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Domain
Sales Defy Gravity - 13 Reach Six Figures in an Aftermarket
Supernova That Lit Up the Sales Chart
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Seeing
the domain sales numbers come in over the past two weeks
has been like watching the grand finale in a July 4th
fireworks extravaganza. Big sales were exploding
everywhere you looked. So many that 13 of the 20 names on
our latest bi-weekly all extension Top 20 Sales Chart reached
six figures. I would have go to back through the hundreds of
sales columns we've filed over the past 18 years to be sure,
but I don't recall ever seeing that many on a single
chart.
GoDaddy
accounted for a sizeable chunk of those six-figure sales -
five in all - after releasing their top 20 sales for the month
of October (we chart sales when they are made public for the
first time, as long as they have occurred within the preceding
12 months). GoDaddy's roster also
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accounted
for the #1 sale, SelfMade.com at $977,500 in the
2nd biggest sale reported so
far in 2021. They were far from the only game in
town though as seven other sources also rang the six-figure
bell.
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George
Kirikos found the next highest one, Blade.com at $503,000
in a new SEC
filing that disclosed the name was acquired on December 16th
by an aviation company that is about to go public. The #3 sale went to
Shane Kinsch who collected $400,000 for FTA.com,
a domain he had originally registered for $70 back in 1999! Andrew
Rosener at MediaOptions.com
single handedly rounded out the first five by brokering the sales of
both #4 Badger.com at $300,000 (as Elliot Silver
detailed at DomainInvesting.com)
and #5 Metaverse.io at $175,000. The latter also ranks
as the biggest ccTLD sale reported so far this year.
It was a
good week for PerfectName.com
too as they hit pay dirt twice. In addition to their $138,000
sale of #9 Cope.com they claimed another place on the elite
list with #18 Felt.com at $74,750.
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By Ron
Jackson
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I usually try to write more about every
six-figure sale, but there is so much ground to cover this week, I'll
refer you to a James
Iles post at NamePros in which James has more
details on most of these six-figure deals. James also noted yet
another six-figure transaction in which DomainMarket's Michael Mann
is selling DigitalArtists.com for $300,000. We don't
chart sales until all payments and the transfer have been completed.
This one was still in escrow as of this writing but will likely be
ready to chart in our next report. Before
we go to the new chart, I also want to tell you about another major
historical sale that master domain sleuth George
Kirikos has uncovered. This one goes all the way back to 2005
and involves one of best known domains in the travel world - Booking.com.
In an old filing, George learned that the company purchased the domain
for €502,500 ($662,446 at the exchange rate in effect
at that time). We have added that sale to the list of 2005's
biggest sales in our Domain Sales Archive where it
is the 8th biggest sale recorded that year. There
is an interesting side note to that. When I went to the 2005 page
to add Booking.com I was surprised to find two other very familiar
names on the list. The biggest sale reported that year was
Fish.com at $1,020,000. A good bit further down the list
was Bird.com at $200,000. Just last month both Bird.com
and Fish.com were sold again and were the top two sales
in the RightOfTheDot
Live Online Domain Auction. As you would expect, the 2021
prices were much higher but this time Bird.com, at $2.5
million, flew past the $1.6 million that Fish.com
reeled in. When those transactions close they will be added to
our charts. Now that we are back in
the present, we had better stay there as there is a lot to get to!
Here's how
all of the sales leaders stacked up for the two weeks
ending Sunday, March 14, 2021:
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The DN Journal Top 20
Highest
Reported Domain Sales - Mon. March 1, 2021 - Sun.
March 14,
2021
(Foreign
currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in
Effect March 17, 2021) |
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Domain
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Sold For
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Where
Sold
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1. |
SelfMade.com |
$977,500 |
GoDaddy |
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2. |
Blade.com |
$503,000 |
Pvt
Sale |
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3. |
FTA.com |
$400,000 |
Shane
Kinsch |
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4. |
Badger.com |
$300,000 |
MediaOptions |
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5. |
Metaverse.io |
$175,000 |
MediaOptions |
6.
tie |
CGD.com |
$150,000 |
GoDaddy |
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