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Quartet of Six-Figure Sales Totaling Nearly $700,000 Take Top Spots on This Week's Domain Sales Chart 

I was away covering the 2018 MERGE! conference in Orlando last week so I have two weeks worth of domain sales data for you this time around the track. A surprisingly large number of high end sales came in to us since our last report, including four six-figure sales that lead our latest all extension Top 20 Sales Chart and 40 sales overall that reached at least five figures. 

A big factor in the flood of sales was having broker Chirag Chavda provide us with a list of his top sales this year (all  previously unreported and accompanied by the required documentation). His roster earned nine places on the leader board, including the top rung on the ladder with a $223,000 sale of 015.com. All of Chavda's scores came from short .com sales including five more numeric domains, a pair of 3-letter .coms and a rare 2-character domain, #6 Z6.com at $88,000.

The #2 spot on the Big Board went to Flippa's $220,000 sale of Gab.com, a sale that was first reported by Raymond Hackney at TheDomains.com. Raymond also noted that this same domain was sold at Sedo in 2014 for $200,002 and that the buyer this time around was a growing social networking site that has been operating from Gab.ai. This is obviously a very nice upgrade for them. (*Update 10-31-18 - see note about this reported sale on the Top 20 Chart below).

By Ron Jackson

Sedo filled the #3 slot on the elite list with Mappa.com at $127,400 with the next position going to an IDN - Forbrukslån.com ("consumer loan" in Norwegian) at 1 million kroner which is $123,000 at today's exchange rate. A spokesman for the buyer, STK FINANS AS, told us they plan to launch a loan comparison platform on the domain within the next month.

Chriag Chavda rounded out the first five with another high dollar numeric domain sale, 3833.com at $90,500, helping the .coms sweep 19 of the 20 chart entries. Seven of those were 3-letter .coms including four from that category posted by LXME.com, a new sales platform that we told you about in our Lowdown section yesterday.

The only non .com domain on this week's honor roll is Sedo's $27,250 sale of #12 Qnet.org. 

Here is how all of the sales leaders stacked up for the two weeks ending Sunday, September 23, 2018:

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The DN Journal Top 20 
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Sept. 10, 2018 - Sun. Sept. 23, 2018
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Sept. 26, 2018)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. 015.com $223,000 ChiragChavda
2. Gab.com - Update: On 10-31-18 we learned this sale was apparently made on an installment plan that has not been completed. As such, it should not have been listed as a completed sale and will be removed from our 2018 YTD Top 100 Sales Chart. $220,000 Flippa
3. Mappa.com $127,400 Sedo
4. Forbrukslån.com (IDN)
("consumer loan" in Norwegian)		 1,000,000 kr = $123,000 Pvt Sale
5. 3833.com $90,500 ChiragChavda
6. Z6.com $88,000 ChiragChavda
7. Fasting.com $50,000 Sedo
8. 6318.com $40,975 ChiragChavda
9. 2337.com $40,000 ChiragChavda
10. PFP.com $28,600 LMXE

11. DKM.com $27,500 LMXE
12. Qnet.org $27,250 Sedo
13. 1793.com $27,000 ChiragChavda
14.
tie		 9817.com $26,000 ChiragChavda
14.
tie		 KRC.com $26,000 LMXE
16. LZK.com $25,500 ChiragChavda
17. ZDN.com $25,000 ChiragChavda
18.
tie		 CYN.com $24,950 Sedo
18.
tie		 Sudden.com $24,950 Sedo
20. JLD.com $22,792 LMXE

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.

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There were 20 more five-figure sales off the chart led by LMXE's $22,500 sale of RKL.com. 

Sedo piled up 17 more sales at this level including IAW.com at $20,501 and DirectBooks.com at $20,000. DepotCheck.de chalked up $19,470, NinjaSports.com notched $19,000 and King.online landed $17,250. Three others - BestMind.com, ConnectedFreight.com and Puppo.com - posted $15,000 apiece.

Also at Sedo, Moving.co made $14,000, Paybit.eu yielded $12,331 and INQ.co drew $11,799. PB.co.uk kicked in $11,088 and five others - Spin247.com, TestingEquipment.com, Trivio.com, Trueskin.com and WakeUp.tv - tacked on $10,000 each.

Elsewhere, ChiragChavda.com has another nice numeric sale - 8710.com at $20,000 - and new gTLD Transparency.onlne changed hands for $10,000 in a private transaction.

.Com Supporting Cast

Sedo led the .com supporting cast of four-figure sales with Gropod.com at $9,995, HoldItHigh.com at $9,800 and two others - Ecovest.com and Netchex.com - that went for $9,000 each. ePostbox.com bagged another $8,850, TastiaGroup.com garnered $8,000 and OffThePitch.com posted $7,500. Handikap.com corralled $7,080, APIB.com commanded $6,500 and FanPlus.com fetched $6,325.

Sedo had 72 more four-figure .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $6,000 that are listed in the table below:

Additional Sedo .com Sales Between $2,000 - $6,000
tripleone.com $6,000   flyerstar.com $3,500
flecks.com $5,980 retona.com $3,500
oladecambio.com $5,900 sensorgeneration.com $3,500
sekoia.com $5,900 taihing.com $3,500
foodearth.com $5,750 check-up.com $3,304
rockcloud.com $5,500 blueindex.com $3,000
vaulthealth.com $5,500 casezone.com $3,000
trasna.com $5,310 humanmachine.com $3,000
jass.com $5,199 joymade.com $3,000
bollywoodgallery.com $5,000 luckydice.com $3,000
femalecondoms.com $5,000 mindbreak.com $3,000
happyscore.com $5,000 vertas.com $3,000
iprove.com $5,000 star-vision.com $2,950
jobway.com $5,000 24car.com $2,949
kingcast.com $5,000 32smiles.com $2,900
memed.com $5,000 filmklub.com $2,900
nextmatter.com $5,000 fishersisland.com $2,900
unimus.com $5,000 lilicoco.com $2,900
viptown.com $5,000 highlandstreet.com $2,888
vo1.com $5,000 afunding.com $2,768
cybercup.com $4,999 freesexstories.com $2,650
stmarysschool.com $4,799 urtravel.com $2,600
aiqoo.com $4,602 cyberanime.com $2,500
baristapro.com $4,500 tiplife.com $2,500
byblock.com $4,500 vrpages.com $2,500
crazart.com $4,500 amser.com $2,419
motherfuckers.com $4,500 apkx.com $2,400
icbw.com $4,250 vitalmed.com $2,377
terrachem.com $4,130 casavacanze.com $2,360
messagecontrol.com $4,000 sjef.com $2,352
coinplayer.com $3,850 super88.com $2,338
woodint.com $3,828 ultrapictures.com $2,200
vuplex.com $3,599 omnistream.com $2,000
justdone.com $3,540 opedu.com $2,000
trickss.com $3,540 pcbsoftware.com $2,000
cetolike.com $3,500 xcurrency.com $2,000

Elsewhere,  Uniregistry.com sold Intente.com ("try" in Spanish) for $8,000 and they also moved CyberForces.com for Logan Flatt at $5,000.

Country Codes

The ccTLDs had no entries on the all extension leader board above but they still had a very good couple of weeks led by a half dozen five-figure sales that you saw listed just below the all extension Top 20. Sedo led the country code charge with DepotCheck.de at $19,470 and they went on to sweep every entry on our latest Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart except one. The lone exception to the Sedo rule was Uniregistry's sale of #12 Clubs.tv for $6,000. 

Since you saw all of the five-figure ccTLD sales above the highest sale in this category that you haven't seen yet is #7 Spotlight.in, a domain that Sedo sold for $8,000.

Germany's .de scored an easy win in the extension race with six chart entries. One of those was an IDN - #19 Bankgebühren,de at $3,737. Here is how the top ccTLD sales stacked up for the two weeks ending Sunday, September 23, 2018:

Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Sept. 10, 2018 - Sun. Sept. 23, 2018
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Sept. 26, 2018)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. DepotCheck.de €16,500 = $19,470 Sedo
2. Moving.co $14,000 Sedo
3. Paybit.eu €10,450 = $12,331 Sedo
4. INQ.co €9,999 = $11,799 Sedo
5. PB.co.uk £8,400 = $11,088 Sedo
6. Wakeup.tv $10,000 Sedo
7. Spotlight.in $8,000 Sedo
8. Pulsar.io $7,500 Sedo
9.  Festzinssparen.de €6,334 = $7,474 Sedo
10. WebThings.de €6,000 = $7,080 Sedo

11. KXS.io $7,000 Sedo
12. Clubs.tv $6,000 Uniregistry
13. Wall-Art.es €4,999 = $5,899 Sedo
14. CFT.eu €4,500 = $5,310 Sedo
15.
tie		 Print-Point.de €4,000 = $4,720 Sedo
15.
tie		 WebRadio.at €4,000 = $4,720 Sedo
17. Invent.co.uk £3,500 = $4,620 Sedo
18. S.hr $4,000 Sedo
19. Bankgebühren.de (IDN) €3,167 = $3,737 Sedo
20. Marima.de €3,000 = $3,540 Sedo

CLICK HERE for our Year-To-Date Charts.

There were 15 more four-figure ccTLD sales off the chart, with Sedo accounting for all but one of those. They collected $3,488 for Copilot.me, $3,304 for Nixon.eu and $2,950 apiece for two others - Apotheken-inventur.de and Technikmagazin.de.

Also at Sedo, Tonis.ch tallied $2,938, Swipe.ch added $2,888 and Modellstadt.de delivered $2,831. An IDN, Depotgebühren-vergleich.de, attracted $2,655, CPS.co.za provided $2,500 and Wertpapiersparen.de posted $2,478. Angebotsvergleich.de and Skole.co.za banked $2,360 each while 7384.co and WeHear.cn secured $2,000 apiece.

Elsewhere, Coconut.tv was sold for $2,000 in a private transaction.

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, of course, led by their sole entry on the all extension leader board you saw earlier, Sedo's $27,250 sale of Qnet.org. The next two spots on our latest Non .com gTLD Top Sales Chart went to a pair of new gTLDs - King.online at $17,250 and Transparency.online at $10,000. 

The first five is rounded out by the .GLOBAL Registry's $8,000 sale of #4 Leap.global and Sedo's $7,080 sale of another new gTLD, Smile.direct.

The .orgs won the extension race with five chart entries, two better than runners-up .net and .global. Here is how the non .com gTLD sales stacked up for the two weeks ending Sunday, September 23, 2018:

Non .Com gTLD Top Sales Chart
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Sept. 10, 2018 - Sun. Sept. 23, 2018
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Sept. 26, 2018)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Qnet.org $27,250 Sedo
2. King.online $17,250 Sedo
3. Transparency.online $10,000 Pvt Sale
4. Leap.global $8,000 .GLOBAL Registry
5. Smile.direct €6,000 = $7,080 Sedo
6. VSmart.net €4,900 = $5,782 Sedo
7. WhatIsLove.org $5,000 Sedo
8. MMI.global $4,800 .GLOBAL Registry
9. Digital.biz €4,000 = $4,720 Sedo
10. GCard.net $3,800 Sedo
11. Elysium.org $3,000 Sedo
12. CCBA.org $2,900 Sedo
13. IDAX.pro $2,500 Sedo
14. Kite.global $2,400 .GLOBAL Registry
15. VisionX.org $2,000 Sedo
16. 1219.net $1,400 Chirag Chavda

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. 

 

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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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