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A
Half Dozen Six-Figure Domain Sales Including #1 ccTLD Sale of
Year-to-Date Top Our Latest Chart
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I'm back from
a great NamesCon
Global conference in Austin, Texas and
ready to bring you up to date on all of the notable
domain sales reported since our last report on August 17. The
bi-weekly report normally due August 31 had to be delayed
until I got back, sifted through the 1,000+ photos we shot
during the show and published a new Cover
Story about this landmark event. After
waiting over two-and-a-half years to meet in person
again due to the pandemic, I wanted to take the time necessary
to recognize
as many of the people who made this show happen (attendees,
speakers, sponsors and organizers) as I possibly could.
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Thank you for waiting patiently
for me to get the sales column schedule back on track
(every other Wednesday evening with the next one coming
September 21)! The good news is I have three weeks worth of
data to share with you now including a lot of terrific
sales! The first thing to
tell you about is a BIG historic domain sale that came
to light while I was away - one of the 20
biggest cash sales ever publicly reported. I
learned about it on the first day of NamesCon when Robbie
Ferguson sent me a link to his post on Robbie's
Blog that revealed details of a July 15, 2021 sale
of AV.com. Robbie had learned that the price paid was
£3,013,000 which equals $4,176,922 at the exchange
rate that was in effect at the time of the sale. That made
AV.com the #1 sale of 2021 and we have placed it in that
position on the 2021
Top 100 Sales Chart in our Domain
Sales Archive. We have also added it to our All-Top
20 Cash Sales Chart (link above) where it ranks #17.
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Joseph
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There are also
interesting stories behind some of the half dozen other
6-figure sales that headline our latest all-extension Top
20 Sales Chart, a leader board made up of 2022 sales
reported over the past three weeks. Those start with #1 CognitiveAutomation.com
at $260,000. We first reported this sale by
Joseph Ciprut was in progress under an
installment plan two
years ago. The deal originally called for a
total of $300,000 in payments but Joseph received an
offer from the buyer to close the deal early in
return for reducing the price to $260,000 and he
accepted. Joseph sent me the closing documentation right
before NamesCon and I was happy to see him again at the
show where he understandably had a big smile on his
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In mid-August Elliot Silver
at DomainInvesting.com
reported #2 Medal.com had been sold in an expired
domain auction for $185,728 and that sale has since closed clearing the way for us to chart
it. Medal.com is closely
followed by two more one-word domains that went for $175,000
each to tie for #3. One is Blunt.com (a sale I
first heard about from Robbie
in that same email telling me about AV.com). The sale price to
Brent Oxley was first reported as $165,000 but that was
the net amount the seller received. I later got documentation
from the broker, Tony Adams at HQBrokerage.com,
that showed the buyer paid $175,000 for the domain with
Escrow.com then sending the seller and broker their respective
shares). The other one at $175,000
is Rake.com, brokered by Arif Sengoren at SecretBrokerage.com.
An interesting thing about this sale is that Arif ran into a
common problem - the buyer wanted to pay in crypto currency
but the seller wanted their money in US $. Arif
found a solution by forming a partnership with CryptoExchange.com
that allowed everyone to get what they wanted and close the
deal. Arif used the same process to close two more of the top
ten sales on the new chart - #7 Hot.co.uk at $99,500
and #10 (tie) Stretcher.com at $35,000. The
next six-figure sale on the Big Board has its own claim to
fame. #5 Vacanze.it ("holidays" in Italian)
is, at $170,000, the biggest ccTLD sale of the year
to date (you can see all of the YTD Top 100 Charts
- all extension, ccTLDs and non .com gTLDs - here).
The Vacanze.it sale was brokered by Marco Schiappacassa
at WebInvest.it.
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Sedo
also rang the six-figure bell with a nice $110,000 sale
of Betify.com. It turned out they were just getting
started with that one as they went on to pile up eight
entries on the elite list, including two more in the top ten.
The .coms went on to sweep 14 of the 20 chart entries. Andrew
Gruff at Nametra.com
aided the .com cause with his $54,900 sale of Temoo.com
through Dan.com.
The
ccTLDs and non .com gTLDs claimed three spots
apiece. Swetha.xyz
posted the biggest sale in the latter category with #9 Keys.xyz
at $50,000. The others were #15 Equation.org at $26,250
via Sedo and #19 Capital.club at $18,000 through
GoDaddy.
The
country code trio, led by Vacanze.it and Hot.co.uk, was
rounded out with a $16,500 sale of #20 GiftCard.in
by Paul Singh at Premium.in.
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By Ron Jackson
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Here is how all
of the sales leaders stacked up for the two weeks
ending Sunday, Sept. 4, 2022:
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The DN Journal Top 20
Highest
Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Aug. 15- Sun. Sept. 4, 2022
(Foreign
currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in
Effect Sept. 8, 2022) |
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Domain
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Sold For
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Where
Sold
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1. |
CognitiveAutomation.com |
$260,000 |
Pvt
Sale |
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2. |
Medal.com |
$185,728 |
Pvt
Sale |
3.
tie |
Blunt.com |
$175,000 |
HQBrokerage |
3.
tie |
Rake.com |
$175,000 |
SecretBrokerage/
CryptoExchange |
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5. |
Vacanze.it
("holidays in Italian") |
$170,000 |
WebInvest.it |
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