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Editor's Note: The weekly Top 20 Chart below (published April 17, 2019) has been updated, however, for full transparency, we have left the headlihne and text leading into it in its original form. The $1.79 million sale referenced in the headline was XA.com, a name that Chinese company XAG announced they sold for that price. However, since posting the sale last week we have received additional information from reliable sources indicating that the price announced may not be accurate. We have removed it from our chart as a result. While it is possible the stated price was correct the conflicting information we now have makes it uncertain, requiring retraction of the listing with AccidentAttorney.com replacing XA.com at the top of the chart.

Chinese Company's $1.79 Million Purchase of a 2-Letter .COM Tops This Week's Sales Chart

In the 2nd biggest domain sale reported so far this year Chinese company XAG has announced their acquisition of XA.com for ¥12,000,000 ($1,794,152 at today's exchange rate). Elliot Silver spotted XAG's tweet about the purchase this morning and wrote more about the sale at his site, DomainInvesting.com. The only bigger sale reported so far this year was California.com at $3 million in January.

It looks like the XA.com sale closed in 4Q-2018. We chart sales the week they first come to light if they have occurred within the past 12 months. When older sales than that are discovered we add them to the Top 100 Chart for the year in which the sale occurred (assuming they are high enough to qualify). You can see our annual Top 100 charts for each of the past 13 years in our Sales Archive (scroll down past the links to our past wekly reports). 

Elliot was also the first to report the #2 domain on our latest weekly all extension Top 20 Sales Chart - GoDaddy's sale of AccidentAttorney.com at $150,000. Industry veteran Jebediah Burnett, who recently joined GoDaddy after a long stint at Donuts, brokered that sale. 

By Ron Jackson

News about the #3 sale on the Big Board - Prometheum.com at $71,842 -  came from another guy who has uncovered countless sales that have been on our charts over the years, George Kirikos. George, who has a new blog at FreeSpeech.com, wrote a post there about finding the sale of Prometheum.com to a blockchain company while going through an SEC filing. Like, XA.com, the transaction occurred in 4Q-2018.

The past week's #4 sale is also especially noteworthy. Sedo's $62,150 sale of IA.de is the highest country code sale reported so far this year. This is the second week in a row that a ccTLD sale set a new high water mark. The previous leader, Smart.co at $52,820, had reached #1 just last week. 

Flippa.com, who sent us a list of their top 1Q-2019 sales this week, rounded out the first five with Associate.com at $45,000. That helped the .coms sweep 15 of the 20 chart entries.

The ccTLDs took three places on the elite list. In addition to selling IA.de for Christoph Grüneberg, Sedo, who piled up 14 charted sales, moved #6 Lootjes.nl ("lots" in Dutch) for $33,335 and NameService.com sold # 8 Neo.tv for $20,000.

That left two spots for the non .com gTLDs. Sedo took both of those with #9 Historica.org at $16,809 and #16 (tie) Dubai.app at $10,000.

Here's a look at how all of the sales leaders stacked for the week ending Sunday, April 14, 2019:

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The DN Journal Top 20 
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. April 8, 2019 - Sun. April 14, 2019
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect April 17, 2019)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. AccidentAttorney.com $150,000 GoDaddy
2. Prometheum.com $71,842 Pvt Sale
3. IA.de €55,000 = $62,150 Sedo
4. Associate.com $45,000 Flippa
5. Lootjes.nl
("lots" in Dutch)		 €29,500 = $33,335 Sedo
6. KPO.com $33,000 Sedo
7. Neo.tv $20,000 NameService
8. Historica.org €14,875 = $16,809 Sedo
9. Manipulate.com $13,500 JazzDomain
10. Gruporg.com £10,000 = $13,000 Sedo

11. Capiche.com $12,000 Sedo
12. Autopiter.com €9,900 = $11,187 Sedo
13. Chacon.com €9,850 = $11,131 Sedo
14. BWCO.com $11,000 Sedo
15.
tie		 Dubai.app $10,000 Sedo
15.
tie		 FXGT.com $10,000 Sedo
15.
tie		 HempDirectory.com $10,000 Sedo
15.
tie		 MoneyVox.com $10,000 Sedo
15.
tie		 NextGuest.com $10,000 Sedo
20. RugbyShirts.com $9,500 Flippa

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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.Com Supporting Cast

Sedo led the .com supporting cast of four-figure sales with BallotSecurity.com at $8,596. NordicOil.com hit an $8,500 gusher and Convertic.com clicked for $7,797. 3DO.com drew $6,779, MyCups.com quaffed $6,500 and HypnotherapyAudios.com commanded $6,100.

Sedo picked up another $6,000 for InversoGlobal.com, $5,650 for BudMaster.com and $5,465 for OmniGym.com. Sedo had 35 more .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $5,000 that are listed in the table below:

Additional Sedo .com Sales Between $2,000 - $5,000
feiyuan.com $5,000   69100.com $3,000
growflow.com $5,000 91700.com $3,000
softservemachine.com $5,000 dmrk.com $3,000
tvlk.com $5,000 fooded.com $3,000
cloudtechsolutions.com $4,999 uniemail.com $3,000
nedka.com $4,900 vness.com $3,000
wearedata.com $4,520 voyeurhits.com $3,000
kaiusa.com $4,100 beforeigo.com $2,995
tyresone.com $3,955 sleepdove.com $2,985
eyup.com $3,900 action-visa.com $2,958
netrating.com $3,900 coliv.com $2,750
highiq.com $3,888 cerdia.com $2,700
sincronica.com $3,842 chefsresource.com $2,500
agjt.com $3,500 tortia.com $2,450
golfcartinsurance.com $3,500 centralaccess.com $2,200
olsencapital.com $3,500 spothunter.com $2,077
viak.com $3,500 hempdenim.com $2,000
wispwest.com $3,500  

Meanwhile, Flippa collected $5,500 for Zuppy.com, $4,000 for AdExperts.com and $3,399 for SEOOutsourcing.com. ImpeachTrump.com kicked in $3,300, Annoyed.com notched $3,000 and Vaporisers.com contributed $2,750. BookDoctor.com bagged $2,299 and OakridgeCapital.com collected $2,000. 

Country Codes

The ccTLDs were led by that trio of five-figure sales you saw on the top half of the all extension leader board above with Sedo's $62,150 sale of IA.de - the year's biggest ccTLD sale to date - leading the way. The biggest sale in this group that you haven't seen yet is #4 on our latest weekly Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart. That is Sedo's $9,492 sale of Swiss domain Mann.ch at $9,492.

CreativeMedia.us rounded out the first five with an $8,535 sale of Horeca.tv that they made through Sedo. James Iles at Iles Media also had one of the top sales, moving #6 Pen.co for $8,524. Sedo swept almost everything else - the other exceptions being Magnum Domains's sales of #11 BOU.co and #12 Lina.co at $4,980 each and Flippa's $3,078 sale of #19  POD.io.

The extension race wound up in a three-way tie between Germany's .de, Switzerland's .ch and Colombia's .co with three chart entries apiece. Here is how the top ccTLD sales stacked up for the week ending Sunday, April 14, 2019:

Domain Name Industry Newsletter

Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart
Highest Reported ccTLD Sales - Mon. April 8, 2019 - Sun. April 14, 2019
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect April 17, 2019)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. IA.de €55,000 = $62,150 Sedo
2. Lootjes.nl
("lots" in Dutch)		 €29,500 = $33,335 Sedo
3. Neo.tv $20,000 NameService
4. Mann.ch €8,400 = $9,492 Sedo
5. Horeca.tv £6,565 = $8,535 CreativeMedia.us/
Sedo
6. Pen.co $8,524 Iles Media
7. Lyst.at €5,500 = $6,215 Sedo
8. Lyst.ch €5,500 = $6,215 Sedo
9. RowingBlazers.it €5,000 = $5,650 Sedo
10. Fragrance.id $5,000 Sedo

11. BOU.co $4,980 MagnumDomains
12. Lina.co $4,980 MagnunDomains
13. KIK.ro €4,000 = $4,520 Sedo
14. Tasmania.de €4,000 = $4,520 Sedo
15. Who.st $3,699 Sedo
16. Usedom-Gastgeber.de €3,213 = $3,631 Sedo
17. Origin.us $3,400 Sedo
18. QAD.nl €2,900 = $3,277 Sedo
19. POD.io $3,078 Flippa
20. Einwillgung.ch $2,888 Sedo

CLICK HERE for our Year-To-Date Charts.

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There were 13 more four-figure ccTLD sales off the chart led by Sedo's sales of WER.io at $2,800 and three others - ABCO.us, Species.tv and XUE.cc - at $2,500 each. They added $2,486 for LQ.be, while Credit-Auto.fr fetched $2,260 and IEO.co sold for $2,000.

Back at Flippa, Pelis24.tv tuned in $2,310, Info-tses.kz kicked in $2,000, GifMix.de made $1,500 and Cold.io collected $1,101. 

Elsewhere GolanMedia used Undeveloped.com to sell Forall .co for $1,885.

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 the two five-figure sales you saw on the all extension leader board above - Historica.org ($16,809) and Dubai.app ($10,000) - with Sedo booking both of those. Sedo went on to claim nine of the 12 sales reported in this category, including #3 Assistant.app at $5,000.

Flippa took the other three spots on our latest weekly Non .com gTLD Top Sales Chart with #7 Wholesale.info at $2,769 leading their trio. 

Here is how the non .com gTLD sales stacked up for the week ending Sunday, April 14, 2019:

Non .Com gTLD Top Sales Chart
Highest Reported Non .Com gTLD Sales - Mon. April 8, 2019 - Sun. April 14, 2019
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect April 17, 2019)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Historica.org €14,875 = $16,809 Sedo
2. Dubai.app $10,000 Sedo
3. Assistant.app $5,000 Sedo
4. Drone.info $3,900 Sedo
5. Arcade.one $3,000 Sedo
6. Vyas.net $3,000 Sedo
7. Wholesale.info $2,769 Flippa
8. Diesel.net $2,666 Flippa
9. George.pro €2,019 = $2,281 Sedo
10. Club.app $2,000 Sedo
11. RenewalTherapy.org $2,000 Sedo
12. Infection.org $1,650 Flippa

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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