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Just in time for
Halloween domain sale prices over the past two weeks have been
so high it's almost scary. A half-dozen six-figure
sales were reported and three of those were big enough to
crash the Top 10 on our Year-to-Date
Top 100 Sales chart. A $600,000 sale
of Socrates.com (that was detailed in our Lowdown
section) by Braden Pollock at LegalBrandMarketing.com
led the charge. In addition to topping our latest bi-weekly
all-extension Top 20 Sales Chart, that ties ECL.com for
the 4th biggest publicly reported sale we have seen in
2023 (Braden already had one of the 20 biggest with his
$203,500 sale of Fiasco.com last month).
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The
next member of that power trio at the top was ApexMoon's
$450,000 sale of PFA.com
to a well-known global enterprise procurement company that
already has their site up on the domain. That is the 6th
biggest public sale reported YTD and the 2nd biggest 3-letter
.com sale next to the aforementioned ECL.com.
Radix
filled the #3 hole on our latest Top 20 with the biggest, by
far, non .com gTLD sale of the year to date, Betting.online
at $400,000 (a sale we first reported in our Lowdown
section). That is over three times higher than the previous
2023 leader in this category, IO.net at $118,000 in August.
Betting.online also tied Giveaway.com as the 7th biggest
publicly reported sale, regardless of extension, so far this
year.
As if
that weren't enough for one fortnight, three more six-figures
sales were booked with Sedo
posting two of those - #4 Nuum.com at $150,000
and #6 SecondBrain.com at $120,000. Senior
Broker Dave Evanson and his Sedo colleague,
Shinyoung Park, co-brokered the latter deal. Sandwiched
between those two at #5 is a $145,050 sale of Accelerator.com
that Elliot Silver detailed at DomainInvesting.com
earlier this week.
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The .coms
went on to sweep 15 of the 20 chart entries, including a pair
posted by James Booth at DomainBooth.com
- #7 Bezi.com at $95,000 and #18 Fixins.com
at $22,000. Mansour Elseify of DomainsNext.com
put another one in the top ten - #9 (tie) 2TK.com.
Mansour, who has a huge collection of 3-character .coms, said
this was his highest sale to date from that group, one in
which he has been seeing significant price increases in recent
years. The .coms also got a boost from AbdulBasit's
$29,888 sale of #11 GWMS.com via Afternic
and Chris Rowan's $28,000 sale of #12 Lethwei.com.
In addition
to that big sale of Betting.online, the non .com gTLDs
have two more representatives on the Big Board - Sedo's
$50,000 sale of #8 Gold.net and a $28,000
sale of #12 (tie) N.vip via Afternic.
That
left just two spots for the ccTLDs - a $26,136 sale
of #14 Punter.co.uk by Andy Bell at Andy
Media and Sedo's $24,062 sale of #16
Spark.fi (.fi is Finland's country code TLD).
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By Ron Jackson
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Here is how all of the
leaders stacked up for the two weeks ending Sunday, October
22, 2023:
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