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Garry Chernoff Rings the Bell Again - Takes Top Spot on This Week's Sales Chart with One of the Year's 10 Biggest Domain Sales

When I started publishing DNJournal over 15 years ago, domain industry pioneer Garry Chernoff already had a long record of big domain sales under his belt and the trail blazing Canadian is still making them today. Garry pays his latest visit to the top of our all extension Top 20 Sales Chart this week after closing a $300,000 deal for Signet.com through Afternic.com brokerage services. That also ranks as one of the 10 biggest sales reported so far in 2018. Don't be surprised if Garry tops himself before the year is out (even if he can't report it - at this level a lot of buyers insist on keeping the amount they paid private).

With Garry on the top rung of the ladder it seems appropriate to see a Canadian ccTLD in the runner-up slot. That was Sedo's $50,000 sale of Ampli.ca. That was one six country code domains to crash the Big Board - and Sedo accounted for every one of them en route to sweeping 15 of the 20 chart entries. They also accounted for 7 of the 13 .com sales on the elite list, including two that made the first five - #4 Firehose.com at $35,000 and #5 SongExchange.com at $25,000. Sandwiched in between those Sedo sales was #3 SCU.com at $40,000 in a sale made by boutique investment firm MSN|Cap.

The non .com gTLDs were limited to a single entry and that one went to a new gTLD - the .GLOBAL Registry's $19,000 sale of Do.global.

By Ron Jackson

Chart honors also went to Michael Mann's DomainMarket.com for #9 (tie) LivingOnLight.com at $15,000 (Mann said he originally picked that domain up for $70 in 2012) as well as to Michael Cyger   moved #20 KarPool.com for $6,500 in a private transaction. The DomainSherpa.com founder told me he had acquired the domain in a GoDaddy Auction and was able to flip it for a nice profit just 29 days later - the quickest turn he has had to date.

Here is how all of the sales leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, June 24, 2018:

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The DN Journal Top 20 
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. June 18, 2018 - Sun. June 24, 2018
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect June 27, 2018)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Signet.com $300,000 Afternic Brokerage
2. Ampli.ca $50,000 Sedo
3. SCU.com $40,000 MSN|Cap
4. Firehose.com $35,000 Sedo
5. SongExchange.com $25,000 Sedo
6. TheLocal.fi €19,000 = $22,040 Sedo
7. Do.global $19,000 .GLOBAL Registry
8. SportwetteOnline.de €15,000 = $17,400 Sedo
9.
tie		 LivingOnLight.com $15,000 DomainMarket
9.
tie		 Probit.com $15,000 Sedo

11. Fintech.ai $12,000 Sedo
12. 91123.com $10,000 Sedo
13. Previero.com €7,800 = $9,048 Sedo
14. Net-ID.at €7,000 = $8,120 Sedo
15. Ruletti.com €6,980 = $8,097 Sedo
16. TripDoctor.com $8,028 Sedo
17. Apora.de €6,500 = $7,540 Sedo
18. GamingAI.com $7,000 Sedo
19. Bioton.com €6,000 = $6,960 Sedo
20.  KarPool.com  $6,500 Pvt Sale

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 two names that sold for $6,380 apiece - BohoClub.com and Liquide.com - with KingCasino.com adding $6,000. WhiskyBusiness.com brought $5,800 while SecretBase.com and TGSGlobal.com kicked in $5,500 each. A five-domain logjam followed with CrowdView.com, Domain-Prices.com, Mygit.com, Orchesto.com and Vedix.com commanding $5,000 apiece. 

Sedo had 25 more four-figure .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $6,499 that are listed in the table below:

Additional Sedo .com Sales Between $2,000 - $4,950
geminishop.com $4,950   4style.com $2,500
hchina.com $4,176 diyrealty.com $2,500
relaton.com $3,712 sflink.com $2,495
strenia.com $3,500 xshow.com $2,386
laramie1.com $3,364 smartfintech.com $2,320
goju-ryu.com $3,190 scienceplanet.com $2,299
hbpro.com $3,000 podpix.com $2,221
limitlesspower.com $3,000 wholestone.com $2,200
slamm.com $3,000 circleholdings.com $2,077
yofish.com $3,000 fidgetspinner.com $2,000
dabecca.com $2,999 gotcramps.com $2,000
realtornow.com $2,950 n500.com $2,000
fitgames.com $2,900   

NameKart.com racked up four sales, moving AlgorithmWay.com for $6,000, SoftPorn.com for $5,750 and two others - OriginalPorn.com and PackagingPlus.com - for $2,000 each.

Elsewhere, Mark Levine at DomainTheory.com collected $6,000 for BeWoke.com, DNProperty.com deposited $4,998 for IndiaGambling.com and Logan Flatt sold DriverMonitoring.com for $3,888 through Uniregistry.

Country Codes

With six representatives on the all extension leader board you saw above it was obviously a good week for the ccTLDs with Ampli.ca leading the way at $50,000. The biggest country code sale you haven't seen yet is #7 on our latest weekly Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart. That is Sedo's $6,600 sale of Gin.co.uk.

Sedo wound up piling up 15 of the 18 chart entries including all of the top 10. They rounded out the upper half of the leader board with Reason.co ($5,240), Hummelburg.de ($4,872) and TheCraftory.cn ($4,060).

DomainLore.co.uk collected all three of the chart entries that did not go to Sedo. They scored with #11 Carp.co.uk ($3,930), #12 Hybrid.co.uk ($3,268) and #18 RTL.co.uk ($1,647).

Here is how the top ccTLD sales stacked up for the week ending Sunday, June 24, 2018:

Country Code Top Sales Chart
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. June 18, 2018 - Sun. June 24, 2018
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect June 27, 2018)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Ampli.ca $50,000 Sedo
2. TheLocal.fi €19,000 = $22,040 Sedo
3. SportwetteOnline.de €15,000 = $17,400 Sedo
4. Fintech.ai $12,000 Sedo
5. Net-ID.at €7,000 = $8,120 Sedo
6. Apora.de €6,500 = $7,540 Sedo
7. Gin.co.uk $6,600 Sedo
8. Reason.co £4,000 = $5,240 Sedo
9.  Hummelburg.de €4,200 = $4,872 Sedo
10. TheCraftory.cn €3,500 = $4,060 Sedo

11. Carp.co.uk £3,000 = $3,930 DomainLore.co.uk
12. Hybrid.co.uk £2,495 = $3,268 DomainLore.co.uk
13.
tie		 RTS.io $2,999 Sedo
13.
tie		 Basinga.de €2,500 = $2,900 Sedo
15. Eros.be €2,200 = $2,552 Sedo
16. Methodical.io $2,200 Sedo
17. Home2Go.ca $2,000 Sedo
18. RTL.co.uk £1,257 = $1,647 DomainLore.co.uk

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 were led by their lone five-figure sale - Do.global at $19,000.  The .GLOBAL Registry produced 7 of the 12 sales reported in this category, including four of the top five. NameKart.com had the other entry in that quintet at the top of our latest Non .Com gTDs Top Sales Chart, picking up $6,000 for Porn.biz. 

Sedo claimed the remaining four entries with a group led by #6 Jam.net at $3,990. Here is how the non .com gTLD leaders stacked up for the week  ending Sunday, June 24, 2018:

Non .Com gTLDs Top Sales Chart
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. June 18, 2018 - Sun. June 24, 2018
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect June 27, 2018)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Do.global $19,000 .GLOBAL Registry
2. Porn.biz $6,500 NameKart
3.
tie		 Dev.global $4,800 .GLOBAL Registry
3.
tie		 Export.global $4,800 .GLOBAL Registry
3.
tie		 Prod.global $4,800 .GLOBAL Registry
6. Jam.net $3,990 Sedo
7. Presence.net €2,288 = $2,654 Sedo
8. Chain.biz $2,001 Sedo
9. XEN.net $2,000 Sedo
10.
tie		 Capsule.global $1,200 .GLOBAL Registry
10.
tie		 Gott.global $1,200 .GLOBAL Registry
10.
tie		 Naomi.global $1,200 .GLOBAL Registry

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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