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$323,000 Sale Tops This Week's Domain Sales Chart With Another Also Fetching 6 Figures

The past week was a very good one for a veteran domain investor (who wishes to remain anonymous). With the help of two brokers with solid track records he sold one domain for $323,000 and another for $100,000. The king of the hill was 380.com, the domain that commanded 323K in a deal brokered by James Booth at BQDN.com to claim the top spot on our latest all extension Top 20 Sales Chart. That also ranks among the 15 biggest sales reported so far in 2017.

The seller's second home run was delivered by Andrew Rosener at MediaOptions.com who found a buyer for CIF.com at 100K to fill the runner-up slot. That pair of high end sales helped the .coms sweep the first seven spots on the leader board and 14 of 20 places overall.

Sedo, who accounted for 10 of the 20 charted sales, filled the #3 slot with MagicFiber.com at $28,000. DomainsNext.com was next with #4 0639.com at $24,000 (they booked another $8,050 for #17 U98.com) and Chirag Chavda rounded out the first five with 3270.com at $21,000 (Chirag also brokered a second sale that made the top ten - #7 1646.com at $20,000). 

By Ron Jackson

With Fat City Properties selling #15 Livinity.com for $9,000 the .coms enjoyed their usual dominance but the ccTLDs also had a very good outing, placing five domains on the Big Board, including three that reached the top ten. #8 More.tv led that category with China's Mai Lifang selling that domain for $16,500 to a Ukrainian company that operates the More.club website. Sedo booked the other four country code sales on the elite list with #9 Girls.co.uk leading that quartet at $13,939.  

The non .com gTLDs were limited to a single chart entry - that one a new gTLD. The .GLOBAL registry sold #18 (tie) Sky.global for $8,000. 

There was one considerably larger transaction in the non .com gTLD group involving GoldCoin.org but that deal, valued at €80,000 ($94,400), involves a payment schedule so cannot be charted yet. The operators of a cryptocurrency called Gold Coin acquired the domain under an agreement in which they paid €15,000 down with 20 monthly payments of €3,250 each to follow.

Here is how the sales leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, December 10, 2017:

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The DN Journal Top 20 
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Dec, 4, 2017 - Sun. Dec. 10, 2017
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Dec. 13, 2017)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. 380.com $323,000 BQDN
2. CIF.com $100,000 MediaOptions
3. MagicFiber.com $28,000 Sedo
4. 0639.com $24,000 DomainsNext
5. 3270.com $21,000 ChiragChavda
6. IVIX.com $20,250 Sedo
7. 1646.com $20,000 ChiragChavda
8. More.tv $16,500 Pvt Sale
9. Girls.co.uk £9,995 = $13,393 Sedo
10.
tie		 HostChain.com $10,000 Sedo
10.
tie		 Wax.io $10,000 Sedo

12.
tie		 Red-Bubble.es €8,000 = $9,440 Sedo
12.
tie		 SportMania.com €8,000 = $9,440 Sedo
12.
tie		 Traum.at €8,000 = $9,440 Sedo
15. Livinity.com $9,000 Fat City Properties
16. 99766.com $8,328 ChiragChavda
17. U98.com $8,050 DomainsNext
18.
tie		 Sky.global $8,000 .GLOBAL Registry
18.
tie		 VivoLife.com $8,000 Sedo
20. DUSQ.com $7,500 Sedo

Keep in mind that these are the highest value cash only sales that have been reported to us in the past week. 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

Click Link Below for
The All-Time Top 20 All-Cash Domain Sales Reported By DNJournal.com
 (2003 to Now)

.Com Supporting Cast

Sedo led the .com supporting cast of four-figure sales with Pronexos.com at $5,768, Zoopo.com at $5,750 and UltimateMD.com at $5,000. SiliconRanch.com wrangled another $4,999 while Nysem.com notched $4,950. Two others - Fabiloa.com and Triathlon-Me.com - made $4,720 each and Plabo.com brought $4,602. 

Sedo had 32 more four-figure .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $4,500 that are listed in the table below:

Additional Sedo .com Sales Between $2,000 - $4,500
addnice.com $4,500   roure.com $2,950
dzero.com $4,500 fishpharm.com $2,900
webtraffix.com $4,250 cryptod.com $2,895
yimp.com $3,999 buildingcure.com $2,888
coineasy.com $3,650 aymira.com $2,832
lowengrip.com $3,646 carskc.com $2,688
charlottenutrition.com $3,500 ckbk.com $2,588
law21.com $3,500 truemessage.com $2,588
optor.com $3,500 datasociety.com $2,500
peritojudicial.com $3,500 statemade.com $2,500
zoomkey.com $3,500 leakproof.com $2,250
feux.com $3,408 diamonz.com $2,200
claytan.com $3,000 9fy.com $2,000
cazinouri.com $2,950 fuckbuds.com $2,000
denimaker.com $2,950 iheartpoker.com $2,000
nordcom.com $2,950 ye2.com $2,000

Elsewhere, Fat City Properties sold ArkansasGas.com ($4,995), HempMonkey.com ($2,495) and BabyBeard.com ($2,000) while URLs.net moved Negawatts.com for $2,200. 

 

Country Codes

The ccTLDs were of course led by the five country code sales that qualified for the all extension leader board you saw above, with More.tv leading the way at $16,500. The highest sale in this category that you haven't seen yet is #6 on our latest weekly Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart. That is Sedo's $5,605 sale of Dutch domain Ellipse.nl.

Sedo went on to sweep 17 of the 19 chart entries including two that tied for #7 at $5,000 each - Risk.ai and Wix.cm. The two sales that kept Sedo from running the board were #16 Fused.co.uk ($2,454 at DomainLore.co.uk) and #17 Gordon.com.au ($2,280 at BoydRyan.com).

In a remarkably diverse week, 14 different TLDs are represented on the leader board. Great Britain's .co.uk was able to win the extension race with 3 charted sales. Three others - .io, .nl and .ai - each had a pair.

Here is how the ccTLD leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, Dec. 10, 2017:

Country Code Top Sales Chart
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Dec. 4, 2017 - Sun. Dec. 10, 2017
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Dec. 13, 2017)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. More.tv $16,500 Pvt Sale
2. Girls.co.uk £9,995 = $13,393 Sedo
3. Wax.io $10,000 Sedo
4.
tie		 Red-Bubble.es €8,000 = $9,440 Sedo
4.
tie		 Traum.at €8,000 = $9,440 Sedo
6. Ellipse.nl €4,570 = $5,605 Sedo
7.
tie		 Risk.ai $5,000 Sedo
7.
tie		 Wix.cm $5,000 Sedo
9. Valextra.de €4,000 = $4,720 Sedo
10. Enterprises.co.uk €3,999 = $4,719 Sedo

11. Launch.vc $4,000 Sedo
12. Honkbal.nl €3,299 = $3,893 Sedo
13. UlrichMedical.fr €3,000 = $3,540 Sedo
14. Ting.ai $3,000 Sedo
15. Moonlight.io $2,500 Sedo
16. Fused.co.uk £1,831 = $2,454 DomainLore.co.uk
17. Gordon.com.au AUD 3,000 = $2,280 Boyd Ryan
18. Onfido.ru $2,270 Sedo
19. Hospitable.me $2,050 Sedo

CLICK HERE for our Year-To-Date Charts.

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 (.net, .org and others, including new gTLDs)

It was a very slow week for the non .com gTLDs with only five sales reported for the entire category. The three highest of those all came from the .GLOBAL Registry who sold Sky.global for $8,000 and two others - Nexus.global and Terminal.global - for $4,800 apiece.

Sedo record the other sales in the group - AI.guide at $3,500 and CMLConnect.org at $2,000. 

 Here is how the non .com gTLD leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, Dec. 10, 2017:

Non .Com gTLDs Top Sales Chart
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Dec. 4, 2017 - Sun. Dec. 10 2017
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Dec. 13, 2017)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Sky.global $8,000 .GLOBAL Registry
2. Nexus.global $4,800 .GLOBAL Registry
3. Terminal.global $4,800 .GLOBAL Registry
4. AI.guide $3,500 Sedo
5. CMLConnect.org $2,000 Sedo

 

Now that you're up to date on what happened over the past week, check out how the leaders stand year to date in all categories by visiting our Year To Date Charts page. 

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As always, we welcome all verifiable sales reports from companies, private sellers or individuals with knowledge of an important sale made through any channel. To contribute information and help make this column better,  just drop a note to [email protected]. We truly appreciate the industry leading companies who share their sales information with us to help everyone in the business get a handle on current domain values. 

Every Wednesday we publish the highest reported domain name sales for the previous week. On Mondays and Tuesdays our contributors send us their sales data for the previous 7 days. We then compile that information and write this article to give you the most comprehensive sales report in the industry. 

Editor's Note: If you wish to review previous Domain Sales columns, they are available in our Archive.

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