Pair of 3-Letter .Coms Top This Week's Sales Chart

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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