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A Half-Million Dollar .ORG Sale from Braden Pollock Rocks This Week's Top 20 Chart

It is rare to see a domain not ending in .com sell for $500,000 but it happened this week when Braden Pollock (who was profiled in a 2011 DNJournal Cover Story) of LegalBrandMarketing.com closed an eye-popping half-million dollar sale of Q.org. James Iles broke the story in a NamePros.com post Monday that included the fascinating details behind the transaction. Iles noted that Braden bought a portfolio of .org domains last year that included five rare one-letter domains along with an equally valuable numeric domain - 8.org. Q.org, by far the biggest .org sale of the year to date, is the first one Pollock has let go from that elite lot. The buyer (who has not yet been identified) had to come way up from an initial offer of $150,000 to get him to part with it.

The #2 spot on our latest weekly all extension Top 20 Sales Chart went to the latest six-figure sale from broker Sharjil Saleem. This time he rang the bell with a $170,000 sale of Deposit.com. That started a .com run that filled the rest of the first five and 15 of the 21 chart entries overall (the extra spot resulted from a tie for the final position). Sedo secured the #3 and #4 slots with Xiangcun.com at $82,000 and Fingerpaint.com at $75,000. Broker Chirag Chavda rounded out the quintet with 3200.com at $55,000. 

By Ron Jackson

Sedo piled up 13 chart entries overall, including one of the two ccTLD sales on the Big Board - #6 Forum.eu at $42,500. The other was DomainMarket.com's $9,888 sale of #14 (tie) Wheels.co. DomainMarket (Michael Mann's company) also has one of the four non .com gTLD sales on the honor roll - #14 (tie) SaveTheHumans.org at $9,888. The other charted sales from that category were both new gTLDs. GoDaddy cooked up $10,000 for #12 Chefs.online and the .GLOBAL Registry banked $8,000 for #20 (tie) CryptoCurrency.global.

Still, the lion's share of entries, as usual, went to .coms. Lumis.com helped the .com cause with their $9,000 sale of #16 (tie) BioSig.com.  

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

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

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Q.org $500,000 LegalBrandMarketing
2. Deposit.com $170,100 Sharjil Saleem
3. Xiangcun.com $82,000 Sedo
4. Fingerpaint.com $75,000 Sedo
5. 3200.com $55,000 Chirag Chavda
6. Forum.eu $42,500 Sedo
7. CasinoNYC.com $27,300 Sedo
8. Hexacom.com $19,500 Sedo
9. Vaulted.com $17,000 Sedo
10. BetFlorida.com $14,995 Sedo

11. Pixelle.com €10,000 = $11,400 Sedo
12. Chefs.online $10,000 GoDaddy
13. BitHand.com $9,999 Sedo
14.
tie		 SaveTheHumans.org $9,888 DomainMarket
14.
tie		 Wheels.co $9,888 DomainMarket
16.
tie		 BioSig.com $9,000 Lumis
16.
tie		 CurryInAHurry.com $9,000 Sedo
16.
tie		 Ndental.com $9,000 Sedo
19. Integrous.com $8,700 Sedo
20.
tie		 CryptoCurrency.global $8,000 .GLOBAL Registry
20.
tie		 NordMail.com $8,000 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

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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 Barup.com at $6,840 and Erbium.com at $6,669. Three others - ProgressiveLeasing.com, Side-Effects.com and SpendPoint.com - produced $6,000 apiece. 

PayYourBills.com brought $5,700 while four others - C-Hub.com, FindMyCareer.com, PlugInCenter.com and StorageMap.com - made $5,000 each. Sedo had 26 more four-figure sales ranging from $2,000 to $4,700 that are listed in the table below:

Additional Sedo .com Sales Between $2,000 - $4,700
part1.com $4,700   comitium.com $2,940
d-no.com $4,600 imbeauty.com $2,888
xmake.com $4,500 2lr.com $2,720
divante.com $4,300 norwoodbic.com $2,590
service365.com $4,104 money-art.com $2,577
chod.com $4,000 ylpro.com $2,423
davesutherland.com $3,924 jyang.com $2,200
joinmap.com $3,900 volym.com $2,200
goodfolks.com $3,888 hellotax.com $2,003
leverup.com $3,750 cakap.com $2,000
startuppro.com $3,750 devilles.com $2,000
valeriocanez.com $3,104 guardd.com $2,000
ekok.com $3,032 starcart.com $2,000

Elsewhere, broker Darryl Lopes closed a $4,150 sale of Dokka.com. 

Country Codes

The ccTLDs had only one five-figure sale this week that was a solid one - in fact it was one of the year's 12 best to date - as Forum.eu yielded $42,500 at Sedo. You saw that one, as well as DomainMarket's #2 country code sale of Wheels.co at $9,888, on the all extension chart above. So, the  highest sale from this group that you haven 't seen yet is the #3 name on our latest weekly Country Code Top Sales Chart - that is Sedo's $7,631 sale of Swiss domain Vorsorgesparen.ch. 

Only 15 sales were reported in this category and Sedo swept 12 of those including #4 Bredband.nu at $7,524 and #5 Juliet.be at $4,446. OwnThisDomain.co.uk got two of the charted sales that didn't land in Sedo's column - MedLab.co.uk and SilverStar.co.uk, names that tied for #14 at $1,677 each. 

Here is how the top ccTLD sales stacked up for the week ending Sunday, October 21, 2018:

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

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Forum.eu $42,500 Sedo
2. Wheels.co $9,888 DomainMarket
3. Vorsorgesparen.ch €6,694 = $7,631 Sedo
4. Bredband.nu €6,600 = $7,524 Sedo
5. Juliet.be €3,900 = $4,446 Sedo
6. Avrio.de €3,300 = $3,762 Sedo
7. VIPCasino.ca $3,500 Sedo
8. Weiterbildungsagentur.de €3,000 = $3,420 Sedo

9.  Rasenmaehroboter.de €2,950 = $3,363 Sedo
10. Sisa.cn €2,700 = $3,078 Sedo
11. Suessigkeiten-online.de €2,500 = $2,850 Sedo
12.
tie		 WTF.co.uk £2,000 = $2,580 Sedo
12.
tie		 Calculators.io $2,250 Sedo
14.
tie		 MedLab.co.uk £1,300 = $1,677 OwnThisDomain.co.uk
14.
tie		 SilverStar.co.uk £1,300 = $1,677 OwnThisDomain.co.uk

CLICK HERE for our Year-To-Date Charts.

Domain Name Industry Newsletter

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)

No doubt about who stole the non .com gTLD show this week. LegalBrandMarketing's $500,000 sale of Q.org is the second biggest sale of the year to date in this category. You saw the four biggest sales in this group on the all extension leader board above so the top sale you haven't seen yet is #5 on our latest Non .Com gTLD Top Sales Chart. That is Sedo's $7,410 sale of new gTLD Edge.network at $7,410.

As was the case with the ccTLDs, only 15 sales were reported in this category. The next highest were two that tied for #6. Sedo collected $3,500 for Bringo.net and Radix Registry drew the same amount for SPB.tech.

Here is how the non .com gTLD sales stacked up for the weeks ending Sunday, October 21, 2018:

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

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Q.org $500,000 LegalBrandMarketing
2. Chefs.online $10,000 GoDaddy
3. SaveTheHumans.org $9,888 DomainMarket
4. CryptoCurrency.global $8,000 .GLOBAL Registry
5. Edge.network €6,500 = $7,410 Sedo
6.
tie		 Bringo.net $3,500 Sedo
6.
tie		 SPB.tech $3,500 Radix Registry
8.
tie		 JVM.tech $3,000 Radix Registry
8.
tie		 WIZ.host $3,000 NameCheap
10.
tie		 Randall.net $2,000 Mazen Ghani/
Uniregistry
10.
tie		 Wealth.digital $2,000 Sedo
12.
tie		 Score.club $1,408 DNAdvisor.com/
GoDaddy
12.
tie		 Sierra.club $1,408 DNAdvisor/Google
12.
tie		 Tarot.club $1,408 DNAdvisor/Gandi SAS
15. Worldwide.global $1,200 .GLOBAL Registry

CLICK HERE for our Year-To-Date Charts.

 

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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