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Two 6-Figure Heavyweights Totaling $1.2 Million Top This Week's Domain Sales Chart 

A trio of well-known domain brokers are going to have an especially happy holiday season this year. Sedo's Frank Tillmanns and Name Ninja Founder Bill Sweetman joined forces to broker one of the year's five biggest sales to date, a $750,000 blockbuster for Files.com - while Frank's Sedo sidekick, Senior Broker Dave Evanson put together his latest in a long string of top dollar sales, a $450,000 deal for Plants.com.

The Files.com sale, that Tillmans and Sweetman both announced on their Facebook pages today, actually marks the 2nd time in this decade that Files.com has changed hands for over $700,000. It was #11 on our 2010 Top 100 Chart after selling for $725,000 through Sedo.

Evanson found the perfect end user for Plants.com, bringing 1-800-Flowers to the table with a big check in hand to acquire the name from Stokes Tropicals. Domain Name Wire has a very interesting interview with seller Glenn Stokes that is well worth checking out.

By Ron Jackson

The # 3 spot on our latest all extension Top 20 Sales Chart went to a new gTLD - a $22,000 sale of We.global that was put together by Mark Ghoriafi, the Marketing Manager for Premium Domains at the .GLOBAL Registry. This is one of more than 20 premium sales Mark has booked since joining the company last spring.

The top five was rounded out by a pair of domains that tied for #4 at $15,000. One was the week's top ccTLD sale, Tenga.co, and the other was Sedo's sale of Bittop.com. Buzzoo.com, who sold Tenga.co after being contacted by the GoDaddy Domain Buy Service (acting on behalf of the buyer) could claim a tie-breaker because the buyer would have paid an additional 20% ($3,000) to GoDaddy for their help in acquiring the domain.

The .coms scored their usual win in the extension race, taking 13 of 21 positions on the leader board (the extra spot resulting from a three-way tie for the final position). Jason Eisler at DNAdvisor.com helped the .com cause by brokering the $12,500 sale of #7 LocalFlorist.com. IndusDomains.com also lent a hand with their $12,000 sale of #8 IVFDoctor.com.

The non .com gTLDs claimed five places on the elite list, all new gTLDs. Three .global domains were joined by Sedo's $11,785 sale of #9 Dental.store and the  $7,000 sale of #15 (tie) Shaw.nyc that Developed.nyc made through Afternic.

The remaining spots went to three ccTLDs with Tenga.co being joined by two Sedo sales - #6 MyHead.co.uk at $12,594 and #12 Rentberry.ca at $8,888. Sedo went on to pile up 14 chart entries to lead all venues.

One more note before we go to this week's charts - in case you missed the big news about the $11 million sale of Tesla.com in 2016 that broke this past weekend. With Tesla Founder Elon Musk confirming the price for the first time in a post on his Twitter feed, we have added that sale to our 2016 Top 100 Sales Chart where it now reigns as the top sale of that year. It has also been added at #2 to a list of the all-time Top 20 cash sales confirmed since we started tracking the domain aftermarket in 2003. 

Now back to 2018 and how this week's sales leaders stacked for the week ending Sunday, December 9, 2018:

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The DN Journal Top 20 
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Dec. 3, 2018 - Sun. Dec. 9, 2018
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Dec. 12, 2018)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Files.com $750,000 Sedo/Name Ninja
2. Plants.com $450,000 Sedo
3. We.global $22,000 .GLOBAL Registry
4.
tie		 Tenga.co $15,000 Buzzoo/GoDaddy
4.
tie		 Bittop.com $15,000 Sedo
6. MyHead.co.uk £9,995 = $12,594 Sedo
7. LocalFlorist.com $12,500 DNAdvisor
8. IVFDoctor.com $12,000 IndusDomains
9. Dental.store $11,785 Sedo
10. Rinka.com $10,000 Sedo

11. Kitcom.com $9,500 Sedo
12. Rentberry.ca $8,888 Sedo
13.
tie		 Hello.global $8,000 .GLOBAL Registry
13.
tie		 NGS.global $8,000 .GLOBAL Registry
15.
tie		 KNVS.com $7,000 Sedo
15.
tie		 Shaw.nyc $7,000 Developed.nyc/
Afternic
17. CBDExpo.com $6,800 Sedo
18. Jetout.com $6,500 Sedo
19.
tie		 BeeSchool.com $6,000 Sedo
19.
tie		 IGQP.com $6,000 Sedo
19.
tie		 Mastersun.com $6,000 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 Go-Europe.com at $5,699. They added $5,500 for Unipost.com and picked up $5,000 each for two others - LetsPay.com and XRGear.com. Sedo handled the latter transaction for seller Elad Nof.

Sedo had 16 more four-figure sales ranging from $2,000 to $4,980 that are listed in the table below:

Additional Sedo .com Sales Between $2,000 - $4,980
zuzana.com $4,980   miamimoto.com $2,999
xinxuejie.com $4,800 codm.com $2,995
rivago.com $4,332 twinkleintime.com $2,888
6tu.com $4,000 kocoon.com $2,488
hartmedical.com $3,500 4ft.com $2,300
speedvpn.com $3,499 iamsanjayshah.com $2,000
easydoors.com $3,477 microocasion.com $2,000
tokenbroker.com $3,200 samanea.com $2,000

NameKart.com also had a nice basket of sales to announce including Sprinto.com ($4,000), MeatDelivery.com ($3,500) and Technogarden.com ($3,000). EverestStone.com added $2,888 while three others - MeetTheLocals.com, Transcal.com and TrustDeedInvesting.com - kicked in $2,500 apiece. HeritageHonda.com contributed $2,000 more.

Elsewhere, 2PA.com changed hands for $4,000 at Uniregistry and Turff.com moved ClickRealEstate.com for $2,000. 

Country Codes

The ccTLDs were led by that trio of names you saw on the all extension leader board above with Tenga.co setting the pace at $15,000. The biggest sale in this category that you haven't seen yet is #4 on our latest weekly Country Code Top Sales Chart. That is Sedo's $5,700 sale of GamingPCShop.nl. 

Sedo went on to sweep 17 of the 19 chart entries including the rest of the top ten with a group that included #5 Tot.io at $4,950. Aside from Buzzoo.com's sale of the#1 domain, Sedo took everything else except DomainLore.co.uk's $1,399 sale of #19 Kickboxing.co.uk. 

It was another very diverse week for the ccTLDs with 13 different TLDs represented on the leader board. France's .fr won the extension race with four chart entries. No other TLD had more than two. Here is how the top ccTLD sales stacked up for the week ending Sunday, December 9, 2018:

Country Code Top Sales Chart
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Dec. 3, 2018 - Sun. Dec. 9, 2018
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Dec. 12, 2018)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Tenga.co $15,000 Buzzoo/GoDaddy
2. MyHead.co.uk £9,995 = $12,594 Sedo
3. Rentberry.ca $8,888 Sedo
4. GamingPCShop.nl €5,000 = $5,700 Sedo
5. Tot.io $4,950 Sedo
6. Tischdeko.de €3,300 = $3,762 Sedo
7. Rewards.us $3,499 Sedo
8. Bergamotte.fr €3,000 = $3,420 Sedo
9. Bratle.us €2,750 = $3,135 Sedo
10. Porto.fr €2,700 = $3,078 Sedo

11.  Champion.hk $3,000 Sedo
12. Devoir.fr $2,950 Sedo
13. Warn.in $2,900 Sedo
14. 68.no €2,499 = $2,849 Sedo
15.
tie		 Ethere.al $2,650 Sedo
15.
tie		 PornGames.io $2,500 Sedo
15.
tie		 EuroCam.eu €2,000 = $2,280 Sedo
18. Groupe-Electrogene.fr €2,000 = $2,280 Sedo
19. Kickboxing.co.uk £1,110 = $1,399 DomainLore.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)

The Non .com gTLDs were, of course, led by the five sales from this group that you saw on the all-extension leader board at the top of this report. We.global led the way at $22,000 and helped that extension claim six of the 13 sales reported in this category. 

The biggest sales in this group that you haven't seen yet are a pair of .global domains that tied for #6 on our latest weekly Non .com gTLD Top Sales Chart. Those were GSS.global and Linked.global at $4,800 each. Here is how the non .com gTLD sales stacked up for the week ending Sunday, December 9, 2018:

Non .Com gTLD Top Sales Chart
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Dec. 3, 2018 - Sun. Dec. 9, 2018
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Dec. 12, 2018)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. We.global $22,000 .GLOBAL Registry
2. Dental.store $11,785 Sedo
3.
tie		 Hello.global $8,000 .GLOBAL Registry
3.
tie		 NGS.global $8,000 .GLOBAL Registry
5. Shaw.nyc $7,000 Developed.nyc/
Afternic
6.
tie		 GSS.global $4,800 .GLOBAL Registry
6.
tie		 Linked.global $4,800 .GLOBAL Registry
8. EnergyNet.net $4,500 NameKart
9. Windshield.org €2,500 = $2,850 Sedo
10. EPX.net $2,500 NameKart
11. Spire.global $2,400 .GLOBAL Registry
12. LifeHealth.org $2,200 Sedo
13. Emprego.online $1,000 Pvt Sale

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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