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Rick
Schwartz Gets 2021 Domain Sales Season Off to a Great Start with an
$850,000 Sale!
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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 |
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