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The
Year's Biggest ccTLD Sale to Date Tops Our Latest Domain Sales Chart
After Changing Hands for $300,000
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As
we have been reporting for several months now, sales are
surging in the domain aftermarket - and its not just the .coms
that are benefiting. Over the past year, ccTLDs have
been stronger than ever and they flashed some of that added
muscle again over the past two weeks with a pair of sales that
topped all comers on our latest bi-weekly all extension
Top 20 Sales Chart. The headliner was a blockbuster
$300,000 sale of ETH.co that Magnum
Domains closed via their Efty.com
landing page. in addition to topping the latest chart that is
also the #1 country code sale reported so
far this year (the YTD ccTLD Top 100 is the second
chart on the page linked to). As anyone who follows crypto currency
knows, ETH is the abbreviation for ether -
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the
currency of the second most popular crypto currency, Ethererum,
and crypto related domains have been a big driver in the
current domain boom. The seller actually closed the ETH.co
sale in late March but waited to report it so it wouldn't
drive up the price of some other ether related domains he was
trying to purchase at the time.
The
ccTLDs also claimed the runner-up spot with Sedo's
$55,000 sale of Balancer.fi in one of the highest
sales we've ever seen in Finland's .fi TLD. The ccTLDs
went on to claim a half-dozen spots on the Big Board,
including four in the top ten. Braden Pollock at LegalBrandMarketing.com
aided the country code cause with his $46,250 sale of
#4 Chuck.io while Sedo booked the remaining three.
Braden also gets credit for the week's highest reported .com
sale, #3 Cobrand.com at $50,000.
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Though
they were bumped from their usual spot at the top of the chart, the .coms
still went on to pile up the most overall entries, by far, with 13
places on the elite list. Arif Sengoren's SecretBrokerage.com
had one of the top ten entries with #6 EmbeddedInsurance.com at
$38,000. Michael Mann's DomainMarket.com
filled three spots on the second half of the honor roll with a trio
led by Polytope.com and Vikos.com at $20,000 apiece.
They shared the #14 spot with another .com, Tim Janke's $20,000 sale
of Holobody.com via Afternic.
In the
midst of the sales storm, the non .com gTLDs were limited to
one spot that went to Tweeted.com's $25,000 sale oif #10 (tie)
Doge.net (yet another crypto related domain sale).
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By Ron
Jackson
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Thanks to the research of
George Kirikos
we can also share the
news he broke this past weekend on his Twitter feed about
uncovering the seven-figure price paid for Enjoy.com in a
historic 2015 sale. While digging through SEC filings, George
learned that name sold for a whopping $1.5 million. That find
allowed us to add Enjoy.com to the 2015
Top 100 Sales Chart in our Domain
Sales Archive where it ranks as the third biggest sale reported
that year.
Back in the present,
here's how
all of the sales leaders stacked up for the two weeks
ending Sunday, May 23, 2021:
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The DN Journal Top 20
Highest
Reported Domain Sales - Mon. May 10, 2021 - Sun.
May 23, 2021
(Foreign
currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in
Effect May 26, 2021) |
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Domain
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Sold For
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Where
Sold
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1. |
ETH.co |
$300,000 |
MagnumDomains/
Efty |
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Balancer.fi |
$55,000 |
Sedo |
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Cobrand.com |
$50,000 |
LegalBrandMarketing |
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4. |
Chuck.io |
$46,250 |
LegalBrandMarketing |
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5. |
MyCannabis.com |
$42,000 |
Sedo |
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6. |
EmbeddedInsurance.com |
$38,000 |
SecretBrokerage |
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