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$550,000 Domain Tops This Week's Sales Chart - Another Deal Near $1 Million Revealed After NDA Expires

This week it was all about quality, rather than quantity. In a typically slow summer week not many sales were reported but there were still some big numbers at the top of our latest weekly all extension Top 20 Sales Chart. The pacesetter was BestWeb.com's $550,000 sale of Inception. com. In addition to reaching the summit on the weekly leader board that also ranks as the 4th biggest sale reported so far this year. 

Sedo put another six-figure sale in the runner-up slot, ringing up $130,000 for NBX.com. They went on to sweep 18 of the 20 chart entries including 12 of the 13 .com sales, all five of the ccTLD sales and the largest of the two non .com gTLDs on the Big Board.

Michael Gargiulo

 In another big piece of domain sales news, we have learned the price paid for VPN.com in a private transaction that was made under an NDA in January 2017. The buyer, Michael Gargiulo, who now serves as the CEO of the company operating the site, informed us that the 18-month NDA has expired allowing him to reveal that he paid $976,730 for the domain (a price confirmed by documentation he provided). The fact that Michael had purchased the domain was widely-known. DomainNameWire had a report on it last year and this past April DomainSherpa aired an 
interview with Michael about the $2 million he has poured into developing the domain. Now we have the exact paid which allowed us to add the sale to our 2017 Top 100 Sales Chart where it ranks as the 7th biggest reported sale of last year. 

By Ron Jackson

Getting back to this week's sales, #6 Feel-the-Flow.de led the quintet of country code sales on the elite list, changing hands for $14,625 at Sedo. Even though hyphens are popular in Germany that will still strike many as a high price for a double-hyphenated 3-word domain. It makes more sense when you visit the domain and see that a major German corporation, Bosch, wanted the domain to use as a redirect to a folder on their Bosch-Ebike.com website that uses the "Feel the Flow" tagline. 

As I noted, the non .com gTLDs were limited to two chart entries. The highest of those was Sedo's $10,000 sale of #8 (tie) Reward.net. The .GLOBAL Registry logged the other one - booking $8,000 for #12 (tie) Awakening.global.

Here is how all of the sales leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, July 8, 2018:

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The DN Journal Top 20 
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. July 2, 2018 - Sun. July 8, 2018
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect July 12, 2018)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Inception.com $550,000 BestWeb
2. NBX.com $130,000 Sedo
3. Ezra.com €25,000 = $29,250 Sedo
4. SEKT.com €22,500 = $26,325 Sedo
5. Betiq.com $19,999 Sedo
6. Feel-the-Flow.de €12,500 = $14,625 Sedo
7. Mine.eu €9,157 = $10,714 Sedo
8.
tie		 IndustrialAthlete.com $10,000 Sedo
8.
tie		 Reward.net $10,000 Sedo
8.
tie		 TWCapital.com $10,000 Sedo

11. Axsel.com €6,900 = $8,073 Sedo
12.
tie		 Awakening.global $8,000 .GLOBAL Registry
12.
tie		 ICO.ba $8,000 Sedo
14. TMAP.com $6,500 Sedo
15. GTogether.com €5,187 = $6,069 Sedo
16.
tie		 Dreame.com €5,000 = $5,850 Sedo
16.
tie		 EAE.fr €5,000 = $5,850 Sedo
18. AskSean.com $5,777 Sedo
19. PhoneCovers.com $5,600 Sedo
20. Pittsburgh.id £3,999 = $5,279 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

Sedo led the .com supporting cast of four-figure sales with LAHCG.com and Net4Energy.com at $4,880 each. MTStudio.com added another $4,854. Sedo had 15 more four-figure .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $3,875 that are listed in the table below:

Additional Sedo .com Sales Between $2,000 - $3,875
corexpo.com $3,875   bident.com $2,749
blockto.com $3,510 bloodandthunder.com $2,500
totectors.com $3,500 beautycutie.com $2,499
harmonyfoundation.com $3,000 det365.com $2,299
snaptops.com $2,875 osano.com $2,256
gopilot.com $2,800 aestuver.com $2,000
silverliving.com $2,800 bibbit.com $2,000
frenchissime.com $2,796   

Country Codes

The ccTLDs were, of course, led by the five domains from that category you saw on all extension leader board above with Feel-the-Flow.de leading the way.  The biggest country code sales you haven't seen yet are two that tied for #6 on our latest weekly Country Code Top Sales Chart - Poster.se and Verified.io at $5,000 apiece via Sedo. 

Sedo wound up sweeping 16 of the 17 reported sales, including the rest of the top ten. DomainLore.co.uk kept Sedo from sweeping the second half of the chart by taking the final spot on the leader board with Mugs.co.uk at $1,956.

Here is how the top ccTLD sales stacked up for the week ending Sunday, July 8, 2018:

Country Code Top Sales Chart
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. July 2, 2018 - Sun. July 8, 2018
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect July 12, 2018)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Feel-the-Flow.de €12,500 = $14,625 Sedo
2. Mine.eu €9,157 = $10,714 Sedo
3. ICO.ba $8,000 Sedo
4. EAE.fr €5,000 = $5,850 Sedo
5. Pittsburgh.id £3,999 = $5,279 Sedo
6.
tie		 Poster.se $5,000 Sedo
6.
tie		 Verified.io $5,000 Sedo
8. Cash.vc $4,000 Sedo
9.  ICO.at €2,990 = $3,498 Sedo
10. Forstraupe.de €2,750 = $3,218 Sedo

11. ThinkFun.co.uk $3,000 Sedo
12.
tie		 Eila.de €2,500 = $2,925 Sedo
12.
tie		 Mobilesfestnetz.de €2,500 = $2,925 Sedo
14. Check.tv €2,499 = $2,924 Sedo
15. Helio.fr €2,200 = $2,574 Sedo
16. Visas.fr €2,000 = $2,340 Sedo
17. Mugs.co.uk £1,482 = $1,956 DomainLore.co.uk

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 their lone five-figure sale - Reward.net at $10,000 via Sedo, followed by the .GLOBAL Registry's $8,000 sale of Awakening.global. #3  on our latest weekly Non .Com gTDs Top Sales Chart also went to .GLOBAL for Eclipse.global at $4,800.

Rounding out the first five were a pair of $3,500 sales that tied for #4 - Cryptocraft.org (via Sedo) and FIC.network in a sale made through Uniregistry by Joy Antony. Joy also sold #9 Diamond.cards for $2,700 at Afternic.com. Only 11 sales were reported from this group.

Here is how the non .com gTLD leaders stacked up for the week  ending Sunday, July 8, 2018:

Non .Com gTLDs Top Sales Chart
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. July 2, 2018 - Sun. July 8, 2018
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect July 12, 2018)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Reward.net $10,000 Sedo
2. Awakening.global $8,000 .GLOBAL Registry
3. Eclipse.global $4,800 .GLOBAL Registry
4.
tie		 Cryptocraft.org $3,500 Sedo
4.
tie		 FIC.network $3,500 Uniregistry
6. WorldOfLife.org $3,399 Sedo
7. Square.org €2,388 = $2,794 Sedo
8. Matrix.info £2,000 = $2,740 Sedo
9. Diamond.cards $2,700 Afternic
10. MyNote.net $2,500 Sedo
11. RecoveryCenters.net $2,200 Sedo

CLICK HERE for our Year-To-Date Charts.

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. 

 

*****

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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