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2022
Domain Sales Season Ends With a Famous Artist Cutting a Creative Deal
for Stik.com
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First off, I
hope you all had a wonderful holiday season and I am wishing you
a great new year in 2023! Some of our sales data suppliers
just returned to work this week so we've only now gotten in
the final sales from 2022 that we needed to wrap up the
old year. This column will have our last round of bi-weekly Top 20 Sales Charts
for 2022. We have also now been able to finalize our 2022
Top 100 Sales Chart (technically our annual Top
100 Charts are never finalized because when big historic sales
come to light - sometimes years after the fact - they are
added to the Top 100 Chart in our Domain
Sales Archive for the year in which they
occurred).
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In
addition to the 2022 sales data, we've been getting in the first
sales of 2023. To present everything in an orderly fashion I
will be back next week (Wednesday evening, January 18)
with the first report on the 2023 sales season, covering sales reported in the
first half of January. We already know we will have at least
one blockbuster
on the first 2023 Top 20 Chart because of Above.com's
$3 million sale of Help.com that I told you about
in our Lowdown
section earlier this week. After next week's
column we
will return to our usual bi-weekly schedule with new
reports coming out every other Wednesday evening.
Now
that we have that housekeeping out of the way, let's look at
the 2022 sales reported in the last few days of December. This
is a relatively short list because, as you all know, business typically slows to
a crawl in that time frame. In fact, the
biggest sale reported - MyHome.com at £100,000
($120,322) - actually occurred earlier in the year but
just came to light thanks to some nice digging done by Robbie
Ferguson at RobbieBlog.com.
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Sedo,
who provided the biggest chunk of data from the end of
December, nailed down the #2 spot with Teamo.com at $80,500.
Matthew McJilton rounded out the power trio at the top
with his sale of Stik.com
to the famous
British graffiti artist who is now forwarding the
domain to his original Stik.org website. Now, because
we only report cash domain sales, this one is charted at $50,000
- the amount of money Matthew received - but there is much
more to the story. Matthew, a veteran domain
investor, also
received some art prints and a sketch from Stik, a bonus
believed to be worth about $25,000. That sounds quite
reasonable given that individual Stik works have sold
for over $300,000. The art we are not including in
the price may end up being the most valuable part of Matthew's
most memorable deal to date!
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By Ron Jackson
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This week's
winners also included the ccTLDs who piled up a half
dozen entries on the Big Board, all posted by Sedo. Three of
those crashed the top ten with a pair that tied for #6 leading
the charge. Those were DL.de and Prezzogiusto.it at €22,500
($24,300) each. With the .coms sweeping everything
else, there was no room left at the inn for the non .com
gTLDs this time out. Here is how all of the
leaders stacked up for the two weeks
ending ending Sunday, January 1, 2023:
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The DN Journal Top 20
Highest
Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Dec. 19 - Sun. Jan. 1, 2023
(Foreign
currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in
Effect Jan. 12, 2023) |
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Domain
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Sold For
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Where
Sold
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1. |
MyHome.com |
£100,000
= $120,322 |
Pvt
Sale |
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2. |
Teamo.com |
$80,500 |
Sedo |
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Stik.com
(seller also received art prints
and a sketch valued at 25k) |
$50,000 |
Pvt
Sale |
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4. |
24TM.com |
$31,000 |
Sedo |
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5. |
UnionSports.com |
$25,000 |
Sedo |
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