|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
The
New Year's 2nd Reported Seven-Figure Sale Tops New DNJ Chart as
Domains Remain in High Demand
|
|
Following the
boom year we saw for domain sales in 2021, a lot of people
hope to see that powerful momentum propel the market
through another banner year. All markets have their up and
down cycles though, so we will be paying especially close
attention to sales reports, looking for any signs of a
slowdown. It is early, but the market certainly got off on
the right foot in the first month of the new year. We've
had two seven-figure sales come to light in January,
matching the total of publicly reported sales at that level
for all of 2020. On the other hand, 14
seven-figure sales were reported in 2021,
so we still have a long way to go to pass last year's mark.
|
|
|
The first big one
this year was reported in our
last column - Unlock.com at
$1,228,200. The second one just came to light this past week
when George
Kirikos uncovered a $1,761,000 sale of
Galaxy.com in an SEC filing that (sales being reported for
the first time are added to our latest chart, as long as
the sale occurred within the preceding 12 months. Older sales
that are high enough go into our Domain
Sales
Archive on the Top 100 Chart for the year in
which they occurred). MediaOptions.com
was the buyer's broker in the Galaxy.com sale. While the
seller received $1.761 million, the buyer, Galaxy Digital,
also paid MediaOptions a separate undisclosed fee for
successfully acquiring the domain for them.
|
The #2 domain on our latest
all extension Top 20 Sales Chart, BankFirst.com, attracted a
blockbuster price for a two-word .com - $800,000. That Q4-2021
sale was uncovered by Kevin Murphy at DomainIncite.com,
who got confirmation from the buyer (a small Wisconsin bank) after
seeing the transaction in an SEC filing they made.
The .coms went on to
sweep 14 of the 20 chart entries, with Sedo
posting #3 Brasil.com at $92,950 and Braden Pollock's
LegalBrandMarketing.com
putting up #4 Curable.com at $90,000. Braden also
rang up the $35,000 sale of #18 Recognize.io, one of
three ccTLDs on the Big Board. Sedo posted the two highest ones
- #7 Q.to at $50,000 and #17 Krypto.de
at €35,700 ($40,341) and went on to pile up 11 chart entries
overall.
|
By Ron Jackson
|
|
|
|
The non
.com gTLDs also took three places on the elite list, with two of
those going to Swetha.xyz
for her sales of #5 Momentum.xyz at $69,888 and #15 MetaData.xyz
at $49,888. Sandwiched between those two was Sedo's $50,000
sale of #11 (tie) Filter.org. Everything
else went to the .coms whose cause was aided by a $60,000 sale
of #6 ETHLink.com by Nam.es,
another one for $50,000 for #11 (tie) Buoyancy.com,
logged by Domaincracy
through Afternic
and another, ##16 NaturalProcess.com at $41,396, booked by BrandDrip via BrandBucket.com. One
other note before we go to the new bi-weekly chart. With this second
report of the new year, we had enough data in to open up our 2022
Year-to-Date Top Sales Charts. If you are looking for the
2021 Top 100 you will still be able to permanently access that
chart in our Archive through this link: 2021
Top 100 Sales Charts. Now,
here is a look at how
all of the sales leaders stacked up for the two weeks
ending Sunday, January 30, 2022:
|
|
|
The DN Journal Top 20
Highest
Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Jan. 17 - Sun. Jan. 30,
2022
(Foreign
currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in
Effect Feb. 2, 2022) |
|
|
Domain
|
Sold For
|
Where
Sold
|
|
1. |
Galaxy.com |
$1,761,000 |
MediaOptions |
|
2. |
BankFirst.com |
$800,000 |
Pvt
Sale |
|
3. |
Brasil.com |
$92,950 |
Sedo |
|
4. |
Curable.com |
$90,000 |
LegalBrandMarketing |
|
5. |
Momentum.xyz |
$69,888 |
Swetha.xyz |
|
| | | | |
