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Record Breaking New gTLD Sale Tops This Week's Domain Sales Chart - Uniregistry Brokered Deal Worth Over $500,000 

Donuts Inc., the world's largest administrator of new domain extensions (new gTLDs) gave fans of the genre something to cheer about today when they announced they had closed a $500,300 all-cash deal - brokered by Uniregistry's Brooke Hernandez - for Vacation.rentals (details of the sale are in a story posted in our Lowdown section this morning). The sale is the highest new gTLD sale reported to date, topping another Donuts sale of Home.loans at $500,000 that was announced in January.

End user VacaRent LLC, led by veterans from the short term rental business, was the Vacation.rentals buyer and the company already has their online business up and running on the new domain. Their CEO, Michael Kugler, said, "The term "vacation rentals" is THE most frequently searched term online for vacation properties; it's a name I've had my eye on for a while and finally it's our brand. We're excited to leverage our name and our website to benefit both property owners and vacationers."

The Vacation.rentals sale is not the only good news for new gTLDs this week. They wound up taking three of the week's ten biggest sales, also scoring with #3 Live.Casino, sold by Adam Freeman for $34,790 and #7 (tie) Chat.chat at $20,000. Sedo handled both of those sales.

By Ron Jackson

Sedo went on to pile up 13 of the 20 chart entries overall, including the week's 2nd biggest sale - Closers.com at $50,000.Those helped the .coms claim 12 places on the leader board. Michael Mann's DomainMarket.com also aided the .com effort with #4 Kugga.com at $26,888, #11 (tie) MakeYourOwnway.com at $12,500 and #18 (tie) Strombergs.com at $9,888. Mann said he originally hand registered the first two names (Kugga.com in 2012 and MakeYourOwnWay in 2009) for just $7 each! He said he paid $70 for Strombergs.com but just got that name last month, allowing him ti multiply his investment by over 140X in 30 days.

Other notable.com sales included an IDN, #5 旅遊.com
("travel" in Chinese), sold by Jean-Sebastien Lascary for $25,000, #7 GrabFood.com, moved via Uniregistry by well-known domain commentator James Iles, for $20,000 and #18 (tie) Woofed.com, sold by YamadaMedia.com through Afternic for $9,888.

The non .com gTLDs finished with five chart entries with a pair of .org sales at Sedo joining the three new GTLD sale we mentioned above. The ccTLDs settled for three spots on the elite list, all posted by Sedo and led by #10 Network.co.uk at  $13,916. Here is how all of the sales leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, April 8, 2018:

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The DN Journal Top 20 
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. April 2, 2018 - Sun. April 8, 2018
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect April 11, 2018)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Vacation.rentals $500,300 Uniregistry
2. Closers.com $50,000 Sedo
3. Live.casino £24,500 = $34,790 Sedo
4. Kugga.com $26,888 DomainMarket
5. 旅遊.com
(IDN, "travel" in Chinese)		 $25,000 Pvt Sale
6. WellZone.com $20,500 Sedo
7.
tie		 Chat.chat $20,000 Sedo
7.
tie		 GrabFood.com $20,000 Uniregistry
9. ExpertMatch.com $19,000 Sedo
10. Network.co.uk £9,800 = $13,916 Sedo

11.
tie		 Colors.org $12,500 Sedo
11.
tie		 Joyful.org $12,500 Sedo
11.
tie		 MakeYourOwnWay.com $12,500 DomainMarket
14. Anderson.eu €9,550 = $11,842 Sedo
15. Communism.com $10,099 Sedo
16.
tie		 CryptoLabs.com $10,000 Sedo
16.
tie		 Guns.tv $10,000 Sedo
18.
tie		 Strombergs.com $9,888 DomainMarket
18.
tie		 Woofed.com $9,888 Afternic
20. Devote.com $9,000 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 ArabicPost.com at $8,000. RexHome.com returned $6,900 and Yoimo.com yielded $6,000. OpenDining.com drew $5,752. Falken.com fetched $5,580 and HostBlog.com clicked for $5,400. Meawnhile, SkyWellness.com went for $5,175 and two others - MakeupLights.com and PourDecisions.com - produced $5,000 each. 

Sedo had 29 more four-figure .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $4,960 that are listed in the table below:

Additional Sedo .com Sales Between $2,000 - $4,960
cashair.com $4,960   profashion.com $3,000
ledprofiles.com $4,836 lovecycles.com $2,977
lankon.com $4,500 overboost.com $2,888
mobiletransaction.com $4,500 floridafunpass.com $2,595
meero.com $4,000 hostry.com $2,499
roselove.com $4,000 hedone.com $2,480
wincomm.com $4,000 firstcompanion.com $2,399
hebank.com $3,999 agrite.com $2,250
truckhq.com $3,995 cctube.com $2,200
brookslandscapedesign.com $3,887 experiencing.com $2,200
trannypics.com $3,250 smartcricket.com $2,200
pontelo.com $3,100 add2.com $2,000
tulogo.com $3,100 gametutorial.com $2,000
dezignformat.com $3,000 knightgallery.com $2,000
nomoredreams.com $3,000  

Elsewhere, FatCityProperties posted four sales - FoodInBulk.com ($5,995), iTranscend.com ($4,995), MooreHomes.com ($3,500) and Milinea.com ($2,500) while DeepNames.com attracted $2,500 for ImmersedVR.com.

Country Codes

The ccTLDs were led by the trio of five-figure sales you saw on the all extension leader board above with Network.co.uk setting the pace at $13,916. The highest sale in this group that you haven't seen yet is #4 on our latest weekly Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart. That is Sedo's $7,100 sale of Toybox.co.uk. 

Sedo rounded out the first five with Carat.cn at $5,000 and went on to sweep 20 of the 21 chart entries (the extra spot resulted from a four-way tie for the final position). The only exception to the Sedo rule was the $4,188 sale of #9 Bullseye.io through Mark Levine's DomainTheory.com.

The extension race wound being a three-way tie for first between Great Britain's .co.uk, Germany's .de and China's .cn with each taking four spots on the leader board. Here is how the top ccTLD sales stacked up for the week ending Sunday, April 8, 2018:

Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. April 2, 2018 - Sun. April 8, 2018
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect April 11, 2018)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Network.co.uk £9,800 = $13,916 Sedo
2. Anderson.eu €9,550 = $11,842 Sedo
3. Guns.tv $10,000 Sedo
4. Toybox.co.uk £5,000 = $7,100 Sedo
5. Carat.cn $7,000 Sedo
6. Wiado.de €5,000 = $6,200 Sedo
7. Supersaver.com.au $6,000 Sedo
8. MyRug.co.uk £4,000 = $5,680 Sedo
9.  BullsEye.io $4,188 DomainTheory
10. BFC.io $3,999 Sedo

11. Brustoperatn.de €2,999 = $3,548 Sedo
12. Salam.io $3,499 Sedo
13. HST.co.uk £2,250 = $3,195 Sedo
14. Skope.nl €2,420 = $3,001 Sedo
15. Die-Catering-Manufaktur.de €2,250 = $2,790 Sedo
16. Aime.co $2,500 Sedo
17. BrokerCheck.de €2,000 = $2,480 Sedo
18.
tie		 CriticalMix.fr $2,000 Sedo
18.
tie		 Dermosil.cn $2,000 Sedo
18.
tie		 Junniao.cn $2,000 Sedo
18.
tie		 Wahway.cn $2,000 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)

The non .com GTLDs enjoyed what may have been their best week of the year, led by the highest sale ever reported in this category - Vacation.rentals at $500,300 - and supported by four solid five-figure sales (all of which made the all extension leader board you saw at the top of this report). The biggest sale in this group that you haven't seen yet is #6 on our latest weekly Non .Con gTLD Top Sales Chart. That is DomainMarket's $8,500 sale of ChooseLife.org.

A quintet of .global sales posted by the .GLOBAL Registry, rounded out the top ten with Mango.global and Stock.global leading that pack at $8,000 apiece. They put three more on the second half of the elite list to win the extension race with eight charted sales overall. That helped make it an especially memorable week for new gTLDs as they claimed 11 of the 17 chart entries.

Here is how the non .com gTLD leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, April 8, 2018:

Non .Com gTLDs Top Sales Chart
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. April 2, 2018 - Sun. April 8, 2018
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect April 11, 2018)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Vacation.rentals $500,300 Uniregistry
2. Live.casino £24,500 = $34,790 Sedo
3. Chat.chat $20,000 Sedo
4.
tie		 Colors.org $12,500 Sedo
4.
tie		 Joyful.org $12,500 Sedo
6. ChooseLife.org $8,500 DomainMarket
7.
tie		 Mango.global $8,000 .GLOBAL Registry
7.
tie		 Stock.global $8,000 .GLOBAL Registry
9.
tie		 Automation.global $4,800 .GLOBAL Registry
9.
tie		 EOS.global $4,800 .GLOBAL Registry
9.
tie		 FTA.global $4,800 .GLOBAL Registry

 
12. Love.global $4,000 .GLOBAL Registry
13. ImpactCities.org $3,700 Sedo
14. Wellnest.net $2,500 Sedo
15.
tie		 Amazing.global $2,400 .GLOBAL Registry
15.
tie		 Signal.global $2,400 .GLOBAL Registry
17. DarkWeb.org $2,000 Sedo

CLICK HERE for our Year-To-Date Charts.

Domain Name Industry Newsletter 

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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