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Blockbuster Sale of California.com Gets 2019 Domain Sales Season Off to a Good Start

Earlier today we released the news that Mark Thomas, the CEO & Founder at VIPBrokerage.com, had closed a $3 million sale of a great geodomain - California.com. That's the biggest geodomain sale reported since we began tracking and verifying aftermarket sales back in 2003 (in 2000, before I entered the industry, there were some credible reports of a $5 million sale of Korea.com). The California.com sale also ranks as one of the all-time 20 biggest sales we've reported in any category, tying for 17th on that elite list. So kudos to Mark on another big sale - he's had many including one of the five biggest in 2017, 01.com at $1.82 million.

Another guy who is no stranger to the upper end of the market - James Booth at BQDN.com - also rang the bell again this week, closing a $115,000 sale of GME.com. The ever popular 3-letter .coms have been one of James's specialties and he has sold an extraordinary number of them in recent years.

Another big development this week was getting a previously undisclosed list of recent sales from long time friend Greg Ricks at PerfectName.com. When I entered the business in 2002 Greg owned DNForum.com where I and many others first learned the ins and outs of the business. Greg has a great portfolio so he is always closing sales but he credits this recent wave of them to deciding to put a price tag on a number of names that were previously in "Make Offer" status. Operators of sales platforms are always saying you can make more sales if you price your domains and Greg's results may be "exhibit A" for that as he wound up sweeping nine spots on our latest weekly all extension Top 20 Sales Chart, including six of the top 10. PerfectName's run started with #3 RedBarn.com at $60,750 and #5 ALR.com at $55,000. 

By Ron Jackson

Sandwiched in between those two was Sedo's $59,999 sale of Adika.com. Sedo had a nice outing too, matching PerfectName with nine chart entries of their own. Sedo's haul included both of the ccTLD sales that made the Big Board - #16 Luminaires.fr at $11,400 and #20 NXO.eu at $9,750.

The non .com gTLDs were limited to just one entry, but that was a very solid one - PerfectName's $25,000 sale of #10 Email.org. Everything else went to the .coms. 

Here is how the sales leaders stacked for the week ending Sunday, January 20, 2019:

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The DN Journal Top 20 
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Jan. 14, 2019 - Sun. Jan. 20, 2019
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Jan. 23, 2019)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. California.com $3,000,000 VIPBrokerage
2. GME.com $115,000 BQDN
3. RedBarn.com $60,750 PerfectName
4. Adika.com $59,999 Sedo
5. ALR.com $55,000 PerfectName
6. Olsen.com $51,511 PerfectName
7. Extracts.com $37,700 PerfectName
8. Jujube.com $29,750 PerfectName
9. Dossier.com $27,000 Sedo
10. Email.org $25,000 PerfectName

11. GogoCasino.com £15,000 = $19,650 Sedo
12. Sego.com $16,250 PerfectName
13. Consenso.com $15,000 Sedo
14. SystemX.com $12,500 PerfectName
15. Jota.com $11,420 PerfectName
16. Luminaires.fr €10,000 = $11,400 Sedo
17. U2B.com £8,000 = $10,480 Sedo
18. Kanabi.com $10,000 Sedo
19. CasinoJackpot.com $9,988 Sedo
20. NXO.eu $9,750 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.

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The All-Time Top 20 All-Cash Domain Sales Reported By DNJournal.com
 (2003 to Now)

.Com Supporting Cast

Uniregistry led the .com supporting cast of four-figure sales by selling KY7.com for domain industry veteran Howard Hoffman at $9,700. 

Back at Sedo, 1Core.com banked $8,985, SoBlue.com sold for $7,000 and UpsideDown.com drew $6,500. BeePlus.com plucked $6,000, WeedWeed.com went for $5,500, Smudge.com clicked for $5,423 and SupportX.com delivered $5,010. 

Sedo had 28 more four-figure sales ranging from $2,000 to $5,000 that are listed in the table below:

Additional Sedo .com Sales Between $2,000 - $5,000
4pizza.com $5,000   swisshealthcare.com $3,420
biologistic.com $5,000 enlyte.com $3,000
coolvpn.com $5,000 lakka.com $3,000
cutebabies.com $5,000 opensmile.com $3,000
weddingmatch.com $4,995 pellerano.com $3,000
kredit-vergleich.com $4,673 thebestapps.com $2,500
realiste.com $4,600 losthotel.com $2,499
kirche.com $4,560 mrcaptain.com $2,499
damnlol.com $3,999 hostaudit.com $2,400
myvessel.com $3,999 baotuoitre.com $2,000
aviaro.com $3,990 bzsports.com $2,000
anypass.com $3,876 forsvar.com $2,000
cellarity.com $3,750 myrap.com $2,000
vetox.com $3,500 taesang.com $2,000

Elsewhere, PerfectName added three more to their pile - getting $7,125 fpr Coordinator.com, $6,875 for Dartmoor.com and $3,750 for NJBets.com.

Aset.com also got into the act, using Afternic to sell ViralEmpire.com for $2,000. 

Country Codes

The ccTLDs were led by the two Sedo sales you saw in the all extension section above - Luminaires.fr ($11,400) and NXO.eu ($9,750). The highest sale is this category that you haven't seen yet is #3 on our latest weekly Country Code Top Sales Chart. That is Sedo's $6,840 sale of #3 JavaHouse.de.

Sedo, who almost always dominates this category, rounded out the first five with FlashScore.com.mx at $6,100 and a pair of domains that tied for the 5th position, Günstigekredite.de (an IDN) and Fuze.fr, at $5,700 each. They went on sweep 12 of the 15 chart entries.

DomainLore.co.uk nailed down two spots with #8 Promote.co.uk at $4,205 and #10 Loaned.co.uk at $3,472. AscendDomains.com also got on the board after selling WYN.co.in for a $1,300 offer that came in from the GoDaddy Domain Buy Service.

Here is how the top ccTLD sales stacked up for the week ending Sunday, January 20, 2019:

Country Code Top Sales Chart
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Jan. 14, 2019 - Sun. Jan. 20, 2019
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Jan. 23, 2019)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Luminaires.fr €10,000 = $11,400 Sedo
2. NXO.eu $9,750 Sedo
3. Javahouse.de €6,000 = $6,840 Sedo
4. FlashScore.com.mx $6,100 Sedo
5.
tie		 Günstigekredite.de €5,000 = $5,700 Sedo
5.
tie		 Fuze.fr €5,000 = $5,700 Sedo
7. MyCommerce.ch €4,500 = $5,130 Sedo
8. Promote.co.uk £3,210 = $4,205 DomainLore.co.uk
9. Cinema.pt €3,200 = $3,648 Sedo
10. Loaned.co.uk £2,650 = $3,472 DomainLore.co.uk

11.  DomainNames.de €2,500 = $2,850 Sedo
12. Herba.co.uk £2,000 = $2,620 Sedo
13. Shopify.no $2,600 Sedo
14. Aiadmk.in $2,550 Sedo
15. WYN.co.in $1,300 AscendDomains/
GoDaddy Domain Buy Service

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)

It was slow going for the Non .com gTLDs this week with only five sales reported for the entire category. As I noted in the all extension section above, the group was headlined by that $25,000 sale of Email.org by PerfectName.

Sedo booked the other four non .com gTLDs with a air of .nets and a pair of .orgs. Their quartet was led by Jewel.net at $4,423.

Here is how the non .com gTLD sales stacked up for the week ending Sunday, January 20, 2019:

Non .Com gTLD Top Sales Chart
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Jan. 14, 2019 - Sun. Jan. 20, 2019
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Jan. 23, 2019)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Email.org $25,000 PerfectName
2. Jewel.net €3,880 = $4,423 Sedo
3. Oyster.org €3,388 = $3,862 Sedo
4. Arcytech.org $3,101 Sedo
5. HostCoin.net $3,000 Sedo

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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