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Domain
Sales Explosion Continues - Seven 6-Figure Sales Totaling Over $2.9
Million Top This Week's Chart
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The
domain aftermarket turned in another dazzling fortnight
over the past two weeks with big sales busting out all over.
Seven of those rang the six-figure bell including RightOfThe
Dot.com's chart topper, Tattoo.com, at $812,000.
That also ranks as the 6th biggest sale reported so
far this year.
You
might recall that RightOfTheDot (ROTD) put that domain up for
sale in a live online auction they staged in late February
when it drew a $750,000
winning bid. Unfortunately, the "winner"
not only failed to pay for that domain, he also reneged
on high bids for both Bird.com ($2.5 million) and Fish.com
($1.6 million), costing everyone involved an enormous
amount of wasted time and money. It has also resulted in
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the
bidder being sued
by ROTD and the owner of Fish.com and Bird.com. In
the meantime ROTD President Monte Cahn found a new
buyer who jumped at the chance to own Tattoo.com and the
market has gone on to post a long string of eye-popping sales
week after week.
In
the #2 sale since our last report, as detailed
by Elliot Silver at DomainInvesting.com, NameCheap.com
Founder & CEO Rick Kirkendall plunked down $550,000
to add Wolf.com to the company's ever-growing
collection of premier domain names. James Booth at DomainBooth.com
filled the #3 spot with a sale that, big as it was at $440,000
(paid in Bitcoin), must have hurt at least a little. After
all, it would be tough for any lover of domains named James to
give up James.com - but a price like that does have a
way of persuading people! Rounding out the first four is
another 400K plus sale - Snappy.com at $415,000
(another hat tip to Elliot for filling in the
back story on that deal handled by GetYourDomain.com's
Larry Fischer (representing the seller) and the GoDaddy
Brokerage, who represented the buyer).
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The
six-figure sales did not stop there. Shane Kinsch (who sold
FTA.com for $400,000 in March) hit another home run with #5 Bico.com
at $350,000, Sedo banked $181,500 for CopyMarkets.com
and RightOfTheDot rang the bell again with ExchangeRates.com
at $180,000.
While
those .coms were blowing the roof off the place, the ccTLDs
also had another great outing led by .io, a red hot extension
that accounted for four of the five country sales that earned places
on the Big Board. The biggest of those was #8 Avatar.io at $89,999
and #9 Ruby.io at $88,000. DomainBooth also posted one
of the .io sales, collecting $45,000 for #16 Club.io.
The one charted ccTLD sale that wasn't a .io was #19 ESN.co.uk
- sold through SamCharles.com
for £20,000 ($28,200).
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By Ron
Jackson
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The non .com gTLDs
were limited to one spot on the elite list but it was an
impressive one. They can thank RightOfTheDot for that. One of ROTD's
four charted sales is #13 Organizations.org at $52,500 -
a sale that ranks as the category's 3rd biggest sale of the year to
date.
We have tipped our hat to
George Kirikos for newly discovered domain sales information so
many times the brims are worn off all of our hats! Still we owe him
yet another one for finding the March
2021 sale of #15 Cuentas.com ("accounts"
in Spanish) at $47,000 in an SEC filing. Even more intriguing
than that, George found evidence in another filing of Elevate
Credit making a domain sale of $1.25 million but the
mystery (as he he noted in this
tweet and a follow-up
tweet) is what domain was it? George's question about that
to Elevate Investor Relations has gone unanswered so that one remains
to be unmasked.
Here's how
all of the sales leaders stacked up for the two weeks
ending Sunday, May 9, 2021:
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The DN Journal Top 20
Highest
Reported Domain Sales - Mon. April 26, 2021 - Sun.
May 9, 2021
(Foreign
currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in
Effect May 12, 2021) |
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Domain
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Sold For
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Where
Sold
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Tattoo.com |
$812,000 |
RightOfTheDot |
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2. |
Wolf.com |
$550,000 |
Pvt
Sale |
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3. |
James.com |
$440,000
(BTC) |
DomainBooth |
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4. |
Snappy.com |
$415,000 |
GetYourDomain/
GoDaddy |
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5. |
Bico.com |
$350,000 |
Shane
Kinsch |
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6. |
CopyMarkets.com |
€150,000
= $181,500 |
Sedo |
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