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Summer
is here and a lot of people are on vacation but high end
domain buyers have yet to take a break. For the fourth
consecutive edition of our bi-weekly domain sales report, a 7-figure
sale crowns our all extension Top 20 Sales Chart.
The
string started with Exodus.com at $1,945,000 in early June,
followed two weeks later by Meme.com ($1,250,000), then
eBike.com ($1,008,900) earlier this month. This time around
the track it is EE.com doing the honors at $1,350,000.
We first reported details
of that sale in our Lowdown section last
week. As has been the case with so many of these premier
2-letter .com domains, the rare name went to a buyer in China.
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The
EE.com deal was co-brokered for the seller by Mark Thomas
at VIP
Brokerage and John Mauriello at DomainAssets.com.
This gives Thomas two of the year's four biggest
sales to date, including the #1 position
with his Christmas.com sale at $3.15 million in
February.
A
pair of solid six-figure sales fill the next two spots on the
elite list. As Elliot Silver reported at DomainInvesting.com
last week, veteran domain investor/broker Andy Booth
bought #2 Velvet.com for $350,000. After the
2-letter .com and the one-word .com sales, the progression
continued with a two-word .com, #3 FollowUp.com at $250,000.
As reported at DigitalJournal.com,
a deal for the domain was cut last year that allowed the buyer
to pay it off in 12 installments. The final payment was made
earlier this month to close the transaction.
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In
addition to these big charted sales, we learned of three other high
end sales that can't be charted, at least for now. That's because we
know the net amount received by the seller but not the price
the buyer paid before the broker's commission was taken out. CanavasMedia.com
had two of those, including another 2-letter .com sale. They netted $504,450
in a sell of OE.com and also received $82,730 after fees
for Screw.com. Both of those names now point to landing pages
belonging to one of the industry's most active high end investors, Brent
Oxley.
We
saw the same scenario with a sale of Gus.com that Elliot Silver
wrote
about. Telepathy.com netted $300,000 for the
domain in a deal brokered by GoDaddy, but we don't yet have the
selling price. That will likely be revealed later this year. GoDaddy
has been releasing monthly lists of their top 20 sales, but each list
is for sales made several months back (for example, in June they
released their top 20 sales from January). It is always very helpful
information for tracking industry trends, is much appreciated and well
worth waiting for.
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By Ron Jackson
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As
they say on late night TV, "But Wait! There's More!"
What bi-weekly report would be complete without George Kirikos
uncovering yet another blockbuster sale? This time, as detailed on a
post at his FreeSpeech.com
blog, George discovered that Wise.com was sold for a price that
was most likely very close to $2 million. We don't know the
exact number because the prospectus that contained the information
said that number represented "domain purchases." So,
it appears the Wise.com acquisition included one or more additional
domains. However, these are often relatively low value domains
registered for defensive purposes (for example, the .net or other TLD
versions of the .com or others related in some way to the central
domain). Had Wise.com been separated from the pack in the filing, it
almost certainly would have been the highest publicly reported sale of
2020. As it stands now, that honor is currently held by Bullish.com
at $1,080,000.
UPDATE
to the Wise.com story: After this
report was published, MediaOptions.com
CEO Andrew Rosener was able to confirm that his company had
brokered the Wise.com sale, the price was $2 million and
no other domains or assets were involved. Here is more
on that. With the new information we will be able to add
Wise.com to the #1 position our 2020
Top 100 Sales Chart when our next bi-weekly updates are
made August 4.
We
also continue to see a lot of big deals being done by veteran brokers
under non-disclosure agreements (frequently required by parties
to sales at the upper end of the market). Often the broker can't event
hint at the price, but, as James
Iles reported on his blog, Andrew Miller at ATM
Holdings was able to confirm that a deal he did for Walk.com
was a 7-figure transaction. If the we could see the numbers in all of
the NDA sales that take place each year the figures would be
astounding.
Getting
back to this week's leader board, three non .com domains
followed the three .coms at the top. A pair of ccTLD's
tied for #4 at $35,000 apiece. Those were Buy.co at Sedo
and Vue.io by Mark Ghoriafi at MrPremium.com.
The non .com gTLDs also scored with #6 Drop.xyz at $30,000
in a private transaction.
Here is how
all of the sales leaders stacked up for the two weeks
ending Sunday, July 18, 2021:
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The DN Journal Top 20
Highest
Reported Domain Sales - Mon. July 5, 2021 - Sun.
July 18, 2021
(Foreign
currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in
Effect July 21, 2021) |
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Domain
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Sold For
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Where
Sold
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1. |
EE.com |
$1,350,000 |
VIP
Brokerage/
DomainAssets |
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2. |
Velvet.com |
$350,000 |
Pvt
Sale |
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3. |
FollowUp.com |
$250,000 |
Pvt
Sale |
4.
tie |
Buy.co |
$35,000 |
Sedo |
4.
tie |
Vue.io |
$35,000 |
MrPremium.com |
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6. |
Drop.xyz |
$30,000 |
Pvt
Sale |
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7. |
Naturel.com |
€24,500
= $28,910 |
Sedo |
8.
tie |
iSwap.com |
$25,000 |
Sedo |
8.
tie |
Xside.com |
$25,000 |
Sedo |
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10. |
Starlark.com |
$24,988 |
Media
Code LLC |
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11.
tie |
Commanders.com |
$20,000 |
Sedo |
11.
tie |
UI.link |
$20,000 |
Sedo |
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13. |
Avalla.com |
$18,500 |
Sedo |
14.
tie |
Deloox.com |
€15,000
= $17,700 |
Sedo |
14.
tie |
OPS.io |
€15,000
= $17,700 |
Sedo |
16.
tie |
BitcoinTrading.com |
$15,000 |
Sedo |
16.
tie |
Superstore.co.in |
$15,000 |
DNProperty.com/
Sedo |
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18. |
HolyCode.com |
£11,000
= $14,960 |
Sedo |
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19. |
eRegister.com |
$12,050 |
Sedo |
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20. |
SyncThing.com |
$12,000 |
Sedo |
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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 seven more five-figure sales off the chart,
with Sedo ringing up six of those, including the highest ones -
Monnaie.fr ("change" in French) at $11,180
and Mayu.com at $11,120. They also moved Billion.me
at $10,088 and three others - Basex.com, OKMarket.com
and Sabri.com - at $10,000 apiece. The other one
at this level was an $11,000 sale of Wekey.com at
XYNames.com.
.Com Supporting
Cast
Sedo led the .Com supporting cast
of four-figure sales with ArlingtonCapital.com at $9,995,
FraudWatch.com at $9,883 and Optilume.com
at $9,335. Rasgo.com rang up $9,322, BitCurrency.com
brought $9,000 and AutoBoss.com banked $8,900.
Interescompuesto.com
commanded $8,500, BestCryptoCasinos.com collected
$8,000 and Uponu.com yielded $7,670. Sedo
had 62 more
four-figure .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $6,000 that
are listed in the table below:
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Additional
Sedo .com Sales Between $2,000 - $7,000
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| infrastar.com |
$7,000 |
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dacuerdo.com |
$3,000 |
| 4science.com |
$6,900 |
hintapp.com |
$3,000 |
| onlybeauty.com |
$6,800 |
talegy.com |
$3,000 |
| kicab.com |
$6,700 |
coastenergy.com |
$2,999 |
| fpdesign.com |
$5,900 |
shuichacha.com |
$2,999 |
| superarticles.com |
$5,373 |
a1carpet.com |
$2,995 |
| chainestate.com |
$5,310 |
cosoo.com |
$2,988 |
| bitcoinmutualfund.com |
$5,000 |
hortonauctions.com |
$2,953 |
| investsocial.com |
$5,000 |
golosua.com |
$2,950 |
| wehlen.com |
$5,000 |
hipotecasa.com |
$2,950 |
| candlecrafter.com |
$4,960 |
infolegale.com |
$2,950 |
| bennetthome.com |
$4,699 |
victoriabay.com |
$2,899 |
| islandway.com |
$4,500 |
fitdock.com |
$2,775 |
| oplm.com |
$4,484 |
thrivego.com |
$2,775 |
| twinearth.com |
$4,130 |
immobilien-kaufen.com |
$2,773 |
| circuithouse.com |
$4,050 |
sepale.com |
$2,599 |
| thinklondon.com |
$3,700 |
cbd-bio.com |
$2,597 |
| artemoda.com |
$3,540 |
grabar.com |
$2,500 |
| mintblue.com |
$3,540 |
hotlike.com |
$2,500 |
| immobilien-kredit.com |
$3,538 |
marsgroup.com |
$2,500 |
| namos.com |
$3,538 |
oceanrepublic.com |
$2,500 |
| desooth.com |
$3,500 |
team-digital.com |
$2,454 |
| dragonracer.com |
$3,500 |
a1carpetcleaning.com |
$2,399 |
| dreamsupport.com |
$3,500 |
bladeland.com |
$2,390 |
| uprightcitizen.com |
$3,499 |
euroins.com |
$2,360 |
| flannelshirts.com |
$3,333 |
susanasilva.com |
$2,355 |
| hellobravo.com |
$3,330 |
clear-air.com |
$2,295 |
| olabank.com |
$3,300 |
sentrymode.com |
$2,220 |
| benalbeach.com |
$3,000 |
pcsexpress.com |
$2,200 |
| bhkorea.com |
$3,000 |
blustone.com |
$2,100 |
| christianstone.com |
$3,000 |
smellaway.com |
$2,000 |
Elsewhere, DaaZ.com
sold AmericanCollector.com for $9,000 and XYNames.com
moved Super7s.com for $2,999.
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Country Codes
There's a tie
at the top of our latest Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart
with a pair of solid $35,000 sales sharing the
penthouse suite. As noted in the all extension section
above, Sedo banked their 35K with Buy.co while
Mark Ghoriafi at MrPremium.com collected the
same amount for Vue.io. Both TLDs are having a very
good year (Ghoriafi said he has personally closed over
$600,000 in .io sales). In fact, yet another .io has the #3
spot this week - Sedo's $17,700 sale of OPS.io.
The first five is
rounded out with a $15,000 sale of
Superstore.co.in that DNProperty.com
closed through Sedo and an $11,800 sale of Monnaie.fr
("change" in French) that Sedo also produced. Sedo
went on to sweep 14 of the 20 chart entries.
Two other revenues
took two places each on the honor roll. BuyDomainNames.co.uk
scored with #10 (tie) GBT.co.uk at $9,000 and
#15 BeWell.uk at $6,800 while DomainTheory.com
booked a pair of .io sales, #10 (tie) Kindly.io
at $9,000 and #13 Nektar.io at $8,000.
Here is how the top ccTLD sales stacked up for the two weeks
ending Sunday, July 18, 2021:
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Country
Code Top 20 Sales Chart
Highest Reported
ccTLD Sales - Mon. July 5, 2021 - Sun.
July 18, 2021
(Foreign
currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in
Effect July 21, 2021) |
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Domain
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Sold For
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Where
Sold
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1.
tie |
Buy.co |
$35,000 |
Sedo |
1.
tie |
Vue.io |
$35,000 |
MrPremium.com |
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3. |
OPS.io |
€15,000
= $17,700 |
Sedo |
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4. |
Superstore.co.in |
$15,000 |
DNProperty.com/
Sedo |
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5. |
Monnaie.fr
("change" in French) |
€10,000
= $11,800 |
Sedo |
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6. |
Billion.me |
$10,088 |
Sedo |
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7. |
Set.co |
$9,900 |
Sedo |
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8. |
Imovel.pt |
€8,250
= $9,735 |
Sedo |
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9. |
StarGames.ch |
€7,999
= $9,439 |
Sedo |
10.
tie |
GBT.co.uk |
$9,000 |
BuyDomainNames.co.uk |
10.
tie |
Kindly.io |
$9,000 |
DomainTheory |
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12. |
Bring.ch |
€7,000
= $8,260 |
Sedo |
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13. |
Nektar.io |
$8,000 |
DomainTheory |
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14. |
Thibault.fr |
€6,200
= $7,316 |
Sedo |
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15. |
BeWell.uk |
£5,000
= $6,800 |
BuyDomainNames.co.uk |
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16. |
Vintage.de |
€5,501
= $6,491 |
Sedo |
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17. |
Focus-Business.de |
€5,000
= $5,900 |
Sedo |
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18. |
HAC.in |
€4,950
= $5,841 |
Sedo |
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19. |
Xolo.fr |
€4,500
= $5,310 |
Sedo |
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20. |
Ferienhaeuser.co |
€3,950
= $4,661 |
Sedo |
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There were 23
more four-figure ccTLD sales off the chart led by Sedo's $4,375
sale of Lyfe.io. They added $4,130
for CBD-Ratgeber.de and $4,012
for Massagesesselshop.de. Chateaux.fr
contributed another $3,894, followed by four others - BikeShop.ch,
COPD.ch, PeopleSolutions.de and
TechFlex.pl - at $3,540 each.
The Sedo hit
parade continued with Peitje.de ($3,245), Accuratus.de
($3,127) and a pair of names - Grabsteine.de
and LDH.nl - at $2,950 apiece. Fl.ag
drew another $2,550 while Resolute.co
and Superlative.co sold for $2,500
each. Gifts.ch chalked up $2,478
more and Neuebude.de notched $2,360.
Elsewhere, Playtime.io
produced $4,500 at MrPremium.com, DomainLore.uk
sold Mining.co.uk ($2,191) and Infamous.co.uk
($1,428) and DaaZ.com banked $1,360
for KSH.in and $1,000 for FJS.in.
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 led by a pair of five-figure sales that also took
places on the all extension Top 20 Chart at the top of this
report. Drop.xyz set the pace after changing hands
for $30,000 in a private transaction. Sedo
filled the #2 slot with UI.link at $20,000.
Sedo also took the next five spots in a row our latest
Non .Com gTLD Top Sales Chart with a quintet led by #3 Integra.cloud
at $6,000. A trio of .org sales followed led
by #4 X100.org at $5,000.
While they got off
to a late start, the .nets still wound up with the
most chart entries - five in all, with #7 Analyst.net
at $4,600 being the highest for that TLD. The .orgs
and the .clubs were close behind with four chart
entries each. #8 JB.club led the way for the latter
extension at $3,750.
Here is
is how the non .com gTLD sales stacked up for the two
weeks ending ending Sunday, July 18, 2021:
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Non
.Com gTLD Top Sales Chart
Highest
Reported Non .Com gTLD Sales - Mon. July 5, 2021 - Sun.
July 18, 2021
(Foreign
currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in
Effect July 21, 2021)
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Domain
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Sold For
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Where
Sold
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1. |
Drop.xyz |
$30,000 |
Pvt
Sale |
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2. |
UI.link |
$20,000 |
Sedo |
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3. |
Integra.cloud |
$6,000 |
Sedo |
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4. |
X100.org |
$5,000 |
Sedo |
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5. |
RTRP.org |
$4,999 |
Sedo |
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6. |
LUV.org |
$4,900 |
Sedo |
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7. |
Analyst.net |
$4,600 |
Sedo |
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8. |
JB.club |
$3,750 |
GoDaddy |
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9. |
BTC.email |
$2,999 |
Sedo |
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10. |
Voicer.net |
$2,800 |
Sedo |
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ASCII.net |
$2,754 |
Sedo |
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12. |
Auto.law |
$2,700 |
Sedo |
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13. |
Betmaster.net |
$2,500 |
Sedo |
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14. |
Residence.net |
$2,203 |
Sedo |
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15. |
Accounts.club |
$1,760 |
NameCheap |
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16. |
AND.club |
$1,540 |
Google |
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17. |
Concept.club |
$1,500 |
GoDaddy |
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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