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Pair of 3-Letter .Coms Top This Week's Sales Chart - One Reaches Six Figures

Three-letter .coms are the gift that just keeps on giving. Two more sit at the top of our latest weekly all extension Top 20 Sales Chart including one that broke the six-figure barrier. That was OMF.com, a domain that changed hands for an even $100,000 in a private transaction. The runner-up was Sedo's $36,600 sale of IPB.com - an illustration of how widely sales prices can vary in this category, depending on how deep a particular buyer's pockets are and how badly they want a specific letter combination. 

Thanks to George Kirikos, we also learned this week about a sale of First.com for more than $200,000 but can't chart it because the exact price hasn't been nailed down. The information George found in an SEC filing made by the seller, Sitestar, provides a very good ballpark estimate though. Elliot Silver wrote about that at DomainInvesting.com over the weekend and figured, based on a common commission rate of 15%, the price was likely in the $230,000 range (which would have made it one of the 15 biggest sales reported so far this year). Today I got in touch with the broker who handled the sale and he told me that due to an NDA he couldn't comment on the transaction one way or another. 

By Ron Jackson

In an interesting twist, while we can't list the latest sale of First.com on this week's chart, we were able to add a $200,000 sale of the name 11 years ago to our 2006 Top 100 Chart (where it is tied for #29). That is because the same Sitestar SEC Filing that revealed the 2017 sale also reported that was the amount the company paid when they acquired First.com in 2006. Thanks to George for another great piece of detective work in bringing this one to light!

Now back to the week's chartable domains.  The next four spots on the Big Board all went to .coms. Michael Mann's DomainMarket.com sold #3 NorthLife.com for $32,500 (Mann said he acquired the name for just $150 in 2010). Mann also sold #6 OwnTheExperience.com for $25,000 in another super high ROI flip, having picked that name up earlier this year for $71!

Sandwiched in between Mann's two sales are a pair of $30,000 transactions that tied for #4. Scott Marshall acquired Ella.com through Afternic.com in one of those deals and Michael Posner sold YourBet.com via GoDaddy's brokerage in the other. 

The .coms wound up claiming 13 of the 20 chart entries with four going to ccTLDs and the other three to non .com gTLDs. That country code quartet was led by Sedo's $21,240 sale of #7 Rechnung24.de. Sedo accounted for the other three ccTLD sales as well and wound up piling up 11 chart entries overall. Their haul also included the biggest non .com gTLD sale - a new gTLD - #13 Cloud.market at $10,620.

Here is how all of the sales leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, August 20, 2017:

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The DN Journal Top 20 
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Aug. 14, 2017 - Sun. Aug. 20, 2017
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect August 23, 2017)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. OMF.com $100,000 Pvt Sale
2. IPB.com $36,600 Sedo
3. NorthLife.com $32,500 DomainMarket
4.
tie		 Ella.com $30,000 Afternic
4.
tie		 YourBet.com $30,000 GoDaddy
6. OwnTheExperience.com $25,000 DomainMarket
7. Rechnung24.de €18,000 = $21,240 Sedo
8. MejorAtuvida.com $20,000 DomainMarket
9. 7306.com $19,500 Sedo
10. Justice4All.com $15,000 Sedo

11. Mitarbeiter.de €11,000 = $12,980 Sedo
12. Orlando.co.uk £9,825 = $12,576 Sedo
13. Cloud.market €9,000 = $10,620 Sedo
14. Format.net $10,000 Sedo
15. Apartment.in $9,950 Sedo
16.
tie		 Bitcoin.global €8,000 = $9,440 .GLOBAL Registry
16.
tie		 Scener.com €8,000 = $9,440 Sedo
16.
tie		 TheDress.com €8,000 = $9,440 Sedo
19. 8BI.com $8,900 DomainsNext
20. Sexys.com $8,500 NameTrends

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 LottoAmerica.com at $7,906 and PowerEquipment.com at $7,500.  DKBank.com added $6,938, TurboCasino.com took in $5,782 and four others - Beatrizmilhazes.com, CrystalSoul.com, HireAndSeek.com and ViaVacations.com - went for $5,000 apiece. 

AGreat.com commanded $4,950, Certeos.com kicked in $4,880 and CellArt.com attracted $4,830. Sedo had 20 more four-figure sales ranging from $2,000 to $6,888 that are listed in the table below:

Additional Sedo .com Sales Between $2,249 - $4,602
bayprint.com $4,602   traumatized.com $3,000
fujimedic.com $4,602 azvacationhomes.com $2,995
sexchat24.com $4,602 youmob.com $2,995
numeri.com $4,387 genetika.com $2,950
ssign.com $4,130 s14.com $2,800
mybinge.com $3,750 rootid.com $2,700
wishmobile.com $3,658 creditcardrewards.com $2,500
digitalsommelier.com $3,495 hollylife.com $2,500
lifegenerator.com $3,450 kusadasicruiseport.com $2,500
cmctelecom.com $3,000 bidlead.com $2,249

Elsewhere, NameTrends added another sale to their to their Top 20 Chart entry (of Sexys.com), selling RicottaCheese.com for $5,000 on the Flippa.com platform. 

 

Country Codes

The ccTLDs were, of course, led by the four country code sales you saw on the all extension chart above with Rechnung24.de setting the pace at $21,240. The biggest sale in this category that you haven't seen yet is #5 on our latest weekly Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart. That is Sedo's $7,369 sale of Boat.us. 

Sedo wound up sweeping all 16 ccTLD sales reported this week including one they made on behalf of Vinodr.in - #11 LBB.co at $3,000. That was one of three .co domains to make the elite list. The highest of those was #6 KPI.co at $6,999. Still, Germany's .de won the extension race with five charted sales.

Here is how the country code leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, August 20, 2017:

Country Code Top Sales Chart
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Aug. 14, 2017 - Sun. Aug. 20, 2017
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect August 23, 2017)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Rechnung24.de €18,000 = $21,240 Sedo
2. Mitarbeiter.de €11,000 = $12,980 Sedo
3. Orlando.co.uk £9,825 = $12,576 Sedo
4. Apartment.in $9,950 Sedo
5. Boat.us £5,757 = $7,369 Sedo
6. KPI.co $6,999 Sedo
7. Hire.eu $5,000 Sedo
8. DressForFun.de €3,094 = $3,651 Sedo
9. Youth.ch €3,000 = $3,540 Sedo
10. Ringfabrik.de €2,700 = $3,186 Sedo

11. LBB.co $3,000 Vinodr.in/Sedo
12. Schilddruesenentzuendung.de €2,500 = $2,950 Sedo
13. Thrift.co $2,900 Sedo
14.
tie		 Blogs.in $2,500 Sedo
14.
tie		 eStream.tv $2,500 Sedo
14.
tie		 GH.st $2,500 Sedo

CLICK HERE for our Year-To-Date Charts.

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 trio of sales you saw on the all extension leader board earlier - with Cloud.market setting the pace at $10,620. The highest sales in this group that you haven't seen yet are three .global domains that tied for #4 on our latest Non. com gTLD Top Sales Chart. Those, sold for $5,664 each by the .GLOBAL Registry, were BAU.global, CAE.global and Matrix.global.

10 of the 14 non .com gTLD sales reported this week were new gTLDs, including Webquest's sale of #7 Auto.works at $5,000. Here is how the non .com gTLD leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, August 20, 2017:

Non .Com gTLDs Top Sales Chart
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Aug. 14, 2017 - Sun. Aug. 20, 2017
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect August 23, 2017)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Cloud.market €9,000 = $10,620 Sedo
2. Format.net $10,000 Sedo
3. Bitcoin.global €8,000 = $9,440 .GLOBAL Registry
4.
tie		 BAU.global €4,800 = $5,664 .GLOBAL Registry
4.
tie		 CAE.global €4,800 = $5,664 .GLOBAL Registry
4.
tie		 Matrix.global €4,800 = $5,664 .GLOBAL Registry
7. Auto.works $5,000 Webquest

8. Yoin.net $3,800 Sedo
9. Brightest.org $3,300 Sedo
10. Ultion.net €2,500 = $2,950 Sedo
11. Science.global €2,400 = $2,832 .GLOBAL Registry
12.
tie		 ABE.global €1,200 = $1,416 .GLOBAL Registry
12.
tie		 Carlos.global €1,200 = $1,416 .GLOBAL Registry
12.
tie		 Jerry.global €1,200 = $1,416 .GLOBAL Registry

 

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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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. 

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