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Editor's Note: During the current Covid-19 epidemic we are publishing the domain sales report every other week. The latest report from July
22, 2020 is below. The next column will be released Wednesday evening,
August 5, 2020. We review current conditions at the start of each month in anticipation of resuming our usual weekly release schedule as soon as possible. As I write this (on July
29) our state, Florida, continues to reach record highs in new cases
and hospitalizations daily, so we still have a lot of containment work to do.
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Six-Figure Memento Will Help Sedo's Dave Evanson Remember This
Week's Sales Chart + Treasure Trove of Historical Sales Uncovered
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Sedo
Senior Broker Dave Evanson has had so many
six-figure sales over the years it must be getting hard to
remember them all! Still, I'm sure being at the top of
our all extension Top 20 Sales Chart never gets old
for anyone who sells domains. Dave makes his latest trip to
the penthouse after brokering a $148,000 deal for Memento.com.
That was the only six-figure sale reported over the past two
weeks (we have been releasing new reports every other week
during the current Covid-19 pandemic). Another
industry pioneer who is widely known as a .com guy, DomainMarket.com
Founder Michael Mann, claimed the #2 spot, but this
time he did it with a ccTLD. That was Dance.co at
a cool $58,000 with the domain
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already being
put to use
by its buyer, an electric bicycle subscription service with
big growth plans.
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The
non .com gTLDs also had a big score this week with Sedo's $45,000
sale of #3 Movies.net. That also ranks as one of the six
biggest non .com gTLD sales of the year
to date and one of 2020's three biggest .net sales
to date.
Sedo
rounded out the first five with a pair or .coms, FlappyBird.com
at $35,000 and Medicannabis.com at $25,770 - and
they were just getting started. Like a baseball team playing in an
empty stadium (due to the pandemic), Sedo had the field to themselves
as few other venues issued sale reports. That, and a combination of
their own solid sales, cleared the way for Sedo to sweep every
remaining chart entry (one, #12 (tie) SA.global at $12,500,
was closed there by Afilias broker Mark Ghoriafi). Sedo's haul included all 11 of the .coms on the
leader board, four of the five ccTLDs and all four of the non .com
gTLDs.
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By Ron
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The
non .com gTLDs had two entries in the top ten
with #7 Reality.app at $24,000 joining Movies.net.
The ccTLDs also put two sales on the top half of the
elite list with #9 Sistems.de at $23,000
accompanying Dance.co. Before
we go to the new charts, I want to tell you about some
big previously unreleased historical domain sales
that were discovered since our last report. This came
about after the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission
(SEC) launched a new full text search engine that
gives researchers access to corporate documents going
all the way back to the year 2000. Previously,
you couldn't go further back than the past four years.
We learned about this new development from George
Kirikos, the master of uncovering
previously unknown blockbuster sales. George
immediately put the new search function to work and
found documentation of a $2,125,000 sale of Delta.com
in 2000 (we didn't start tracking, documenting and
charting domain sales until the fall of 2003). George
found many other notable sales that he shared on his
blog at FreeSpeech.com,
along with news about the SEC's expanded search engine
capabilities. That prompted others to start digging
too and allowed James
Iles to uncover a $1.3 million sale
of Banks.com that Sedo made in 2006 (it was
likely under an NDA at the time bit SEC filings are
public records). NameBio
discovered that Telecom.com was sold by Symmetricom
to Deutsche Telekom in 2007 for $700,000
and DomainInvesting's
Elliot Silver dug up a $500,000 sale of Aladdin.com
in 2004. Kirikos also found a document that indicates Shift.com
was purchased by Insurance Acquisition Corp.
for $385,000 in 2015. Great
work by everyone involved and kudos to George for
spreading the word about this valuable new tool. We
will be adding the newly discovered sales that qualify
to our annual
Top 100 Charts that started with 2004 and
add a new list in the archive for verified pre-2004
sales that can now be verified thanks to this expanded
search capability. Now
back to the immediate business at hand! Here's how
all of the sales leaders stacked up for the two weeks
ending Sunday, July 19, 2020: |
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The DN Journal Top 20
Highest
Reported Domain Sales - Mon. July 6, 2020 - Sun. July 19, 2020
(Foreign
currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in
Effect July 22, 2020) |
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Domain |
Sold For
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Where
Sold |
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Memento.com |
$148,000 |
Sedo |
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Dance.co |
$58,000 |
DomainMarket |
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3. |
Movies.net |
$45,000 |
Sedo |
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4. |
FlappyBird.com |
$35,000 |
Sedo |
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5. |
Medicannibis.com |
$25,770 |
Sedo |
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6. |
SelectBet.com |
$25,000 |
Sedo |
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