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2018 Domain Sales Season Begins with a Bang as Sharjil Saleem Closes $220,000 Deal 

...and they're off! The 2018 domain sales season is now underway with sales reports from the first week of the new year now in. It is always good to get off on the right foot and broker Sharjil Saleem, assisted by Ali Rajpoot, made sure than happened by closing a $220,000 sale of DXB.com that heads our first weekly all extension Top 20 Sales Chart of 2018. With that Sharjil picks up where he left off in 2017, a year in which he had three of the 12 biggest sales reported, including #2 (tie) ETH.com at $2 million.

Sedo filled the opening week's runner-up slot with their $75,000 sale of Publica.com in a deal closed by their Senior Broker Dave Evanson. They went on to sweep 14 of the 22 chart entries (the extra spots resulted from a three-way tie for the final position) including #4 Mega-Sena.com at $35,000 and #5 (tie) Block-Chain.com at $30,000.

The new gTLDs also got off to a good start with Michael Berkens selling Talk.show for $50,000. Michael had reported the sale on his Twitter feed (@thedomains) Monday but did not release the price as he had accepted a non disclosure agreement with the buyer, Roberto Bourgonjen from Amsterdam, Holland. Bourgonjen apparently changed his mind though because today he replied to Michael's tweet by saying the price paid was $50,000. Roberto added that his first offer (in May 2017) was $5,000 and he went on to tell Michael that he should have accepted the advice he said he made at the time - take the $5,000 and put in Ripple cryptocurrency.  Bourgonjen said that amount would be worth $197,000 today. Of course, hindsight is 20/20 and everyone seems to be happy in the end. Bourgonjen said he will make good use of the domain as well as his cryptocurrency gains.

By Ron Jackson

Talk.show was one of two non .com gTLDs to make the Big Board. The other was Flippa's $30,000 sale of #5 (tie) Homes.net. Flippa, who released their top sales for 4Q-2017 for the first time today, wound up with five spots on the elite list.

The ccTLDs also took two places on the leader board with #17 TraumJob.de at $9,600 at #18 CMR.co at $9,449. Sedo posted both of those sales. 

Everything else went to the .coms who piled up 18 of 22 entries overall. DomainsNext.com helped the .com cause with their $20,000 sale of #8 (tie) B91.com. That was one of three 3-character .coms to make the Top 20, along with a pair of 3-letter .coms. For newcomers, 3-character .coms include a mix of letters and numbers. They were overlooked for many years but the continually growing demand for ultra-short .com domains has increased their value dramatically in recent years. 

Here is how the sales leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, January 7, 2018:

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The DN Journal Top 20 
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Jan. 1, 2018 - Sun. Jan. 7, 2018
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Jan. 10, 2018)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. DXB.com $220,000 Sharjil Saleem/
Ali Rajpoot
2. Publica.com $75,000 Sedo
3. Talk.show $50,000 Pvt Sale
4. Mega-Sena.com $35,000 Sedo
5.
tie		 Block-Chain.com $30,000 Sedo
5.
tie		 Homes.net $30,000 Flippa
5.
tie		 HVY.com $30,000 Flippa
8.
tie		 B91.com $20,000 DomainsNext
8.
tie		 Editors.com $20,000 Flippa
10. GroupPay.com $19,999 Sedo

11.
tie		 D69.com $12,000 Flippa
11.
tie		 XRAI.com €10,000 = $12,000 Sedo
13. Conciergerie.com €9,999 = $11,988 Sedo
14. CakeToppers.com $11,600 Flippa
15.
tie		 25C.com $10,000 Sedo
15.
tie		 WolfTek.com $10,000 Sedo
17. TraumJob.de €8,000 = $9,600 Sedo
18. CMR.co £6,999 = $9,449 Sedo
19. CasinosWow.com $9,000 Sedo
20.
tie		 25ANS.com $8,500 Sedo
20.
tie		 Agrima.com $8,500 Sedo
20.
tie		 Aixon.com $8,500 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

Click Link Below for
The All-Time Top 20 All-Cash Domain Sales Reported By DNJournal.com
 (2003 to Now)

.Com Supporting Cast

As always there was a long list of four-figure sales in the .com supporting cast. At Sedo HKWorld.com went for $8,000, Aniworks.com wound up at $7,500 and two others - AtlasApp.com and GreenRabbit.com - returned $6,500 each.

MarketingCheck.com chalked up $6,000, Kaizo.com kicked in $4,990, MedScout.com made $4,750 and MXBit.com brought $4,705. Sedo had 32 more four-figure .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $4,500 that are listed in the table below:

Additional Sedo .com Sales Between $2,000 - $4,500
financialcrypto.com $4,500   animalin.com $3,000
greatfamily.com $4,482 augmentex.com $3,000
frejya.com $4,399 etlab.com $3,000
oxygenium.com $4,250 freedatingapp.com $3,000
buyermedia.com $4,200 katabasis.com $3,000
compayre.com $4,050 self-learning.com $3,000
hairitage.com $4,000 halfz.com $2,995
imtec.com $4,000 icemining.com $2,600
dotfund.com $3,988 thisshop.com $2,500
prestigetitle.com $3,888 mittag.com $2,460
arabprice.com $3,800 londonwaterloo.com $2,400
cloudsi.com $3,700 cryptoadviser.com $2,388
finosoft.com $3,500 biosoundlab.com $2,000
mycryptoshop.com $3,500 dezap.com $2,000
adapthealth.com $3,000 rsqu.com $2,000
admatix.com $3,000 smimed.com $2,000

Back at Flippa Processed.com produced $8,000, Leaking.com landed $7,827 and two others -  iMarketingAdvisor.com and Koalas.com - collected $7,500 apiece. AppointmentsPlus.com added $6,500 and IVPS.com commanded $5,051. 

Flippa had 14 more sales ranging from $2,000 to $5,000 that are listed in the table below:

Additional Flippa .com Sales Between $2,000 - $5,000
clozd.com $5,000   GAGZ.com $2,500
VapingSupplies.com $5,000 TechnologyAdvisors.com $2,280
Slurs.com $3,900 RedBrain.com $2,150
BAGY.com $3,800 flyl.com $2,100
vild.com $3,000 BitcoinSender.com $2,001
bitbest.com $2,500 goxa.com $2,001
domainify.com $2,500 csgopubg.com $2,000

Elsewhere,  Mark Levine sold ANBCapital.com via Afternic for $3,153.

 

Country Codes

The ccTLDs were, of course, led by those two domains you saw on the all extension leader board earlier - Sedo's sales of TraumJob.de at $9,600 and CMR.co at $9,449. The biggest sale in this category that you haven't seen yet is #3 on our first weekly Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart of the new year. That is Mod.io, a name that Flippa sold for $7,000.

Sedo rounded out the first five with Places.ch ($6,000) and Audiolibros.es ($5,400) and they went on to pile up 13 of the 20 chart entries. Flippa filled six slots including #7 with SolarMovie.is at $4,800. Mark Levine also earned chart honors with his $4,200 sale of #8 Worx.io in a private transaction. 

Germany's .de won a tight TLD race with four chart entries. Just a step back with three apiece were .co and .io. In a very diverse work ten other extensions had representatives on the leader board. Here is how the top ccTLD sales stacked up for the week ending Sunday, Jan. 1, 2018:

Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Jan. 1, 2018 - Sun. Jan. 7, 2018
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Jan. 10, 2018)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. TraumJob.de €8,000 = $9,600 Sedo
2. CMR.co £6,999 = $9,449 Sedo
3. Mod.io $7,000 Flippa
4. Places.ch €5,000 = $6,000 Sedo
5. Audiolibros.es €4,500 = $5,400 Sedo
6. Baku.tv $5,000 Sedo
7. SolarMovie.is $4,800 Flippa
8. Worx.io $4,200 Pvt Sale
9. KreditPortal.de €3,000 = $3,600 Sedo
10. PlusYou.de €2,500 = $3,000 Sedo

11. Adriawohnwagen.de €2,388 = $2,866 Sedo
12. Schedule.co €2,200 = $2,640 Sedo
13. Listen.fm $2,550 Flippa
14. Trips.me $2,500 Sedo
15.
tie		 Armi.it $2,000 Sedo
15.
tie		 Bookkeep.co $2,000 Sedo
15.
tie		 JohnWest.cn $2,000 Sedo
18. Drea.ms $1,751 Flippa
19. Leblon.com.br $1,750 Flippa
20. Davis.io $1,250 Flippa

CLICK HERE for our Year-To-Date Charts.

There were three more four-figure sales off the chart, all posted by Flippa. They sold BitcoinBanks.io for $1,200, Girl.io for $1,051 and Survive.io for $1,000.

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 did not have a great year in 2017 but they certainly got off to a good start in 2018 with those two sales that crashed the top half of the all extension Top 20 Chart you saw above - new gTLD Talk.show at $50,000 and Homes.net at $30,000. The next two spots on our first weekly Non .com gTLD Top 20 Chart went to Flippa for their sales of #3 Wallets.org at $7,000 and #4 CryptoExpert.org at $6,250.

Sedo rounded out the first five with TTC.org at $5,580 and they went on to claim eight places overall with a haul that included a pair of names that tied for #6 at $5,000 each - both new gTLDs -  Mikes.pub and Shop.yoga.

The .orgs won the extension race with six chart entries, followed by .net and .global with four each.  Here is how the non .com gTLD leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, Dec. 31, 2017:

Non .Com gTLDs Top 20 Sales Chart
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Jan. 1, 2018 - Sun. Jan. 7, 2018
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Jan. 10, 2018)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Talk.show $50,000 Pvt Sale
2. Homes.net $30,000 Flippa
3. Wallets.org $7,000 Flippa
4. CryptoExpert.org $6,250 Flippa
5. TTC.org $5,580 Sedo
6.
tie		 Mikes.pub $5,000 Sedo
6.
tie		 Shop.yoga $5,000 Sedo
8.
tie		 CTS.global $4,800 .GLOBAL Registry
8.
tie		 Ideas.global $4,800 .GLOBAL Registry
8.
tie		 Partners.global $4,800 .GLOBAL Registry
8.
tie		 SMC.global $4,800 .GLOBAL Registry

12. ABK.net $4,500 Sedo
13. NewReads.org $3,300 Flippa
14. Theft.org $3,000 Flippa
15. Mine.pro $2,500 Sedo
16. UNCT.org $2,488 Sedo
17. Aloyoga.store €2,000 = $2,400 Sedo
18. Blacks.net $1,875 Sedo
19. Design.tel $1,800 Flippa
20. Masturbating.net $1,750 Flippa

 

There were three more four-figure sales off the chart, again all posted by Flippa. They sold 3CreditScores.net for $1,500, PoliticalParty.org for $1,055 and Stamp.org for $1,000.

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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