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Gorilla.com Goes Ape! Smashes Door Into the Year's Top Ten with a $496,000 Sale

An old joke asks "where does an 800-pound gorilla sit?" The answer, or course, is "anywhere it wants to!" Well this week, Gorilla.com decided it wanted to sit at the to of our latest weekly all extension Top 20 Sales Chart and no one was able to stop it after industry pioneer and RightOfTheDot.com President Monte Cahn let us know he closed a $496,320 deal for Gorilla.com last month. The domain was bought a major eSports betting company based in Russia and they are already operating from the attention-getting new acquisition. In addition to easily topping this week's chart, Gorilla.com claimed a spot among the ten biggest domain sales reported so far this year. 

The non .com gTLDs also got a new member of their 2019 top ten when we learned about a $91,000 sale of ZB.app to an as yet unidentified Chinese buyer. The sale, that went through Afternic, closed last month and, in addition to landing at #2 on this week's chart, it ranks as the year's third biggest sale in this category, trailing only Casinos.org ($400,000 in June) and Free.games ($335,000 in May).

The ccTLDs also got into the act with one of their 20 biggest sales of the year to date. DomainLore.uk moved Holiday.co.uk for $35,927, putting it at #4 on this week's chart and #18 on our YTD ccTLD Top 100 (the second chart on the page linked to).

By Ron Jackson

The first five on this week's honor roll was rounded out by a pair of Uniregistry sales - #3 Squeezed.com at $50,000 and #5 TravelAdvantage.com at $33,000. Uni went on to pile up nine chart entries overall, including a second one for the non .com gTLDs - #15 (tie) Faculty.net at $10,000.

Still, it was the .coms that ran rampant, sweeping 17 of the 20 chart entries including six that went through Sedo. Their group was led by #6 Wedog.com at $25,000. The .coms also got a boost from DomainMarket.com's $14,888 sale of #11 EnterpriseAuction.com to Enterprise Rent-a-Car and Media Code, LLC's $10,000 sale of #15 (tie) FOTC.com via Uniregistry.

Here's how all of the sales leaders stacked for the week ending Sunday, October 27, 2019:  

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The DN Journal Top 20 
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Oct, 21, 2019 - Sun. Oct. 27, 2019
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Oct. 30, 2019)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Gorilla.com $496,320 RightOfTheDot
2. ZB.app $91,000 Afternic
3. Squeezed.com $50,000 Uniregistry
4. Holiday.co.uk £27,850 = $35,927 DomainLore.uk
5. TravelAdvantage.com $33,000 Uniregistry
6. Wedog.com $25,000 Sedo
7. Flexable.com $19,800 Sedo
8. RecoverIt.com $16,000 Uniregistry
9.
tie		 Halva.com $15,000 Uniregistry
9.
tie		 ModernCare.com $15,000 Uniregistry

11. EnterpriseAuction.com $14,888 DomainMarket
12. Goldina.com €11,000 = $12,210 Sedo
13.
tie		 Barramundi.com $11,000 Uniregistry
13.
tie		 Petabyte.com $11,000 Sedo
15.
tie		 Faculty.net $10,000 Uniregistry
15.
tie		 FOTC.com $10,000 Media Code, LLC/
Uniregistry
15.
tie		 ManForce.com $10,000 Uniregistry
15.
tie		 OP360.com $10,000 Sedo
19. Linel.com €7,800 = $8,658 Sedo
20. Groomen.com $8,500 Uniregistry

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

The .com supporting cast of four-figure sales was led by Uniregistry's $7,500 sale of COTC.com. They added $6,700 for Principio.com, $6,000 for Tusas.com and $5,746 for OTYS.com. ArabEdition.com and Happy99.com notched $5,500 each while Traigo.com kicked in $5,469. WorldSmart.com went for $5,250 and YardLink.com yielded $5,155.

Back at Sedo, Pernaturam.com posted $6,938, Beitel.com brought $6,105 and Aromar.com drew $5,980. FORW.com clicked for $5,828, Hygena.com generated $5,550, Jongen.com commanded $5,549 and PrivateID.com produced $5,200.

Sedo had 30 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
cloud22.com $5,000   comtuer.com $3,445
howtosell.com $5,000 boostbet.com $3,225
purenectar.com $5,000 seneque.com $3,219
corpia.com $4,900 policebox.com $3,177
lunella.com $4,838 fitboost.com $3,000
gosauna.com $4,500 closd.com $2,500
heelr.com $4,500 jhag.com $2,500
gr8pay.com $4,010 11one.com $2,220
lajollacalifornia.com $4,000 neorizon.com $2,220
sabbar.com $4,000 idrica.com $2,200
tinyhousedesign.com $4,000 warmlab.com $2,195
w-sports.com $4,000 vivajo.com $2,100
theartexchange.com $3,750 fittour.com $2,000
hazelstreet.com $3,625 metallicus.com $2,000
ufaith.com $3,500 mynewroof.com $2,000

Elsewhere, DomainTheory.com sold WorkMedia.com for $3,500.

Country Codes

The ccTLDs were, of course, led by their lone entry on the all extension leader board you saw above - DomainLore.uk's $35,927 sale of Holiday.co.uk. Sedo swept the next four spots on  our latest weekly Country Code Top Sales Chart, starting with #2 TAF.se at $5,550 and #3 CasinoEnlinea.mx at $5,000.

Sedo went on to sweep 16 of the 19 chart entries. The only other exceptions were DomainTheory's $4,500 sale of #6 Wheelhouse.io and OwnThisDomain.co.uk's $1,226 sale oo PPL.org.uk.

With 13 different TLDs represented on the leader board the extension race wound up in a dead heat with Germany's .de and Switzerland's .ch taking three chart entries each.  Here is how the top ccTLD sales stacked up for the week ending Sunday, October 27, 2019:

Domain Name Industry Newsletter

Country Code Top Sales Chart
Highest Reported ccTLD Sales - Mon. Oct, 21, 2019 - Sun. Oct. 27, 2019
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Oct. 30, 2019)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Holiday.co.uk £27,850 = $35,927 DomainLore.uk
2. TAF.se €5,000 = $5,550 Sedo
3. CasinoEnlinea.mx $5,000 Sedo
4. GG.gl $4,780 Sedo
5. Lucatis.ch €4,200 = $4,662 Sedo
6. Wheelhouse.io $4,500 DomainTheory
7. MyBike.be €4,000 = $4,440 Sedo
8. FUT.co €3,150 = $3,497 Sedo
9. Tubeo.eu €3,000 = $3,330 Sedo
10. LawButler.de €2,900 = $3,219 Sedo

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11. Banca.me $3,000 Sedo
12.
tie		 Bauprofi24.ch €2,500 = $2,775 Sedo
12.
tie		 LA.ai €2,500 = $2,775 Sedo
12.
tie		 SB-IT.de €2,500 = $2,775 Sedo
15. Alltagshilfen.ch €2,490 = $2,764 Sedo
16. Wohnzimmer.de €2,000 = $2,220 Sedo
17.
tie		 Anza.ca $2,000 Sedo
17.
tie		 Dew.co $2,000 Sedo
19. PPL.org.uk £950 = $1,226 OwnThisDomain.co.uk

CLICK HERE for our Year-To-Date Charts.

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)

Only six sales were reported in the non .com gTLD category this week but one of those was that $91,000 new gTLD blockbuster at Afternic for ZB.app. You also saw the $10,000 sale of Faculty.net on the all extension leader board, leaving #3 Transen.net at the largest sale from this group you haven't seen yet. Sedo moved that domain for $2,553 and picked up another $2,495 for #4 Dreamer.xyz.

The final two spots went to a pair of .club sales at GoDaddy - Journey.club and Swimming.club at $2,000 apiece. Here is how the non .com gTLD sales stacked up in chart form for the week ending ending Sunday, October 27, 2019:

Non .Com gTLD Top Sales Chart
Highest Reported Non .Com gTLD Sales - Mon. Oct, 21, 2019 - Sun. Oct. 27, 2019
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Oct. 30, 2019)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. ZB.app $91,000 Afternic
2. Faculty.net $10,000 Uniregistry
3. Transen.net €2,300 = $2,553 Sedo
4. Dreamer.xyz $2,495 Sedo
5.
tie		 Journey.club $2,000 GoDaddy
5.
tie		 Swimming.club $2,000 GoDaddy
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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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