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Year's
First Reported 7-Figure Sale Plus Two More in 6 Figures
Headline This Week's Domain Sales Chart
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We
are still in the dead of winter but things are really heating
up on the domain sales charts. Three of the new
year's five biggest sales to date were reported this week with
a seven-figure blockbuster charging to the top of our
latest bi-weekly all extension Top 20 Sales Chart. That
is the $3.15 million sale of Christmas.com that
we revealed in our Lowdown
section Monday. The deal was closed by Mark Thomas at VIPBrokerage.com,
who also booked a $350,000 sale of Arizona.com
that we broke in another Lowdown post February
8th. In addition to being the top two sales on our
latest chart, those rank #1 and #4, respectively, among all
sales reported so
far this year. This is starting to become old hat
for Mark whose credits also include a $3 million sale
of California.com in 2019.
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It seems like any time we start taking
about high end sales, Dave Evanson's name is in the mix. That
was the case yet again this time out with Sedo's
Senior Broker claiming the #3 spot on the bi-weekly elite list with a $220,000
sale of Triple.com. That's a name that perfectly fits Dave's
track record. In baseball, when a pitcher runs into a guy that he just
can't get out, the frustrated hurler's frequent refrain is "D*$#!
When that guy isn't hitting home runs he's hitting triples!"
That's Evanson for you. As long as I
am fixated on baseball (probably because Spring Training opened in
Florida today with pitchers and catchers for our American League
Champion Tampa Bay Rays reporting to camp), the ccTLDs opened
the door to another analogy for me. Baseball teams put nine players on
the field and this week the ccTLDs put nine domains on the Big
Board in one of their best outings ever. The country code
contingent was led by their #4 clean up hitter - Kitchen.co, a
name that scored an $84,000 payday at Sedo in the biggest
ccTLD sale reported so far this year. Three others crashed the top
ten too, including #7 Polly.io at $28,888 in a sale made
at Park.io.
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By Ron
Jackson
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Sedo accounted for all of the other ccTLD
sales en route to sweeping 15 of the 22 chart entries (the extra spots
resulted from a three-way tie for the final position). The .coms
took everything else, leaving the non .com gTLDs sitting in the
dugout this week (they did have a pair of five-figure sales that
finished just off the chart - Speak.app and XU.net at
$10,000 each - also via Sedo). The .com cause was aided by a $70,000
sale of #5 Explanation.com made by Braden Pollock at LegalBrandMarketing.com,
as well as two sales that Mike
Dorausch
closed through Afternic - #8 ApartmentsNearMe.com at
$25,111 and #9 DoctorsNearMe.com at $21,407. Before
we go the leader board, I also want to tell you about a significant
historical sale that Elliot Silver
found and detailed in a post at DomainInvesting.com.
Paperwork in a lawsuit that a Utah theme park filed against singer Taylor
Swift revealed that the park paid $300,000 to acquire the
domain Evermore.com in 2017. With that confirmation we have
added Evermore.com to the 2017
Top 100 Chart in our Domain
Sales Archive where it is now tied with Advance.com as the
18th biggest sale reported for that year. Thanks for the heads up,
Elliot! Now, here's a look at how
all of the sales leaders stacked up for the two weeks
ending Sunday, February 14, 2021:
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The DN Journal Top 20
Highest
Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Feb. 1, 2021 - Sun. Feb. 14,
2021
(Foreign
currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in
Effect Feb. 17, 2021) |
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Domain
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Sold For
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Where
Sold
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1. |
Christmas.com |
$3,150,000 |
VIPBrokerage |
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2. |
Arizona.com |
$350,000 |
VIPBrokerage |
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Triple.com |
$220,000 |
Sedo |
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4. |
Kitchen.co |
€70,000
= $84,000 |
Sedo |
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5. |
Explanation.com |
$70,000 |
Legal
Brand
Marketing |
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6. |
Betify.com |
$39,999 |
Sedo |
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