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released
it would rank among the ten biggest
cash domain sales ever reported. At this point in time
that would put it between the $6.7 million paid for #10 Z.com
and the $30 million paid for #1 Voice.com. Whatever the
number was, it was no doubt a true blockbuster and we couldn't be
happier to see Larry, Ari and Andrew log their latest landmark sale.
(Left
to right): Larry Fischer, Ari Goldberger and Andrew Miller Speaking
of landmark sales, some new details emerged this week about the 2015
sale of Lending.com. While the price was never announced,
master domain sleuth George Kirikos uncovered some interesting
evidence in SEC filings that strongly indicates the buyer paid $5,422,000
for that domain. You can read what George found in this Twitter
thread. The buyer has not given confirmation of the price
but if they do we will place that sale on the appropriate charts in
our Domain Sales Archive. Now,
back to the immediate business at hand in what has been a very busy
couple of weeks. While the .coms again took the majority of
positions on the new Top 20 Chart, they ran into much stiffer
competition than usual, including a ccTLD onslaught that put
six country code domains on the elite list. The $50,000 sale of
#2 Domain.io by Mark Ghoriafi at MrPremium.com
led the ccTLD charge. The non .com gTLDs also showed strength
with a trio of domains on the honor roll, led by Sedo's $20,000
sale of #8 Sin.net. Meanwhile,
the .coms kept scoring with hits like the $39,995 sale of
BeElectric.com that Hiren
Patel at Quality Names made via Afternic.
Hiren said he bought the name for just $860 a little over a year ago!
You might recall that Hiren is also the guy who sold ElectricCars.com
for $180,000 last year. Another especially
interesting thing on this week's chart - by now you have probably
heard a lot of chatter about the new social media app, Clubhouse (an
audio only platform that currently requires an invitation and is only
available for the iPhone). A lot of domain people are raving about how
Clubhouse can bring the industry much wider recognition and
also boost domain sales. Right on cue, the first charted
domain sales ever transacted via Clubhouse are on this
week's chart. NamesCon President Soeren von Varchmin sold #18 Greece.
de for $13,246 with 100% of the proceeds from the domain he
donated going to the EFK.org
(Entrepreneurs For Knowledge) school foundation that NamesCon
supports. In a second Clubhouse sale, Aishwin Vikhona sold #20 RL.org
to MediaOptions.com Founder Andrew Rosener for $13,000.
It does look like this Clubhouse thing could be the start of something
very big (as you will see the in Non .Com gTLD section of this article
later - Clubhouse is also having a huge impact on the sale of premium .CLUB
domains).
Here's a look at how
all of the sales leaders stacked up for the two weeks
ending Sunday, January 31, 2021:
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