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Six Figures Paid for a Four-Digit .Com That Tops This Week's Domain Sales Chart

Domains are one of the few products that buyers often pay more for in order to get less. Domains are, of course, made up of letters and/or numbers and the ones that have the fewest characters often sell for the most money. Shorter name are highly valued because they are easy to remember, making them great brand names, and easy to type into a browser address bar, cutting down on the chance of typos that send would be visitors to the wrong destination. 

The latest example of slim always being in when it comes to domains is the $110,000 sale of numeric domain 1992.com that tops our latest weekly all extension Top 20 Sales Chart. Seller Bo Zhang made the sale in an eName.com auction (eName is a large aftermarket domain sales platform in China - a hotbed of numeric domain sales). We were able to verify the sale through documents Zhang sent us with additional help from a reliable independent source in China who contacted eName for us to get further corroboration. 

Two other domains on the top half of this week's leader board were even shorter. #9 HS.at, the week's biggest ccTLD sale, changed hands for $11,200 and #10 EXL.com commanded $10,000. Sedo made both of those sales and went on to sweep 15 of the 20 chart entries including nine of the top ten. Sedo's haul included #2 AppleGreen.com at $56,000 and #3 Citizenships.com at $40,000. 

By Ron Jackson

Like Sedo, the .coms piled up 15 chart entries. RapidNames.com helped the .com cause with their $9,888 sale of #11 CryptoAnchor.com through GoDaddy. Jason Sheppard also had a hand in the .com assault, putting two sales on the board. He sold #12 (tie) FunnelSecrets.com for $9,500 via Undeveloped.com and #17 (tie) iDollar.com at $7,500 through GoDaddy Partner Sales.

The ccTLDs also had a good week, taking the remaining five places on the elite list. Sedo rang up four of those with the fifth going to DomainLore.co.uk for their $7,500 sale of #17 (tie) Less.co.uk. That left no room at the inn for the non .com gTLDs.

In addition to the confirmed sales above we can tell you about a high likelihood that George Kirikos discovered the exact price paid for the top tier domain Zoom.com when the domain was acquired by Zoom Video Communications Inc. in their fiscal year that ended January 31, 2019. While looking through the company's SEC filing, George shared what he found on  page 67:  "It mentions "purchases of intangible assets of $2.0 million" which is also supported on page F-7, which lists "Purchases of intangible assets" of $2,018,000. Escrow.com's fees on a domain transaction of $2,000,000 are $17,800, so $2,000,000 + $17,800 = $2,017,800 or the same as $2,018,000 when rounded to the nearest $1,000."  Thanks to George for another example of the great sleuthing work he is known for. While it is not iron clad proof, that is as close to bulls eye as you could get short of the company coming out and confirming it, which they haven't done yet.  DomainNameWire also has a good article with more about the history of this transaction.

Now back to the business at hand. Here is how the sales leaders stacked for the week ending Sunday, March 31, 2019:

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The DN Journal Top 20 
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. March 25, 2019 - Sun. March 31, 2019
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect April 3, 2019)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. 1992.com $110,000 eName
2. AppleGreen.com €50,000 = $56,000 Sedo
3. Citizenships.com $40,000 Sedo
4. Carfin.com $25,000 Sedo
5. Tambola.com $15,000 Sedo
6. Hackly.com $14,500 Sedo
7.
tie		 1001Consejos.com $12,500 Sedo
7.
tie		 Bitcap.com $12,500 Sedo
9. HS.at €10,000 = $11,200 Sedo
10. EXL.com $10,000 Sedo

11. CryptoAnchor.com $9,888 RapidNames/
GoDaddy
12.
tie		 FunnelSecrets.com $9,500 Undeveloped
12.
tie		 Smokeland.com $9,500 Sedo
14. LetsService.com $9,000 Sedo
15. STEMedia.com $8,500 Sedo
16. Less.co.uk £5,757 = $7,599 DomainLore.co.uk
17.
tie		 iDollar.com $7,500 GoDaddy 
Partner Sales
17.
tie		 Reshape.co $7,500 Sedo
19. LAV.co $7,000 Sedo
20. Skapa.eu €6,000 = $6,720 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 Body-Fit.com at $6,600 and AmazingAds.com at $6,000. TheHeadlines.com added $5,998, AndBox.com brought $5,880 and MedMentor.com made $5,700.

ExpresssUpdateUSA.com drew $5,660 while two others - Aizome.com and ExtensionHealthCare.com - kicked in $5,600 each. EvolvingWeb.com went for $5,510, Vertue.com captured $5,500 and Tirox.com returned $5,488. 

Sedo had 30 more .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $5,000 that are listed in the table below:

Additional Sedo .com Sales Between $2,000 - $4,500
brainboom.com $5,000   visegrad.com $2,727
snapex.com $5,000 bigpdf.com $2,500
t90.com $5,000 eventier.com $2,500
cloudcostmanagement.com $4,888 hacksmith.com $2,500
5wh.com $4,500 smarter360.com $2,500
geojam.com $4,500 startsafety.com $2,500
scorable.com $4,000 concretepipe.com $2,499
extremee.com $3,909 rakel.com $2,495
adamswindows.com $3,500 music-cooks.com $2,239
ideaplus.com $3,349 1mp.com $2,231
soundswell.com $3,300 brightfi.com $2,222
31q.com $3,299 altanza.com $2,000
infinea.com $3,000 c-card.com $2,000
filmworx.com $2,800 chrono1.com $2,000
tiqs.com $2,800 gmediagroup.com $2,000

Elsewhere, Mark Levine at DomainTheory.com sold SpyDog.com at Afternic for $3,350.

Country Codes

The ccTLDs were led by that quintet of sales you saw on the all extension leader board above with Sedo's $11,200 sale of Austrian domain HS.at setting the pace. The biggest sale in this group that you haven't seen yet is #6 on our latest weekly Country Code Top Sales Chart. That is another Sedo sale - CEC.se at $6,200.

Sedo, who traditionally dominates this category, went on to sweep 18 of the 20 chart entries. The only exceptions were DomainLore.co.uk's $7,599 sale of #2 Less.co.uk and DomainTheory.com's $4,000 sale of #10 MyKey.io through GoDaddy Auctions.

Germany's .de won the extension race with six chart entries, followed by the British Indian Ocean Territory's .io with four with Colombia's .co next highest at three. Here is how the top ccTLD sales stacked up for the week ending Sunday, March 31, 2019:

Domain Name Industry Newsletter

Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart
Highest Reported ccTLD Sales - Mon. March 25, 2019 - Sun. March 31, 2019
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect April 1, 2019)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. HS.at $10,000 = $11,200 Sedo
2. Less.co.uk £5,757 = $7,599 DomainLore.co.uk
3. Reshape.co $7,500 Sedo
4. LAV.co $7,000 Sedo
5. Skapa.eu €6,000 = $6,720 Sedo
6. CEC.se $6,200 Sedo
7. Passtperfekt.de €5,000 = $5,600 Sedo
8. RowingBlazers.ca $5,000 Sedo
9. IWA.co.uk £3,175 = $4,191 Sedo
10. MyKey.io $4,000 DomainTheory/
GoDaddy Auctions

11. MyProtein.id £2,999 = $3,959 Sedo
12. HKD.io $3,899 Sedo
13. Diode.io $3,750 Sedo
14.
tie		 Mietse.de €3,278 = $3,671 Sedo
14.
tie		 JPY.io $3,499 Sedo
16. Konten.de €2,999 = $3,359 Sedo
17. Lili.co $3,000 Sedo
18.
tie		 BlockchainFonds.de €2,500 = $2,800 Sedo
18.
tie		 Blockchain-Fonds.de €2,500 = $2,800 Sedo
20. Orangefit.de €2,500 = $2,800 Sedo

CLICK HERE for our Year-To-Date Charts.

Domain Name Industry Newsletter

Sedo had two more four-figure ccTLD sales off the chart - Shopify.id at $2,500 and CMC-Versand.de at €2,000 ($2,240).

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 was another slow week for the Non .com gTLDs with only five sales reported from the entire category. Sedo had three of those five and put Simon.group in the #1 spot on our latest weekly Non .com gTLD Top Sales Chart at $6,500.

The runner-up spot went to the .GLOBAL Registry for their $4,800 sale of Pace.global. BrandableNames.com also earned a spot on the honor roll for #4 ILoveYou.xyz at $2,995.

Here is how the non .com gTLD sales stacked up for the week ending Sunday, March 31, 2019:

Non .Com gTLD Top Sales Chart
Highest Reported Non .Com gTLD Sales - Mon. March 25, 2019 - Sun. March 31, 2019
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect April 1, 2019)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Simon.group $6,500 Sedo
2. Pace.global $4,800 .GLOBAL Registry
3. Gerstner.org €2,873 = $3,218 Sedo
4.