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With
this being our first domain sales report since just before
Christmas, I want to start by wishing you all your best
year yet in 2021! As I'm sure you all know, the
first week of the new year has been a wild one (and not
in a good way) here in the U.S., with the nation's Capitol
attacked in a failed coup attempt Wednesday. Tragically, five
people died, including a Capitol police office, and it could
have been much worse. As was the case during the 9/11 attacks
in 2001, Americans couldn't take their eyes off their TVs as
events rapidly unfolded. That was certainly true for me and is
the reason this report is coming out two days later than
usual. There are still some uncertain days immediately ahead
of us on the political
front, but I am hopeful that the
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violence is behind us and we,
as a country, can get back to settling our differences peacefully.
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Fortunately, news from the
domain world is much better, especially since Rick
Schwartz, the Domain King, informed
me on Tuesday that he had just closed an $850,000
sale of GoBet.com. That is the way to get a new
year off to a good start! Rick is known as a tough as
nails negotiator and he proved that yet again with
this deal - one that has been percolating for the past 18
months. The buyer opened with a $70,000 offer and
went progressively higher only to repeatedly hear no, no
and hell no! from Rick (who also threw in an occasional
"Don't waste my time" just to mix things up).
Even though Rick was able to hand register the domain
back in 1998 for around $50, he stuck to his
guns, turning down 100K, 200K, 300K, 400K and even
$500,000! How many would do that? On the surface it may
look crazy to say no at that level but if Rick had done
so he would have left $350,000 on the table! The
end result is that an amazing deal was finally reached
this week and we are off to the races in 2021! |
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Rick
Schwartz |
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Since this is our first all extension
Top 20 Sales Chart of the new year, it also serves as the current
YTD Top20 Chart. If you want to review the final lists of top sales
reported in 2020, you can see those on our Year-to-Date
Sales Charts page. Starting with our next report January
20, new 2021 YTD Charts will go up on that page and the 2020 Charts
will go to our Domain
Sales Archive. Speaking
of the Archive, our 2018
Top 100 Chart has been amended to reflect another
blockbuster sale that was just uncovered by master domain archaeologist
George Kirikos. George found an SEC report and corroborating
information that showed View.com changed hands that year for $737,000.
That gave it the #7 position on the 2018 sales chart. The corporate
buyer who previously operated from ViewGlass.com had
already raised $650 million before going after the View.com
domain, so money was clearly not an object. Thanks again to George for
sharing his latest find and adding yet another important piece of
information to domain sales history.
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By Ron
Jackson
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Now, getting back to sales that have come
into us since our last report, Sedo
also rang the six-figure bell with a $120,000 sale of
Limit.com. A pair of ccTLDs took the next two spots on he
leader board with Blue String Ventures selling #3 Surgery.tv
for $45,000 and Sedo moving #4 Termine.de ("appointments"
in German) for $25,620. Blue String had another nice .tv
sale with #9 Soul.tv at $18,000. With Sedo also putting
up #18 Mina.co and #19 Payco.in, the country
domains wound up claiming five places on the Big Board. Everything
else went to the .coms, including the $20,000 sale of #6
(tie) Admats.com at Michael Mann's DomainMarket.com,
a $15,000 sale of #11 (tie) DocGo.com by XYNames.com,
Media
Code LLC's $10,000 sale of #16 (tie) GulfTrade.com
and DomainTheory.com's
$9,500 sale of #19 (tie) RustleUp.com. The
non .com gTLDs were left on the outside looking in with no
sales above $8,000 reported this time out. Here's how
all of the sales leaders stacked up for the two weeks
ending Sunday, January 3, 2021:
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The DN Journal Top 20
Highest
Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Dec. 21, 2021 - Sun. Jan. 3,
2021
(Foreign
currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in
Effect Jan. 8, 2021) |
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Domain
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Sold For
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Where
Sold
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1. |
GoBetcom |
$850,000 |
Rick
Schwartz |
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2. |
Limit.com |
$120,000 |
Sedo |
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3. |
Surgery.tv |
$45,000 |
Blue
String Ventures |
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4. |
Termine.de
("appointments" in German) |
€21,000
= $25,620 |
Sedo |
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5. |
Frugality.com |
$22,500 |
Sedo |
6.
tie |
Admats.com |
$20,000 |
DomainMarket |
6.
tie |
Dominet.com |
$20,000 |
Sedo |
6.
tie |
NYCasino.com |
$20,000 |
Sedo |
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9. |
Soul.tv |
$18,000 |
Blue
String Ventures |
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10. |
MYWM.com |
$15,888 |
Sedo |
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11.
tie |
DocGo.com |
$15,000 |
XYNames |
11.
tie |
JAAM.com |
$15,000 |
Sedo |
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13. |
Widio.com |
€11,000
= $13,420 |
Sedo |
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14. |
PM-Partners.com |
$13,000 |
Sedo |
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15. |
UNNA.com |
€10,000
= $12,200 |
Sedo |
16.
tie |
AutoHunt.com |
$10,000 |
Sedo |
16.
tie |
GulfTrade.com |
$10,000 |
Media
Code LLC |
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18. |
Mina.co |
€7,999
= $9,759 |
Sedo |
19.
tie |
Payco.in |
$9,500 |
Sedo |
19.
tie |
RustleUp.com |
$9,500 |
DomainTheory |
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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. |
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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) |
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.Com Supporting
Cast
Sedo also led the .com supporting cast with
of four-figure .com sales with SignalPro.com at $8,999,
MyApartments.com at $8,240 and N9ws.com
at $8,235. Bive.com and Jiobet.com
brought $8,000 each while Volten.com drew $7,076.
IbizaBooking.com
bagged $6,100, GeoffreyMiller.com made $5,995,
AlphaPeople.com posted $5,950 and Kostek.com
contributed $5,124. Sedo had 44 more
four-figure .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $5,000 that
are listed in the table below:
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Additional
Sedo .com Sales Between $2,000 - $5,000
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| mtgr.com |
$5,000 |
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firemaker.com |
$2,850 |
| serviceshare.com |
$5,000 |
makany.com |
$2,800 |
| marijuanaeducation.com |
$4,999 |
bincho.com |
$2,750 |
| blockchainmaster.com |
$4,995 |
nofixedabode.com |
$2,720 |
| monalimentation.com |
$4,856 |
smarterbot.com |
$2,600 |
| psxo.com |
$4,800 |
mgnfy.com |
$2,595 |
| thegunners.com |
$4,080 |
akium.com |
$2,500 |
| myguitar.com |
$4,011 |
eyecaremd.com |
$2,500 |
| hosm.com |
$4,000 |
goldeo.com |
$2,500 |
| undergroundclothing.com |
$3,800 |
audreysplace.com |
$2,499 |
| dymi.com |
$3,750 |
tangojoy.com |
$2,400 |
| society5.com |
$3,660 |
threatfusion.com |
$2,395 |
| vril.com |
$3,660 |
overgifted.com |
$2,380 |
| earlyowl.com |
$3,599 |
catmobile.com |
$2,335 |
| payment4.com |
$3,500 |
studey.com |
$2,299 |
| missdd.com |
$3,050 |
thefoodvalley.com |
$2,288 |
| fuckhim.com |
$3,000 |
workflare.com |
$2,275 |
| medcarecenter.com |
$3,000 |
ezsy.com |
$2,000 |
| worldforsale.com |
$3,000 |
infinitybook.com |
$2,000 |
| noclickemail.com |
$2,999 |
innocommerce.com |
$2,000 |
| tutify.com |
$2,995 |
k2air.com |
$2,000 |
| chillart.com |
$2,888 |
photographyworld.com |
$2,000 |
BuyBrands.com
used Afternic to move CentralPharma.com ($5,400), WrapAcademy.com
($3,995) and EatRepeat.com ($3,295).
BuyBrands added $2,888 for Luxury-Club.com
and $2,000 for PharmDirect.com. Elsewhere,
aset.com
sold KingdomRecords.com for $3,000.
Country Codes
The ccTLDs got
2021 off to a good start, led by a quartet of five-figure sales
headed by the $45,000 sale of Surgery.tv by Blue
String Ventures. Five country code domains made the all
extension Top 20 you saw above, so the biggest sale you ccTLD sale
you haven't seen yet is #6 on our latest Country Code Top 20 Sales
Chart. That is Sedo's $9,150 sale of YourEyes.de.
Sedo went on to sweep 16
of the 20 chart entries including #7 Lion.co at $9,100.
A couple of exceptions to the Sedo rule were WorldExposure.com's
$5,000 sale of #15 900.ca and a $4,875 sale of
#16 ProTech.co at BuyBrands.com.
Germany's popular .de
TLD scored a runaway win in the extension race by piling up ten chart entries. Here is how the top ccTLD sales stacked up
for the two weeks ending Sunday, Jan. 3, 2021:
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Country
Code Top 20 Sales Chart
Highest Reported
ccTLD Sales - Mon. Dec. 21, 2021 - Sun. Jan. 3, 2021
(Foreign
currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in
Effect Jan. 8, 2021) |
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Domain
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Sold For
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Where
Sold
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1. |
Surgery.tv |
$45,000 |
Blue
String Ventures |
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2. |
Termine.de
("appointments" in German) |
€21,000
= $25,620 |
Sedo |
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3. |
Mina.co |
$43,000 |
Sedo |
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4. |
Soul.tv |
$18,000 |
Blue
String Ventures |
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5. |
Payco.in |
$9,500 |
Sedo |
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6. |
YourEyes.de |
€7,500
= $9,150 |
Sedo |
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7. |
Lion.co |
$9,100 |
Sedo |
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8. |
Grunderwerbsteuer.de |
€6,380
= $7,784 |
Sedo |
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9. |
Iridium.eu |
€5,999
= $7,319 |
Sedo |
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10. |
Die-küche.de |
€5,800
= $7,076 |
Sedo |
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11. |
Insolvenzantrag.de |
$5,000
= $6,100 |
Sedo |
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12. |
Day.us |
€4,995
= $6,094 |
Sedo |
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13. |
BitCapital.de |
€4,560
= $5,563 |
Sedo |
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14. |
Ansahl.de |
€4,500
= $5.490 |
Sedo |
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15. |
900.ca |
$5,000 |
WorldExposure |
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16. |
ProTech.co |
$4,875 |
BuyBrands |
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17. |
Bimbim.de |
€3,900
= $4,758 |
Sedo |
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18. |
Petdocktor.de |
€3,500
= $4,270 |
Sedo |
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19. |
Magnesium.nz |
$4,152 |
Sedo |
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20. |
Inversion.de |
€3,400
= $4,148 |
Sedo |
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There were over two
dozen additional four-figure ccTLD
sales off the chart led by three Sedo sales - Beers.co,
Rebate.us and TaxFix.ca - at $4,000
apiece. Sedo also sold Viomi.de for $3,960 and Oohpod.cn
for $3,900. Sedo had 18 more ccTLD
sales ranging from $2,250 to $4,999 that are listed
in the table below:
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Additional
Sedo ccTLD Sales Between $2,000 - $3,660
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| goeteborg.de |
$3,660 |
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meinheimvorteil.de |
$2,830 |
| nachhaltigwohnen.de |
$3,660 |
alfagruppe.de |
$2,806 |
| atl.ch |
$3,648 |
biltong.nl |
$2,745 |
| system.in |
$3,408 |
s-g.de |
$2,745 |
| seifenshop.de |
$3,111 |
incident.io |
$2,500 |
| purecontent.de |
$3,050 |
tischplatten24.de |
$2,452 |
| schusterei.de |
$3,050 |
logos.se |
$2,440 |
| tierkrankenversicherungen.de |
$3,050 |
weare.co |
$2,173 |
| eurogarden.eu |
$3,049 |
deployment.io |
$2,000 |
YI.co.uk clicked
for $3,125 at DomainLore.uk
where Resist.co.uk added $1,835. Elsewhere, BuyBrands.com
sold DataLabs.io for $1,888.
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)
Things were quieter on
the non .com gTLD front with no reported sales reaching
five figures and only 14 sales reported over the past two weeks.
Of course with the Christmas and New Year's holidays in the middle
of that span it was more like a one-week (or less) period of
business. Sedo's $8,000 sale of Baba.net
topped our latest Non.Com gTLD Top 20 Sales
Chart with a $7,000 sale of Family.club taking
the #2 spot.
The first five was
rounded out by Sedo's $5,900 sale of Kameleon.net, a
$4,996 sale of GetVaccinated.org at Wavenames.com
and Dynadot's
$4,210 sale of EQ.club.Here is
how the non .com gTLD sales stacked up for the two weeks
ending ending Sunday, Jan. 3, 2021:
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Non
.Com gTLD Top Sales Chart
Highest
Reported Non .Com gTLD Sales - Mon. Dec. 21,
2021 - Sun.
Jan. 3, 2021
(Foreign
currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in
Effect Jan. 8, 2021)
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Domain
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Sold For
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Where
Sold
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1. |
Baba.net |
$8,000 |
Sedo |
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2. |
Family.club |
$7,000 |
GoDaddy |
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3. |
Kameleon.net |
$5,900 |
Sedo |
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4. |
GetVaccinated.org |
$4,996 |
Wavenames |
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5. |
EQ.club |
$4,210 |
Dynadot |
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6. |
Schwarz.info |
€2,999
= $3,659 |
Sedo |
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7. |
Fairclough.net |
$3,000 |
Sedo |
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8. |
Bitcoiner.net |
€2,000
= $2,440 |
Sedo |
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9. |
LivingHealthy.org |
$2,195 |
Sedo |
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10. |
1337.club |
$1,830 |
NameCheap |
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11. |
228.club |
$1,500 |
GoDaddy |
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12. |
Golden.club |
$1,500 |
GoDaddy |
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13. |
Evolutio.org |
$1,195 |
BuyBrands/Afternic |
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14. |
JobList.org |
$1,155 |
BuyBrands/Afternic |
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
(every other Wednesday during the Covid-19 pandemic) 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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