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Editor's Note: The biggest hurricane to hit the Tampa Bay area (where we are based) in over 100 years, Milton, is expected to make landfall Wednesday night (October 9). As a result we have been busy making preparations for the storm and are likely to lose power after landfall, so we are delaying our bi-weekly domain sales report until next week (Wednesday evening, Oct 16) when we will cover all notable sales made since our last report below from Sept. 25). While this storm is expected to cause massive destruction, our location (25 miles north of downtown Tampa and 15 miles inland from the coast) will keep us far away from the deadly storm surge. Our main issue will be high wind which downs trees, knocks out power and can cause structural damage, depending on the storm's strength and location at landfall and how far you are away from the eye. UPDATE (Thursday, Oct. 10): Hurricane Milton passed through last night and we were fortunate to get through it with no damage other than some downed tree limbs. After some clean-up we will be good to go again next week.

A Bankruptcy Auction and a Super Flip by Braden Pollock Produce the Top Sales on Our Latest Chart

The domain aftermarket provided several interesting story lines over the past two weeks. A bankruptcy auction produced a chart topping $400,000+ sale... LegalBrandMarketing Founder Braden Pollock (fresh off posting the two biggest sales in our last report) reeled in another big one while turning $15,000 into $150,000 in just 60 days!...and the .AI boom continued unabated with the TLD taking five spots on our latest bi-weekly all extension Top 20 Sales Chart, including 4 of the 7 biggest entries.

Starting from the top, as DomainInvesting.com reported,  ASAP.com earned its spot at the top

after being purchased for $404,600 through a bankruptcy auction conduced by Heritage Global Partners. Terms of the sale required  the winning bidder to add a 19% premium (commission) to their bid ($340,000 in this case) pushing the acquisition cost past the 400K mark and making it one of the ten biggest publicly reported sales of the year to date.

Two weeks ago Braden Pollock topped our previous Top 20 with Continue.com at $550,000 and Cancel.com at $330,000. This week he is back with another six-figure sale in #2 Super.net at $150,000. That domain may sound familiar to you, because in that same report it was #1 on the Non .Com gTLD Top 20 Sales Chart after NameJet reported selling it for $15,556. I'm sure you have put 2 + 2 together and already figured out that Braden was the one who bought the domain at NameJet and quickly flipped it for an eye popping 10X return and - in a first - for the second week in a row he made the same name #1 on that chart but at different prices. While that happened in back to back reports, 60 days actually passed between the two sales. The first one didn't come to light until earlier this month when NameJet released all of their sales from three summer months at one time. 

Now, about .AI. The ccTLD continues to burn up both the Country Code Chart and the harder to conquer all extension leader board.  This time around the track Namecheap reported five .ai sales that crashed the Big Board with four of those landing in the top ten. The leaders of the pack were #3 Authentic.ai at $50,000 and #4 Strawberry.ai at $45,000. Those helped the ccTLDs pile up 11 of the 24 chart entries overall (the extra spots resulted from a five-way tie for the final position). The Country Code domains also got a boost from WeBroker.vc's $20,000 sale of Stack.vc, Sedo's $15,680 sale of Aerotermia.es and a trio of .co sales posted by Magnum Domains.

There was another interesting six-figure transaction that involved a three-domain bundle of names that combined the .com with two ccTLD versions of the keyword - Vuurwerk ("fireworks" in Dutch). That was Tappaya.com's €115,000 ($128,800) sale of Vuurwerk.com, Vuurwerk.nl and Vuurwerk.be. The domains were not individually priced so we can't chart them but it's obviously a nice sale no matter how you slice it.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

           By Ron Jackson

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

The DN Journal Top 20 
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Sept. 9 - Sun. Sept. 22, 2024
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Sept. 25, 2024)

 

Domain

Sold For

Where Sold

1. ASAP.com $404,600 Heritage Global Partners
2.

Super.net

$150,000 LegalBrandMarketing
3. Authentic.ai $50,000 Namecheap
4. Strawberry.ai $45,000 Namecheap
5. Tomo.ai $32,250