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Surge
in Six-Figure Domain Sales Continues With a Record 17 Names Hitting
That Mark on This Week's Top 20 Chart
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In
our last
bi-weekly report two weeks ago, an unprecedented 13
domains reached six figures on our all extension Top 20
Sales Chart - something we had not seen in the 18 years
since we started doing this column back in 2003. The new
mark didn't last long. This week 17 of the 20
domains on the latest honor crashed the six-figure barrier!
The chart topper is Recursion.com at $904,000, a
sale closed in December that just came to light in a new
quarterly SEC filing found and reported by George
Kirikos on his
popular Twitter feed this past weekend.
While
many will look at that as a high price to pay for a relatively
obscure word, it is exactly what
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the
buyer, Recursion Pharmaceuticals, needed to match their
brand name. They didn't have to stretch their budget to get it
either - the company raised
$239 million in series D financing last fall.
Recursion.com ranks as the third highest sale to be publicly
reported so far this year.
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This
week's #2 sale was also a real head-turner. As
we reported in our Lowdown section March 18, Poker.net
sold for $750,000 in what is, by far, the biggest non .com
gTLD sale reported so far this year (15 times higher than the
previous leader)! The deal was was hammered out between the seller's
broker, NameExperts.com
Founder Joe Uddeme and the buyer's broker, Tony Adams,
at HQBrokerage.com.
GoDaddy
accounted for nine of the six-figure sales that came to light
when they released a list of their top 20 sales from November
(we chart sales when they are made public for the
first time, as long as they have occurred within the preceding
12 months. Older sales go on the Top 100 Chart in our Domain
Sales Archive for the year in which they occurred). #3 Exclusive.com
at $350,000 led the charge for GoDaddy. They also banked $200,000
for Bodo.com, a number James Booth at DomainBooth.com
matched with his sale of Let.com as those two rounded out the
first five. Booth also scored a second time with #7 Listing.com
at $180,000.
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By Ron
Jackson
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Others ringing the
six-figure bell were Greg Ricks at PerfectName.com
with #10 CandyShop.com at $112,125, Sedo
- who did it twice - with #13 GWI.com at $105,000 and
#14 717.com at $101,000 and Mike Carson,
who sold #15 (tie) Meta.io to the Meta
Network for $100,000 in a private transaction, as
reported by Raymond Hackney at TLDInvestors.com.
That was also the week's biggest ccTLD sale - one of two on the
elite list, joined by #20 (tie) Flash.tv at $60,000 in a
private transaction.
Here's how
all of the sales leaders stacked up for the two weeks
ending Sunday, March 28, 2021:
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The DN Journal Top 20
Highest
Reported Domain Sales - Mon. March 15, 2021 - Sun.
March 28,
2021
(Foreign
currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in
Effect March 31, 2021) |
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Domain
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Sold For
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Where
Sold
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Recursion.com |
$904,000 |
Pvt
Sale |
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Poker.net |
$750,000 |
NameExperts/
HQBrokerage/
A.J. Kelly |
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3. |
Exclusive.com |
$350,000 |
GoDaddy |
4.
tie |
Bodo.com |
$200,000 |
GoDaddy |
4.
tie |
Let.com |
$200,000 |
DomainBooth |
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6. |
HTTPS.com |
$197,000 |
GoDaddy |
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