Bank
On It! A 7-Figure Sale Tops This Week's Domain Sales Chart After Qatar National Bank Spends Big to get QNB.com
The high end of the domain market
continued a nice run this week with a 7-figure sale topping our all
extension Top 20 Sales Chart (the 4th time in the past 5
weeks that a seven-figure sale has been reported). This time it was QNB.com a
domain that Qatar National Bank purchased from a smaller
Pennsylvania based bank, QNB Corp., for a cool $1 million.
We had the details on this sale (that was brought to our attention by
George Kirikos) in an article
in our Lowdown section this past Friday (Dec. 5).
On Sunday evening George also alerted us
to a new
report in Inc Magazine about a big sale
completed three years ago that has just now come to light (Elliot
Silver also wrote about this in an article at DomainInvesting.com
Sunday). The CEO of NutsOnline.com, Jeff Braverman, revealed
that the company spent $700,000 to acquire the domain Nuts.com
that they then re-branded on 2011.
When large sales that happened in previous
years are uncovered our policy is to add the domain to our Top 100
list for the year in which the name was sold. We have done that with
Nuts.com which put it in a tie for #5 on our list of the 100
biggest sales of 2011.
As always thanks to George for the heads up on these sales.
As far as this week is concerned it was a
long way back from the million dollar QNB.com sale to the
three domains that tied for the #2 spot. One of those was Apps.mobi,
a name that was sold by the Kadri Brothers (Nidal and Nassib)
from Addora.com for
$20,000.
By
Ron Jackson
That wound up being the only non .com
sale on this week's leader board as the .coms went on to
sweep 19 of the 20 chart entries, including the other two names that shared
the runner-up slot, Flippa.com's
sale of Chairman.com and Sedo's
sale of RestaurantUniforms.com. Sedo also rounded out the
first five with Newe.com at $15,700 as they went on to
pile up 14 of the 20 chart positions.
Flippa also had a good week with four
names on the Big Board, including a second top ten entry with #7 QXN.com
at $12,101. Chart honors also went to Sol Orwell who
picked up #15 (tie) PetScience.com for $9,000 in a
private transaction.
Here is how all of the sales leaders
stacked up for the week ending Sunday, Dec. 7:
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eHealthInsurance Services, Inc
eHealthInsurance Services, Inc
The
DN Journal Top 20
Highest Reported
Domain Sales - Mon. Dec. 1, 2014 - Sun. Dec. 7, 2014 Euro/Pound to Dollar Conversions (€/£ to $)
is Based on Rates in Effect Dec. 10, 2014
Domain
Sold For
Where
Sold
1.
QNB.com
$1,000,000
Pvt Sale
2.
tie
Apps.mobi
$20,000
Addora
2.
tie
Chairman.com
$20,000
Flippa
2.
tie
RestaurantUniforms.com
$20,000
Sedo
5.
Newe.com
£10,000 = $15,700
Sedo
6.
5941.com
£9,998 = $15,697
Sedo
7.
QXN.com
$12,101
Flippa
8.
SpeedSchools.com
€9,500 = $11,780
Sedo
9.
Eyoo.com
$11,000
Sedo
10.
tie
Deerberg.com
$10,000
Sedo
10.
tie
ITMagazine.com
$10,000
Flippa
10.
tie
LittleLetter.com
$10,000
Sedo
10.
tie
PasionBesibolera.com
$10,000
Sedo
14.
Abilities.com
$9,000
Sedo
15.
tie
PetScience.com
$9,000
Pvt Sale
15.
tie
RCDrones.com
$9,000
Flippa
17.
Easemail.com
$8,000
Sedo
18.
GemSafe.com
$8,000
Sedo
19.
M-Studio.com
$7,995
Sedo
20.
CityLounge.com
$7,899
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.
Sedo led the .com supporting
cast of four-figure sales with eDonate.com at $7,850.
CleanCrawls.com and SnowflakeDB.com added $6,000 each
while three others - GIII.com, Mobol.com and Votana.com
- tacked on $5,000 apiece.
ElectricDrive.com and Tiadora.com drew $4,999
each while Spille.com spawned $4,988. HelloHair.com
combed out $4,836, CardioPet.com posted $4,785,
and two others - KnowData.com and Meetrip.com made $4,340
apiece.
Sedo had 28 more four-figure .com sales ranging
from $2,000 to $3,869 that are listed in the table
below:
Additional
Sedo .com Sales Between $2,000 - $3,500
etithe.com
$3,869
alively.com
$2,500
partytenthuren.com
$3,744
calltrail.com
$2,500
hchomes.com
$3,001
indianstudent.com
$2,500
coachingonline.com
$3,000
lkiss.com
$2,500
jobmove.com
$3,000
880888.com
$2,480
love2.com
$3,000
yforex.com
$2,480
peoplehq.com
$3,000
kellerrealestate.com
$2,377
kidsturkey.com
$2,994
glowsafe.com
$2,250
oquee.com
$2,900
meetlab.com
$2,119
theferal.com
$2,869
interush-pe.com
$2,100
rentmovers.com
$2,800
americancinematographer.com
$2,000
grüssgott.com
$2,790
hablife.com
$2,000
dronereviews.com
$2,750
waywt.com
$2,000
myretirementoptions.com
$2,619
x2w.com
$2,000
Elsewhere Richard Lees sold Everskin.com
for $7,000 through Go Daddy Auctions and DoughDomains.com
picked up $2,500 for SolarLead.com.
Back at Flippa Turnkeys.com unlocked $6,000,
Siamese.com sold for $5,010 and Commuters.com
clicked for $3,551. Semtex.com secured $3,500, Collarbone.com
broke $3,000, Kyro.com collected $2,200 and TokyoTourism.com
attracted $2,000.
Country
Codes
It was an unusually slow week for
the ccTLDs who had no five-figure sales reported. That
left the door open for Richard Lees to claim the top spot
on our latest weekly Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart with
Oyster.com.au, sold in a private transaction for $6,500.
Golem.eu
filled the runner-up slot with Yellowbird.eu at $4,959
and DomainLore.co.uk
earned the #3 position with Mooch.co.uk at $4,340.
Sedo rounded out the first five with Roligt.se
at $3,720 and Cyclovac.de at $3,596. They
went on to pile up 13 of the 20 chart entries. Chart honors also
went to DomainAgents.com
for #6 Ovo.tv at $3,500.
The European Union's .eu easily won the extension race with seven chart
entries. Four other TLDs had two names each on the least
board. Here is how the
country code leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday,
December 7:
Country
Code Top 20 Chart
Highest Reported
Domain Sales - Mon. Dec. 1, 2014 - Sun. Dec. 7, 2014 Euro/Pound to Dollar Conversions (€/£ to $)
is Based on Rates in Effect Dec. 10, 2014
There were several more four-figure
sales off the chart led by Sedo's sales of Belong.co ($1,500),
Piksel.nl ($1,494) and NDT.us ($1,488). Fleischlos.at
landed $1,487, SystemRente.de returned $1,426
and TH.nu notched $1,350.
Also at Sedo IndianShop.com.au yielded
$1,311 while Anmut.de and Wohlstandsicherung.de
delivered $1,240 each. ElectricDrive.in plugged in
$1,239, Dekofee.de attracted $1,238 and two
others - YLD.nl and Zestra.ca - added $1,200
apiece. Another pair, AOI.be and Evar.nl,
lured $1,116 each while Euro24.eu brought $1,100
and SRK.ae sold for $1,000.
Elsewhere Flippa sold Crazy.me for $1,200.
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, .biz,
.info & others, including new gTLDs)
The non
.com gTLDs were led by the category's sole five-figure sale
- Apps.mobi at $20,000, the second biggest
sale of the week regardless of extension. Flippa filled the
runner up spot on this week's Non .com gTLD Top 20 Chart
with MortgageBroker.org at $6,850.
Rounding out the first five were Sedo's
$4,340 sale of #3 Joins.net and two more Flippa sales
- #4 Area.info at $3,288 and #5 Deli.org at
$3,500.
Sedo accounted for 9 of the 15 sales reported in
this category and the .orgs won the extension race with
five chart entries. .Net and .Info were next with
three each. Here's how all of the Non .Com gTLD leaders
stacked up for the week ending Sunday, December 7:
Non
.Com gTLDs Top Sales Chart
Highest Reported
Domain Sales - Mon. Dec. 1, 2014 - Sun. Dec. 7, 2014 Euro/Pound to Dollar Conversions (€/£ to $)
is Based on Rates in Effect Dec. 10, 2014
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.
*****
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.
