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Packet.com Puts Eye Popping Payday in Braden Pollock's Pocket -  Places 1st on Our Weekly Top 20 Domain Sales Chart

Peter Piper may have picked a peck of pickled peppers but what he got for them was peanuts compared to what Braden Pollock pocketed for parting with Packet.com at a cool $350,000. The Legal Brand Marketing founder actually closed the sale in September but had to wait for a 90-day NDA to expire before he could let us know about it. The domain is now the home of a rapidly growing tech company that says it provides "physical infrastructure at global scale." In addition to giving Braden the top spot on our latest weekly all extension Top 20 Sales Chart, the Packet.com sale also ranks among the 20 biggest sales reported so far this year.

James Booth at BQDN.com also had a lot to be happy about this week after posting two 3-letter .com sales totaling $175,000. He closed #2 ORE.com at $100,000 and added $75,000 for NTD.com.

Sedo filled the #4 hole with Lofis.com at €55,000 ($62,700) and went on to pile up 15 of the 21 chart entries overall (the extra spot resulted from a tie for the final position). Sedo's haul included all four of the ccTLDs on the Big Board including the country code leader, #6 Pro.de at €25,000 ($28,500). 

By Ron Jackson

With the .coms sweeping 16 of 21 chart entries that left just one spot for the non .com gTLDs that went to Michael Mann's  DomainMarket.com for its $29,888 sale of #5 Responsible.org. DomainMarket claimed two other spots as well, helping the .com cause with #11 (tie) BettyBingo.com at $15,000 and #13 LaCasaDeLasFlores.com at $12,500. 

A programming note for you before we go to this week's chart. With Christmas falling in the middle of next week and New Year's Day the week after, Sedo and some of the other major sales venues (whose offices will be closed or minimally staffed) have already told us they will not be issuing sales data again until the week of January 6-12. So our next report will not be out until Wednesday evening, January 9, 2019 when we will resume our normal weekly publication schedule with a column covering all sales reported between now and then. 

Now here's a look at how this week's sales leaders stacked for the week ending Sunday, December 16, 2018:

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The DN Journal Top 20 
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Dec. 10, 2018 - Sun. Dec. 16, 2018
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Dec. 19, 2018)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Packet.com $350,000 LegalBrandMarketing
2. ORE.com $100,000 BQDN
3. NTD.com $75,000 BQDN
4. Lofis.com €55,000 = $62,700 Sedo
5. Responsible.org $29,888 DomainMarket
6. Pro.de €25,000 = $28,500 Sedo
7. CWR.com €19,950 = $22,743 Sedo
8. Arbeit.com €19,500 = $22,230 Sedo
9. Cloud.es €18,500 = $21,090 Sedo
10. Spielwaren.com €13,500 = $15,390 Sedo

11.
tie		 BettyBingo.com $15,000 DomainMarket
11.
tie		 eResearch.com $15,000 Sedo
13. LaCasaDeLasFlores.com $12,500 DomainMarket
14. Hypnotize.me $11,999 Sedo
15. SocialBetting.com €9,000 = $10,260 Sedo
16. SpotScan.com $9,000 Sedo
17.
tie		 BackupAll.com $7,000 Sedo
17.
tie		 Bipartisan.com $7,000 Sedo
19. Telepay.com $6,900 Sedo
20.
tie		 Rabona.com €6,000 = $6,840 Sedo
20.
tie		 Strategic.eu €6,000 = $6,840 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 FSJI.com at $6,400. They added $5,700 for Data4Life.com and $5,500 each for DealsForTwo.com and SupplyShop.com. Sedo had 14 more four-figure sales ranging from $2,000 to $4,258 that are listed in the table below:

Additional Sedo .com Sales Between $2,000 - $4,258
apothekenshop.com $4,258   firstsaturday.com $3,000
casinomaster.com $4,000 rieste.com $3,000
onlineconvert.com $3,890 remedie.com $2,985
terrafauna.com $3,750 empfohlen.com $2,850
cryptotab.com $3,595 turismogranada.com $2,750
beautyaz.com $3,420 fabaz.com $2,499
storyq.com $3,420 tcdd.com $2,000

Elsewhere, MediaCode used Uniregistry's platform to move AlphaLedger.com for $5,000 and TexasValues.com for $3,425.

Country Codes

The ccTLDs were led by that quartet of names you saw on the all extension leader board above with Pro.de leading the way at $28,500 with a solid assist from Cloud.es at $21,090. The biggest sale in this category that you haven't seen yet is #5 on our latest weekly Country Code Top Sales Chart. That is Sedo's $5,700 sale of VOU.se. 

Sedo went on to sweep every position on the leader board except one. That was Buzzoo.com's $5,000 sale of #7 Tengo.co via Epik.

Germany's .de scored an easy win in the extension, piling up seven chart entries. No other TLD had more than two. Here is how the top ccTLD sales stacked up for the week ending Sunday, December 16, 2018:

Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Dec. 10, 2018 - Sun. Dec. 16, 2018
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Dec. 19, 2018)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Pro.de €25,000 = $28,500 Sedo
2. Cloud.es €18,500 = $21,090 Sedo
3. Hypnotize.me $11,999 Sedo
4. Strategic.eu €6,000 = $6,840 Sedo
5. VOU.se €5,000 = $5,700 Sedo
6. Elka.eu $4,500 = $5,130 Sedo
7. Tengo.co $5,000 Buzzoo/Epik
8. ElCiclista.es €3,999 = $4,559 Sedo
9. HotelPay.co.uk £3,000 = $3,810 Sedo
10. Look.to $3,588 Sedo

11.  HUS.be €3,040 = $3,466 Sedo
12. Trintech.de €2,826 = $3,222 Sedo
13. MySurprise.de €2,650 = $3,021 Sedo
14.
tie		 CVMaker.de €2,500 = $2,850 Sedo
14.
tie		 Fotoheld.de €2,500 = $2,850 Sedo
14.
tie		 LoveMyJob.de €2,500 = $2,850 Sedo
17.
tie 		Simkarte.ch €2,490 = $2,839 Sedo
17.
tie 		SwissMedicalCenter.ch €2,490 = $2,839 Sedo
19. Zume.in $2,500 Sedo
20. Derdivan.de €2,000 = $2,280 Sedo

CLICK HERE for our Year-To-Date Charts.

Domain Name Industry Newsletter

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)

It looks like the Non .com gTLDs started their holiday break early as only four sales were reported in this category. At least the leader, DomainMarket's sale of Responsible.org at $29,888, was a big one. That sale ranks among the year's 20 biggest sales in this category.

The next highest sales were also .orgs with brokers and GoDaddy and Uniregistry helping Media Code sell SmartSociety.org for $5,000 while Sedo moved WellbeingAlliance.org for $5,000.

Here is how the non .com gTLD sales stacked up for the week ending Sunday, December 16, 2018:

Non .Com gTLD Top Sales Chart
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Dec. 10, 2018 - Sun. Dec. 16, 2018
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Dec. 19, 2018)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Responsible.org $29,888 DomainMarket
2.
tie		 SmartSociety.org $5,000 MediaCode/GoDaddy/
Uniregistry
2.
tie		 WellbeingAlliance.org $5,000 Sedo
4. King.sale $2,600 Sedo

CLICK HERE for our Year-To-Date Charts.

 

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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