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Booking the Week's #1 Domain Sale Should Have the Former Owner of ILL.com Feeling a Lot Better!

Nobody likes to be sick but everyone loves a 3-letter domain name, especially one that is also a dictionary word! That was shown again this week when Sedo Senior Broker Dave Evanson closed a $70,000 deal for ILL.com, giving Dave his latest stay at the top of our weekly all extension Top 20 Sales Chart. The domain was being used by a California cycling club and was still resolving to their site at press time even though the transfer of the domain has been completed. The identity of the new owner is under WhoIs Privacy so it remains to be seen how they will use the domain. There are obviously a lot of great potential uses for it in the medical field but, as with any 3-letter domain, it could also be used as an acronym by a variety of companies and organizations.

Sedo pretty much had the show to themselves this week, sweeping 18 of the 20 chart entries, including the entire top half of the elite list. They filled the #2 slot with NVDR.com at $40,000 and #3 with the week's biggest ccTLD sale, Appiscreen.fr (French for "iScreen App) at $31,122. That was one of six country code domains to crash the Big Board. The non .com gTLDs also got into the act, though it was a single entry, Sedo's $19,000 sale of a new gTLD - #4 Go.holdings. The .coms claimed everything else, taking 13 of 20 entries overall. 

By Ron Jackson

Two different sellers used Afternic to close the two charted sales that did not go to Sedo - and both of those were ccTLDs. MagnumDomains.com moved #11 HOD.co for $10,000 with that domain already being put to good use as the new home of a company called Home Owners Direct. Mark Levine's DomainTheory.com cashed in with another country code sale, #15 Entrust.io at $6,850.  

One other interesting bit of sales news to share with you before we go to this week's chart. A few days ago I published an article in our Lowdown section about a Guta.com sales report that provided some insight into activity at the high end of the domain market that goes unseen because most sales in that range are subject to NDAs. Sales of 2-letter .coms were a primary example of that. Along those same lines I've learned (and seen documentation proving) that MavenDomains.com has brokered a $2.2 million dollar sale of another very nice 2-letter .com. As with those in the Guta report the name is subject to a non disclosure agreement, but I think it is important to periodically remind readers that the publicly reports sales we are able to compile each week are just a fraction of what is happening in the aftermarket, especially at the high end were NDAs are especially commonplace.

Now, let's take a look at how the sales leaders stacked for the week ending Sunday, January 13, 2019:

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The DN Journal Top 20 
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Jan. 7, 2019 - Sun. Jan. 13, 2019
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Jan. 16, 2019)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. ILL.com $70,000 Sedo
2. NDVR.com $40,000 Sedo
3. Appiscreen.fr
("iScreen App" in French)		 €27,300 = $31,122 Sedo
4. Go.holdings $19,000 Sedo
5. Sauber.com €15,000 = $17,100 Sedo
6. Cannabliss.com £12,000 = $15,480 Sedo
7. Brasileirinhas.com $15,000 Sedo
8. Bashed.com €12,000 = $13,680 Sedo
9.
tie		 Cosmetic.de €10,000 = $11,400 Sedo
9.
tie		 Lokalnachrichten.de
("local news" in German)		 €10,000 = $11,400 Sedo

11. HOD.co $10,000 MagnumDomains/
Afternic
12. Aronsson.com $9,995 Sedo
13. Vowwe.com $9,111 Sedo
14. Saleintop.com $9,075 Sedo
15. Entrust.io $6,850 DomainTheory/
Afternic
16. Noma.de €5,800 = $6,612 Sedo
17. Talenting.com €5,350 = $6,099 Sedo
18.
tie		 Chanas.com $5,800 Sedo
18.
tie		 FreeSquare.com $5,800 Sedo
20. ZoomDigital.com €5,000 = $5,700 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 I-novation.com at $5,586. Three others - BodyJewelrySource.com, HempDrying.com and TruckJunkie.com - went for $5,000 each. FunnelHackers.com fetched another $4,999 and MoneyTrends.com made $4,752.

Sedo had 22 more four-figure sales ranging from $2,000 to $4,500 that are listed in the table below:

Additional Sedo .com Sales Between $2,000 - $4,500
americanrubber.com  $4,500   ooox.com  $3,000
fowling.com  $4,500 andstore.com  $2,950
ghdp.com  $4,500 arkiva.com  $2,950
3d-model.com  $4,446 roobet.com  $2,899
esdy.com  $4,000 yogadise.com  $2,850
ecolino.com  $3,700 micmall.com  $2,600
genvox.com  $3,488 nalt.com  $2,500
ballooon.com  $3,300 vrcasting.com  $2,500
getfrank.com  $3,200 smusics.com  $2,499
csconline.com  $3,000 itiswell.com  $2,000
ooot.com  $3,000 nicetown.com  $2,000

Elsewhere, Mark Levine's DomainTheory.com closed two more sales moving AssetGeek.com through BrandBucket for $3,285 and HolisticHomes.com via Afternic for $2,988. 

Country Codes

The ccTLDs were led by the six sales you saw in the all extension section above, four of which reach five figures. In addition to chart topper Appiscreen.fr at $31,122, Cosmetic.de and Lokalnachrichrten.de went for $11,400 apiece (all via Sedo) while MagnumDomains sold HOD.co for $10,000 through Afternic. The highest sale is this category that you haven't seen yet is #7 on our latest weekly Country Code Top Sales Chart. That is Sedo's $5,699 sale of #7 Paybit.se.

Sedo went on to sweep 14 of the 18 chart entries. Among the few exceptions was the AscendDomains sale of #17 SunCo.in at $1,295 and a $1,099 sale of #18 Bview.co.uk by DomainLore.co.uk. 

In a diverse week in which 11 different TLDs earned spots on the leader board, Germany's .de won a tight extension race nipping France's .fr four entries to three. Here is how the top ccTLD sales stacked up for the week ending Sunday, January 13, 2019:

Country Code Top Sales Chart
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Jan. 7, 2019 - Sun. Jan. 13, 2019
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Jan. 16, 2019)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Appiscreen.fr
("iScreen App" in French)		 €27,300 = $31,122 Sedo
2.
tie		 Cosmetic.de €10,000 = $11,400 Sedo
2.
tie		 Lokalnachrichrten.de
("local news" in German)		 €10,000 = $11,400 Sedo
4. HOD.co $10,000 MagnumDomains/
Afternic
5. Entrust.io $6,850 DomainTheory/
Afternic
6. Noma.de €5,800 = $6,612 Sedo
7. Paybit.se €4,999 = $5,699 Sedo
8. Filebox.cn $5,385 Sedo
9. e-Auto.ch €3,700 = $4,218 Sedo
10. Heiskontroll.no €2,950 = $3,363 Sedo

11.  DesignChina.cn $2,999 Sedo
12. Kidde.co.uk $2,688 Sedo
13. Team360.de €2,200 = $2,508 Sedo
14.
tie		 Cage.fr €2,000 = $2,280 Sedo
14.
tie		 Rainbow.fr €2,000 = $2,280 Sedo
14.
tie		 Wonders.es €2,000 = $2,280 Sedo
17. SunCo.in $1,295 AscendDomains
18. Bview.co.uk £852 = $1,099 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 led by their lone entry on the all extension Top 20 you saw above - Sedo's $19,000 sale of Go.holdings. Sedo also nailed down the #2 spot on our latest weekly Non .com gTLD Top Sales Chart with XNX.net at $5,000.

Next came a logjam in the #3 spot - a seven-way tie between a group of domains sold by the .GLOBAL Registry that went for $4,800 each. Those included API.global, Beam.global, Genius.global, Hope.global, IMA.global, Tag.global and Utility.global.

With that, it was no surprise that .global won the extension race with eight chart entries overall but Sedo made it close with seven. The other spots went to Enrico Schaefer who sold #13 Sauna.space in a private transaction for $3,200 and AZ.company who sold #14 Development.company through Uniregistry for $3,000.

Here is how the non .com gTLD sales stacked up for the week ending Sunday, January 13, 2019:

Non .Com gTLD Top Sales Chart
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Jan. 7, 2019 - Sun. Jan. 13, 2019
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Jan. 16, 2019)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Go.holdings $19,000 Sedo
2. XNX.net $5,000 Sedo
3.
tie		 API.global $4,800 .GLOBAL Registry
3.
tie		 Beam.global $4,800 .GLOBAL Registry
3.
tie		 Genius.global $4,800 .GLOBAL Registry
3.
tie		 Hope.global $4,800 .GLOBAL Registry
3.
tie		 IMA.global $4,800 .GLOBAL Registry
3.
tie		 Tag.global $4,800 .GLOBAL Registry
3.
tie		 Utility.global $4,800 .GLOBAL Registry
10. Curso.net €3,500 = $3,990 Sedo
11. Knife.org $3,888 Sedo
12.  TMCE.org €3,075 = $3,506 Sedo
13. Sauna.space $3,200 Pvt Sale
14. Development.company $3,000 AZ.company/
Uniregistry
15. Hanime.net $2,861 Sedo
16. LawCorp.club $2,800 Sedo
17. Kingdom.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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