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3-Digit Numeric .Com Changes Hands for $327,000 to Top This Week's Domain Sales Chart

No doubt about the king of the domain sales hill this week. James Booth's BQDN.com closed a blockbuster $327,000 sale of 708.com to lay claim to the top spot on our latest weekly all extension Top 20 Sales Chart. That is also one of the 10 biggest sales reported so far this year and the 3rd highest numeric domain sale of 2017 (topped only by 01.com at $1,820,000 in February and 20.com at $1,750,000 in April).

Sedo took the next two spots on the elite list with Medically.com at $53,000 and PayEther.com at $45,000. They went on to sweep 13 of the 20 chart entries (including #9 Wawel.com - a domain sold by Bart Sadowski at Bluberries Advertising). Those sales helped the .coms claim 10 spots overall. DNBX.com also contributed to the .com cause with #15 BLCP.com at $15,000.

BuyDomainsNames.co.uk nailed down the #4 spot with the week's biggest ccTLD sale - Massage.co.uk at $36,180. Two more solid country code sales at Sedo followed - #5 Experience.tv at $35,000 and Shein.de at $33,345. All three of those rank among the 10 biggest country code sales reported so far this year (the YTD ccTLD Top 100 Chart is the second chart on the page linked to). 

By Ron Jackson

In an outstanding week for the category, the country codes piled up eight chart entries overall with Sedo accounting for all but two of those (Massage.co.uk and #11 (tie) D8.tv, a name that changed hands for $15,000 in a private transaction).

The other two spots on the Big Board went to the Non .com gTLDs thanks to the .Global Registry's sales of #17 (tie) Jade.global and Retail.global at $8,000 each. 

Here is how the sales leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, Sept. 24, 2017:

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The DN Journal Top 20 
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Sept. 18, 2017 - Sun. Sept. 24, 2017
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Sept. 27, 2017)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. 708.com $327,000 BQDN
2. Medically.com $53,000 Sedo
3. PayEther.com $45,000 Sedo
4. Massage.co.uk £27,000 = $36,180 BuyDomainNames.co.uk
5. Experience.tv $35,000 Sedo
6. Shein.de €28,500 = $33,345 Sedo
7. FitBar.com $25,000 Sedo
8. Nebula.io $19,000 Sedo
9. Wawel.com $18,000 Sedo
10. Firmenstempel.de €15,000 = $17,550 Sedo

11.
tie		 D8.tv $15,000 Pvt Sale
11.
tie		 ShawPro.com $15,000 Sedo
13. DEV.eu €12,000 = $14,040 Sedo
14. Taschenmesser.de €11,900 = $13,923 Sedo
15. BLCP.com $10,500 DNBX
16. Voro.com $10,000 Sedo
17.
tie		 Jade.global $8,000 .Global Registry
17.
tie		 Retail.global $8,000 .Global Registry
19. DarkCastle.com $7,500 Pvt Sale
20. NoCare.com $6,600 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 M168.com at $6,000, OriginalHotels.com at $5,750 and BTCXchange.com at $5,733. AnyDream.com drew $5,500 and two others - PackagingExpress.com and USAGreenCard.com - contributed $5,000 each.

Uklng.com kicked in $4,999 followed by a trio of names at $4,900 apiece - Algalife.com, HiTower.com and VillageWalk.com. ComedyBar.com brought in another $4,750 and Sisaf.com sold for $4,563. 

Sedo had 24 more four-figure sales ranging from $2,000 to $4,500 that are listed in the table below:

Additional Sedo .com Sales Between $2,000 - $4,500
smilemate.com $4,500   tinabi.com $3,000
debain.com $4,095 iwonder.com $2,900
tomono.com $4,095 sparklingplanet.com $2,688
one0one.com $4,000 sunliving.com $2,600
upscript.com $3,999 cannables.com $2,500
diamantine.com $3,950 justanidea.com $2,500
portugueseproperty.com $3,618 pridecounseling.com $2,500
mikrofaser.com $3,509 11shop.com $2,388
ofter.com $3,500 oiled.com $2,372
oxygenmusic.com $3,500 boilerpower.com $2,350
wobz.com $3,500 markera.com $2,292
englishriviera.com $3,499 waterfoul.com $2,000

Elsewhere, Hitnamer.com sold SnoreBox.com for $2,129.

 

Country Codes

As I noted above, it was a banner week for the ccTLDs led by eight 5-figure sales, three of which rank among the year's top ten in this category. You saw all of those 5-figure sales, led by Massage.co.uk at $36,180, in the all extension section above, so the highest sales in this group that you haven't seen yet are a pair of names tied for #9 on our latest weekly ccTLD Top 20 Sales Chart. Those are CatchTiger's $5,850 sale of Kijkenvergelijk.nl and Sedo's sale of Safe.pt at the same price.

Sedo went on to sweep 16 of the 20 chart entries. They kicked off the second half of the leader board with #11 Symbiosis.pl at $5,000. DomainLore.co.uk had one of the four sales that eluded Sedo's grasp, moving #20 AirportTaxi.co.uk at $2,050.

Germany's .de won the extension race with six chart entries followed by Great Britain's .co.uk with three. Here is how the country code leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, Sept. 24, 2017:

Country Code Top Sales Chart
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Sept. 18, 2017 - Sun. Sept. 24, 2017
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Sept. 27, 2017)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Massage.co.uk £27,000 = $36,180 BuyDomainNames.co.uk
2. Experience.tv $35,000 Sedo
3. Shein.de €28,500 = $33,345 Sedo
4. Nebula.io $19,000 Sedo
5. Firmenstempel.de €15,000 = $17,550 Sedo
6. D8.tv $15,000 Pvt Sale
7. DEV.eu €12,000 = $14,040 Sedo
8. Taschenmesser.de €11,900 = $13,923 Sedo
9.
tie		 Kijkenvergelijk.nl €5,000 = $5,850 CatchTiger
9.
tie		 Safe.pt €5,000 = $5,850 Sedo

11. Symbiosys.pl $5,000 Sedo
12. Bauernladen.at €3,600 = $4,212 Sedo
13. Obono.de €3,500 = $4,095 Sedo
14. Kin.co.nz $3,750 Sedo
15. Growth.me $3,499 Sedo
16. Kraftig.de €2,800 = $3,276 Sedo
17. 4X4.de $2,999 Sedo
18. Blaze.ch €2,490 = $2,913 Sedo
19. Zeroth.co.uk $2,150 Sedo
20. AirportTaxi.co.uk £1,530 = $2,050 DomainLore.co.uk

CLICK HERE for our Year-To-Date Charts.

There were two more sales off the chart - Sedo sold Trustwork.cn for $2,000 and KeyDomains.de moved Leopardgecko.de for $1,420.

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 put a pair of domains on the all extension leader board you saw earlier (both .global new gTLDs) but no names in this category reached five figures this week. Were it not for a spate of .global sales only six transactions would have been reported for the entire group. Two of those exceptions - both .orgs - tied for the 3rd spot in our latest Non. com gTLD Top Sales Chart. Sedo sold HousingMarket.org and StaySafe.org at $5,000 apiece. 

A nine-way tie for #5 followed - a logjam comprised entirely of .global domains that sold for $4,800 each. One of the few exceptions to .global's rule was the $1,416 sale of #17 Transfer.travel by Isaac Paton Nicolau at PixelDreams.es.

The extension race was no contest of course as .global piled 11 of the 17 reported sales. Here is how the non .com gTLD leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, Sept. 24, 2017:

Non .Com gTLDs Top Sales Chart
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Sept. 18, 2017 - Sun. Sept. 24, 2017
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Sept. 27, 2017)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1.
tie		 Jade.global $8,000 .Global Registry
1.
tie		 Retail.global $8,000 .Global Registry
3.
tie		 HousingMarket.org $5,000 Sedo
3.
tie		 StaySafe.org $5,000 Sedo
5.
tie		 Acme.global $4,800 .Global Registry
5.
tie		 All.global $4,800 .Global Registry
5.
tie		 Arc.global $4,800 .Global Registry
5.
tie		 Bit.global $4,800 .Global Registry
5.
tie		 Black.global $4,800 .Global Registry
5.
tie		 CAS.global $4,800 .Global Registry
5.
tie		 Glock.global $4,800 .Global Registry
5.
tie		 Mag.global $4,800 .Global Registry
5.
tie		 Pan.global $4,800 .Global Registry

14. Arysta.net $2,500 Sedo
15.
tie		 CPOPC.org $2,000 Sedo
15.
tie		 HighNoon.org $2,000 Sedo
17. Transfer.travel €1,210 = $1,416 PixelDreams.es

 

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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