Make It A Double! TWO Multi-Million Dollar Sales Take Over Top Spots on Our Weekly and YTD Sales Charts

By now most of you have probably read our latest Cover Story that came out last week featuring Michael Castello's astonishing account of  how he turned a free domain name - Whisky.com - into a $3.1 million payday (if you didn't read the story, which has already become one of the most widely read stories in the 11-year history of DN Journal, do yourself a favor and read it now). 

The Cover Story came out the day after our last weekly sales report, so Whisky.com enters the charts for the first time this week, with the Castello Brothers sale topping both this week's all extension Top 20 Sales Chart and our 2014 Year to Date Top Sales Chart. Whisky.com also became the first seven-figure sale reported this year. 

While Whisky.com is the first to hit seven figures it wasn't the last as we learned of a second blockbuster at that level this week. George Hong of Guta.com who has been helping us keep an eye on the Asian market, relayed the news that the Chairman and CEO of Gamewave Group Limited, Mr. Hong Yu, announced the purchase of Youxi.com ("games" in Chinese) for $2,430,000 (CNY 15,000,000) Tuesday (March 4).  Gamewave's website describes the company as "China's largest web game provider, the leader of the Chinese web game industry and the professional provider of interactive entertainment services."

By Ron Jackson

Those two seven-figure sales were part of a .com onslaught that gave the world's most popular extension 17 of the 20 entries on this week's Big Board. Clearly, if the massive wave of new gTLDs now coming ashore is scaring off .com buyers, we're not seeing it yet. In fact no non .com gTLDs qualified for the Big Board this week (and no reported sales from that category - which includes traditional favorites .net and .org - reached even five figures). The three spots .com did not claim all went to ccTLDs, led by the $26,250 sale of #4 Bonus.ca by DomainNames.ca. The others were #15 Offertes.nl ($15,070) and #19 LaptopScreen.co.uk ($13,600), with both of those sales handled by Sedo. 

Sedo also wound up with the most chart entries overall, taking eight spots on the elite list, including #3 with Footmarseille.com at $34,250. NameJet filled out the first five with #5 eCoupon.com at $23,388, one of four charted domains for them. Go Daddy/Afternic also staked out four slots with a group led by #7 LaughOutLoud.com at $20,800. In a notable private transaction, Chris Thompson of  SpeakLanguages.co.uk acquired #10 SpeakLanguages.com for his company for $20,000. 

One other note before we go to the leader board. George Kirikos has turned up yet another major previously unreported sale while going through company reports. He was able to determine that AO.com sold for an estimated $550,000 to $575,000 last year. The exact amount couldn't be pinpointed because the company (AO World PLC) logged the purchase of two domains under one total - about $594,000 at the pound/dollar conversion rate when the 2013 sale was made. Though not named, the other domain was believed to be AO.co.uk as it changed hands at about the same time. The latter name likely cost under $50,000, leaving the 550-575k balance for AO.com. While we can't chart those, George has added another important piece to the historical domain sales picture, which we always appreciate.

Now, returning to the latest sales activity, here is how all of the sales leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, March 2:

There were 12 more five-figure sales off the chart led by the $12,500 sale of Bolbol.com at NoktaDomains. They also moved CanliRadyo.com for $11,500.

NameJet notched $11,803 for Minjian.com and $10,000 for MensGifts.com while Go Daddy/Afternic sold SpeedKing.com for $11,000 and banked $10,000 each for HealthShield.com and MedShop.com.

Meanwhile Sedo was busy ringing up $10,800 for MyBuild.com and $10,000 apiece for FileSpace.com, Storg.com and Hi.TV.com.

.Com Supporting Cast

Sedo led the .com supporting cast of four-figure sales with EasySquare.com at $9,999. Geneba.com and MyOffer.com added $7,000 each and Froogler.com contributed $5,999. GameBaby.com brought $5,900, OKCard.com commanded $5,350 and Alchemyai.com drew $5,343.

Aventon.com was next at $5,206 followed by a seven name logjam at $5,000 apiece that included 7726.com, AroraGroup.com, BenchmarkApartments.com, CoinZone.com, JobInsider.com, MarketingUnited.com and VitasOnline.com. 

Sedo had 41 more four-figure .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $4,999 that are listed in the table below:

Back at NameJet CompositeDecking.com dusted off $9,889, BuyHerePayHere.com hauled in $8,600 and PropertyGuide.com produced $8,002. Procrastination.com put off $7,877, EWK.com corralled $7,700 and Homoeopathy.com posted $7,100. 

3213.com dialed up $7,003, SoccerEquipment.com kicked in $6,900 and MercantileBank.com deposited $6,857. Thrombosis.com bagged another $6,333 and 2369.com sold for $6,295. 

Namejet had 44 more four-figure .com sales ranging from $2,001 to $6,000 that are listed in the table below:

At NoktaDomains the hit list included Vitaminler.com at $9,500, HuzurEvi.com at $9,015 and PersonelSaglik.com at $4,900. ColdFusionJobs.com earned $2,610, LifeInsuranceLead.com landed $2,500 and PACV.com provided $2,430. 

 At Go Daddy/Afternic WebsiteHostingCompanies.com uploaded $9,000, OneTechnology.com went for $8,500 and CNPM.com captured $8,200. Chimeric.com and FunSocks.com collected $7,500 each and TechCentralStation.com closed at $7,105.

Thejang.com clicked for $7,020, BoatApp.com docked at $7,000 and two others - AdventureTrips.com and SalesContracts.com - called in $6,500 apiece. PropertyAssociation.com pulled $6,000 and SiteAlerts.com secured $5,300. 

Go Daddy/Afternic had 107 more four-figure .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $5,000 that are listed in the table below:

Elsewhere U92.com changed hands for $5,015 in a private transaction and Flippa.com sold BestAndroidApps.com ($5,000) and Concerning.com ($3,050).

Country Codes

There were several more four-figure sales off the chart with Go Daddy/Afternic getting the bulk of those with a roster that included AssetLock.net ($2,500), TexasDental.org ($2,495) and StockMarket.tips ($2,075). 

Go Daddy/Afternic had 23 more four-figure non .com gTLD sales ranging from $1,000 to $2,000 that are listed in the table below: 

 NameJet scored with RTNDA.org ($2,500), Occupy.mobi ($2,499) and MadisonCounty.org ($2,100). 

Sedo also added five more in this range led by HerbShop.net at $2,300 and BAP.info at $2,192. SteuerSoftware.net notched $1,200 and two others - Cinvizesi.net and Euromillionen.net - went for $1,000 each.  

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.