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Rick Schwartz Banks Over $2 Million With Blockbuster One-Two Sales Punch

Editor's Note (1/11/17 update):  We thought the sale of XXXVideos.com had been finalized by Rick Schwartz in November 2016 for $1,368,000. However, on New Year's Day 2017 I got a note from Rick telling me the sale had fallen through. To avoid this kind of scenario it is our policy not to chart a sale until it has been fully paid for and transferred to the new owner. To see what happened in this case I reviewed my November correspondence with Rick and found the error was mine. 

When I got his note the domain had already been transferred to Escrow.com and  it resolved to the buyer's website. Rick wrote that the deal had been financed with Escrow.com holding the paper and was closed in September. I took that to mean final payment had been made in September but in re-reading it Rick was referring to the terms of the deal having been closed at that time - terms that wound up not being met, so the domain was sent back to Rick. We have retracted the sale (but leaving the original article in place) and have removed the sale from our 2016 Top 100 Sales Chart.

For a guy who has gone into "semi-retirement" Domain King Rick Schwartz is still having some very productive sales days. In fact Rick just let us know he has closed the second biggest sale of the year to date, moving XXXVideos.com for a whopping $1,368,000. At the same same time Rick revealed that he sold 997.com earlier this year for  $688,888.88 (the 9th biggest sale of the year to date).

By Ron Jackson

Rick said he originally acquired XXXVideos.com for just $920 in 1997 and that over the years leading up to the sale the name had produced around $150,000 in revenue for him. The buyer of the domain has chosen to remain private. Schwartz said 1997 was the year "the light bulb went off" for him, sending him off on a buying spree in which he acquired what proved to be some of his best names. 

Schwartz picked up 57 names from their original owners that year after previously hand registering most of the domains he owned. This may have been the birth of what we now know as the aftermarket. It was before Escrow.com so each purchase was a risk as you sent off your money and hoped for the best. Still Schwartz said he was only stiffed one time when he sent someone $1,000 for a domain that the "seller" never delivered.  

As excited as he was about the XXXVideos.com and 997.com sales, Schwartz said he was even happier about a deal he made with a company that wanted to rebrand from a .io domain to his Teem.com. In addition to a six-figure cash component he got stock in the company that could prove to be worth much more in the long run. All told Rick has millions of reasons to be especially thankful this Thanksgiving!

The ccTLDs also had a very productive week piling up eight entries on our latest all extension Top 20 Sales Chart including three of the five biggest sales. That group was led by Apartments.co.uk, a domain that Hubbard Media sold to CoStar Group for $75,000 in the 5th biggest ccTLD sale of the year. 

In another landmark sale, Park.io moved Tank.io for $60,000 - a price that Park.io's Mike Carson believes is the highest ever paid for a .io domain (we have none higher in our records that go back to 2003). 

Rounding out the week's first five was C.at at $59,630, a name that was one of many ultra short .AT domains that Sedo has sold in a series of special November auctions that is still underway with the 3rd and final sale ending Monday (November 28). Four more of those .AT sales made the Big Board as you will see below. 

Sedo wound up sweeping 15 of the 20 chart entries with Afternic's sale of #20 SuccessIncubator.com for Joe Alagna at $8,050 one of the few exceptions. With .coms piling up 12 chart entries and the ccTLDs eight there was no room for the non .com gTLDs who were shut out for the second week in a row. Here is how all of the sales leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, November 20, 2016:

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The DN Journal Top 20 
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Nov. 14, 2016 - Sun. Nov. 20, 2016
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect November 23, 2016)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. XXXVideos.com (Sale retracted) $1,368,000 Pvt Sale
2. 997.com $688,888.88 Pvt Sale
3. Apartments.co.uk $75,000 Pvt Sale
4. Tank.io $60,000 Park.io
5. C.at €56,000 = $59,630 Sedo
6. HNW.com €51,000 = $54,060 Sedo
7. ELW.com $31,555 Sedo
8. 1.at €26,008 = $27,568 Sedo
9. FlexibleDieting.com $27,000 Sedo
10. At.at €20,500 = $21,730 Sedo

11. E.at €12,500 = $13,250 Sedo
12. Brustkrebs.de €11,900 = $12,614 Sedo
13. TwinBet.com $12,000 Sedo
14. Ch.at €10,002 = $10,602 Sedo
15.
tie		 Gruppenreisen.com €10,000 = $10,600 Sedo
15.
tie		 NRGY.com €10,000 = $10,600 Sedo
17. QuickSell.com $9,450 Sedo
18. Cathaybk.com $9,000 Sedo
19. SoftSecrets.com $8,500 Sedo
20. SuccessIncubator.com $8,050 Afternic

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)

.Com Supporting Cast

Sedo led the .com supporting cast of four figure sales with ExoEnergy.com at $8,000. AreaDocks.com and Textuts.com tacked on $7,500 each while another pair, CharterUp.com and Xparcel.com, posted $7,000 apiece. 

FlyPilot.com touched down with $6,750 on board, Keesy.com and Naturisme.com notched $5,300 each and SongBox.com belted out $5,299. Sedo had 28 more four-figure sales ranging from $2,000 to $5,000 that are listed in the table below:

Additional Sedo .com Sales Between $2,000 - $4,000
justsafe.com $5,000   mobiletireshop.com $2,650
tapeking.com $4,995 mudtopia.com $2,650
safeyourlife.com $4,240 gearstar.com $2,549
kidsandus.com $4,177 zuschlag.com $2,544
missionunited.com $4,000 neatpay.com $2,500
consulto.com $3,999 digitaloptimization.com $2,495
hboss.com $3,604 subj.com $2,480
novelt.com $3,500 freebulksms.com $2,450
vanuatutourism.com $3,388 qconcurso.com $2,388
roomlets.com $3,179 spotsapp.com $2,250
f13.com $3,100 dnaacess.com $2,239
carbethinn.com $3,000 geholdings.com $2,200
emew.com $3,000 chagrin.com $2,000
moqawel.com $2,800 rougette.com $2,000

At Michael Mann's DomainMarket, ParticleDesign.com drew $5,100 while FastFwd.com and TheIndiaStory.com added $5,000 each. Mann said he hand registered the latter two domains and paid just $59 for ParticleDesign.com in 2009.

Country Codes

The ccTLDs were led by the eight sales you saw on the all extension leader board above with Apartments.co.uk setting the pace at $75,000. The highest sales in this category that you haven't seen yet are a pair of names that tied for #9 on our latest Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart. Those are DO.at and GH.at at $6,572 apiece. 

Those two domains were among 11 from Sedo's short .AT auctions that landed on this week's leader board. Two others kicked off the second half of the elite list with #11 Bo.at docking at $6,466 and #12 DE.at delivering $6,361.

Sedo wound up sweeping sweep 18 of the 20 chart entries missing only the top two. Here is how the country code leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, November 20, 2016:

Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Nov. 14, 2016 - Sun. Nov. 20, 2016
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect November 23, 2016)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Apartments.co.uk $75,000 Pvt Sale
2. Tank.io $60,000 Park.io
3. C.at €56,000 = $59,360 Sedo
4. 1.at €26,008 = $27,568 Sedo
5. At.at €20,500 = $21,730 Sedo
6. E.at €12,500 = $13,250 Sedo
7. Brustkrebs.de €11,900 = $12,614 Sedo
8. Ch.at €10,002 = $10,602 Sedo
9.
tie		 DO.at €6,200 = $6,572 Sedo
9.
tie		 GH.at €6,200 = $6,572 Sedo

11. Bo.at €6,100 = $6,466 Sedo
12. DE.at €6,001 = $6,361 Sedo
13. PornAddiction.co.uk £5,000 = $6,200 Sedo
14. 33.at €5,166 = $5,476 Sedo
15. 18.at €5,001 = $5,301 Sedo
16. KNGroup.co.uk £4,200 = $5,208 Sedo
17. Bauzaunplakatierung.de €4,500 = $4,770 Sedo
18. Bugaboo.de €4,400 = $4,664 Sedo
19. Rehabs.ca $4,500 Sedo
20. EO.at €4,200 = $4,452 Sedo

CLICK HERE for our Year-To-Date Charts.

There were two dozen more four-figure sales off the chart, led by five two-letter .AT sales from the Sedo auctions - CU.at ($4,240), FW.at ($4,187), HM.at ($4,081), Fl.at ($3,922) and DJ.at ($3,816).

Sedo had 17 more ccTLD sales ranging from $2,000 to $3,720 that are listed in the chart below:

Additional Sedo ccTLD Sales Between $2,000 - $3,720
weddingfairs.co.uk $3,720   dc.at $2,332
cheapautoinsurance.co.uk $3,500 3d.at $2,291
letswin.nl $3,180 3m.at $2,279
chili.us $2,995 be.at $2,174
darts.io $2,800 br.at $2,172
badisches.de $2,650 cc.at $2,120
kokoswasser.de $2,650 sportwetten-anbieter.de $2,120
machwasausdir.de $2,438 zucami.cn $2,000
mach-was-aus-dir.de $2,438   

Back at Park.io, Cannon.io sold for $2,000 and KQ.io added $1,850. 

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)

It was a slow week again for the non .com gTLDs. As was the case last week, only eight sales were reported for the entire category. Sedo had the highest of those with MyMoney.net at $5,299 followed by MOT.global at $4,800 via the .Global Registry.  

Six of the eight reported sales in this group were new gTLD domains including Sedo's sale of #4 House.cafe at $2,525. Here is how the non .com gTLD sales leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, Nov. 20, 2016:

Non .Com gTLDs Top Sales Chart
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Nov. 14, 2016 - Sun. Nov. 20, 2016
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect November 23, 2016)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. MyMoney.net €4,999 = $5,299 Sedo
2. MOT.global $4,800 .Global Registry
3. Tomoto.net €2,500 = $2,650 Sedo
4. House.cafe $2,525 Sedo
5 Wettbonus.gratis €2,300 = $2,438 Sedo
6. Stahl.shop €2,000 = $2,120 Sedo
7. Unity.global $1,200 .Global Registry
8. Sequence.xyz $1,000 Uniregistry Market

CLICK HERE for our Year-To-Date Charts.

 

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. 

Domain Name Industry Newsletter

 

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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 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.

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