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Summer
holiday breaks produced some unusual sales chart results
from data received over the past three weeks. Our reports
normally come out bi-weekly but we were away for a couple of
weeks ourselves, one of the reasons for the delay. The other
was one of our major data suppliers, Sedo, being on
their annual summer break. While on that well deserved hiatus
they did not release a report last week and won't this
week either. Others were vacation as well but we've cobbled
enough information together now to share what has come in
(including a week of Sedo sales sent in prior to their
reporting pause).
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When you have a
smaller set of data to work with, it is not uncommon to see
less monopolization of the sale charts by the .coms.
Less data gives you fewer high end sales and that opens the
door for top tier sales in TLDs that typically sell for less
than .coms to rank higher than they normally might. Such was
the case this time around the track with a .org at the
top of the leader board, followed by a .net, then the
first .com.
Regardless of the
final chart position, Sedo's
sale of the latest chart topper, FG.org at $95,000
is a nice one no matter how you slice it. They also took the
#2 spot on our all extension Top 20 Sales Chart with Travelful.net
at €75,000 ($81,000). At first glance that
one is a head scratcher but further examination showed the
value from that domain comes almost solely from a high level
of existing traffic from a travel website that once operated
on it. Domains like that are often bought by overseas gambling
sights and that was the case here. The traffic will dissipate
over time as people don't find what they expected to see on
the domain, but meanwhile the new owners are banking on
gaining enough new customers from the flood of traffic to make
the investment worthwhile. It was a domain only sale, so it is
chart eligible but absent the traffic it would not have
been a valuable name.
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Dynadot
put the first .com on board - an always bankable 3-letter
.com, with this one, XUG.com, going for $42,898.
Sedo followed with with #4 Melwin.com at $33,000.
The the first new TLD, Ton.cloud, rounded out the first
five after Get.cloud
sold it through Afternic
for $25,300.
The ccTLDs
had another very good outing, taking five spots on the leader
board. Two of those crashed the top ten - Sedo's $19,780 sale
of ISS.io and WeBroker.vc's
$15,000 sale of #8 ASAP.vc. They also sold
#16 Mobility.vc for $8,500.
While
the .coms didn't have the top sale they did, as usual, have
the most chat entries with 10. The non .com gTLDs
matched the five entries the country code domains posted.
Their haul included a pair of $10,000 sales that tied
for #11 - Dynadot's sale of Assets.org and Tariq
Ghafoor's sale of VacationRentals.info via
Afternic.
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By Ron Jackson
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Though not ready to chart,
another transaction worth noting is Avi Schiffmann's
deal to acquire the marvelous Friend.com domain for $1,887,843
under a payment plan. The acquisition was widely reported
with Domain Name Wire's article
among those providing the details. As
we head into the final weeks of summer, we are back on our
regular bi-weekly schedule now, so you can expect our next
report August 14. In the meantime, here is how the
leaders stacked up for the three weeks ending Sunday, July
28, 2024
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The DN Journal Top 20
Highest
Reported Domain Sales - Mon. July 8 - Sun. July 28, 2024
(Foreign
currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in
Effect July 31, 2024) |
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Domain
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Sold For
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Where
Sold
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1. |
FG.org |
$95,000 |
Sedo
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2. |
Travelful.net |
€75,000
= $81,000 |
Sedo |
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3. |
XUG.com |
$42,898 |
Dynadot |
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4. |
Melwin.com |
$33,000 |
Sedo |
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5. |
Ton.cloud |
$25,300 |
Get.cloud/Afternic |
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6. |
Yardwork.com |
$22,501 |
Sedo |
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7. |
ISS.io |
$19,780 |
Sedo |
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8. |
ASAP.vc |
$15,000 |
WeBroker.vc |
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9. |
Roullete.com |
$11,574 |
Dynadot |
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10. |
Poshukach.com |
$10,210 |
Dynadot |
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11.
tie |
Assets.org |
$10,000 |
Dynadot |
11.
tie |
VacationRentals.info |
$10,000 |
Afternic |
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13. |
FamilyPhotos.com |
$9,999 |
Sedo |
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14. |
Things.in |
$9,500 |
Sedo |
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15. |
Patent.co.uk |
£6,750
= $8,708 |
Sedo |
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16. |
Mobility.vc |
$8,500 |
WeBroker.vc |
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17. |
11V.com |
$8,000 |
Sedo |
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18. |
MrBrownie.com |
€7,250
= $7,830 |
Sedo |
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19. |
UMSV.com |
$7,500 |
Dynadot |
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20. |
BuyMyNumber.com |
$7,350 |
Dynadot |
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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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.Com Supporting
Cast
Sedo led the
.com supporting cast of four-figure sales with InsideQuad.com
at $5,750, Trixer.com at $5,292 and GamingExperts.com
at $5,000. Recolift.com added $4,200, CashFuse.com
fetched $3,710 and Implication.com kicked in $3,234.
KTurn.com tacked on $3,000, FurryAI.com
cleared $2,213 and VastLinks.com landed $2,000.
Back at Dynadot, MemeWorld.com
made $4,999, LoyBet.com booked $4,900 and SiestaKeyLive.com
clicked for $4,895. CleaningLab.com claimed $4,160,
IRTK.com captured $4,000, 777Jili.com
drew $3,847 and VottaCity.com sold for $3,000.
Country
Codes
The ccTLDs were, or
course, led by that quintet of sales you saw on the all extension
leader board above. The biggest sale in this group that you haven't
seen yet is the #6
domain on our latest Country Code Top 20 Sales
Chart. That is a $6,940 sale of Swell.io at Dynadot.
As is almost always the
case, Sedo had the most chart entries in this group, sweeping
12 of the 20 positions, including two Indian domains they put on the
top half of the list, #9 Infuse.in at $5,564 and #9
FLP.in at $4,860.
One unusual thing about this
chart is that every TLD on it had multiple chart entries. .in
and .de had four each, .io and .vc had three each
and three others - .us, .co.uk and .eu had two
apiece. Here is how the all of the
top ccTLDs stacked up for the three weeks ending Sunday, July
28, 2024:
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Country
Code Top 20 Sales Chart
Highest Reported
ccTLD Sales - Mon. July 8 - Sun. July 28, 2024
(Foreign
currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in
Effect July 31, 2024) |
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Domain
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Sold For
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Where
Sold
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1. |
ISS.io |
$19,780 |
Sedo |
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2. |
ASAP.vc |
$15,000 |
WeBroker.vc |
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3. |
Things.in |
$9,500 |
Sedo |
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4. |
Patent.co.uk |
£6,750
= $8,708 |
Sedo |
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5. |
Mobility.vc |
$8,500 |
WeBroker.vc |
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6. |
Swell.io |
$6,940 |
Dynadot |
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7. |
Torrent.vc |
$6,000 |
WeBroker.vc |
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8. |
Infuse.in |
£4,313
= $5,564 |
Sedo |
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9. |
FLP.in |
€4,500
= $4,860 |
Sedo |
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10. |
Coastal.us |
$4,599 |
Afternic |
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11. |
eBike.co.uk |
£3,561
= $4,594 |
DomanLore.uk |
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12. |
TheFrankieShop.de |
€3,800
= $4,158 |
Sedo |
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13. |
TME.co.in |
$3,900 |
Sedo |
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14. |
Bop.io |
$3,890 |
Dynadot |
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15. |
DirectGroup.eu |
€3,500
= $3,780 |
Sedo |
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16. |
DEI.us |
$3,488 |
Afternic |
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17. |
Cofim.de |
€2,990
= $3,229 |
Sedo |
18.
tie |
GoGroup.de |
€2,750
= $2,970 |
Sedo |
18.
tie |
KBeauty.de |
€2,750
= $2,970 |
Sedo |
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20. |
Pudu.eu |
€2,599
= $2,807 |
Sedo |
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In additional four-figure ccTLD sales off the chart,
Sedo moved Cannabis-Express.de and Erkennedichselbst.de
for $2,700 each and two others - DZS.ch and Naturwohnen.de
- for $2,570 apiece. Curver.cn added $2,500 and
Voxpop.ai produced $2,195.
AscendDomains.com
sold 151.in and 515.in for $2,158 each.
Elsewhere, DomainLore.uk
rang up $1,554 for TwoPointSixChallenge.co.uk,
$1,520 for Vendor.co.uk and $1,507
for Train.uk. They also scored with Mackays.co.uk
($1,355), Commercials.co.uk ($1,246), Jess.co.uk
($1,238) and Tips.uk ($1,161).
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
As was the case with the
ccTLDs, you saw the top five sales in the non .com gTLD
category in the all extension section at the top of this report, led
by Sedo's big $95,000 sale of FG.org. They also
had the highest sale on our latest Non .Com Top 20 Sales
Chart that you haven't seen yet with #6 Profile.pro at $6,942.
.Art scored their
first win in the TLD race, piling up seven chart entries to beat all
comers. A $6,500 sale of #8 View.art at Namecheap
led their roster with a half dozen more coming from GoDaddy.
.Org and .net were next with four chart entries apiece.
Here is how the non
.com gTLD leaders stacked up for the three weeks ending Sunday, July
28, 2024:
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Non
.Com gTLD Top 20 Sales Chart
Highest
Reported Non .Com gTLD Sales: Mon. July 8 - Sun. July
28, 2024
(Foreign
currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in
Effect July 31, 2024)
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Domain
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Sold For
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Where
Sold
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1. |
FG.org |
$95,000 |
Sedo |
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2. |
Travelful.net |
€75,000
= $81,000 |
Sedo |
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3. |
Ton.cloud |
$25,300 |
Get.cloud/Afternic |
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4. |
Assets.org |
$10,000 |
Dynadot |
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5. |
VacationRentals.info |
$10,000 |
Afternic |
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6. |
Profile.pro |
$6,942 |
Sedo |
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7. |
RTP-Slot.pro |
$6,819 |
Dynadot |
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8. |
View.art |
$6,500 |
Namecheap |
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9. |
CamGirl.org |
$5,461 |
Dynadot |
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10. |
WeMap.net |
$4,900 |
Sedo |
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11. |
Infrastructure.info |
$3,599 |
Sedo |
12.
tie |
Archive.art |
$3,250 |
GoDaddy |
12.
tie |
Create.art |
$3,250 |
GoDaddy |
14.
tie |
Lux.art |
$3,250 |
GoDaddy |
14.
tie |
Party.art |
$3,250 |
GoDaddy |
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16. |
Saint.art |
$3,250 |
GoDaddy |
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17. |
Soul.art |
$3,250 |
GoDaddy |
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18. |
Truong.net |
$3,000 |
Sedo |
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19. |
NorthernOntario.org |
€2,500
= $2,700 |
Sedo |
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20. |
OnCam.net |
$2,500 |
Afternic |
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In a couple of other
transactions off the chart, Dynadot sold QuantumBiology.xyz
for $1,898 and GoDaddy moved Boost.art for
$1,625.
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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