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Holiday Break? The Domain Aftermarket Missed The Memo! Five 6-Figure Sales Top Latest DNJournal Chart 

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!

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.

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

           By Ron Jackson

Here is how all of the leaders stacked up for the two weeks ending Sunday, December 22, 2024

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)

 

Domain

Sold For

Where Sold

1.

Girlfriend.ai

$274,610 Andy Booth/
Atom.com
2. Betz.com $240,000 Sedo
3. Please.ai $200,000 Park.io
4. MindSprint.com $150,000 Sedo
5. PayCard.com