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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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The DN Journal Top 20
Highest
Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Oct. 9 - Sun. Oct. 22, 2023
(Foreign
currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in
Effect Oct. 25, 2023) |
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Domain
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Sold For
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Where
Sold
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1. |
Socrates.com |
$600,000 |
Legal
Brand Marketing |
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2. |
PFA.com |
$450,000 |
ApexMoon |
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3. |
Betting.online |
$400,000 |
Radix |
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4. |
Nuum.com |
$150,000 |
Sedo |
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5. |
Accelerator.com |
$145,050 |
GoDaddy |
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6. |
SecondBrain.com |
$120,000 |
Sedo |
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7. |
Bezi.com |
$95,000 |
DomainBooth |
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8. |
Gold.net |
$50,000 |
Sedo |
9.
tie |
2TK.com |
$30,000 |
DomainsNext |
9.
tie |
PartnerPay.com |
$30,000 |
Sedo |
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11. |
GWMS.com |
$29,888 |
AbdulBasit/Afternic |
12.
tie |
Lethwei.com |
$28,000 |
Chris
Rowan |
12.
tie |
N.vip |
$28,000 |
Afternic |
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14. |
Punter.co.uk |
£21,600
= $26,136 |
Andy
Media |
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15. |
Lich.com |
$25,000 |
Sedo |
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16. |
Spark.fi |
€22,700
= $24,062 |
Sedo |
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17. |
FishShop.com |
$23,000 |
Sedo |
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18. |
Fixins.com |
$22,000 |
DomainBooth |
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19. |
MemInsurance.com |
$19,888 |
Sedo |
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20. |
GoodTape.com |
$16,500 |
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 two weeks. 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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The All-Time Top 20
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There were 10 more
five-figure sales off the chart with Sedo accounting for
seven of those including Precognito.com at $15,645
and two others - BMKorea.com and Exogenous.com
- at $15,000 each. They added $12,500 for Deuces.com
while Explore.de and MoodUp.com made
$10,600 apiece and Love2Play.com drew $10,500.
Afternic rang
the five-figure bell again with HF.law at $14,999,
DNTop
scored with a $14,482 sale of NPC.app via Afternic
and BusinessForSale.eu
banked $12,720 for the domain only sale of Ipad.nl.
.Com Supporting
Cast
Sedo led the
.com supporting cast of four-figure sales with Bet.it.com
at $9,990, followed by DSN-Group.com at $8,888
and ConferencePro.com at $8,000. Cuzo.com
kicked in $7,844, Leadsor.com landed
$7,823 and two others - HitPros.com and MixReal.com
- returned $7,500 each.
Sedo added $6,720
for GECS.com, $6,360 for Mozaiq.com
and $5,600 for Fied.com. Radline.com
rang up $5,300 more and IranianLawyer.com
collected $5,010. Sedo had 36 more
four-figure .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $5,000 that
are listed in the table below:
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Additional
Sedo .com Sales Between $2,000 - $5,000
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| cayote.com |
$5,000 |
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gsfinance.com |
$3,180 |
| dailysmoke.com |
$5,000 |
clubdeinversores.com |
$3,050 |
| matejka.com |
$5,000 |
schoolrack.com |
$3,023 |
| pandainternational.com |
$5,000 |
bcanalytics.com |
$3,000 |
| pension360.com |
$5,000 |
dicomserver.com |
$2,968 |
| vergebung.com |
$5,000 |
qualityready.com |
$2,888 |
| praxiscenter.com |
$4,999 |
globalgeo.com |
$2,780 |
| sciencerockstars.com |
$4,999 |
mdgpt.com |
$2,760 |
| airshift.com |
$4,770 |
lizenzen.com |
$2,754 |
| motorsupermarket.com |
$4,538 |
umazing.com |
$2,500 |
| huntersgathering.com |
$4,500 |
yachtsky.com |
$2,500 |
| mytrio.com |
$4,452 |
100hotels.com |
$2,400 |
| sneakermall.com |
$4,399 |
hamburgo.com |
$2,369 |
| gugel.com |
$4,121 |
winkmobile.com |
$2,200 |
| mikrotikshop.com |
$3,817 |
iloveluxury.com |
$2,120 |
| backupp.com |
$3,700 |
wildgen.com |
$2,120 |
| ordertools.com |
$3,500 |
scicity.com |
$2,000 |
| prio-one.com |
$3,485 |
sf50pilot.com |
$2,000 |
Country
Codes
The ccTLDs were,
of course, led by the four five-figure sales you saw in the all
extension section above - two that made the Top 20 and two that
were just off the chart - with the $26,136 sale of Punter.co.uk
at the head of the pack. The biggest sale in this group
that you haven't yet is the #5 name on our latest Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart.
That is Sedo's $9,500 sale of Neurocrine.cn.
Sedo, always the
800-pound gorilla in this category, went on to sweep the rest of
the top ten and 16 of 20 places overall with a roster that
included two top ten .io domains - #5 ECI.io at $5,617
and #8 (tie) Greedy.io at $5,000 (Artwork.ai
sold for the same amount to share that spot). BuyDomainNames.co.uk
was the only other venue with multiple chart entries, scoring
with #15 Tilda.co.uk and Tilda.uk at $3,035
each.
Germany's .de
won the TLD race with six chart entries. .uk was next
with four (three of the .co.uk variety and one .uk). Here is how the ccTLDs stacked up for the
two weeks ending Sunday, October 22, 2023:
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Country
Code Top 20 Sales Chart
Highest Reported
ccTLD Sales - Mon. Oct. 9 - Sun. Oct. 22, 2023
(Foreign
currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in
Effect Oct. 25, 2023) |
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Domain
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Sold For
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Where
Sold
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1. |
Punter.co.uk |
£21,600
= $26,136 |
Andy
Media |
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2. |
Spark.fi |
€22,700
= $24,062 |
Sedo |
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3. |
Ipad.nl |
€12,000
= $12,720 |
BusinessForSale.eu |
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4. |
Explore.de |
€10,000
= $10,600 |
Sedo |
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5. |
Neurocrine.cn |
$9,500 |
Sedo |
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6. |
ECI.io |
€5,299
= $5,617 |
Sedo |
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7. |
Baufoerderung.de |
€5,000
= $5,300 |
Sedo |
8.
tie |
Artwork.ai |
$5,000 |
Sedo |
8.
tie |
Greedy.io |
$5,000 |
Sedo |
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10. |
FindYour.it |
€4,499
= $4,769 |
Sedo |
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11. |
Vessel.in |
$4,500 |
Sedo |
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12. |
Das-Passt.de |
€3,690
= $3,911 |
Sedo |
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13. |
Waterdrop.mk |
€2,999
= $3,179 |
Sedo |
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14. |
ALA.de |
€2,995
= $3,175 |
Sedo |
15.
tie |
MotorSupermarket.co.uk |
£2,500
= $3,025 |
Sedo |
15.
tie |
Tilda.co.uk |
£2,500
= $3,025 |
BuyDomainNames.co.uk |
15.
tie |
Tilda.uk |
£2,500
= $3,025 |
BuyDomainNames.co.uk |
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18. |
Dreams.mx |
$3,000 |
Sedo |
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19. |
GreenRoutine.de |
€2,600
= $2,756 |
Sedo |
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20. |
Doclabor.de |
€2,501
= $2,651 |
Sedo |
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Sedo piled up 16
more four-figure ccTLD sales off the chart including EnergyPartners.de,
Ledporofil.de, Meinmotiv.de and SolarNow.de
at $2,650 apiece. They added $2,649 for ASB-Group.de,
$2,597 for Lebrasseur.fr and $2,544 for Propertee.de.
The Sedo hit parade
continued with Softwares.de ($2,523), Ufabet.tv
($2,500), There.co.za ($2,499) and Airo.co
($2,490). Four others - FRS.se, Nuvo.ch,
Sips.ch and Theseus.fr - sold for $2,120
each and ETHLabs.io clicked for $2,000.
At DomainLore.uk,
Speak.uk sold for $1,990 and Concerts.co.uk
commanded $1,331.
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
No doubt about who the
King of the non .com gTLD hill is this week after Radix's
blockbuster sale of Betting.online at $400,000.
That gem and the four five-figure sales that followed were all
noted in the all extension section above, so the highest sales
from this group that yet haven't seen yet are a pair of domains
that tied for #6 on our latest Non .com
gTLD Top 20 Sales Chart. Those were MR.law and SE.vip
at $8,000 each, with Afternic closing both.
Short domains ruled
the roost with 13 of the 20 charted sales coming from names that
were no more than 3 characters long (not including the
TLD). Most of those came from the .vip TLD that produced
eight super-short sales. Synergy.media
did well with a couple of slightly longer strings, collecting $5,000
for #10 (tie) Future.earth and $3,000 for #19
(tie) Plush.world.
Here is how the top non .com gTLD
sales stacked up for the week ending ending Sunday, October
22, 2023:
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Non
.Com gTLD Top 20 Sales Chart
Highest
Reported Non .Com gTLD Sales: Mon. Oct. 9 - Sun. Oct.
22, 2023
(Foreign
currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in
Effect Oct. 25, 2023)
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Domain
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Sold For
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Where
Sold
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1. |
Betting.online |
$400,000 |
Radix |
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2. |
Gold.net |
$50,000 |
Sedo |
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3. |
N.vip |
$28,000 |
Afternic |
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4. |
HF.law |
$14,999 |
Afternic |
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5. |
NPC.app |
$14,482 |
DNTop/Dan.com |
6.
tie |
MR.law |
$8,000 |
Afternic |
6.
tie |
SE.vip |
$8,000 |
Afternic |
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8. |
IB.vip |
$7,250 |
GoDaddy |
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9. |
Pets.nyc |
$6,999 |
Afternic |
10.
tie |
FDT.net |
$5,000 |
Sedo |
10.
tie |
Future.earth |
$5,000 |
Synergy.media |
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12. |
4G.vip |
$4,500 |
Afternic |
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13. |
FFF.law |
$4,499 |
Afternic |
14.
tie |
6S.vip |
$3,999 |
Afternic |
14.
tie |
A7.vip |
$3,999 |
Afternic |
14.
tie |
K9.vip |
$3,999 |
Afternic |
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17. |
Global.auction |
$3,800 |
Sedo |
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18. |
Delia.info |
£2,500
= $3,025 |
Sedo |
19.
tie |
Plush.world |
$3,000 |
Synergy.media |
19.
tie |
YYY.vip |
$3,000 |
Afterniv |
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There were four more
four-figure sales from this group just off the chart. Afternic
sold Nova.law at $2,999 and Dog.fit
at $2,800 while Sedo moved Crack.xyz for
$2,990 and OmegaGroup.org for $2,190.
Now that you're up to date
on what happened over the past two weeks, check out how the leaders
stand year to date in all categories by visiting our Year
To Date Charts page.
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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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