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2-Letter .Com Commands Over a Half Million Dollars to Top This Week's Domain Sales Chart - Two Others Reach 6 Figures

...and the hits just keep on coming! Three more six-figure sales were rung up this week with one of those coming in at $510,000 in the 4th largest sale reported so far this year. That was the price paid for a rare two-letter .com, FO.com, in a deal handled by James Booth's BQDN.com. Booth put a second name on the Big Board by adding a $17,500 sale of #12 0240.com. As has been the case with so many top tier domains, FO.com is now in the hands of a Chinese owner who has a blockchain related site on the domain now. 

Also breeching the 6-figure barrier were #2 Jumprope.com at $200,000 in a deal brokered by industry veteran Jakob Knightly and #3 WJX.com at $150,000 in a private transaction. Both of those rank among 2018's 15 biggest sales to date. 

Crypto domains have been in the news a lot lately (including this article about Crypto.com in our Lowdown section Tuesday) and yet another name from that hot category landed near the top of our latest weekly all extension Top 20 Sales Chart. That was #4 CryptoGame.com, a domain that RapidNames.com sold through Afternic for $85,000.

Sedo filled the next two spots with Garbuio.com at $55,800 and yet another 3-letter .com sale, #6 KUL.com at $43,400. They went on to sweep 13 of the 20 chart entries. 

By Ron Jackson

.Coms had an even more dominating week than usual, claiming every position on the elite list except two spots that went to ccTLDs. Those were the $30,000 sale of #7 Hyphen.co handled by GritBrokerage.com and Sedo's $14,756 sale of Spind.de. GritBrokerage also helped the .com cause with their sale of #20 Metcon.com at $11,550. That left no room at the inn for the non .com gTLDs.  

Here is how all of the sales leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, March 11, 2018:

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The DN Journal Top 20 
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. March 5, 2018 - Sun. March 11, 2018
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect March 14, 2018)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. FO.com $510,000 BQDN
2. Jumprope.com $200,000 Jakob Knightly
3. WJX.com $150,000 Pvt Sale
4. CryptoGame.com $85,000 RapidNames/Afternic
5. Garbuio.com €45,000 = $55,800 Sedo
6. KUL.com €35,000 = $43,400 Sedo
7. Hyphen.co $30,000 GritBrokerage
8. Comply.com $28,100 Sedo
9. Pointman.com $25,000 Sedo
10. MissMary.com $20,000 Sedo

11. Equila.com €15,000 = $18,600 Sedo
12. 0240.com $17,500 BQDN
13.
tie		 AllProperty.com $15,000 Sedo
13.
tie		 Chainwork.com $15,000 Sedo
13.
tie		 Dubaiex.com $15,000 Sedo
16. Spind.de €11,900 = $14,756 Sedo
17. UCoins.com £9,998 = $13,997 Sedo
18. Marshmallow.com $12,500 Sedo
19. CWAG.com $12,225 Sedo
20. Metcon.com $11,550 GritBrokerage

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

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

There was one other 5-figure sale just off the chart. That Sedo's $10,000 sale of Shirtmaster.com.

.Com Supporting Cast

Sedo led the .com supporting cast of four-figure sales with Konzept.com at $9,920 and added $9,200 for GoodTrouble.com. EngineCommerce.com generated $8,000, Crypto-Cash.com drew $7,895 and Overlooked.com landed $7,500. 

Two others - Cannamedical.com and Flaneur.com - found $7,000 each. Meanwhile, TraceMobile.com made $6,200, CIKA.com kicked in $6,111 and YESX.com clicked for $5,900. Sedo had 31 more four-figure sales ranging from $2,000 to $5,000 that are listed in the table below: 

Additional Sedo .com Sales Between $2,000 - $5,000
mdoll.com $5,000   souj.com $2,800
btse.com $4,990 totc.com $2,800
materiae.com $4,836 mecas.com $2,790
ch2.com $4,750 greencampaign.com $2,786
koreavisa.com $4,650 xecloud.com $2,500
sanicat.com $4,400 bitcoingratis.com $2,499
instart.com $4,000 centraltoronto.com $2,499
aisport.com $3,900 guardiansports.com $2,463
bluerosa.com $3,500 fipple.com $2,200
house3d.com $3,500 plumbuy.com $2,198
gphotel.com $3,348 01018.com $2,000
catchip.com $3,000 cirruscapital.com $2,000
islacoiba.com $3,000 gowaw.com $2,000
multiframe.com $3,000 pigdog.com $2,000
neximo.com $3,000 wh4you.com $2,000
hosthelp.com $2,818  

Elsewhere, Eddie Sixto rang up a $9,500 sale of WorkForceHub.com at Afternic. 

Country Codes

The ccTLDs were led by those two five-figure sales you saw on the all extension leader board above with Hyphen.co setting the pace at $30,000. The highest sale in this category that you haven't seen yet is #3 on our latest weekly Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart. That is Sedo's $9,300 sale of Novellus.de. They went on to pile up 20 of the 23 chart entries including #5 Best.us at $7,500. The extra spots resulted from a four-way tie for the final spot.

GritBrokerage posted the other three sales. In addition to the chart topper they moved #4 Avail.co for $8,500 and #8 Academy.me for $5,900.

Germany's .de scored an easy win in the extension race with six chart entries. Here is how the top ccTLD sales stacked up for the week ending Sunday, March 11, 2018:

Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. March 5, 2018 - Sun. March 11, 2018
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect March 14, 2018)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Hyphen.co $30,000 GritBrokerage
2. Spind.de €11,900 = $14,756 Sedo
3. Novellus.de €7,500 = $9,300 Sedo
4. Avail.co $8,500 GritBrokerage
5. Best.us $7,500 Sedo
6.
tie		 Belab.it €5,000 = $6,200 Sedo
6.
tie		 IKO.fr €5,000 = $6,200 Sedo
8. Academy.me $5,900 GritBrokerage
9. Fetch.io $5,600 Sedo
10. Forest.tv $4,000 Sedo

11.
tie		 Blink.de €3,000 = $3,730 Sedo
11.
tie		 Voltus.at €3,000 = $3,730 Sedo
13. SquareOne.ch €2,799 = $3,471 Sedo
14. UCG.co $3,200 Sedo
15.
tie		 Campingführer.de (IDN) €2,500 = $3,100 Sedo
15.
tie		 Shirtmaster.de €2,500 = $3,100 Sedo
17. Vliestapete.de €2,490 = $3,088 Sedo
18. Intimacy.io $2,988 Sedo
19. LuckyVitamin.co.uk $2,796 Sedo
20.
tie		 Aurora.cc $2,500 Sedo
20.
tie		 Cupboard.io $2,500 Sedo
20.
tie		 JJsHouse.ch $2,500 Sedo
20.
tie		 PhoneCases.ca $2,500 Sedo

CLICK HERE for our Year-To-Date Charts.

There were five more four-figure sales off the chart with Sedo posted three of names adding $2,480 each for Celsius.fr and NIU.pl and another $2,200 for EUX.co. 

Elsewhere TRO.tv changed hands for $2,500 in a private transaction and DomainLore.co.uk sold Injury.uk for $1,610.

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)

Things were a lot slower in the Non .com GTLD ranks this week with only seven sales reported for the entire category and none of those reached five figures. That left the door open for City.global to take the top spot on our abbreviated Sales Chart with an $8,000 sale made by the .GLOBAL Registry who added three more sales to the leader board.

Sedo filled the runner-up slot with a $6,188 sale of Tinte.org and also sold #5 ValueChain.org at $3,000. Here is how the non .com gTLD leaders stacked up for the two weeks ending Sunday, March 11, 2018:

Non .Com gTLDs Top Sales Chart
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. March 5, 2018 - Sun. March 11, 2018
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect March 14, 2018)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. City.global $8,000 .GLOBAL Registry
2. Tinte.org €4,990 = $6,188 Sedo
3.
tie		 BCC.global $4,800 .GLOBAL Registry
3.
tie		 CGI.global $4,800 .GLOBAL Registry
5. ValueChain.org $3,000 Sedo
6. Galaxy.xyz $2,800 Sedo
7. Cornerstone.global $1,200 .GLOBAL Registry

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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