales ranging
from $1,000 to $1,560
that are listed in the table below:
Additional
Sedo ccTLD Sales Between $1,000 - $1,560
25.tv
$2,200
4xp.de
$1,310
korva.de
$2,182
vius.de
$1,310
constructeurmaison.fr
$2,096
rodeoblu.de
$1,303
version1.co.uk
$2,013
ozi.co
$1,300
service-netzwerk.de
$1,965
impression-flyers.fr
$1,297
bio-tee.de
$1,964
pop.com.co
$1,297
freudenhaus.ch
$1,952
sanuk.ch
$1,251
bijouxfantaisie.fr
$1,834
shoppingfuehrer.de
$1,245
fhabsolventen.de
$1,834
softwarerecht.de
$1,212
mycv.tv
$1,750
assure.co.uk
$1,208
paginasutiles.com.mx
$1,590
wolfsrudel.de
$1,179
juegosplataformas.es
$1,572
forever.tv
$1,000
terrassenschiebetür.de
$1,572
nationalinjuryclaims.co.uk
$1,000
mallorcaproperty.co.uk
$1,500
nextgeneration.tv
$1,000
mvp.co
$1,500
videobox.tv
$1,000
sofia.com.au
$1,500
Back at NetFleet.com.au Reseller.com.au sold
for $2,234 while CheapCosmetics.com.au and UPS.com.au
added $2,074 each. Warranty.com.au went for $1,863,
PPL.com.au pulled $1,336 and VTG.com.au
generated $1,298. Jumbuck.com.au bagged $1,210,
Removalists.net.au nabbed $1,080, Scaffold.com.au
supported $1,079 and FuneralPlansAustralia.com.au banked
$1,078.
Elsewhere Afternic rang up $1,200 for Workshop.tv
and DomainLore.co.uk
fired up $1,159 with Flare.co.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.
The non .com gTLDs didn't get a very good
break out of the 2013 gate. No five-figure sales were reported in
this category, leaving the door open for Videncia.net to take
the top spot on our new weekly Non .Com gTLD Top 20 Sales Chart
with a $7,205
sale at Sedo. Sedo also filled the runner up slot with Tagesgeld.biz
at $5,109.
Afternic took the next two spots with #3 Digs.net
at $4,500 and #4 Tweb.net at $4,388, starting a
roll that gave them 12 of the 20 chart entries including 6 of the
top 10. Their haul included one of only two non .net domains on the
top half of the leader board - #8 GreenLotteryCard.org at $2,900.
The only charted sale not claimed by Afternic
or Sedo was #12 PressWire.net, sold by AbdulBasitMakranifor $2,412 in a private
transaction. The .nets easily won the extension raise, piling
up 14 of the 20 chart entries. Org was next with five leaving
one spot left that went to .biz.
Here's how all of the Non .Com gTLD leaders stacked up for the
week ending Sunday, January 6:
Non
.Com gTLDs Top 20
Highest Reported Non .Com Global
TLD Sales
(.Net, .Org, .Biz & .Info) Mon. Dec.
31, 2012 - Sun. Jan. 6, 2013 Euro/Pound to Dollar Conversions (€/£ to $) is Based
on Rates in Effect Jan. 9, 2013
There were several more four-figure sales off the
chart with Afternic ringing up most of those including IAFB.org
at $1,677 and eVisions.net at $1,617. Afternic had
14 more four-figure non .com gTLD
sales ranging from $1,000 to $1,588 that are listed in
the table below:
Additional
Afternic non .com gTLD Sales Between $1,000 - $1,588
tasteofhome.net
$1,588
contextual.info
$1,200
filed.net
$1,500
ruha.org
$1,188
urbanchurch.org
$1,488
loveunlimited.net
$1,077
expertwitnesses.org
$1,477
firesprinklers.net
$1,075
wfax.net
$1,477
greenedge.net
$1,035
ahole.net
$1,388
domainia.net
$1,000
programmanagement.org
$1,288
vimax.net
$1,000
At Sedo Credo.info sold for $1,179 and Thee.org
added $1,088.
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
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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.
