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Domain Sales Explosion Continues - Seven 6-Figure Sales Totaling Over $2.9 Million Top This Week's Chart

The domain aftermarket turned in another dazzling fortnight over the past two weeks with big sales busting out all over. Seven of those rang the six-figure bell including RightOfThe Dot.com's chart topper, Tattoo.com, at $812,000. That also ranks as the 6th biggest sale reported so far this year.

 

You might recall that RightOfTheDot (ROTD) put that domain up for sale in a live online auction they staged in late February when it drew a $750,000 winning bid. Unfortunately, the "winner" not only failed to pay for that domain, he also reneged on high bids for both Bird.com ($2.5 million) and Fish.com ($1.6 million), costing everyone involved an enormous amount of wasted time and money. It has also resulted in 

the bidder being sued by ROTD and the owner of Fish.com and Bird.com. In the meantime ROTD President Monte Cahn found a new buyer who jumped at the chance to own Tattoo.com and the market has gone on to post a long string of eye-popping sales week after week.

In the #2 sale since our last report, as detailed by Elliot Silver at DomainInvesting.com, NameCheap.com Founder & CEO Rick Kirkendall plunked down $550,000 to add Wolf.com to the company's ever-growing collection of premier domain names. James Booth at DomainBooth.com filled the #3 spot with a sale that, big as it was at $440,000 (paid in Bitcoin), must have hurt at least a little. After all, it would be tough for any lover of domains named James to give up James.com - but a price like that does have a way of persuading people! Rounding out the first four is another 400K plus sale - Snappy.com at $415,000 (another hat tip to Elliot for filling in the back story on that deal handled by GetYourDomain.com's Larry Fischer (representing the seller) and the GoDaddy Brokerage, who represented the buyer).

The six-figure sales did not stop there. Shane Kinsch (who sold FTA.com for $400,000 in March) hit another home run with #5 Bico.com at $350,000, Sedo banked $181,500 for CopyMarkets.com and RightOfTheDot rang the bell again with ExchangeRates.com at $180,000.

 

While those .coms were blowing the roof off the place, the ccTLDs also had another great outing led by .io, a red hot extension that accounted for four of the five country sales that earned places on the Big Board. The biggest of those was #8 Avatar.io at $89,999 and #9 Ruby.io at $88,000. DomainBooth also posted one of the .io sales, collecting $45,000 for #16 Club.io. The one charted ccTLD sale that wasn't a .io was #19 ESN.co.uk - sold through SamCharles.com for £20,000 ($28,200).  

 

 

 

 


        
 
     By Ron Jackson

The non .com gTLDs were limited to one spot on the elite list  but it was an impressive one. They can thank RightOfTheDot for that. One of ROTD's four charted sales is #13 Organizations.org at $52,500 - a sale that ranks as the category's 3rd biggest sale of the year to date

We have tipped our hat to George Kirikos for newly discovered domain sales information so many times the brims are worn off all of our hats! Still we owe him yet another one for finding the March 2021 sale of #15 Cuentas.com ("accounts" in Spanish) at $47,000 in an SEC filing. Even more intriguing than that, George found evidence in another filing of Elevate Credit making a domain sale of $1.25 million but the mystery (as he he noted in this tweet and a follow-up tweet) is what domain was it? George's question about that to Elevate Investor Relations has gone unanswered so that one remains to be unmasked.

Here's how all of the sales leaders stacked up for the two weeks ending Sunday, May 9, 2021:

The DN Journal Top 20 
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. April 26, 2021 -  Sun. May 9, 2021
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect May 12, 2021)

 

Domain

Sold For

Where Sold

1. Tattoo.com $812,000 RightOfTheDot
2. Wolf.com $550,000 Pvt Sale
3. James.com $440,000 (BTC) DomainBooth
4. Snappy.com $415,000 GetYourDomain/
GoDaddy
5. Bico.com $350,000 Shane Kinsch
6. CopyMarkets.com €150,000 = $181,500 Sedo
7. ExchangeRates.com $180,000 RightOfTheDot
8. Avatar.io $89,999 Pvt Sale
9. Ruby.io $88,000 Pvt Sale
10. SuperWorld.com €45,000 = $54,450 Sedo
11. Volka.com $54,000 Sedo
12. Hina.com $50,000 Sedo
13. Organizations.org $52,500 RightOfTheDot
14. Rabbit.io $48,888 Pvt Sale
15. Cuentas.com
("accounts" in Spanish)
$47,000 Pvt Sale
16. Club.io $45,000 DomainBooth
17. PEE.com $39,900 RightOfTheDot
18. SpaceCoin.com $35,000 Sedo
19. ESN.co.uk £20,000 = $28,200 SamCharles.com
20. SimplexTrading.com $28,000 Sedo

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 20 more five-figure sales off the chart led by a $27,500 sale of Evolution.io by Mark Ghoriafi at MrPremium.com and a $25,000 sale of YH.io at Park.io

Sedo followed with GE.de at $21,780, Scout.vc at $18,150 and ApexNews.com at $18,000. Sedo went on to pile up 10 of the remaining 15 five-figure sales including Sand.kr at $16,000, Pitch.vc at $15,000 and Auto.biz at $14,900. OpenProject.eu yielded another $12,403, Task.it tacked on $10,890 and five others - Coders.io, Coinbvase.com, Flashstream.com, Pornsocket.com and Voye.com - added $10,000 apiece.

Elsewhere, BuyBrands.com used Afternic to sell DataHub.co at $17,500, DomainLore.uk moved InStyle.co.uk for $15,299, Afternic sold Dragon.tv for $15,000 and DomainBooth.com banked $11,000 for AsteroidX.com.

 .Com Supporting Cast

Sedo led the .com supporting cast of four-figure sales with SportsBonuses.com at $9,995 and PixelPimps.com at $9,500. CryptoChamber.com chalked up $8,999 while GoldGuide.com and OKStaff.com drew $8,000 each.

Profilog.com produced $7,900, Pasithea.com posted $7,700 and Frenny.com kicked in $7,250. Hexomatic.com hauled in another $6,800 and ProjectFinance.com fetched $6,050. Sedo had 68 more four-figure .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $5,501 that are listed in the table below:

Additional Sedo .com Sales Between $2,000 - $5,501

albajob.com $5,501

 

dental21.com $3,199
digitalmoment.com $5,500 academylearning.com $3,125
ichibankuji.com $5,500 condomeet.com $3,025
datatraders.com $5,143 akker.com $3,024
detrans.com $5,000 happycappy.com $3,000
soundshare.com $5,000 ltbh.com $3,000
stkx.com $5,000 luckyfox.com $3,000
trust24.com $5,000 squarebrain.com $3,000
emergents.com $4,999 plantsthatproduce.com $2,999
fantasytrade.com $4,995 br-design.com $2,995
givvo.com $4,995 bentrio.com $2,904
digisaurus.com $4,950 leonhardweiss.com $2,899
partnero.com $4,930 justinmurray.com $2,799
tawatur.com $4,880 thebobblehead.com $2,778
xguns.com $4,719 online-wedding.com $2,588
raregoods.com $4,500 cakea.com $2,530
nachlass.com $4,090 accessid.com $2,500
alternatively.com $4,000 casinoporn.com $2,500
landstock.com $4,000 urbansuccess.com $2,499
lockerr.com $4,000 suboxonenearme.com $2,475
marrones.com $4,000 aeoohio.com $2,448
worldfashion.com $3,800 leadsfactory.com $2,420
diploy.com $3,799 newyorkcrypto.com $2,375
allreco.com $3,630 streetcoin.com $2,300
marie-jose.com $3,509 hper.com $2,250
quadroshop.com $3,509 templateshop.com $2,203
armatupc.com $3,500 vupra.com $2,130
bnormal.com $3,500 solenge.com $2,105
newsky.com $3,500 seedforweed.com $2,100
speedsquare.com $3,500 tosing.com $2,050
travelzilla.com $3,500 copycap.com $2,000
lulab.com $3,388 solarproject.com $2,000
investyx.com $3,330 trustmatrix.com $2,000
immobilie1.com $3,328 zenigma.com $2,000

XYNames.com also used Sedo to sell 4Payments.com for $5,000. Elsewhere, Steve Orosz sold  Hootah.com for $5,500 in a private transaction, Afternic moved FrontlineProperties.com for $4,500 and BuyBrands.com booked $3,485 for SelfExclude.com.

Country Codes

While .com sales always draw more attention because of their bigger numbers, there is no hiding the fact that ccTLD sales have also been on fire this year - especially those of current darling .io. The past two weeks has been no exception with 17 of the 20 entries on our latest Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart hitting five figures and the top two flirting with six! Those were Avatar.io at $89,999 and Ruby.io at $88,000 (both in private transactions). The top four sales and six of the top seven were .io domains. 

All of those .io sales cut into Sedo's traditional overwhelming dominance of this chart a bit, but they still had far more entries than anyone else, piling up nine spots on the honor roll, including a .io sale of their own - #17 Coders.io at $10,000. The big guns for Sedo were #8 GE.de at $21,780 and #9 Scout.vc at $18,150.

It was actually a much more diverse couple of weeks than the .io surge would suggest. 11 different extensions earned chart entries. The only ones other than .io to take more than one place were .co.uk with three and .vc with two. Here is how the top ccTLD sales stacked up for the two weeks ending Sunday, May 9, 2021:

Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart
Highest Reported ccTLD Sales - Mon. April 26, 2021 -  Sun. May 9, 2021
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect May 12, 2021)

 

Domain

Sold For

Where Sold

1. Avatar.io $89,999 Pvt Sale
2. Ruby.io $88,000 Pvt Sale
3. Rabbit.io $48,888 Pvt Sale
4. Club.io $45,000 DomainBooth
5. ESN.co.uk £20,000 = $28,200 SamCharles.com
6. Evolution.io $27,500 MrPremium.com
7. YH.io $25,000 Park.io
8. GE.de €18,000 = $21,780 Sedo
9. Scout.vc €15,000 = $18,150 Sedo
10. DataHub.co $17,500 BuyBrands/Afternic
11.
tie
Sand.kr $16,000 Sedo
11.
tie
InStyle.co.uk £10,850 = $15,299 DomainLore.uk
13. Dragon.tv $15,000 Afternic
14. Pitch.vc $15,000 Sedo
15. OpenProject.eu €10,250 = $12,403 Sedo
16. Task.it €9,000 = $10,890 Sedo
17. Coders.io $10,000 Sedo
18. Dataiku.jp $9,800 Sedo
19. Psychotherapy.co.uk £6,200 = $8,742 DomainLore.uk
20. Acro.cn $8,500 Sedo

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There were dozens of additional sales off the chart led by Sedo's sales of Foods.cn at $8,000, Luckland.de at $7,260 and JW.to at $7,259.

Sedo had 34  more four-figure ccTLD sales ranging from $2,000 to $6,980 that are listed in the table below:

Additional Sedo ccTLD Sales from $2,000 to $6,980

identity.me $6,980   internetworld.ch $3,485
gostudent.nl $6,655 ifdq.de $3,466
diedrich.de $6,050 mein-event.de $3,168
european.ai $6,050 greencable.de $3,026
sk8.es $6,050 cryptoclub.de $3,025
sharenow.ch $5,990 easymining.de $3,025
bockshop.de $5,445 volu.co $3,025
dfinity.io $4,999 oneo.eu $3,024
possible.io $4,800 portugalreisen.de $3,001
happyflowers.de $4,538 palue.de $2,448
immo-tipp.de $4,235 buddyrider.de $2,420
mrcleaner.fr $4,235 online-bestattungen.de $2,420
foodfair.de $4,194 doctor.pe $2,300
uic.io $3,999 smi.io $2,200
sound.es $3,642 dynamite.io $2,000
frw.ch $3,618 invest.cl $2,000
apy.io $3,499 promos.io $2,000

Elsewhere, BuyBrands.com sold DevLabs.io for $2,195 and, in another transaction, they used Afternic to sell Olymp.io at the same price. DomainLore.uk also posted another sale, ringing up $1,840 for Raffle.uk.

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 limited to a trio of five-figure sales but the best of those, RightOfTheDot's $52,500 sale of Organizations.org, is an especially notable one. That is the second biggest .org sale reported so far this year (the Non .com gTLD YTD Top 100 is the second chart on the page linked to) and the 3rd biggest non .com gTLD sale. It also, of course, tops our latest bi-weekly Non.Com gTLD Top 20 Sales Chart.

Just as the .io's stole the spotlight on the ccTLD Top 20 Chart, the .xyz domains did the same in this category. Thanks to .xyz specialist Swetha Yenugula at DNGear releasing their April sales this week, .xyz was able to pile up nine entries on the leader board with #2 Genesis.xyz at $21,399 leading the way.

The always strong .orgs also showed up in a big way again, taking four of the top five chart entries and seven places overall. Sedo accounted for six of those .org sales, including a couple of nice 3-letter sales - ZEF.org and ZRI.org - at $8,800 apiece. Here is how all of the non .com gTLD sales stacked up for the two weeks ending ending Sunday, May 9, 2021:

Non .Com gTLD Top Sales Chart
Highest Reported Non .Com gTLD Sales - Mon. April 26, 2021 -  Sun. May 9, 2021
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect May 12, 2021))

 

Domain

Sold For

Where Sold

1. Organizations.org $52,500 RightOfTheDot
2. Genesis.xyz $21,399 DNGear
3. Auto.biz $14,900 Sedo
4. PeoplePowered.org $9,000 Sedo
5.
tie
ZEF.org $8,800 Sedo
5.
tie
ZRI.org $8,800 Sedo
7. Protocol.xyz $8,000 DNGear
8.
tie
BitcoinTrade.net $7,888 Sedo
8.
tie
Split.xyz $7,888 DNGear
10. Investor.club $7,500 GoDaddy
11. Property.club $5,250 GoDaddy
12. Deca.xyz $5,001 Sedo
13. Statistics.org $5,000 Sedo
14.
tie
Blox.xyz $4,995 DNGear
14.
tie
Clubhouse.xyz $4,995 DNGear
16. StepTwo.org €3,899 = $4,718 Sedo
17. CHLB.org $4,500 Sedo
18. Soteria.xyz $4,000 DNGear
19. Chia.xyz $3,995 DNGear/Sedo
20. Proof.xyz $3,699 Sedo

There were a dozen more four-figure sales off the chart led by DNGear's sales of Undefined.xyz ($3,495), Lynch.xyz ($3,250) and Switchboard.xyz ($2,995). They also sold Tora.xyz for $2,750, Waterfront.xyz for $2,500 and NightShift.xyz for $1,000.

Back at Sedo, InfiniteCoin.net notched $2,800, Innovation.team tallied $2,799, Picked.net posted $2,499 and Pistachio.org cracked $2,053.

GoDaddy also got into the act with two more .CLUB sales - Performance.club and Trends.club - at $1,500 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

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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 other Wednesday we publish the highest reported domain name sales reported to us over the preceding two weeks. Thanks to those data contributors we are able to produce the industry's most comprehensive sales report. 

Editor's Note: If you wish to review previous Domain Sales columns, they are available in our Archive.

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