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Two 6-Figure Sales Totaling $835,000 and One of Year's 3 Biggest ccTLD Sales Top This Week's Chart

Sedo Senior Broker Dave Evanson strikes again! Evanson has closed so many big sales over the years that seeing his name attached to yet another top dollar transaction ceased to be a surprise long ago. Even so, you can't help but be impressed with each new one he rings up. This week it was Christian.com at a cool $600,000 in one of the year's five biggest sales reported to date. This one has an unusual historical twist too. This is the 2nd time the domain has sold for the exact same price with the previous sale taking place 9 years ago (Andrew Allemann posted the interesting background on that at DomainNameWire.com yesterday).

There is also an interesting story behind this week's #2 sale of Sportsmans.com at $235,000 by Murat Yikilmaz at BestWeb.com. Yikilmaz originally acquired that domain for just $1,300 back in 2004! He provided me with the Escrow.com documentation from both his purchase 14 years ago and his new sale at 180 times his original investment. Normally you might not expect the plural version of this name to go for such a high price but this was a case of it being an exact match for a large corporation that really wanted it as an upgrade - the operators of SportsmansWarehouse.com. This well established outdoor outfitter has dozens of stores across the U.S. and have already redirected Sportsmans.com to their website.

By Ron Jackson

The hits just kept on coming - this time from the ccTLD category. Drop.com.au rang up AUD 100,000 ($73,000 USD at today's exchange rate) for Broker.com.au in what is now the 3rd biggest country code sale reported so far in 2018. Drop.com.au also sold the plural version - Brokers.com.au - for AUD 10,000 ($7,300). The week's first five was rounded out by aset.com's $50,000 sale of DTGO.com and Sedo's $49,000 sale of VideoEditor.com. Sedo went on two sweep 15 of the 20 chart entries, including three of the four ccTLD sales on the Big Board (theirs were all .co domains, led by #10 P2P.co at $17,100).

The non .com gTLDs were limited to one entry and that one was a new gTLD - the .GLOBAL Registry's $20,000 sale of #8 (tie) MR.global. Everything else went to the .coms (15 of 20 places overall) including Mazen Ghani's $8,195 sale of #18 RedMarlin.com through BrandBucket.com.

One other note before we go to this week's leader board. George Kirikos has uncovered another high end sale of a marquee domain while examining SEC filings. In a filing made by Remark Holdings the company revealed (on page 19) that they had sold IRS.com this year for $600,000 in cash and assumed liabilities of approximately $100,000 (indicating a total value around $700,000 for the deal). Since we don't have an exact price and there may have been some other IP assets included with the domain name we can't chart this one but it is certainly worth noting and again we tip the hat to George for giving us the information to share with you.

Now back to the business at hand. Here is how all of the sales leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, August 12, 2018:

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The DN Journal Top 20 
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Aug. 6, 2018 - Sun. Aug. 12, 2018
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Aug. 15, 2018)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Christian.com $600,000 Sedo
2. Sportsmans.com $235,000 BestWeb.com
3. Broker.com.au AUD 100,000 = $73,000 Drop.com.au
4. DTGO.com $50,000 aset.com
5. VideoEditor.com $49,000 Sedo
6. Primon.com $24,700 Sedo
7. Ayde.com €17,647 = $20,118 Sedo
8.
tie		 KruegerGroup.com $20,000 Sedo
8.
tie		 MR.global $20,000 .GLOBAL Registry
10. P2P.co €15,000 = $17,100 Sedo

11.
tie		 Inspiral.com €14,999 = $17,099 Sedo
12. LineDance.com $11,500 Sedo
13. Munite.com €9,900 = $11,286 Sedo
14. Commerce.co €9,000 = $10,260 Sedo
15. Hire.co $10,099 Sedo
16. Ummo.com $10,000 Sedo
17. 8Games.com $9,999 Sedo
18. RedMarlin.com $8,195 BrandBucket
19. Cinamedia.com $8,000 Sedo
20. IconBank.com €7,000 = $7,980 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

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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 1stBet.com at $7,800 and EZPlay.com at $7,000. Leuchtfeuer.com fetched $6,500, Enguard.com garnered $6,223 and two others - NanoPigmentation.com and PlasticBank.com - bagged $5,700 each. Another pair - LaserHub.com and LVSB.com - kicked in $5,500 apiece.

Sedo had 26 more four-figure .com sales ranging from $2,277 to $5,000 that are listed in the table below:

Additional Sedo .com Sales Between $2,277 - $5,000
diveshmakan.com $5,000   custombongs.com $2,999
flameguard.com $5,000 doplace.com $2,900
republiccrypto.com $5,000 thomas-group.com $2,850
terraevents.com $5,000 mainstreethotel.com $2,800
decotek.com $4,500 mailspace.com $2,775
volumetrix.com $4,446 foxbuy.com $2,700
roy6.com $4,000 futbook.com $2,699
ummati.com $4,000 bonniewatsoncoleman.com $2,500
sahanarealty.com $3,875 floney.com $2,500
yebio.com $3,810 graytone.com $2,500
equipmentregistry.com $3,500 ugold.com $2,500
studio397.com $3,500 1stbets.com $2,495
eroticgames.com $3,450 casinopros.com $2,277

Country Codes

The ccTLDs were, of course, led by their four entries on the all extension leader board above with that big $73,000 sale of Broker.com.au easily leading the way. Earlier we also mentioned Drop.com.au's matching sale of Brokers.com.au at $7,300, so the biggest sale in this category that you haven't seen yet is #6 on our latest weekly Country Code Top Sales Chart. That is Sedo's $6,500 sale of Titan.io.

Sedo swept every other chart entry but one with a roster that included #7 LawyersDirect.co.uk at $6,350. The only venue that put a speed bump in Sedo's way on the second half of the leader board was AscendDomains.com with their sale of #18 Floor.ca at $2,990.

Colombia's .co won the extension race with six chart entries followed by Great Britain's .co.uk with four. Here is how the top ccTLD sales stacked up for the week ending Sunday, August 12, 2018:

Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Aug. 6, 2018 - Sun. Aug. 12, 2018
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Aug. 15, 2018)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Broker.com.au AUD 100,000 = $73,000 Drop.com.au
2. P2P.co €15,000 = $17,100 Sedo
3. Commerce.co €9,000 = $10,260 Sedo
4. Hire.co $10,099 Sedo
5. Brokers.com.au AUD 10,000 = $7,300 Drop.com.au
6. Titan.io $6,500 Sedo
7. LawyersDirect.co.uk £5,000 = $6,350 Sedo
8. Heka.in $5,500 Sedo
9.  Quant.ai $4,999 Sedo
10. Gifted.io $4,300 Sedo

11. Card.co $3,555 Sedo
12. Divorce-Lawyer.co.uk £2,750 = $3,493 Sedo
13.
tie		 Octopus.co.uk €3,000 = $3,420 Sedo
13.
tie		 Schutzengel.de €3,000 = $3,420 Sedo
15. Bussgeldbescheid-einspruch.de €2,983 = $3,401 Sedo
16. CreditCardCompare.co.uk £2,500 = $3,175 Sedo
17. Map.co $3,056 Sedo
18. Floor.ca $2,990 AscendDomains
19. Immuntherapie.de €2,600 = $2,964 Sedo
20. Store.co $2,855 Sedo

CLICK HERE for our Year-To-Date Charts.

More than a dozen additional four-figure ccTLD sales were reported this week, most of those also coming from Sedo including four domains - Abeos.de, CarInsurance.io, MediaShop.it and Rokt.de - at $2,850 each. They added $2,839 for Singular.ch, $2,736 for Misse.de and $2,500 apiece for four others - Apostrophe.co, eBikes.co.nz, Gaya.co and Legal.co. Fruits.co fetched another $2,000.

Elsewhere, DomainLore.co.uk sold Squash.co.uk for $1,050 and Soles.co.uk for $1,036.

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)

Only nine sales were reported in the non .com gTLD category this week but the top one created a nice splash with the .GLOBAL Registry ringing up $20,000 for Mr.Global, as we noted above. The highest sale in this category that you haven't seen yet is Sedo's $5,000 sale of another new gTLD - Live.fit. 

Sedo claimed every remaining spot on the leader board as well and rounded out the first four with Gift.pro at $4,000 and Compensate.org at $3,420. Here is how the non .com gTLD sales stacked up for the week  ending Sunday, August 12, 2018:

Non .Com gTLD Top Sales Chart
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Aug. 6 , 2018 - Sun. Aug. 12, 2018
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Aug. 15, 2018)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. MR.Global $20,000 .GLOBAL Registry
2. Live.fit $5,000 Sedo
3. Gift.pro $4,000 Sedo
4. Compensate.org €3,000 = $3,420 Sedo
5. Food.style $3,000 Sedo
6. Kintex.net €2,500 = $2,850 Sedo
7. Ummo.org $2,500 Sedo
8. UNY.net $2,299 Sedo
9. UrbanCrush.net $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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