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Holiday
Break? The Domain Aftermarket Missed The Memo! Five 6-Figure Sales
Top Latest DNJournal Chart
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I'm
writing this the day after Christmas and with New
Year's Day still to come, there is no doubt the calendar
says we are in the middle of the holidays. Many offices
have closed, providing further confirmation of that, yet some
of the biggest publicly reported sales we've seen this year
have come in since our last bi-weekly report. Those include two
of the year's three biggest ccTLD sales, thanks to
the ongoing .AI boom.
That
artificial intelligence-fueled surge also produced something
we rarely see - the same domain hold two spots in the
top 10 of a YTD Chart. The #1 sale on our
latest all extension Top 20 Sales Chart is Girlfriend.ai
at $274,610. At that price it is also now #1
on our Year-to-Date Top
100 ccTLD Sales Chart. But it is also #6!
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Veteran
investor Andy
Booth brought on this case of double vision. Andy bought
Girlfriend.ai earlier this year for $170,000 giving it
a top 10 spot on the YTD honor roll that it still holds.
However, Andy is also the one who just sold
Girlfriend.ai through Atom.com,
earning a nice six-figure profit and the #1 spot on the YTD
ccTLD Top 100 as well.
This
was a fitting reward for Andy's foresight into .AI's fortunes.
A lot of people thought he was making a mistake when he went
all in on .AI well before the crowd, but the skeptics are
becoming more scarce with every month of big sales that
passes. The latest example of that is our latest bi-weekly Top
20 Chart on which .AI piled up 10 of the 20 entries,
including another blockbuster in Park.io's
$200,000 sale of Please.ai. That is now the 3rd
biggest country code sale of the year to date.
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Of
course, even though .AI is rocking the house, the .coms
still have their party hats on and for good reason. They
turned in a trio of six-figure sales this time around
the track with Sedo
posting all three of those. Their Senior Domain Broker, Dave
Evanson, continued to prove he is one of the best ever at
his craft, set the pace by closing a sweet $240,000
deal for #2 Betz.com. Sedo also banked $150,000 for
#4 MindSprint.com and another $100,000 for #5
PayCard.com, credited to another star on their global
brokerage team, Derick Clegg.
The .coms
got another top ten sale from Andy Booth's brother James
(based at DomainBooth.com)
who sold #10 (tie) CryptoWin.com for $60,000,
also, as was the case with Andy's #1 sale, using Atom.com
to close the deal. Back on the .AI side, Namecheap
stood out after posting 8 of the red hot TLD's 10 chart
entries.
While
.com and .ai continued to provide very stiff competition, the non
.com gTLDs answered the bell with a pair of top ten
entries of their own. One came from Synergy.media where
a payment plan for #7 Green.earth was completed early
to close an $85,280 deal. DomainName.com
rang up the other one, #8 AB.org at $75,000.
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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,
December 22, 2024
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The DN Journal Top 20
Highest
Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Dec. 9 - Sun. Dec. 22, 2024
(Foreign
currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in
Effect Dec. 26, 2024) |
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Domain
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Sold For
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Where
Sold
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Girlfriend.ai |
$274,610 |
Andy
Booth/
Atom.com |
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Betz.com |
$240,000 |
Sedo |
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3. |
Please.ai |
$200,000 |
Park.io |
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4. |
MindSprint.com |
$150,000 |
Sedo |
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5. |
PayCard.com |
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