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Editor's Note:
During the current Covid-19 pandemic we have been publishing the
domain sales report every other week. The latest report from
September 30, 2020 is below. The next column will be released
Wednesday evening, October 13, 2020. We review current conditions at
the start of each month in anticipation of resuming our usual weekly
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3-Letter
.Com Changes Hands for $720,000 in the Biggest Domain Sale Reported
So Far This Year
It
is always an accomplishment to top one of our weekly all
extension Top 20 Domain Sales Charts but Keith Trost
has taken it a step further than that. By selling NAS.com
for $720,000 in a private transaction, Trost also now
holds the biggest domain sale of the entireyear
to date. As has been the case with so many two and
three letter .com sales, this one went to a buyer in China.
That is the highest price paid for a 3-letter .com since EKO.com
sold for $1.5 million in October 2019. As of this
writing the buyer has not yet changed the nameservers, so we
don't know if the domain will be used as a business site or
held as a domain investment.
Brian
Harbin at GritBrokerage.com
claimed the #2 spot on this week's leader board with a $89,999
sale of FactoryOutlet.com. That helped the .coms sweep
13 of the 20 chart entries but the ccTLDs also had a
very strong outing, filling five slots including four of the
top 10. A pair of sales at Sedo
led the country code parade with #3 Blog.co.uk going
for €54,000 ($63,180) and #5 WowCasino.co.uk
raking in £23,750 ($30,638). Park.ioalso aided the country code effort with a $28,888 sale
of Tiger.io.
With the
.coms and ccTLDs feasting on 19 positions overall, that left just one
spot for the non .com gTLDs that went to a new gTLD, #15 Com.review
that went for €12,000 ($14,040) at Sedo. The only sales venue
with multiple chart entries, other than Sedo, was AbdulBasit.com
who hit the daily double with #7 LivingLabs.com at $25,888 and
#16 GeoComm.com at $13,500. Michael Mann'sDomainMarket.comalso scored with #11 Biotoc.com at $15,915.
Thanks to George
Kirikos we also learned about a notable historical sale
this week. George found the details about a $105,000 sale of Fomo.com
in 2018 on a GetLatka.com
blog post as well as in a You Tube discussion about the deal that he
noted on Twitter.
We have placed that sale on our 2018
Top 100 Chart where it took over the #72 position.
By Ron
Jackson
Here's how
all of the sales leaders stacked up for the two weeks
ending Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020:
The DN Journal Top 20
Highest
Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Sept. 14, 2020 - Sun. Sept.
27, 2020 (Foreign
currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in
Effect Sept. 30, 2020)
Domain
Sold For
Where
Sold
1.
NAS.com
$720,000
Pvt
Sale
2.
FactoryOutlet.com
$89,999
GritBrokerage
3.
Blog.co.uk
€54,000
= $63,180
Sedo
4.
Trajectory.com
$50,000
Sedo
5.
WowCasino.co.uk
£23,750
= $30,638
Sedo
6.
Tiger.io
$28,888
Park.io
7.
LivingLabs.com
$25,888
AbdulBasit
8.
OneCare.com
$25,000
Sedo
9.
Dalmatia.com
$22,800
Sedo
10.
Republic.de
€13,920
= $16,286
Sedo
11.
Biotoc.com
$15,915
DomainMarket
12.
tie
FetchCare.com
$15,000
Sedo
12.
tie
FreedomTrading.com
$15,000
Sedo
14.
StarAtlas.com
$14,999
Sedo
15.
Com.review
€12,000
= $14,040
Sedo
16.
GeoComm.com
$13,500
AbdulBasit
17.
Huetten.de
€9,000
= $10,530
Sedo
18.
InvisibleCommerce.com
$9,888
Sedo
19.
CloudAutomation.com
$9,500
Sedo
20.
Marzo4.com
$9,450
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.
Sedo led the .com supporting castof
four-figure sales with Globis.com at $9,360 and Leore.com
at $9,200. Two others - Monta.com and Orandaya.com
drew $7,999 apiece. Tanze.comtook
in $6,962, ZetaCloud.com claimed $6,903
and KSSystems.com sold for $6,500. Chabako.com
chalked up $6,435 and World-Finance.com
collected $6,000.
Sedo had 61 more four-figure .com sales ranging from
$2,000
to $5,995 that are
listed in the table below:
Additional
Sedo .com Sales Between $2,000 - $5,995
olddear.com
$5,995
buglink.com
$2,850
nixio.com
$5,800
neveon.com
$2,795
gameflavor.com
$5,265
americancricket.com
$2,500
hyperco.com
$5,160
emrit.com
$2,500
dutyfreak.com
$5,000
experdent.com
$2,500
flexplay.com
$4,999
gedan.com
$2,500
workwatch.com
$4,888
supplyx.com
$2,500
novapath.com
$4,750
inteliwell.com
$2,499
buildbid.com
$4,500
eternitymedia.com
$2,400
tecas.com
$4,500
ezport.com
$2,400
scentcard.com
$4,460
games101.com
$2,400
easybot.com
$4,100
rydermedia.com
$2,399
hearthis.com
$4,095
l1g.com
$2,340
modernvaccines.com
$4,000
thefail.com
$2,300
mybacon.com
$4,000
debont.com
$2,200
copybook.com
$3,900
morrowcare.com
$2,200
weinhotels.com
$3,900
shoppingtab.com
$2,200
citrusclub.com
$3,888
fintive.com
$2,180
forkliftrental.com
$3,680
esportsbattle.com
$2,150
nationalfleetservice.com
$3,542
squadzone.com
$2,114
citizenbase.com
$3,500
al-baik.com
$2,100
socialfans.com
$3,500
beenut.com
$2,000
superelectric.com
$3,450
coswell.com
$2,000
shopzy.com
$3,342
echeloncap.com
$2,000
virtualos.com
$3,300
heartrhythm.com
$2,000
jobnote.com
$3,000
kiefy.com
$2,000
labmixer.com
$2,999
magazzini.com
$2,000
summittappliance.com
$2,998
renne.com
$2,000
biogaming.com
$2,995
saferfireworks.com
$2,000
zerobroker.com
$2,925
sterlingoaks.com
$2,000
ttmotorsports.com
$2,899
Elsewhere, AbdulBasit.com
moved MicroBladingTraining.com for $3,500 and
WeAreLiberty.com at $2,988. Meanwhile, Media
Code LLC sold PrintMarketplace.com via Afternic
for $2,500.
Country Codes
As I noted in the all
extension section above, the ccTLDs had an excellent
outing with five five-figure sales, led by ccTLD chart topper Blog.co.uk
at $63,180 via Sedo. The biggest sale in this
group that you haven't seen yet is #6 on our latest ccTLD top 20 Sales
Chart. That is a $9,297 sale of DIYLegals.co.uk posted
by DomainLore.uk.
As usual, Sedo took
the lion's share of chart entries - 13 in all. In addition to
Domain Lore, four other venues claimed chart entries this week. DaaZ.com
sold #9 Incense.in ($7,740), DNC.com.au
moved #15 (tie) TLE.com.au ($5,000) and Vinodr.com
used Afternic to sell IHP.co ($4,777). #15 (tie) UnionCity.ca
was also sold in a private transaction for $5,000.
Here is how the top ccTLD sales stacked up
for the two weeks ending Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020:
Country
Code Top 20 Sales Chart
Highest Reported
ccTLD Sales - Mon. Sept. 14, 2020 - Sun. Sept. 27, 2020 (Foreign
currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in
Effect Sept. 30, 2020)
There were dozens of
additionalfour-figure ccTLD
sales off the chart, led by Sedo's sale of Betreuteswohnen.de
at $4,446. They added $4,211 for Adamy.eu
and $4,044 for WeMatch.de.
Sedo had 27 more
four-figure ccTLD sales ranging from $2,340 to $4,000
that are listed in the table below:
Additional
Sedo ccTLD Sales Between $2,340 - $4,000
emergent.ai
$4,000
mobilityplus.de
$2,925
pocketbook.at
$4,000
november.nl
$2,925
proto.me
$4,000
window-fashion.nl
$2,925
where.by
$4,000
wowme.de
$2,925
wagens.de
$3,960
casinocruise.de
$2,750
incite.ws
$3,950
pizzaofen.de
$2,714
rausch.fr
$3,509
mediate.io
$2,625
fasting.de
$3,466
betsport.be
$2,457
contour-design.de
$3,218
betsport.fr
$2,457
frankcasino.de
$3,218
betsport.nl
$2,457
beauftragter.de
$2,925
broadcast.uk
$2,400
casigo.de
$2,925
bike-outlet.de
$2,340
immobilienexpose.de
$2,925
mundo.de
$2,340
medicalguide.de
$2,925
Back at DomainLore.uk,
Rev.co.ukreturned $4,322, EquityRelease.uk
rang up $4,193 and three others - NX.uk, HealthCheck.uk
and Bars.co.uk banked $2,064 apiece.
Influencers.uk kicked in $2,000, Elevate.uk
landed at $1,961 and Warrior.co.uk went for
$1,489. Extreme.ukyielded $1,129,
Finance.org.uk fetched $1,109, BucketList.ukcontained $1,107 and Fact.uk found $1,032.
At DaaZ.com AreYou.in
notched $1,935 and Truly.in tallied $1,400
and at DNC.com.au Ikigau.com.au drew $1,000.
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)
Thenon .com gTLDs
were led by their lone reported five-figure sale - Com.review
at $14,040 via Sedo. They went on to sweep the first
three spots on our latest Non. Com gTLD Top 20 Sales Chart,
adding #2 EstatePlanning.org at $7,430 and #3 Wonder.art
at $6,300.
In the end, Afilias
wound up with the most chart entries overall, piling up 10
spots with a roster led by a trio of $5,200 sales that
tied for #4. Those were B2B.global, DR.blue and Phoenix.global.
Afilias' .bet TLD won a tight extension race with five
charted sales. .Global claimed four and .CLUB had
three.
Here is
how the non .com gTLD sales stacked up for the two weeks
ending ending Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020:
Non
.Com gTLD Top 20 Sales Chart
Highest
Reported Non .Com gTLD Sales - Mon. Sept. 14, 2020 - Sun. Sept.
27, 2020 (Foreign
currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in
Effect Sept. 30, 2020)
Domain
Sold For
Where
Sold
1.
Com.review
€12,000
= $14,040
Sedo
2.
EstatePlanning.org
$7,430
Sedo
3.
Wonder.art
$6,300
Sedo
4.
tie
B2B.global
$5,200
Afilias
4.
tie
DR.blue
$5,200
Afilias
4.
tie
Phoenix.global
$5,200
Afilias
7.
tie
FullTraffic.net
$5,000
Sedo
7.
tie
Super.studio
$5,000
Sedo
9.
Config.pro
£3,500
= $4,445
Sedo
10.
tie
ClassicCar.club
$4,000
GoDaddy
10.
tie
Honey.club
$4,000
GoDaddy
12.
People.club
$3,287
RU-Center
13.
tie
AJ.bet
$3,250
Afilias
13.
tie
DM.bet
$3,250
Afilias
13.
tie
SN.bet
$3,250
Afilias
13.
tie
Touch.global
$3,250
Afilias
17.
DG.bet
$3,125
Afiliias
18.
Union.global
$3,120
Afilias
19.
XO.bet
$3,000
Afilias
20.
Freigeist.net
$2,800
Sedo
There were over two
dozen additional four-figure sales off the chart led by a
pair of Afilias sales - Future.llc and Venta.global
at $2,600 each. They also sold Toys.black
at $2,160 and Director of Premium Sales MarkGhoriafi
used Sedo to move Com.global at $2,000.
In other Afilias
sales, BAI.llc and Cats.llc
commanded $1,950 apiece, Swap.global drew $1,560,
Houston.blue brought $1,300 and two others
- Democrat.vote and Republican.vote
- sold for $1,170 each. Shop.llcchipped
in another $1,080 and Music.bio booked $1,048.
Back at Sedo, TippingPoint.net
produced $2,500, JustWatch.org went for $2,400
and two others - HOI.group and Stoke.net
- notched $2,340 apiece. LRB.org and Vidence.tech
tacked on $2,200 each, Vereinsbesteuerung.info
fetched $2,177 and Slim.shop attracted $2,000.
There were also more
sales on the .CLUB front with a quintet of $1,500 sales
made via GoDaddy. Those included Handsome.club,
MillionDollar.club, Port.club, Salad.club
and Stereo.club.
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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