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2024 Goes Out With a Roar - 7-Figure Sale and a Half Dozen in Six Figures Light Up the Year's Last Chart

Here we are at the end of another eye-opening domain sales season with the arrival of the last batch of sales data for 2024. Several factors came together at once to make our final bi-weekly all extension Top 20 Sales Chart of the year an especially memorable one. First among those was Domain King Rick Schwartz's $1,025,000 sale of BestOdds.com, making it one of the top five publicly reported sales in 2024. Rick gave the buyer 3 years to pay for this domain (an especially timely one with the arrival of  legal sports betting by mobile phone in many states) and they decided to make the final payment six months ahead of schedule to finalize ythe deal.

In another development that added fuel to the fire, we were able to get documentation verifying a large number of impressive sales that TOP.DOMAINS (a company that holds a portfolio of over 10,000 domains) made throughout the year. With those sales added to our charts for the first time, a $600,000 sale of Bet.bet that was made early in the year earned the top spot on our 2024 Non .Com gTLD Top 100 Sales Chart, as well as #1 on our last bi-weekly Top 20 Chart for 2024. The domain was purchased through Afternic by a casino company registered in Curaçao that serves the Brazil market. That is one of five TOP.DOMAINS sales on the leader board, including another one of the six 6-figure sales on the honor roll, #4 People.love at $255,000, also via Afternic.

Adding more fuel to the sales steamroller was the continuing boom in .AI sales, led this time around the track by a $230,000 sale of Boyfriend.ai at Afternic. That is the third biggest ccTLD sale reported in 2024. What's #1? That would be Andy Booth's $274,610 sale of Girlfriend.ai through Atom.com that we told you about in our last report. Way to go girls, you beat the boys again! :-) 

 

Also ringing the six-figure bell was Park.io Founder Mike Carson's $399,999 sale of Cursor.com (a name he bought just last year for $60,000), Sedo with #6 Tachat.com at $103,000 and Swetha.xyz with a $100,000 sale of #7 Stable.xyz through Afternic.

Two of the sales I was most happy to see were #12 (tie) DreamHomeLottery.com at $60,000 amd #20 DreamHomeLottery.org at $30,000, both made by Josh Goddard through his Brokerage.Domains site. What was so special about those? I'm glad you asked! I met Josh for the first time during the Namescon Global conference in Austin last summer when we both attended the Internet Commerce Association's member dinner. He is a personable guy with a great passion for domains and I immediately thought "this is someone I'll be hearing a lot more from in future" and sure enough I did with these sales. Oh, by the way, Josh is 19 years old! How can you not love a business where this is possible for anyone willing to study it, then get to work making their dreams come true? (PS - thanks to Josh's dad Drew for the introduction)!   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

           By Ron Jackson

Here is how all of the leaders stacked up for the two weeks ending Sunday, Jan. 5, 2024

The DN Journal Top 20 
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Dec. 23 - Sun. Jan. 5, 2025
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Jan. 9, 2025)

 

Domain

Sold For

Where Sold

1.

BestOdds.com

$1,025,000 Rick Schwartz
2. Bet.bet $600,000 TOP.DOMAINS/Afternic
3. Cursor.com $399,999 Mike Carson
4. People.love $255,000 TOP.DOMAINS/Afternic
5. Boyfriend.ai $230,000 Afternic
6. Tachat.com €100,000 = $103,000 Sedo
7. Stable.xyz $100,000 Swetha.xyz/Afternic
8. Advice.ai $80,000 Sedo
9. QR.app $79,499 TOP.DOMAINS/Dan.com
10.
tie
Poker.world $75,000 TOP.DOMAINS/Dan.com
10.
tie
Ready.co $75,000 Sedo
12.
tie
DreamHomeLottery.com $60,000 Brokerage.Domains
12.
tie
Universal.xyz $60,000 Lumis
14. Newton.xyz $55,000 Swetha.xyz/Afternic
15. IQAI.com £35,000 = $43,050 Sedo
16. Hype.gg $40,000 Sedo
17. CoreResources.com $39,000 Sedo
18. Wow.now $37,500 TOP.DOMAINS/Atom.com
19. Doyen.com £29,999 = $36,899 Sedo
20.
tie
Ani.ai $30,000 Namecheap
20.
tie
DreamHomeLottery.org $30,000 Brokerage.Domains
20.
tie
iSpace.ai $30,000 Namecheap
20.
tie
Rey.ai $30,000 Namecheap
20.
tie
Virgil.ai $30,000 Namecheap

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.

CLICK HERE for our Year-To-Date Top Sales Charts
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The All-Time Top 20 All-Cash Domain Sales Reported By DNJournal.com
 (2003 to Now)
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There were 17 more five-figure sales off the chart, ranging from $10,000 to $27,988 that are listed in the table below:

  Domain  Sold For   Where Sold
brain.dev $27,988 TOP.DOMAINS 
Shipsy.au $22,888 DomainBooth
soulai.com $21,000 Sedo
farizonauto.co.uk $20,000 Dynadot
RWA.art $20,000 Afternic
brain.link $19,888 TOP.DOMAINS 
Fortess.app $19,499 TOP.DOMAINS/Afternic
DeadThreads.com $17,000 SAW.com
avatar.one $15,289 TOP.DOMAINS 
railroad.app $15,289 TOP.DOMAINS 
washi.com $14,000 Sedo
sicore.de $13,390 Sedo
stopbox.com $12,500 Sedo
jackpotter.com $10,550 Sedo
LUX.network $10,437 TOP.DOMAINS/DAN
bonjourdubai.com $10,300 Sedo
retouch.app $10,000 TOP.DOMAINS 

.Com Supporting Cast

Sedo led the .com supporting cast of four-figure sales with Osher.com at $9,000. HelloFellow.com fetched another $8,240 and StreetKing.com commanded $6,500. Wonderise.com went for $6,245, TacoInc.com tallied $6,170 amd StaffDigital.com drew $6,000.

FoxGold.com tapped in $5,999, Podoo.com posted $5,665 and PanoramaGlobal.com provided $5,600. Cereja.com and GlamCapital.com claimed $5,150 each while Linqi.com landed $5,100. Those were followed by AskFrank.com, Bond-St.com, CWWK.com and MFGHoldfings.com at $5,000 apiece.

Sedo had 33 more four-figure sales ranging from $2,000 to $4,160 that are listed in the table below:

Additional Sedo .com Sales Between $2,000 - $4,160

animalrepublic.com $4,959   gartner-group.com $3,000
obliqe.com $4,914 marinalounge.com $2,995
fortetechnology.com $4,888 coastalprimarycare.com $2,888
hostspaces.com $4,825 serverspaces.com $2,830
subfi.com $4,635 efek.com $2,800
immo4you.com $4,500 thinksmartmarketing.com $2,799
mototag.com $4,239 tutornest.com $2,795
h2site.com $4,120 sleepfox.com $2,670
louton.com $4,000 sindys.com $2,599
workbeyond.com $3,999 musicaround.com $2,575
stage23.com $3,995 finanzcoach.com $2,570
biocove.com $3,955 rylly.com $2,485
pepti.com $3,348 carplakes.com $2,460
dctools.com $3,250 9oh.com $2,266
v2studio.com $3,199 emolument.com $2,000
harcourthotel.com $3,197 tipw.com $2,000
bestproxies.com $3,000   

At Dynadot 65G.com sold for $6,124, Senzaglutine.com secured $4,893 and LetTheGamesBegin.com banked $2,995. BridgesOfBudapest.com attracted $2,949 while Power32.com and  BigDishEnergy.com generated $2,895 each. OnlineMath.com added $2,561 and MobileOrchard.com made $2,236.

Elsewhere, XYNames.com sold PackageBox.com for $6,500, BookingPlace.com for $6,000 and EarnWin.com for $5,000.

Country Codes

.AI continues to dominate the ccTLD pack, racking up the top two entries on our latest ccTLD Top 20 Sales Chart and sweeping six of the first eight places. The headliners were that $230,000 Boyfriend.ai blockbuster at Afternic and Sedo's $80,000 sale of Advice.ai. Namecheap posted the other four .ai sales on the top half of the honor roll.

Sedo had the top sales in others TLDs, ringing up $75,000 for #3 Ready.co and $40,000 for #4 Hype.gg. Sedo went on to rack up eight chart entries overall. DomainBooth.com and Dyandot also earned top 10 spots with Shipsy.au ($22,888) and FarizonAuto.com ($20,000) respetcively.

Here is how the all of the top ccTLDs stacked up for the two weeks ending Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025:

Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart
Highest Reported ccTLD Sales - Mon. Dec. 23 - Sun. Jan. 5, 2025
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Jan. 9, 2025)

 

Domain

Sold For

Where Sold

1. Boyfriend.ai $230,000 Afternic
2. Advice.ai $80,000 Sedo
3. Ready.co $75,000 Sedo
4. Hype.gg $40,000 Sedo
5.
tie
Ani.ai $30,000 Namecheap
5.
tie
iSpace.ai $30,000 Namecheap
5.
tie
Rey.ai $30,000 Namecheap
5.
tie
Virgil.ai $30,000 Namecheap
9. Shipsy.au $22,888 DomainBooth
10.  FarizonAuto.co.uk $20,000 Dynadot
11. Sicore.de €13,000 = $13,390 Sedo
12. ReachForTheCrown.cn $8,500 Sedo
13. Elude.in €7,000 = $7,210 Sedo
14. VFB.nl €6,500 = $6,695 Nameshift
15. MyStar.in £5,000 = $6,150 Sedo
16. Laptop.uk £4,650 = $5,720 DomainLore.uk
17. 456.tv $5,000 Dynadot
18. Essentia.ch 4,000 CHF = $4,400 Nameshift
19.
tie
Goudkoers.nl €4,000 = $4,120 Nameshift
19.
tie
Outreach.de €4,000 = $4,120 Sedo

CLICK HERE for our Year-To-Date Charts.

IThere were dozens of additional sales off the chart led by Dynadot's $4,026 sale of 332.tv. They added $2,500 for All.tv and $2,376 for 971.tv.

Back at Sedo, Maurten.hk collected $3,966, LeBarbier.fr clipped $3,913 and Audioprothesiste.fr earned $3,399. Schreibtischplatte.de delivered $3,219, Plaid.fr plucked $3,193 and SalesPitch.de paid off at $3,090. Two others - Geekvape.de and VisonM.de - drew $3,089 apiece. 

Sedo had 17 more four-figure sales that are listed in the table below:

Additional Sedo ccTLD Sales Between $2,060 - $2,833

smartbuild.de $2,833   freedome.eu $2,266
nude.co $2,650 berl.in $2,060
klempner.at $2,575 marx-immobilien.de $2,060
uncensor.io $2,575 meditation.io $2,060
zahnarzt-aachen.de $2,575 mehrmiteinander.de $2,060
covermaster.de $2,472 milos.ch $2,060
bckstg.de $2,451 neoz.eu $2,060
qrh.de $2,451 zenpass.de $2,060
omniagent.io $2,398   

At Nameshift.com Primaklima.ch chalked up $2,750, Ontzorg.nl notched $2,575, Orthopedagogiek.nl drew $2,261 and MasterClass.fr made $2,060.

Nameshift logged 19 more sales that arer listed in the table below:

Additional NameShift ccTLD Sales Between $1,030 - $1,869

promac.ch $1,869   wasstrips.nl $1,334
estateagent.uk $1,845 dominator.nl $1,288
schuller.de $1,803 holli.nl $1,288
vorstermans.nl $1,746 lesaides.fr $1,231
miet.ch $1,744 demir.nl $1,133
zorgprofessionals.nl $1,597 gits.nl $1,030
outsmart.eu $1,545 kth.it $1,030
biehl.ch $1,540 mondzorgprofessionals.nl $1,030
jobcenter.nl $1,540 prepwinkel.nl $1,030
dehil.nl $1,338   

Elsewhere, DomainLore.uk sold Muhammad.uk for $2,645 and AscendDomains moved Datasolutions.in for $2,000.

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

The addition of those 2024 TOP.DOMAINS sales to our charts gave the Non .com gTLDs a huge boost as that is the category the company specializes in and they have the kind of premium inventory capable of attracting big money. Their sales of the top names on our latest Non .com gTLD Top 20 Sales Chart, Bet.bet at $600,000 and People.love at $255,000, underlined that as did the dozen additional entries they have on the elite list.

Of course, in this instance the chart domainance comes from having sales from throughout the year released at once, but going forward it looks like TOP.DOMAINS will be making regular appearances on the leader board as we proceed through 2025.

Here is how the non .com gTLD leaders stacked up for the two weeks ending Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025:

Non .Com gTLD Top 20 Sales Chart
Highest Reported Non .Com gTLD Sales: Mon. Dec. 23 - Sun. Jan. 5, 2025
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Jan. 9, 2025)

 

Domain

Sold For

Where Sold

1. Bet.bet $600,000 TOP.DOMAINS/Afternic
2. People.love $255,000 TOP.DOMAINS/Afternic
3. Stable.xyz $100,000 Swetha.xyz/Afternic
4. QR.app $79,499 TOP.DOMAINS/Dan.com
5. Poker.world $75,000 TOP.DOMAINS/Dan.com
6. Universal.xyz $60,000 Lumis
7. Newton.xyz $55,000 Swetha.xyz/Afternic
8. Wow.now $37,500 TOP.DOMAINS/Atom.com
9. DreamHomeLottery.org $30,000 Brokerage.Domains
10. Brain.dev $27,988 TOP.DOMAINS
11. RWA.art $20,000 Afternic
12. Brain.link $19,888 TOP.DOMAINS
13. Fortress.app $19,499 TOP.DOMAINS/Afternic
14.
tie
Avatar.one $15,289 TOP.DOMAINS
14.
tie
Railroad.app $15,289 TOP.DOMAINS
16. LUX.network $10,437 TOP.DOMAINS/DAN.com
17. Retouch.app $10,000 TOP.DOMAINS
18. Motor.world $9,999 TOP.DOMAINS
19. Refer.app $9,499 TOP.DOMAINS
20. Sylke.org €6,999 = $7,209 Sedo
 

There were dozens of additional four-figure sales in this category, led by Profit.trade at $6,988 at TOP.DOMAINS. They also sold Crafted.app and GetIn.app at $3,379 each, plus YouGo.app at $2,199 and Edits.app at $1,999.

Back at Sedo, Carla.net claimed $6,900, 88Bet.net brought $6,000 and Decision.net drew $4,500. 1000Y.net yielded $3,500, Barter.net booked $3,000 and DataHaven.xyz hauled in $2,500. 2J.net nabbed $2,050 and three others - 9Line.net, GoVIP.top and PrettyMan.net - produced $2,000 apiece. 

At Dynadot, NFT.quest captured $4,999, Metarium.net managed $4,895 and Crypto.hosting  connected with $3,888. Dressage.org added another $2,035.

Elsewhere, DNTop sold Please.app for $2,500.

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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