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Latest
Sales Chart Topped By a .Com, a .Net and a .Org But Not in the Order
You Usually Expect
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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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FG.org |
$95,000 |
Sedo
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Travelful.net |
€75,000
= $81,000 |
Sedo |
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XUG.com |
$42,898 |
Dynadot |
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Melwin.com |
$33,000 |
Sedo |
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5. |
Ton.cloud |
$25,300 |
Get.cloud/Afternic |
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