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6-Figure .Com Tops New Sales Chart - Dozens of Flippa Sales Surface - Andrew Rosener Ecstatic Over X.com Sale 

Summer weeks are often slow ones for domain aftermarket news. Vacations, travel and just spending more time outdoors enjoying the weather tend to take precedence - but the week just passed was having none of that! In addition to receiving news of yet another super-sized  3-letter .com sale, we got a list from Flippa treating us to all of their top previously unreleased 2017 domain sales and - though the price was undisclosed - we saw one of the most valuable names on the Internet change hands with a well-known figure from our industry in the middle of a landmark 1-letter .com sale to one of America's most celebrated entrepreneurs.

As has happened so many times in the past, the top spot on our latest weekly all extension Top 20 Sales Chart went to a 3-letter .com. This time it was DCC.com doing the honors as that domain went for $198,000 in a private transaction that also ranks among the 20 biggest sales reported so far this year. 

The runner-up spot on the Big Board went to YesNames.com's $62,000 sale of Strahovka.com made on the Efty.com platform. The seller told us "strahovka" is a Russian word that is synonymous with "insurance" in that language.

By Ron Jackson

Flippa swept the next four spots on the Big Board (and 12 of 21 places overall) after releasing all of their sales for the first half of 2017 at once. They rounded out the first five on the elite list with Hours.com ($31,000), OVR.com ($30,000) and PetShops.com ($25,001). Flippa also accounted for the only two non .com sales on the leader board - #15 (tie) Print.net at $15,000 and #20 (tie) Gem.org at $12,500.

The .coms swept everything else with help from DomainMarket.com (where #7 GeorgiaBride.com went for $24,888 and #20 (tie) CashForSchools.com brought $12,500), Blue String Ventures (who sold #10 WaterBus.com for $20,000) and Sedo (who claimed four chart entries with a quartet led by #12 AcaiBerry.com at $18,000). 

While a lot of impressive sales were reported this week, the single most impressive one is one we can't chart as the price paid was subject to a non-disclosure agreement. However, the sale of X.com to Tesla and SpaceX Founder Elon Musk has to be noted because it was news not just in our industry but in the mainstream and business media around the world. Elliot Silver at DomainInvesting.com had the first comprehensive report I saw on the transaction Monday (July 10). 

Musk, who was the original owner of the domain, undoubtedly spent multiple millions to re-acquire it from PayPal. It is one of only three 1-letter .coms that have ever been released (along with Q.com and Z.com). One of the many cool aspects of this deal is that one of our industry's most widely-known brokers, Andrew Rosener of MediaOptions.com, was called on to find the right buyer and broker the deal. Andrew told me, "It is a historical moment and by far the pinnacle of my domaining career." Our congratulations to him and to Elon for bringing "his baby" back home.

Andrew Rosener
MediaOptions.com

Now, let's get to the charts! Here is how the sales leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, July 9, 2017:

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The DN Journal Top 20 
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. July 3, 2017 - Sun. July 9, 2017
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect July 12, 2017)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. DCC.com $198,000 Pvt Sale
2. Strahovka.com
("insurance" in Russian)		 $62,000 YesNames/Efty
3. Hours.com $31,000 Flippa
4. OVR.com $30,600 Flippa
5. PetShops.com $25,001 Flippa
6. Routes.com $25,000 Flippa
7. GeorgiaBride.com $24,888 DomainMarket
8. Bouncy.com $22,000 Flippa
9. VXE.com $20,002 Flippa
10. WaterBus.com $20,000 Blue String Ventures

11. Onions.com $18,501 Flippa
12. AcaiBerry.com $18,000 Sedo
13. TourGuides.com $17,501 Flippa
14. Pastries.com $17,100 Flippa
15.
tie		 BUTV.com $15,000 Sedo
15.
tie		 Citeo.com $15,000 Sedo
15.
tie		 During.com $15,000 Flippa
15.
tie		 Print.net $15,000 Flippa
19. Alkout.com £9,999 = $12,899 Sedo
20.
tie		  Gem.org $12,500 Flippa
20.
tie		 CashForSchools.com $12,500 DomainMarket

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.

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There were four more five-figure sales off the chart with Flippa accounting for three of those including LiveLiveLive.com at $11,250,  Sho.es ($11,000) and OddsOddsOdds.com ($10,900).

In addition, Sedo sold Stech.com for $10,000.

.Com Supporting Cast

Sedo led the .com supporting cast of four figure sales with BBNC.com at $9,850. OTGroup.com added $8,892 while WealthCore.com and TaxSystems.com tallied $8,000 each. Aiway.com collared $7,410 and two others - Fabet.com and GPGlobal.com - commanded $7,000 apiece. 

ToftGroup.com garnered $6,270, CompanySales.com accounted for $6,000 and SafeCircle.com secured $5,900. Sedo had 28 more four-figure .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $5,000 that are listed in the table below:

Additional Sedo .com Sales Between $2,000 - $5,000
hopton.com $5,000   escogroup.com $2,800
p2pfx.com $5,000 immunage.com $2,725
securerate.com $5,000 dentico.com $2,500
andhome.com $4,900 goldengates.com $2,500
pastilles.com $4,446 krystee.com $2,500
ethicalinvestor.com $3,888 victorhome.com $2,473
storageland.com $3,499 piglife.com $2,365
brars.com $3,400 bargaining.com $2,337
prorigs.com $3,306 greenc.com $2,150
trespontas.com $3,305 dsmetal.com $2,100
maretta.com $3,067 ptyh.com $2,000
xbio.com $3,000 starcapitalcorp.com $2,000
zorra.com $3,000 walktogether.com $2,000
timdo.com $2,888 wrixon.com $2,000

Back at Flippa, PledgeofAllegiance.com plucked $9,550, SiteGuard.com locked down $9,500 and OrganicFruitsAndVegetables.com attracted $7,000. Daddys.com drew $6,950, FreeSubscription.com captured $6,500 and RapidWeb.com returned $6,250.

Convertly.com and Lineups.com landed $6,000 each while two others - CyberExperts.com and AppPay.com - produced $5,500 apiece. CoinBuy.com banked $5,075 and Megapixels.com made $5,001. 

Flippa had 54 more four-figure .com sales ranging $2,000 to $5,000 that are listed in the table below:

Additional Flippa .com Sales Between $2,000 - $5,000
diel.com $5,000   Whix.com $2,800
WeTube.com $5,000 offerz.com $2,600
Givers.com $4,900 Bcts.com $2,500
Interlined.com $4,750 BigResults.com $2,500
britesky.com $4,195 carchives.com $2,500
EscrowService.com $4,125 cavb.com $2,500
FuelPrices.com $4,052 digitalgraphic.com $2,500
chodo.com $4,000 HelpSuite.com $2,500
SalesExpert.com $4,000 LZ2.com $2,500
WakingUp.com $3,999 pluq.com $2,500
Vegn.com $3,950 zhongyou.com $2,500
iprs.com $3,899 c47.com $2,499
gamb.com $3,851 Groomsman.com $2,499
WebAssistant.com $3,820 Veju.com $2,475
GrowthHub.com $3,700 WritingPrograms.com $2,300
stemcellstreatments.com $3,500 FitnessTutorial.com $2,200
Furm.com $3,200 sketched.com $2,157
siyo.com $3,105 tvrey.com $2,150
cashsaver.com $3,075 Xunu.com $2,100
2hg.com $3,001 JFKLimo.com $2,000
FreeGaySex.com $3,000 moubi.com $2,000
LiveWorkouts.com $3,000 prizefind.com $2,000
fouq.com $2,999 selectcarinsurance.com $2,000
WimbledonChampionship.com $2,990 theprofitpool.com $2,000
NastyBoys.com $2,800 TongueCancer.com $2,000
WimbledonChampionship.com $2,990 utmpro.com $2,000
NastyBoys.com $2,800 visitn.com $2,000

Elsewhere, DomainMarket.com sold EverythingBagel.com for $9,388 (pervious owner Michael Mann said he paid $70 for the domain in 2008).

Country Codes

While the ccTLDs had no entries on the all extension Top 20 Chart that didn't mean they had a bad week. In fact it was quite solid, led the five-figures sale of Sho.es ($11,000). Flippa also took the next two spots on our latest weekly Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart. #2 WWE.io at $8,000 and #3 Ur.ly at $7,349. 

Sedo completed the first five with Kredietadvies.be at $5,985 and Rijk.nl at $5,130. Sedo went on to pile up eight chart entries overall. Flippa who, as I noted earlier, released all of their qualifying 2017 sales to date at once, swept all but one of the remaining 12 places. The lone exception was Aftermarket.pl's $4,050 sale of #8 Ameryka.pl (a name they sold for DomainInvest.lu).

.IO easily won the extension race with five charted sales. The only other TLDs with more than one were Spain's .es and Germany's .de with two apiece. Here is how the country code leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, July 9, 2017:

Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. July 3, 2017 - Sun. July 9, 2017
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect July 12, 2017)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Sho.es $11,000 Flippa
2. WWE.io $8,000 Flippa
3. Ur.ly $7,349 Flippa
4. Kredietadvies.be €5,250 = $5,985 Sedo
5. Rijk.nl €4,500 = $5,130 Sedo
6.
tie		 Bike.io $5,000 Flippa
6.
tie		 Over.io $5,000 Flippa
8. Ameryka.pl 15,000 zl = $4,050 Aftermarket.pl
9.
tie		 Three.co.kr $4,000 Sedo
9.
tie		 TV.by $4,000 Sedo

11. FreePorn.cl $2,500 Sedo
12. Talents.de €2,999 = $3,419 Sedo
13.
tie		 Breast.co.uk $3,200 Flippa
13.
tie		 Lawyer.io $3,200 Flippa
15. Metrics.ca $2,999 Flippa
16. S-Tec.de €2,499 = $2,849 Sedo
17. H.nu $2,625 Sedo
18. Juic.es $2,580 Flippa
19. Magazine.io $2,500 Flippa
20.  Crowd.ly  $2,499  Flippa

CLICK HERE for our Year-To-Date Charts.

There were seven more four-figure sales off the chart including Flippa's s $2,300 sale of Engineering.io and two others - Case.co.uk and Diapers.co. - at $2,000 each.

Elsewhere LEL.co.uk changed hands for $2,322 in a private transaction (purchased by Luke Coulton), Sedo sold Pintxos.es ($2,280) and HashBrownies.ca ($2,000) and DomainLore.co.uk moved Allah.co.uk for $1,676. 

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 and others, including new gTLDs)

The Non .com gTLDs were led by the two five-figure sales you saw in the all extension section at the top of this report: Print.net ($15,000) and Gem.org ($12,500). They went on to pile up 10 of the 20 entries on our latest weekly Non .Com gTLD Top 20 Sales Chart, including #4 BoxOffice.net at $8,100.

Name.com collected $8,760 for #3 Holiday.club. That was one of seven .club domains on the elite list, a result of the .CLUB Registry releasing all of their 2Q-2017 premium domain sales this week. Most of those sales were made through their registrar partners (like Name.com). 

The .club contingent included three others that landed on the top half of the leader board - #5 CPA.club ($8,000 at GoDaddy), #6 Mobile.club ($7,849 at Gandi SAS) and #9 Touzi.club ($7,288 at Alibaba).

Here is how the non .com gTLD leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, July 9, 2017:

Non .Com gTLDs Top 20 Sales Chart
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. July 3, 2017 - Sun. July 9, 2017
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect July 12, 2017)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Print.net $15,000 Flippa
2. Gem.org $12,500 Flippa
3. Holiday.club $8,760 Name.com
4. BoxOffice.net $8,100 Flippa
5. CPA.club $8,000 GoDaddy
6. Mobile.club $7,849 Gandi SAS
7.
tie		 Britain.net $7,500 Flippa
7.
tie		 Castles.net $7,500 Pvt Sale
9. Touzi.club $7,288 Alibaba
10. Bitcash.net €5,800 = $6,612 Sedo

11. Wet.net $6,300 Flippa
12. Testing.org $5,899 Flippa
13. Interview.net $5,049 Flippa
14. Artwork.org $4,900 Flippa
15. Duo.org $4,599 Flippa
16. Cycling.club $4,093 BizCN
17. FreeSociety.org $3,900 Sedo
18. Teacher.club $3,648 Alibaba
19. MChat.net $2,995 Sedo
20.  Winner.club $2,725 RU-Center

CLICK HERE for our Year-To-Date Charts.

 

There were 19 more four-figure sale off the chart with 15 of those coming from .club sales. The .CLUB Registry sold two of those - Yun.club at $2,623 and Currency.club at $1,800.

GoDaddy moved the biggest group from that category - another 8 in all - starting with Any.club and Juice.club at $2,400 each. The other six - Chair.club, Grand.club, HeavyMetal.club, Robotics.club, Rottweiler.club and Sing.club - went for $1,500 apiece. 

Elsewhere, Name.com moved Classics.club ($2,635), Ename unloaded Wonder.club ($2,185) and Tata.club ($1,459), NameCheap sold Pro.club ($1,830) and Dynadot delivered Learning.club ($1,690). 

In other extensions, Sedo sold USCrypto.org for $2,610, Flippa moved Advise.net ($2,500) and Holiday.info ($2,222) and Uniregistry Market rang up $1,000 for Rich.life. 

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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