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.Org Scores an Upset Win - Takes Top Spot on This Week's Sales Chart From Normally Dominant .Coms

It's a rare week when we have something other than a .com at the top of our all extension Top 20 Sales Chart. This was one of those week's. Convenience.org landed in the penthouse suite on the elite list after an impressive $55,000 sale at Sedo. The runner-up was a 3-letter .com, the kind of name usually fills the top spot. That was LXW.com, also sold by Sedo, at $47,011.

.Coms filled the next six slots in a row including broker Sharjil Saleem's $31,000 sale of #3 5530.com. #4 Shays.com was sold for $28,750 through Michael Mann's DomainMarket.com (Mann told us he had purchased the domain for just $80 in 2011) and Sedo rounded out the first five with WWW2.com at $22,800.

The .coms wound up taking 14 of the 20 entries overall and the ccTLDs also had a good outing with with five spots. The non .com gTLDs were limited to just one entry but they made that count by staking their flag at the top of chart with Convenience.org. 

That country code quintet was led by a pair of names that reached the top ten with both sold at Sedo. #9 Bummeln.de ("stroll" in German) went for $10,865 and #10 Automation.ai attracted $10,000.

By Ron Jackson

Sedo wound up sweeping 17 of the 20 chart entries. DomainLore.co.uk was one of the three venues other than Sedo to take place on the Big Board. That was #12 AirportParking.uk at $9,300.

One other note before we go to the chart, as regular readers knows George Kirikos often uncovers previously unreported domain sales of considerable significance while studying government SEC filings. It is not unusual for those to be in the six or seven figure range. He alerted me to a smaller one this week that was of special interest because of how little it was sold for as well as who it was sold to.

 While reviewing this filing George found that under an endorsement, licensing and co-branding agreement that a company called MusclePharm struck with champion bodybuilder (as well as famous actor and former California Governor) Arnold Schwarzenegger, they allowed Arnold to buy the Arnold.com domain from them for the original cost they paid for it in 2013 - just $27,000 (plus 5% interest from the acquisition date). Arnold.com now redirects to Arnold's more typo prone Schwarzenegger.com web site. As George noted, "The seller totally blew it in 2013! If he was on the Celebrity Apprentice, he'd be terminated!" Amen to that and thank to George for that nugget from the SEC mines. 

Here is how all of the sales leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, February 12, 2017:

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The DN Journal Top 20 
Highest Reported Domain Sales -
Mon. Feb. 6, 2017 - Sun. Feb. 12, 2017
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Feb. 15, 2017)

  Domain

Sold For

Where Sold
1. Convenience.org $55,000 Sedo
2. LXW.com $47,011 Sedo
3. 5530.com $31,000 Sharjil Saleem
4. Shays.com $28,750 DomainMarket
5. WWW2.com $22,800 Sedo
6. DIK.com $22,066 Sedo
7. Endera.com $19,000 Sedo
8. LiveXXX.com $15,000 Sedo
9. Bummeln.de
("stroll" in German)
€10,250 = $10,865 Sedo
10. Automation.ai $10,000 Sedo

11. Top-Ten.de €8,925 = $9,461 Sedo
12. AirportParking.uk £7,500 = $9,300 DomainLore.co.uk
13. Ceramica.com €7,888 = $8,361 Sedo
14. Blackbook.com.au $8,000 Sedo
15. Quoten.com €7,500 = $7,950 Sedo
16.
tie
InsiderX.com $7,000 Sedo
16.
tie
SecureReview.com $7,000 Sedo
18. InvestInAmsterdam.com $6,000 Sedo
19. Partly.com $5,900 Sedo
20. Kredit-Ohne-Schufa.com €5,555 = $5,888 Sedo

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 Sportporn.com ($5,250), Bitvest.com ($5,100) and three others at $5,000 each - GratisTips.com, OldCock.com and V97.com. Amoment.com made $4,995, VirusGuard.com drew $4,900 and CleverTicket.com took in $4,890.

BigNest.com notched another $4,500 and Naturapedia.com produced $4,134. Sedo had 34 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
rigtec.com $4,000   seokings.com $3,000
mioportuna.com $3,990 americasvoice.com $2,999
volunteersabroad.com $3,977 itlady.com $2,999
getyummy.com $3,900 yembo.com $2,999
oliverfinancial.com $3,900 propertyincome.com $2,897
singtime.com $3,800 lumeworks.com $2,780
wellnessguide.com $3,700 stoffwechseldiaet.com $2,750
cloudbliss.com $3,650 badante.com $2,500
avenude.com $3,500 msmasters.com $2,500
michaelellis.com $3,500 thermogroup.com $2,500
opensip.com $3,500 zaxie.com $2,500
odise.com $3,388 carpicker.com $2,495
hjemmeside.com $3,339 peppermintwater.com $2,300
flokk.com $3,333 drboost.com $2,250
skinx.com $3,250 leasingvergleich.com $2,226
envas.com $3,100 playspin.com $2,000
luxuryexpeditions.com $3,000 roombid.com $2,000

Elsewhere DomainMarket.com sold Webveloper.com for $4,800 while broker Logan Flatt used Afternic.com to move AllianceGold.com for $3,188.  

Country Codes

The ccTLDs were led by the five domains that qualified for the all extension leader board at the top of this report, with Bummeln.de leading the charge with that $10,865 sale at Sedo. The highest sale in this category that you haven't seen yet is #6 on our latest weekly Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart. That was another Sedo sale - and another German domain - OneOpinion.de at $5,000

Sedo went on to sweep 19 of the 20 chart entries - the lone exception being DomainLore.co.uk's $9,300 sale of #4 AirportParking.uk. Sedo had two of the more often seen .co.uk sales, including one that also made the first ten - #7 VerticalCarousel.co.uk at $4,876.

Germany's .de won the extension race with six chart entries. Here is how the country code leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, February 12, 2017:

Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Feb. 6, 2017 - Sun. Feb. 12, 2017
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Feb. 15, 2017)

  Domain

Sold For

Where Sold
1. Bummeln.de
("stroll" in German)
€10,250 = $10,865 Sedo
2. Automation.ai $10,000 Sedo
3. Top-Ten.de €8,925 = $9,461 Sedo
4. AirportParking.uk £7,500 = $9,300 DomainLore.co.uk
5. Blackbook.com.au $8,000 Sedo
6. OneOpinion.de $5,000 Sedo
7. VerticalCarousel.co.uk €4,600 = $4,876 Sedo
8. Good.ai $3,800 Sedo
9. Anta.eu €2,999 = $3,179 Sedo
10. Badoo.nz £2,500 = $3,100 Sedo

11.
tie
Oxford.ai $2,999 Sedo
11.
tie
Paineissolares.com.br $2,999 Sedo
13. Dana.me $2,800 Sedo
14. Churn.de €2,600 = $2,756 Sedo
15. Vbelts.co.uk £2,200 = $2,728 Sedo
16.
tie
eBuy24.de €2,500 = $2,650 Sedo
16.
tie
Workaround.de €2,500 = $2,650 Sedo
18. PlanetCruise.pt £2,000 = $2,480 Sedo
19. Cassius.fr €2,200 = $2,332 Sedo
20.  CanadianDream.ca $2,250 Sedo

CLICK HERE for our Year-To-Date Charts.

There were seven more four-figure sales off the chart led by Sedo's sales Gommista.it and NLX.fr at $2,120 apiece. They picked up another $2,000 each for Drink.kr and Trove.me.

Golem.eu has three other sales to report. They got $2,119 for Rootz.be and $1,059 each for Go-Europe.eu and Otherwise.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)

The non .com gTLDs slipped back into an anemic pattern that we saw frequently last year with nowhere near enough sales reported from the entire category to fill a Top 20 Chart. Only nine were reported this week. Sedo had the six highest of those (and took 7 of 9 places overall) including one that rose far above the rest - the biggest sale of the week regardless of extension - Convenience.org at $55,000. The runner-up, Hyip.org, trailed by more than $50,000 at $4,854

The two spots that Sedo did not fill went to Lumis.com for their sale of a new gTLD at #7 - Stay.fit at $2,400 and DomainMedia.ca for their sale of #9 MLM.world, also a new gTLD, at $1,750. There is a story behind that Stay.fit sale that you can read here (in it the corporate buyer, Stay Fit Housing, explains why they sent for the new extension.

Here is how the non .com gTLD sales stacked up for the week ending Sunday, February 12, 2017.

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When the domain you need is taken...

Non .Com gTLDs Top Sales Chart
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Feb. 6, 2017 - Sun. February 12, 2017
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Feb. 15, 2017)

  Domain

Sold For

Where Sold
1. Convenience.org $55,000 Sedo
2. Hyip.org $4,854 Sedo
3. Whisky.bid $3,500 Sedo
4. Parametrik.net $3,000 Sedo
5. RedDeer.net $2,800 Sedo

6. Ex-Money.org €2,600 = $2,756 Sedo
7. Stay.fit $2,400 Lumis
8. Wehrli.net $2,000 Sedo
9. MLM.world $1,750 DomainMedia.ca

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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