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New gTLD Chartquake: $500,000 .Loans Sale Followed By $300,000 .CLUB Aftershock

Bad news has been piling up for new gTLD fans in recent weeks so a lot of people were shocked Tuesday when Donuts announced they had made a $500,000 all cash sale of Home.loans - the biggest new gTLD sale ever reported. A day later I'm sure some of our stunned readers still haven't picked themselves back up off the floor - but if you haven't you might as well stay down - here comes a major aftershock.

 Today we learned that UK brokerage Brandaisy has closed a $300,000 sale of The.club (which becomes the 2nd highest new gTLD sale ever reported).  Brandaisy broker Kevin Brown provided me with a copy of the Escrow.com documentation of the sale. The buyer doesn't want to be identified at this time so the domain is under WhoIs privacy but I have learned some details about them from a different source and, in order to respect their privacy, I will just say their financial resources will not be at all strained by the price of the domain which is now serving as the home for a luxury vacation home travel club.

In the wake of those two unprecedented new gTLD blockbusters, the #3 sale on our latest weekly all extension Top 20 Sales Chart almost gets lost in the shuffle, even though it too reached six figures through Sedo where broker Frank Tillmans closed the $155,000 deal for Can.com. Sedo also sold #4 Orbs.com for $50,000 with Abdullah Alkulaibi's $40,000 sale of Finchain.com in a private transaction rounding out the first five. Alkulaibi also sold #10 RippleChain.com via Afternic for $18,995.  

By Ron Jackson

Sedo swept 11 of the 20 chart entries to easily win the race among venues. Two others had multiple chart entries. GritBrokerage filled three slots with a trio of .co ccTLD sales - #6 Rival.co at $30,000, #13 Range.co at $18,000 and #19 Curate.co at $14,000. Meanwhile, Michael Mann's DomainMarket scored twice with #15 FiveStarApartments.com at $16,000 and #17 RespiraVita.com at $14,888. 

Mann's sales helped the .coms pile up 12 places on the leader board followed by the ccTLDs with six (Sedo posted three of those country code sales, matching Grit's three). The non .com gTLDs were limited to two spots - but they were the ones that mattered most - #1 and #2. 

Here is how the sales leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, January 21, 2018:

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The DN Journal Top 20 
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Jan. 15, 2018 - Sun. Jan. 21, 2018
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Jan. 24, 2018)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Home.loans $500,000 Donuts
2. The.club $300,000 Brandaisy
3. Can.com $155,000 Sedo
4. Orbs.com $50,000 Sedo
5. Finchain.com $40,000 Pvt Sale
6. Rival.co $30,000 GritBrokerage
7. Pens.de €23,740 = $29,438 Sedo
8. PayBit.de €23,000 = $28,520 Sedo
9 Quini6.com $25,000 Sedo
10. RippleChain.com $18,995 Afternic

11.
tie		 EventLocations.com €15,000 = $18,600 Sedo
11.
tie		 Sexkontakt.de €15,000 = $18,600 Sedo
13. Range.co $18,000 GritBrokerage
14. Kadena.com $17,000 Sedo
15. FiveStarApartments.com $16,000 DomainMarket
16. MetalStamping.com $15,000 Sedo
17. RespiraVita.com $14,888 DomainMarket
18. UGlobal.com £10,000 = $14,200 Sedo
19. Curate.co $14,000 GritBrokerage
20. Descargar.com $12,500 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)

There was another five-figure sale just off the chart. Sedo moved Bestico.com for an even $10,000.

.Com Supporting Cast

The .com supporting cast of four-figure sales was led by two additional sales that Abdullah Alkulaibi made through Afternic - BlockCon.com and CoinCom.com at $9,995 each.

Back at Sedo ViewTag.com tallied $6,960, YellowSeed.com sowed $6,750 and three others - BlindLove.com, LiveNext.com and Schekel.com - drew $6,500 apiece. Taiyan.com yielded $6,199, Tenter.com took in $6,000, AdRealm.com returned $5,995 and DrinkAid.com downed $5,346.

Sedo had 33 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
1im.com $5,000   bitrading.com $3,000
dreamsave.com $5,000 raytracing.com $2,999
hadax.com $5,000 cryptoholics.com $2,995
parkingcloud.com $5,000 my-kid.com $2,995
tropicsport.com $4,960 tigerstaden.com $2,790
icoinvestor.com $4,950 votemichelle.com $2,700
lunation.com $4,888 chatubarte.com $2,588
888008.com $4,000 bocbank.com $2,500
minew.com $4,000 purelust.com $2,500
diyrobotics.com $3,888 devicedetox.com $2,094
dotbitcoin.com $3,500 cryptocue.com $2,000
gunspot.com $3,500 jonastaxidermy.com $2,000
visitamalficoast.com $3,500 mj7.com $2,000
zcex.com $3,472 narenji.com $2,000
superblocks.com $3,177 pacter.com $2,000
appup.com $3,000 xooh.com $2,000
bitnew.com $3,000  

Back at DomainMarket.com OneCollective.com went for $6,000 while three others - AwardsInternational.com, LibertyMaintenance.com and SciBlog.com - sold for $4,888 each.

Elsewhere, InformationStart.com sold LivingInRotterdam.com for $5,155.

 

Country Codes

The ccTLDs continue to turn in good performances week in and week out. This week they were led by the six five-figure sales you saw on the all extension leader board above, with Rival.co leading the way at $30,000. The highest sale in this category that you haven't seen yet is the #7 on our latest weekly Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart. That is Sedo's $9,300 sale of Sousvide.de.

Sedo swept 16 of the 21 chart entries (the extra spot resulting from a tie for the final position). They sold #8 BPI.co for $8,900 for AdbulBasit then rounded out the top ten with ProShop.es ($6,200) and EVB-Nummer.de ($4,837).

Germany's .de won the extension race with eight chart entries followed by Colombia's .co with six. Here is how the top ccTLD sales stacked up for the week ending Sunday, Jan. 21, 2018:

Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Jan. 15, 2018 - Sun. Jan. 21, 2018
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Jan. 24, 2018)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Rival.co $30,000 GritBrokerage
2. Pens.de €23,740 = $29,438 Sedo
3. PayBit.de €23,000 = $28,520 Sedo
4. Sexkontakt.de €15,000 = $18,600 Sedo
5. Range.co $18,000 GritBrokerage
6. Curate.co $14,000 GritBrokerage
7. Sousvide.de €7,500 = $9,300 Sedo
8. BPI.co $8,900 AbdulBasit/Sedo
9. ProShop.es €5,000 = $6,200 Sedo
10. EVB-Nummer.de €3,901 = $4,837 Sedo

11. Stressmedizin-Muenchen.de €3,100 = $3,844 Sedo
12.
tie		 AIK.de €3,000 = $3,720 Sedo
12.
tie		 Preisatlas.de €3,000 = $3,720 Sedo
14. ECD.eu £2,500 = $3,550 Sedo
15. Thonon.be €2,645 = $3,280 Sedo
16. GoCrypto.co $3,000 Sedo
17. Coordinator.co €2,250 = $2,790 Sedo
18. Prohormones.co.uk €2,200 = $2,728 Sedo
19. PD.gg $2,500 Sedo
20.
tie		 Utter.in $2,000 Sedo
20.
tie		 XPI.us $2,000 DomainsDeliver

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)

What the non .com gTLDs lacked in numbers (only 12 sales were reported in this category) they more than made up for in quality pricewise, with those two blockbuster new gTLD sales of Home.loans and The.club. The next highest sale on our latest weekly Non .com gTLD Top Sales Chart just missed the five-figure mark as TopShelfNames.com sold #3 Populace.org for $9,950 via GoDaddy.

Sedo rounded out the first five with #4 VR.berlin at $8,506 and #5 Anwang.org at $7,099. Sedo swept went on to sweep 8 of the last 9 entries on the leader board - the lone exception being Logan Flatt's $4,500 sale of YPI.org. 

Here is how the non .com gTLD leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, Jan. 21, 2017:

Non .Com gTLDs Top Sales Chart
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Jan. 15, 2018 - Sun. Jan. 21, 2018
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Jan. 24, 2018)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Home.loans $500,000 Donuts
2. The.club $300,000 Brandaisy
3. Populace.org $9,950 TopShelfNames/
GoDaddy
4. VR.berlin €5,990 = $8,506 Sedo
5. Anwang.org €4,999 = $7,099 Sedo
6. Base.info $5,000 Sedo

7. BTN.org $4,995 Sedo
8. Bukkake.org €3,500 = $4,970 Sedo
9. YPI.org $4,500 Logan Flatt
10. Alpha.biz $2,500 Sedo
11. BitCare.net $2,500 Sedo
12. CCFL.org $2,488 Sedo

Domain Name Industry Newsletter 

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. 

Editor's Note: If you wish to review previous Domain Sales columns, they are available in our Archive.

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