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2019 Domain Sales Season Ends with a Canadian ccTLD Beating All Comers to Win the Year's Last Chart Race 

We're back, refreshed an ready to go after an enjoyable holiday break. I hope you're all feeling the same way and wish you all the best in the new year ahead. On the domain sales front we have a lot of catching up to do. Our last weekly report was on December 18. Christmas Day was one week later and New Year's Day one week after that. With so many people out of their offices (including us) the flow of sales data didn't fully re-open until this week, but now we have it all in hand and, in this report, will bring you completely up to date on all of the top sales from the past three weeks. 

The previously unreported data covers the final two weeks of December and the first week of January, so this will serve as the last chart of the 2019 sales season. The December sales that qualified for our final 2019 Top 100 charts have been entered on those leader boards. The January sales that are high enough to qualify will go onto new 2020 Year to Date Charts that will be next started next week (January 15).

Considering we have three weeks worth of new sales data in hand it was a but of a surprise to see a Canadian ccTLD beat out all other extensions, including the .coms to take the top spot on the leader board. Peter Maxymych from eMall.ca took the trophy with his company's CAD $100,000 (USD $77,000) sale of Ticket.ca to the operators of Billets.ca. That also ranks among the five biggest country code sales of 2019.  

By Ron Jackson

Sedo took the next two spots on the elite list with Touhou.com at $75,000 and an unusually large 3-letter .net sale - OGE.net at $62,000. That gave the latter sale a spot among 2019's five biggest non .com gTLD sales. The .coms rounded out the first five with #4 Novo.com changing hands in a private transaction for $52,999 and Sedo moving #5 Pareto.com for $39,000. Those helped the .coms pile up 14 of the 20 chart entries. 

Uniregistry helped the .com cause with #6 Kibbutz.com at $30,000 and three others, but they gave the non .com gTLDs and the ccTLDs a hand as well. Uni teamed up with New.life to sell #7 Open.money (a new gTLD) for $25,000 and moved #19 (tie) Responsible.co.uk on their own for $15,000.

The non .com gTLDs have tended to lag the field in recent years but they had a great outing this time around, filling five places on the leader board, including two that went through NameJet - #8 WeedCenter.org at $23,100 and #12 Models.net at $19,906.

NameJet's sister site, SnapNames, also earned chart honors with their $15,999 sale of #16 Pacemakers.com. AbdulBasit.com took a turn in the spotlight too after banking $15,888 for #17 Digital-Identity.com.

In addition to all of these current sales, three big historical sales also came to light over the holidays. DomainNameWire's reporting on a legal battle among related co-owners at Future Media Architects revealed that the dispute led to some premier names being sold off in 2014 including 333.com at $750,000 and Bit.com at $300,000. As a result, those sales have been added to the 2014 Top 100 Chart in our Archive where 333.com becomes the #14 sale that year and Bit.com is tied for #27. George Kirikos, who gave me some additional background on the FMA sales also uncovered a $325,000 sale of Stage.com in 2015 while going through an SEC filing. That sale has been added to our 2015 Top 100 Chart where it is now #22 for that year. Our thanks, as always to George, who has brought dozens of these previously undiscovered sales to light over the years.

Now back to the immediate job at hand. Here's how all of the sales leaders stacked up for the three weeks ending Sunday, January 5, 2020:  

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The DN Journal Top 20 
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Dec. 16, 2019 - Sun. Jan. 5, 2020
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Jan. 8, 2020)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Ticket.ca CAD 100,000 = $77,000 eMall.ca
2. Touhou.com $75,000 Sedo
3. OGE.net $62,000 Sedo
4. Novo.com $52,999 Pvt Sale
5. Pareto.com $39,000 Sedo
6. Kibbutz.com $30,000 Uniregistry
7. Open.money $25,000 New.life/
Uniregistry
8. WeedCenter.org $23,100 NameJet
9. Flapp.com $22,500 Uniregistry
10. Nameservers.com $20,001 NameJet

11. Berkah.com $20,000 Uniregistry
12. Models.net $19,906 NameJet
13. DigitalAdoption.com $17,750 Uniregistry
14. Invierto.com €15,000 = $16,800 Sedo
15. Actio.com €14,500 = $16,240 Sedo
16. Pacemakers.com $15,999 SnapNames
17. Digital-Identity.com $15,888 AbdulBasit
18. Geero.com €14,000 = $15,680 Sedo
19.
tie		 Jurnal.com $15,000 Sedo
19.
tie		 Responsible.co.uk $15,000 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.

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There were 17 more five-figure sales just off the chart, with Sedo logging ten of those, including the largest one, EroGames.com at $13,439. They added $12,500 for Osum.com, $12,000 for SexCheck.com, $11,200 for Calyxia.com and $11,016 for QSE.com. SwissAsset.com drew another $10,250 while four others - Bitcoin-Casino.com, GrowthLeads.com, LifeToGo.com and Planodesaude.com - produced $10,000 each.

NameJet scored with Denka.com at $10,249, LIUtilities.com at $10,217 and RapidLoans.com at $10,000.

Uniregistry rang up three more at this level - BML.org, FairX.com and Heartstrings.com - at $10,000 apiece.

Elsewhere, Spansoft Inc. sold Solomar.com for $10,000.

.Com Supporting Cast

The .com supporting cast of four-figure sales was led by Sedo's $9,800 sale of ComBank.com. They booked $8,500 more for Uncovered.com and $8,000 apiece for three others - Dovela.com, LiveMed.com and PowerMBA.com. CardCoach.com and Good123.com added $7,000 each while LiveIn.com landed $6,900. Digimondo.com and SmartsCosmos.com drew $6,500 apiece and Co-da.com clicked for $6,160.

Sedo had 68 more four-figure sales ranging from $2,000 to $6,000 that are listed in the table below:

Additional Sedo .com Sales Between $2,000 - $6,000
appstax.com $6,000   photojobs.com $3,000
openinfra.com $6,000 podq.com $3,000
bestbingosites.com $5,824 sover.com $3,000
munny.com $5,800 taiter.com $3,000
sicario.com $5,712 toet.com $3,000
authenium.com $5,600 seo-agentur.com $2,800
clearspeed.com $5,500 vasmo.com $2,800
ichunddu.com $5,488 vinke.com $2,800
xool.com $5,100 peercollective.com $2,795
5ts.com $5,000 unilia.com $2,695
limepay.com $5,000 frail.com $2,655
m4b.com $5,000 yolda.com $2,650
wellon.com $5,000 salecheap.com $2,550
outstaffer.com $4,888 netflirt.com $2,520
boatfolk.com $4,600 bluecord.com $2,500
ecussons.com $4,430 dxcloud.com $2,500
lastresmellizas.com $4,312 hayan.com $2,500
mobisat.com $4,144 musicminds.com $2,500
betsites.com $4,000 fallingcats.com $2,499
logopress.com $3,920 funnelplus.com $2,395
visiblelearning.com $3,795 marinecorpsflag.com $2,250
pebbl.com $3,750 linqo.com $2,240
autonomia.com $3,600 pangeareptiles.com $2,212
sagana.com $3,591 newurbana.com $2,184
andsunny.com $3,500 dailymillions.com $2,095
meeshop.com $3,500 sadoa.com $2,035
nimmmich.com $3,500 hawaiianrentals.com $2,009
cointic.com $3,450 biani.com $2,000
harties.com $3,416 get2.com $2,000
mc8.com $3,299 impacters.com $2,000
x-fire.com $3,248 justcrashed.com $2,000
vermisse.com $3,039 ruvvi.com $2,000
bufalo.com $3,024 upends.com $2,000
bankdeposit.com $3,000 vertexcrypto.com $2,000

Back at Uniregistry, StateRecords.com returned $9,500 while BestPriceTravel.com and Korp.com kicked in $7,500 each. Cudy.com and HappyElf.com hauled in $8,000 apiece with Westay.com wangling another $6,900 and EZLube.com ladling out $6,500.

Uniregistry logged 18 more sales ranging from $2,000 to $6,000 that are listed in the table below:

Additional Uniregistry Sales Between $2,000 - $6,000
modn.com $6,000   plasticsheet.com $5,000
shoehorns.com $6,000 ucfs.com $5,000
sympatic.com $5,800 vurs.com $5,000
unexplored.com $5,500 asconstruction.com $4,500
languagelearn.com $5,125 lockpickset.com $4,000
goldentriangletours.com $5,000 truckwrap.com $4,000
italianexpress.com $5,000 imageexpress.com $3,650
jkconsulting.com $5,000 seoplanner.com $3,530
loteriamexicana.com $5,000 fanjet.com $3,500

NameJet continued to rock the house as well, raking in $8,900 for Gebi.com, $7,210 for Bustier.com and $6,200 for TV8.com. Tizo.com tallied $6,055, Welco.com welcomed $5,700 and F98.com notched $5,500. T92.com tacked on $5,233 while MobileGear.com generated $5,125 and TrueCompanion.com brought $5,100.

NameJet has 43 more four-figure sales ranging from $2,000 to $4,800 that are listed in the table below:

Additional NameJet Sales Between $2,000 - $4,800
nofx.com $4,800   usedcarsale.com $2,651
exploria.com $4,700 mindcamp.com $2,650
symposia.com $4,305 fresko.com $2,600
assassins.com $4,099 stabilization.com $2,501
futureofwebdesign.com $4,055 buypc.com $2,500
pleasantview.com $4,001 disorganized.com $2,500
aquaria.com $3,766 emballage.com $2,500
iaca.com $3,755 sellmiami.com $2,500
insidesocialgames.com $3,600 apothecare.com $2,456
vrmeeting.com $3,536 v138.com $2,450
petsworld.com $3,533 illig.com $2,411
anchornetbank.com $3,467 japanx.com $2,392
gafu.com $3,335 jnpr.com $2,300
bathremodeling.com $3,099 r40.com $2,250
swisstravel.com $3,099 recalled.com $2,211
hh44.com $3,010 xc55.com $2,210
armorcoat.com $2,912 fishingrod.com $2,201
ka2.com $2,888 unitronic.com $2,200
novaera.com $2,878 wiselaw.com $2,092
kitchenrecipes.com $2,799 governorbryant.com $2,088
bluemont.com $2,750 s234.com $2,050
waldi.com $2,700  

There were also more sales at NameJet's sister site, SnapNames. They rang up $5,306 for SmartStay.com. $5,174 for Bus2Go.com and $4,444 for Bunka.com. Textur.com captured $3,799, SportsTime.com spawned $3,433 and ReadyToWear.com attracted $3,323. YourPage.com yielded $3,002, Chuyennha.com chalked up $2,790 and ClinicaEstetica.com claimed $2,488. Andao.com deposited $2,100, TasteOfItaly.com cooked up $2,001 and, in a sale SnapNames teamed up with Sedo to make, SupplyGiant.com secured $3,800.

Elsewhere, Media Code LLC collected $5,000 for WarrenCapital.com and $4,150 for OffshoreHub.com.

Country Codes

The ccTLDs were, of course, led by the two sales you saw in the all extension portion of this report above with eMall.ca's $77,000 sale of Ticket.ca beating all comers, regardless of extension. The highest sale in this group that you haven't seen yet is #3 on our latest Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart. That is Sedo's $7,280 sale of CryptoPay.de.

Sedo went on to sweep 14 of the 20 chart entries and they rounded out the first five with Farmy.nl and Minipu.de at $6,720 each. Uniregistry took five places with their quintet being led by #7 eScooter.co.uk at $6,000.

As it so often does, Germany's .de won the extension race with chart entries.  Here is how the top ccTLD sales stacked up for the three weeks ending Sunday, January 5, 2020:

Domain Name Industry Newsletter

Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart
Highest Reported ccTLD Sales - Mon. Dec. 16, 2019 - Sun. Jan. 5, 2020
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Jan. 8, 2020)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Ticket.ca CAD 100,000 = $77,000 eMall.ca
2. Responsible.co.uk $15,000 Uniregistry
3. CryptoPay.de €6,500 = $7,280 Sedo
4.
tie		 Farmy.nl €6,000 = $6,720 Sedo
4.
tie		 Minipu.de €6,000 = $6,720 Sedo
6. Kuepper.de €5,950 = $6,664 Sedo
7. eScooter.co.uk $6,000 Uniregistry
8. Haarigeseite.de €5,000 = $5,600 Sedo
9. Lo.fi €5,000 = $5,600 Sedo
10. SportsExpert.ca $5,580 Sedo

11. Backbone.ai $5,500 Uniregistry
12. Putzfrauen.de €4,900 = $5,488 Sedo
13. Link.us $5,009 Sedo
14.
tie		 Brooklyn.co $5,000 Uniregistry
14.
tie		 Legit.io $5,000 Sedo
14.
tie		 SDL.ai $5,000 Sedo
14.
tie		 StockX.com.tw $5,000 Sedo
14.
tie		 StockX.tw $5,000 Sedo
19. Passenger.co $4,980 Uniregistry
20. Mansion.co $4,895 Sedo

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There were 43 more four-figure sale off the chart led by DomainLore.uk's $4,628 sale of Mutual.co.uk. They also moved Jazz .co.uk for $3,406 and CarInsuranceQuotes.uk for $1,323.

Back at Sedo, YourWings.de delivered $4,480, Only.mx drew $4,479 and TradingHub.de took in $3,920. TheWand.de went for $3,907, LE.fr landed $3,864 and Goodman.me made $3,750.

Sedo had 32 more four-figure sales ranging from $2,000 to $3,696 that arte listed in this table:

Additional Uniregistry Sales Between $2,000 - $3,696
party.fi $3,696   glück.eu $2,800
flextrans.de $3,671 greencloud.de $2,800
istrie.nl $3,640 unternehmerzeitung.de $2,800
assurancevoiture.fr $3,584 1zu1.de $2,799
persona.es $3,500 interwest.de $2,799
shops.co.za $3,500 chedington.co.uk $2,620
bubbleshooter.co.uk $3,499 stripper.ch $2,520
betcheck.mx $3,359 klut.ch $2,500
agro.co $3,288 calculatrice.fr $2,240
testleser.de $3,248 santiago.de $2,240
marihuana.mx $3,100 simon.nl $2,240
sound.id $3,000 sofortkontakte.de $2,240
meindarlehen.de $2,940 wang.co $2,100
kaufbillig.de $2,811 franke.pe $2,000
edu-digital.de $2,800 radio.com.pe $2,000
festliche-kleider.de $2,800 saving.in $2,000

Elsewhere, Uniregistry sold Balls.co for $4,250 and DaaZ.com moved Reseller.in for $1,310.

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 had a lot to be happy this time out after putting four names on the all extension leader board above - led by Sedo's big $62,000 sale of OGE.net - and having a fifth reach five figures (BML.org at $10,000 via Uniregistry).  The biggest one from this group that you haven't seen yet is #6 on our latest Non .Com gTLD Top 20 Sales Chart. That is NameJet's $9,350 sale of GW.org. They also scored with a second two-letter .org - #7 PS.org at $8,288.

It was a good outing for the new gTLDs too as they put three domains in the top ten and took four places overall. As we reported at the top of the article, #2 Open.money led the new extensions at $25,000 while backup came from #9 Bitcoin.africa at $6,000 via Sedo and #10 Desktop.cloud at $5,000 through Nidoma.com.

Here is how the non .com gTLD sales stacked up for the three weeks ending ending Sunday, January 5, 2020:

Non .Com gTLD Top 20 Sales Chart
Highest Reported Non .Com gTLD Sales - Mon. Dec. 16, 2019 - Sun. Jan. 5, 2020
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Jan. 8, 2020)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. OGE.net $62,000 Sedo
2. Open.money $25,000 New.life/
Uniregistry
3. WeedCenter.org $23,100 NameJet
4. Models.net $19,906 NameJet
5. BML.org $10,000 Uniregistry
6. GW.org $9,350 NameJet
7. PS.org $8,288 NameJet
8. Lot.net $7,500 Uniregistry
9. Bitcoin.africa $6,000 Sedo
10. Desktop.cloud €5,000 = $5,600 Nidoma
11. Diagrams.net $5,000 Uniregistry
12. BPRD.org $4,599 Sedo
13. Routine.org $4,500 NameJet
14. Musica.net $4,399 NameJet
15. CollegeWorks.org $4,000 Sedo
16. ISS.org $3,433 NameJet
17.
tie		 Made-By.org $3,200 SnapNames
17.
tie		 ToxInfo.org $3,200 NameJet
19. Bookmakers.online $3,000 Sedo
20.
tie		 Merchandise.org $2,501 NameJet
20.
tie		 Update.net $2,501 NameJet

There were 11 more four-figure sales reported in this category with .club accounting for six of those. HiChina sold Common.club and Muse.club for $2,000 each while Name.com got the same amount for HOO.club. GoDaddy moved the other three - Legends.club and Orange.club at $2,000 apiece and Giving.club for $1,500.

Elsewhere, NameJet moved MHealthAlliance.org for $2,065 and NYRedCross.org for $2,056 while Sedo sold AmericanFirearms.org and TX.ventures for $2,000 each.

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. 

 *****

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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