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Quartet of Six-Figure Sales Sets the Pace in a Busy Week for the Domain Market - New gTLDs Have Their Best Week to Date

NameJet reported their January sales this week (including completed sales from the seven-figure live domain auction they staged with RightOfTheDot.com (ROTD) at the NamesCon conference), resulting in a flood of impressive sales that populate our latest charts. The top four sales on our all extension Top 20 Sales Chart all hit six figures and NameJet had a hand in three of those, including the two biggest - 417.com at $169,000 on their web platform plus Genetics.com at $150,000 via the ROTD auction. With ROTD they booked another $110,000 for #4 Penis.com (a category killing domain for the popular appendage if there ever was one!)

Earl Naegele from Next Venture LLC crashed the NameJet party at the top of the leader board with a six-figure sale of his own, banking $115,000 for #3 SPV.com. That helped fuel the ongoing trend of ultra-short domains dominating the charts as 14 of the 20 entries on the elite list were no longer than four characters.

That also held true for the top non .com sale on the elite list  - #5 88.xyz, a new gTLD domain that changed hands for $70,000 via ROTD/NameJet. NameJet was involved in 19 of the 20 charted sales - 11 made on their we platform and eight more through the ROTD auction. 

Two other non .coms also made the Big Board with #9 DJ.net spinning $55,500 and #10 Web.hosting (another new gTLD) banking $52,500. The new gTLDs had their best week to date, as you will see when you get to the Non .Com gTLD Top 20 Chart later in this report - they swept 16 of the 20 entries on that list.

By Ron Jackson

The ccTLDs didn't fare as well. With the .coms sweeping 17 of the 20 entries on the top chart there was no room left at the inn. Still, the country codes booked eight five-figure sales, most of which would have made the chart in a more typical week (you will see all of those listed just below the all extension Top 20 Chart, as well as on the ccTLD Top 20 Chart later in this report).

Another ongoing trend you will note is the continued popularity of numeric and 3-letter .com domains. There are six from each category on this week's chart. Here is how all of the sales leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, Jan. 31, 2016:

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The DN Journal Top 20 
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Jan. 25, 2016 - Sun. Jan. 31, 2016
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Feb. 3, 2016)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. 417.com $169,000 NameJet
2. Genetics.com $150,000 RightOfTheDot/
NameJet
3. SPV.com $115,000 Pvt Sale
4. Penis.com $110,000 RightOfTheDot/
NameJet
5. 88.xyz $70,000 RightOfTheDot/
NameJet
6. BLT.com $65,500 NameJet
7. TPZ.com $60,900 NameJet
8. Stroke.com $60,000 RightOfTheDot/
NameJet
9. DJ.net $55,500 NameJet
10. Web.hosting $52,500 RightOfTheDot/
NameJet

11. 3568.com $45,700 NameJet
12. 4728.com $41,200 NameJet
13. 1251.com $39,210 NameJet
14. BEF.com $37,900 RightOfTheDot/
NameJet
15. ePhoto.com $37,000 NameJet
16. 70777.com $34,501 NameJet
17. Toot.com $31,805 NameJet
18. EGF.com $30,200 RightOfTheDot/
NameJet
19. SouthAmerica.com $30,000 RightOfTheDot/
NameJet
20. QNE.com $27,600 NameJet

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.

CLICK HERE for our Year-To-Date Top Sales Charts

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The All-Time Top 20 All-Cash Domain Sales Reported By DNJournal.com
 (2003 to Now)

There were 32 more five-figure sales off the chart with NameJet ringing up 23 of those including many more 3-letter .com sales. Those included NVL.com and QGI.com at $25,000 each, VDN.com ($23,800), QVK.com ($23,433), JGU.com ($23,100), AZG.com ($21,800), XZE.com ($19,200), XVV.com ($18,800) and QVJ.com ($17,600).

Their ledger also included these (with names sold in the ROTD auction noted with an asterisk): $20,000 for HealthyFood.com*, $18,500 for Reyi.com and $18,000 for 3405.com. Stock.photo* captured $16,000, 8.link* landed $14,500 and Cousins.com commanded $12,522. Night.club* and HD.TV* tuned in $12,000 apiece while Buy.cars* and We.link* landed $11,000 each. WineGrower.com harvested $10,746, E.link* led to $10,200, Kabei.com clicked for $10,099 and Pot.club* lit up $10,000. 

Sedo had seven sales in this range led by 2230.com at $24,944. Choose.co.uk chalked up $23,760, Makijaz.pl plucked $22,890 and Colven.com collected $20,000. Hamed.com hauled in $14,400, Fondos.es found $10,899 and G.gs gained $10,099.  

Elsewhere, DomainLore.co.uk sold VanHIre.co.uk for $19,152 while Flippa.com moved Traffic.io for $14,000 and Predict.io for $10,000. 

.Com Supporting Cast

A sale that DomainProducts.com made via Afternic leads this week's .Com Supporting Cast of four-figure sales. That was Signs360.com, a name that went for $9,999. They moved eight more domains through Afternic including 360Science.com ($7,200), Payment24.com ($4,000), 360123.com ($3,000) and RF360.com ($3,000).

Two others - 360Brands.com and TW360.com - sold for $2,500 each while Purpose360.com picked up $2,200 and Target4U.com tallied $2,105. DomainProducts sold two others through their own platform - Fair360.com for $8,975 and CP360.com for $5,000. 

NameJet also had a long .com list at this level, many of those made through the ROTD auction - the auction sales are noted with an asterisk in this text and are highlighted in blue on the chart below). Those included Glowsticks.com* and Jiegin.com drew $9,000 each while 89911.com landed $8,600. Jungong.com generated $8,100, WorldGames.com* went for $8,000 and CCCF.com* contributed $7,900. 

Xisen.com corralled $7,800, Beantown.com brought $7,600 and two others - Milford.com and SSEE.com - secured $7,500 apiece. 58R.com added $7,300, GreenRock.com returned $7,200 and Laplagne.com deposited $7,055. 

NameJet has 128 more four-figure .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $6,888 that are listed in the table below:

Additional NameJet .com Sales Between $2,000 - $6,888
(NameJet joint sales with RightOfTheDot from the NamesCon auction are highlighted in blue)
minty.com $6,888   qmcc.com $2,671
maling.com $6,500 perfectdate.com $2,655
septictank.com $6,100 shopgreen.com $2,655
13713.com $5,900 videoinsight.com $2,650
vgas.com $5,800 prisoners.com $2,622
bluesquare.com $5,756 scny.com $2,622
evileye.com $5,500 hangtough.com $2,611
metrocard.com $5,500 kmfk.com $2,601
multilevel.com $5,500 sunproperties.com $2,601
thequeen.com $5,500 ytqq.com $2,600
pinehill.com $5,126 koreanrestaurants.com $2,566
sihi.com $5,101 sueno.com $2,526
nannycams.com $5,000 jcnb.com $2,500
bikeworks.com $4,957 mrgt.com $2,500
curlyhair.com $4,900 pxff.com $2,500
gaye.com $4,800 zsmt.com $2,500
chinatech.com $4,712 swht.com $2,422
doac.com $4,700 toubai.com $2,420
tt11.com $4,601 businessautomation.com $2,408
convict.com $4,250 axie.com $2,400
gameonline.com $4,250 evirtual.com $2,400
meas.com $4,200 eseminar.com $2,352
hsnc.com $4,195 alxnet.com $2,351
cablecompanies.com $4,100 688818.com $2,333
cmfr.com $4,000 dietrecipes.com $2,320
dessertwine.com $4,000 fwmk.com $2,320
magg.com $3,955 xhdw.com $2,319
begs.com $3,900 hkhd.com $2,309
cathleen.com $3,800 rrqm.com $2,301
trailertrash.com $3,750 scabs.com $2,300
5755555.com $3,519 snapbox.com $2,300
cheaplaptops.com $3,500 hknt.com $2,290
cmas.com $3,500 zytp.com $2,260
ngrt.com $3,500 phpz.com $2,238
primemortgage.com $3,450 brasa.com $2,226
998777.com $3,400 taas.com $2,225
bdsd.com $3,399 cppy.com $2,210
hg267.com $3,376 lyzw.com $2,201
cacs.com $3,333 fastdelivery.com $2,200
payright.com $3,315 jmcl.com $2,200
jdjw.com $3,300 sodfarm.com $2,200
caughtontape.com $3,299 xgrs.com $2,200
dbpw.com $3,209 jhrr.com $2,150
goodybags.com $3,200 sbtf.com $2,124
npost.com $3,200 fhtq.com $2,119
xmbw.com $3,200 existential.com $2,101
jphl.com $3,100 bqds.com $2,100
soulman.com $3,100 fours.com $2,100
unitedtechnologies.com $3,100 freelancejob.com $2,100
yweb.com $3,060 mjnx.com $2,100
artlessons.com $3,000 tfkw.com $2,100
ccjp.com $3,000 ypty.com $2,100
housingloans.com $3,000 splk.com $2,098
isitdown.com $3,000 rndp.com $2,085
jdzl.com $3,000 kfmj.com $2,050
mlbb.com $3,000 paojia.com $2,033
rrcx.com $3,000 nilton.com $2,010
stylelab.com $2,988 qbpl.com $2,010
basecapital.com $2,967 sgxp.com $2,010
fais.com $2,950 bosses.com $2,000
iflirt.com $2,875 distressedjeans.com $2,000
toytrucks.com $2,750 expresspizza.com $2,000
wjln.com $2,700 malpracticecases.com $2,000
hg7767.com $2,679 pennyloafers.com $2,000

At Sedo Skoor.com skidded to a $7,000 stop, Adrox.com rang up $6,000 and Himove.com hoisted $5,650. SevenLeaf.com located $5,250, NRBTV.com tacked on $4,900 and Eyewear1.com cleared $4,750. Teamly.com and Watch2Day.com unwound $4,500 each while Supremeny.com produced $4,499. Change-Up.com chased down $4,360 and Vowney.com nabbed $4,251. 

  Sedo had 46 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
climatecontrolsolutions.com $4,000   75729.com $2,500
pulpix.com $4,000 oceo.com $2,500
termi.com $4,000 sipnet.com $2,500
zgzm.com $4,000 myhealthbeauty.com $2,499
angs.com $3,999 carpx.com $2,495
payrex.com $3,995 denvermetal.com $2,495
39q.com $3,900 explorepensacola.com $2,495
lhermione.com $3,795 aspcapital.com $2,395
airconditionerparts.com $3,499 destinationmidtown.com $2,395
codestar.com $3,000 castlebarn.com $2,365
teaex.com $3,000 ceterus.com $2,350
crrx.com $2,999 everspan.com $2,250
waypage.com $2,995 newcastleinternational.com $2,250
isenseit.com $2,915 nymy.com $2,250
playersunited.com $2,899 wayfarerhotel.com $2,195
axisnow.com $2,895 visale.com $2,190
gulfy.com $2,800 cosdestournel.com $2,095
gruppobianchi.com $2,795 healthtransformed.com $2,095
neosino.com $2,777 deluxebathrooms.com $2,000
samla.com $2,725 hingeless.com $2,000
smartcosmetics.com $2,725 maritour.com $2,000
ccfb.com $2,700 pctm.com $2,000
reclife.com $2,600 quotefetch.com $2,000

 At SnapNames.com Miopia.com made $4,988, Cheeze.com chipped in $4,555 and Stealthpath.com posted $3,700. GiveACrap.com crested at $3,599, WorkPlaces.com went for $2,958 and Lahong.com hauled in $2,910. EmeraldCube.com managed $2,200 and BarTV.com bottled $2,002. 

Country Codes

The ccTLDs were led by a pack of eight five-figure sales topped by Choose.co.uk ($23,760) and Makijaz.pl ($22,890), with Sedo closing both of those. All eight were noted in the all extension section above so the biggest sales in this category that you haven't seen yet complete the upper half of our latest  Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart. Those were also Sedo sales - #9 Koleje.pl at $9,810 and #10 Akquise.de at $7,381.  

RightOfTheDot/NameJet kicked off the second ten with Auctions.tv at $6,250. Sedo filled eight of the next nine slots and wound up sweeping 16 of 20 entries overall.

Germany's .de won the extension race with five chart entries followed by Great Britain's .co.uk with three. Here is how the country code leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, Jan. 31:

Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Jan. 25, 2016 - Sun. Jan. 31, 2016
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Feb. 3, 2016)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Choose.co.uk £16,500 = $23,760 Sedo
2. Makijaz.pl €21,000 = $22,890 Sedo
3. VanHire.co.uk £13,300 = $19,152 DomainLore.co.uk
4. Traffic.io $14,000 Flippa
5. HD.TV $12,000 RightOfTheDot/
NameJet
6. Fondos.es €9,999 = $10,899 Sedo
7. G.gs $10,099 Sedo
8. Predict.io $10,000 Park.io
9. Koleje.pl €9,000 = $9,810 Sedo
10. Akquise.de €6,772 = $7,381 Sedo

11. Auctions.tv $6,250 RightOfTheDot/
NameJet
12. Mag.co.uk £4,325 = $6,228 Sedo
13. Qgas.de €3,850 = $4,197 Sedo
14. Biogarten.at €3,599 = $3,923 Golem.eu
15. Softcore.de €3,500 = $3,815 Sedo
16. Traumland.de €3,000 = $3,270 Sedo
17. Depannageauto.fr €2,500 = $2,725 Sedo
18. Evana.de €2,250 = $2,453 Sedo
19. 65.vc $2,450 Sedo
20. Face.in $2,100 Sedo

CLICK HERE for our Year-To-Date Charts.

There were was one more four-figure ccTLD sale off the chart. That was Golem.eu's $1,308 sale of Mera.eu.

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. 

Non .com gTLDs (.net, .org, .biz, .info & others, including new gTLDs)

That big release of NameJet sales data, that also included complete sales from their joint live auction at NamesCon 2016), gave the non .com gTLDs a big week with ten five-figure sales. It was an even bigger week for the new gTLDs who swept 16 of the 20 chart entries including nine of the top 10 with a group led by 88.xyz at $70,000. 

The four entries that weren't new gTLDs were all .nets, led by #2 DJ.net at $55,500. Sedo booked one of those .net sales, as did SnapNames but NameJet in tandem RightOfTheDot, claimed all of the other entries (one made solo by NameJet) on our latest Non. Com gTLD Top 20 Sales Chart.

Despite all of the new gTLD sales, the .nets still won won the extension race with four chart entries. The new gTLD contingent was made up of a wide variety of extensions led by three entries from .link. Here's how all of the Non .Com gTLD leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, Jan. 31, 2016:

Non .Com gTLDs Top 20 Sales Chart
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Jan. 25, 2016 - Sun. Jan. 31, 2016
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Feb. 3, 2016)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. 88.xyz $70,000 RightOfTheDot/
NameJet
2. DJ.net $55,500 NameJet
3. Web.hosting $52,500 RightOfTheDot/
NameJet
4. Stock.photo $16,000 RightOfTheDot/
NameJet
5. 8.link $14,500 RightOfTheDot/
NameJet
6. Night.club $12,000 RightOfTheDot/
NameJet
7.
tie		 Buy.cars $11,000 RightOfTheDot/
NameJet
7.
tie		 We.link $11,000 RightOfTheDot/
NameJet
9. E.link $10,200 RightOfTheDot/
NameJet
10. Pot.club $10,000 RightOfTheDot/
NameJet

11. I.rent $9,000 RightOfTheDot/
NameJet
12. Wedding.gift $8,500 RightOfTheDot/
NameJet
13. E.gift $8,000 RightOfTheDot/
NameJet
14. 99999.xyz $7,111 RightOfTheDot/
NameJet
15. Exam.net $6,000 SnapNames
16. Boobs.net $5,500 RightOfTheDot/
NameJet
17. Bolter.net $5,430 Sedo
18. Ad.network $5,000 RightOfTheDot/
NameJet
19.
tie		 Beachfront.property $4,750 RightOfTheDot/
NameJet
19.
tie		 LasVegas.online $4,750 RightOfTheDot/
NameJet

CLICK HERE for our Year-To-Date Charts.

There were dozens of additional four-figure non .com gTLD sales off the chart with NameJet booking the vast majority of those with a list dominated by 3-letter .nets. YWY.net notched $4,400 while ZHZ.net and ZPW.net went for $4,300 each. RQW.net and RXW.net sold for $4,200 apiece while two others - PGG.net and YZN.net - added $4,100 each. ZMY.net chipped in another $4,009. 

NameJet had 98 more four-figure non .com gTLD sales ranging from $2,000 to $3,900 - including dozens of additional 3-letter .nets - that are listed in the table below (sales made at the RightOfTheDot/NameJet NamesCon auction are highlighted in blue): 

Additional NameJet Non .Com gTLD Sales Between $2,000 - $3,900
business.college $3,900   nyq.net $3,360
zkz.net $3,866 zbx.net $3,350
zlh.net $3,810 zcd.net $3,350
dkx.net $3,800 zqm.net $3,350
wmy.net $3,800 zkx.net $3,319
yxs.net $3,800 kpz.net $3,312
znh.net $3,800 zdq.net $3,310
zrx.net $3,800 bxk.net $3,300
zsy.net $3,800 sfq.net $3,300
sjq.net $3,700 xmf.net $3,300
yzk.net $3,700 zhp.net $3,300
zjk.net $3,700 zqd.net $3,300
zqc.net $3,700 zqg.net $3,300
zxl.net $3,700 zqx.net $3,250
zjd.net $3,660 zqz.net $3,250
dqy.net $3,600 zrb.net $3,250
ryf.net $3,600 zrj.net $3,250
tqz.net $3,600 ztd.net $3,250
yzl.net $3,600 cqj.net $3,243
znb.net $3,577 zwr.net $3,220
dqh.net $3,510 kqn.net $3,210
zjy.net $3,502 ztb.net $3,210
mlq.net $3,500 lhq.net $3,202
qqd.net $3,500 ztj.net $3,202
viral.video $3,500 legs.net $3,200
yxd.net $3,500 yzm.net $3,200
zbk.net $3,500 zcg.net $3,200
zcx.net $3,500 zjn.net $3,200
zdy.net $3,500 yzs.net $3,110
zfj.net $3,500 rqd.net $3,100
zgh.net $3,500 zsq.net $3,100
zhc.net $3,500 oceans.org $3,050
zhk.net $3,500 rby.net $3,010
zjr.net $3,500 kqf.net $3,000
zjt.net $3,500 qwm.net $3,000
zkd.net $3,500 we.help $3,000
zkj.net $3,500 apotheke.org $2,877
zhr.net $3,420 water.ski $2,750
xkr.net $3,411 contract.org $2,500
hrx.net $3,401 livechat.net $2,500
ldj.net $3,400 too.sexy $2,500
zby.net $3,400 1.market $2,499
zkg.net $3,400 waterfront.property $2,450
znj.net $3,390 mak.net $2,350
zpk.net $3,390 vintage.auto $2,250
zct.net $3,388 legal.directory $2,211
zlm.net $3,377 check.email $2,169
zly.net $3,377 real.property $2,150
lyr.net $3,376 electric.guitars $2,000

Back at Sedo Genco.net sold for $4,000, Bicycle.pro braked at $3,924, WaterBased.ink went for $3,125 and Conexus.net collected $2,507.

SnapNames scored with AHRA.org ($1,700), WashingtonAccord.org ($1,650), 7707.net ($1,335) and EarthSummit2012.org ($1,000). 

Elsewhere, Todd Savage sold Eternal.life for $1,200 in a private transaction. 

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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