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Judging
from the latest domain sales, the summer break apparently
ended a little early this year - at least for the domain
aftermarket. We are well past July 4th but there seemed to be
fireworks everywhere with a $1 million sale creating
the biggest boom. That was DomainBooth.com
Founder James Booth's sale of Koko.com that was
made through Atom.com.
That is the third highest publicly reported domain sale of the
year to date,
trailing only Gold.com ($8.515 million) and TP.com
($1.2 million). There have undoubtedly been many more
7-figure sales this year but most at that level are made under
non-disclosure agreements.
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Atom.com also gets
credit of the #2 domain on our latest bi-weekly all extension Top 20 Sales Chart
because they sold Gosh.com for $475,000 on
behalf of Braden Pollock from LegalBrandMarketing.com
- and Atom (formerly known as SquadHelp) still wasn't done.
They also sold #4 Auger.com for K-Ventures
at a cool $125,000. Sandwiched between those was yet
another big sale from industry pioneer Mike Mann who
moved #3 WWI.com for $350,000 on his DomainMarket.com
platform.
I
mentioned Atom not being through - neither was
LegalBrandMarketing or K-Ventures. Braden chalked up another
one for LBM with a $100,000 sale of #5 Spring.net
in one of the five highest non .com gTLD sales reported
so far this year. K-Ventures also rang the bell a second time
with a $33,999 sale of #9 Nason.com that was
made via DAN.com.
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All of this and I
still haven't gotten to the venue that put up the most
chart entries. That was Sedo
who swept 13 of 20 places, including four of the top ten. #6 UpSign.com
at $60,500 led the Sedo charge. They also put another
non .com gTLD on the top half of the leader board thanks to
Premium Broker Mark Ghoriafi working with Geocentic
Media's Fred Mercaldo to move a beautiful city
domain, #10 Seattle.org, for $33,350.
When big numbers are
being thrown around the .coms almost always take the
lion's share of chart entries and that was the case this time
out. The .coms piled up 15 chart entries with the remaining
five all going to non .com gTLDs. That didn't mean it was a
bad couple of weeks for the ccTLDs. On the contrary,
they rang up five five-figure sales (led by Sedo's $20,000 sale
of Reactor.ai) that would have charted almost any other
week but fell just short in the flood of high end sales this
time around. Were it not for NDAs, there would have been even
more. In just one example of that, Sedo's Mark Ghoriafi closed
a $275,000 sale of a two-word .com under an NDA.
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By Ron Jackson
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There
is also some news about historical sales to share with you. As
Elliot Silver reported at DomainInvesting.com,
it was revealed that Public.com changed hands for $900,000
three years ago. As a result, we have added that sale to
the 2021
Top 100 Sales Chart in our Domain
Sales Archive where it ranks as the #20 sale for that year.
While one was added,
one of the biggest sales ever reported - Fund.com at $9,999,950
has been removed. That one was reported in an SEC
filing 16 years ago but many have been skeptical ever since
and, as it turns out, rightfully so. Since knowingly
submitting false information to the SEC can get you arrested
and there was no evidence at the time to disprove it, the sale
was listed. However, as Andrew Allemann detailed at DomainNameWire.com,
it has now been proven to be
a fake sale and thus deleted from our charts.
Now, getting back to current
sales - here is how the
leaders stacked up for the two weeks ending Sunday,
August 11, 2024
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The DN Journal Top 20
Highest
Reported Domain Sales - Mon. July 29 - Sun. August 11, 2024
(Foreign
currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in
Effect August 14, 2024) |
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Domain
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Sold For
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Where
Sold
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1. |
Koko.com |
$1,000,000 |
DomainBooth/Atom
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2. |
Gosh.com |
$475,000 |
LegalBrandMarketing/
Atom |
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3. |
WWI.com |
$350,000 |
DomainMarket |
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4. |
Auger.com |
$125,000 |
K-Ventures/Atom |
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5. |
Spring.net |
$100,000 |
LegalBrandMarketing |
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6. |
UpSign.com |
€55,000
= $60,500 |
Sedo |
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7. |
Sorteos.com |
€50,000
= $55,000 |
Sedo |
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8. |
LandWolf.com |
$42,069 |
Sedo |
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9. |
Nason.com |
$33,999 |
K-Ventures/DAN.com |
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10. |
Seattle.org |
$33,350 |
Sedo/Geocentric
Media |
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11. |
LFM.com |
£25,000
= $32,250 |
Sedo |
12.
tie |
ARCS.com |
$30,000 |
Sedo |
12.
tie |
Himpel.com |
$30,000 |
Sedo |
14.
tie |
IPL.net |
$27,000 |
Sedo |
14.
tie |
Raimondi.com |
$27,000 |
Sedo |
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16. |
Finders.com |
$25,000 |
Sedo |
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17. |
Gosh.xyz |
$24,888 |
Swetha.xyz |
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18. |
VFShop.com |
$23,500 |
Sedo |
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19. |
World.charity |
€20,000
= $22,000 |
Sedo |
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20. |
Baddie.com |
$21,000 |
Sedo |
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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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There were 20 more five-figure
sales off the chart with Sedo accounting for all but two
of those with a roster that included Coinbets.com
at $20,350 and two others - BenBornstein.com
and Reactor.ai - at $20,000 each. They
added $19,888 for SansCasino.com, $18,164
for Alpholz.de, followed by four others - CMotions.com,
Intuitive.ai, Schumacher.it and TitanProperty.com
- at $15,000 apiece.
The Sedo hit parade
continued with Saphiira.com at $14,788 and
four more - HotelResort.com, Liom.com,
Perlentaucher.com and Teachify.com -
at $12,000 each. They completed their five-figure run
with ClickSale.com ($11,000), VIPLuck.com
($10,989), Marble.eu ($10,835) and Ezinne.com
at $12,560.
Meanwhile, LegalBrandMarketing
added yet another feather to their cap with Argentic.com
at $12,000 and DomainMarket scored again with VibeFitness.com,
also at $12,000.
.Com Supporting
Cast
Sedo also
commanded the .com supporting cast of four-figure sales with
GoldRates.com at $9,999. VictoryBrands.com
at $9,900 and Monsoleil.com at $9,300.
FF20.com kicked in another $8,999, DataToday.com
drew $8,100 and MichComm.com made $8,099.
Sedo also banked $7,950
for PYNC.com, $7,800 for Yukselsaudia.com
and $,7777 for 777E.com. Get100.com
got $7,650 and three others - AudioCenter.com,
Wellhoefer.com and WowWigs.com - went for $7,500
apiece.
Sedo had 87 more
four-figure sales ranging from $2,000 to $7,150
that are listed in the table below:
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Additional
Sedo .com Sales Between $2,000 - $7,150
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| bjbet.com |
$7,150 |
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sankbang.com |
$3,150 |
| badguru.com |
$6,600 |
family-hotel.com |
$3,119 |
| freshquote.com |
$6,000 |
bonveno.com |
$3,099 |
| fsga.com |
$6,000 |
bitcoinos.com |
$3,000 |
| prodes.com |
$5,800 |
postback.com |
$3,000 |
| wiziu.com |
$5,799 |
buysf.com |
$2,999 |
| bluedogcoin.com |
$5,499 |
glaciertech.com |
$2,999 |
| dancingflowers.com |
$5,359 |
publictreasury.com |
$2,995 |
| cjlaw.com |
$5,200 |
vranded.com |
$2,995 |
| amazingyou.com |
$5,000 |
halfo.com |
$2,988 |
| goprimeguard.com |
$5,000 |
russellshaw.com |
$2,988 |
| urbanwise.com |
$4,999 |
luxurymining.com |
$2,927 |
| foxandbear.com |
$4,995 |
amplifylight.com |
$2,899 |
| heatnetwork.com |
$4,995 |
fleetxpert.com |
$2,899 |
| julescafe.com |
$4,995 |
apressoleil.com |
$2,888 |
| explan.com |
$4,950 |
jakartapress.com |
$2,888 |
| indonesiansc.com |
$4,888 |
fauquierbank.com |
$2,868 |
| pbtrust.com |
$4,888 |
freedom-group.com |
$2,868 |
| nemadji.com |
$4,879 |
kabelkanal.com |
$2,750 |
| 8abc.com |
$4,500 |
archetypeentertainment.com |
$2,737 |
| memoo.com |
$4,500 |
tdev.com |
$2,695 |
| gostat.com |
$4,319 |
bloomdate.com |
$2,639 |
| wptgold.com |
$4,290 |
onlinepage.com |
$2,600 |
| hotelsdubai.com |
$4,000 |
arsolo.com |
$2,500 |
| growthquotient.com |
$3,999 |
bearingking.com |
$2,500 |
| romble.com |
$3,999 |
bulkpets.com |
$2,500 |
| wp168.com |
$3,999 |
clkgroup.com |
$2,500 |
| semaplus.com |
$3,995 |
renvio.com |
$2,500 |
| c-cloud.com |
$3,900 |
usfoundations.com |
$2,500 |
| johnstegall.com |
$3,899 |
wattslegal.com |
$2,500 |
| wasmiddel.com |
$3,850 |
marriagecruise.com |
$2,488 |
| naiss.com |
$3,839 |
tashantv.com |
$2,431 |
| claryst.com |
$3,740 |
workmai.com |
$2,310 |
| landtender.com |
$3,600 |
glucolean.com |
$2,222 |
| flyingfrogs.com |
$3,575 |
futurepool.com |
$2,200 |
| eyls.com |
$3,500 |
o777.com |
$2,200 |
| mookambika.com |
$3,500 |
tyime.com |
$2,199 |
| myadult.com |
$3,500 |
fyxs.com |
$2,100 |
| curabel.com |
$3,499 |
2pan.com |
$2,099 |
| sto-consulting.com |
$3,450 |
europeanlistings.com |
$2,000 |
| mezzanotte.com |
$3,300 |
kreated.com |
$2,000 |
| newbund.com |
$3,289 |
projectmindset.com |
$2,000 |
| rtpinc.com |
$3,289 |
sportforia.com |
$2,000 |
| tenexa.com |
$3,200 |
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Elsewhere, Jason
Eisler sold RehabsInFlorida.com through Afternic
for $7,500.
...and
we're not done yet!
Continue
to Page 2 for
the ccTLD and Non
.Com gTLD Top 20 Charts and
all other sales reported in those categories over the past two
weeks.
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