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It's still very
early in the 2023 domain sales season but we continue to
see encouraging results from the aftermarket. Three
more six-figure sales came in to headline our latest all extension Top
20 Sales Chart. The highest of those was a solid geodomain
sale at Above.com
where #1 Palestine.com changed hands for $194,400.
That's the highest geo sale to have been reported since
Portugal.com and Arizona.com sold for $350,000 each in 2021.
Palestine.com also moved into the #4 position in our 2023
YTD Top Domain Sales Chart, giving Above.com two
of the biggest sales reported year to date, including the
biggest one - Help.com at $3 million last month.
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Braden
Pollock at LegalBrandMarketing.com
is also off to a hot start this year. He just rang the
six-figure bell again with #2 COA.com at $140,000.
Coupled with his $120,000 sale of StoneAge.com that was
charted in our
last report, Braden now has two of the six biggest
sales reported YTD.
A big
ccTLD sale rounded out the six-figure trio at the top.
That was a $100,000 sale of De.fi at Domeen.com
(a European domain investment company that has been in
business for 22 years now). This two-letter combo, paired with
Finland's country code, created a great name for a company
that was already operating in the decentralized finance space
at DefiYield.app.
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The ccTLDs
went on to claim five places on the Big Board, including
three of the top six spots. De.fi got strong back up from Sedo's
sales of #5 Payments.co at $48,600 and #6 Pornos.de
at $37,800. Another one of the country code sales might
have you scratching your head at first glance. #14 Walking
ForHealth.org.uk went for $16,165 at DomainLore.uk.
It was a domain only sale but most of the value comes from
traffic related to a previous website that had been on the
domain. The buyer created a new site with relevant content
that should enable them to monetize that residual traffic and
recoup their investment, plus some if all goes well.
On
the .com front, it was business as usual with the
world's most popular TLD piling up 13 of the 20 chart entries.
Sedo played a big role there too by handling an $80,000
sale of #4 SmartBlockhain.com. The .coms also got
helping hands from a $35,000 sale of #7 (tie) BusinessOwner.com
at SlashDomains
and a $16,000 sale of #15 MROH.com that Steve
Orosz made thorough the GoDaddy
brokerage. While Steve collected the 16K, the
buyer actually paid more than that as they had to cover an
undisclosed fee GoDaddy charged to assist them in acquiring
the name.
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The non .com
gTLDs were limited to two chart entries this time around
the track, both chalked up by Sedo. Those were #12 (tie) Riyadh.net
at $18,000 and #20 OTW.org at $12,500.
Here is how all of the
leaders stacked up for the two weeks
ending ending Sunday, February 12, 2023:
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The DN Journal Top 20
Highest
Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Jan 30 - Sun. Feb. 12, 2023
(Foreign
currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in
Effect Feb. 15, 2023) |
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Domain
|
Sold For
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Where
Sold
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1. |
Palestine.com |
$194,400 |
Above.com |
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2. |
COA.com |
$140,000 |
LegalBrandMarketing |
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3. |
De.fi |
$100,000 |
Domeen.com |
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4. |
SmartBlockchain.com |
$80,000 |
Sedo |
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5. |
Payments.co |
€45,000
= $48,600 |
Sedo |
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6. |
Pornos.de |
€35,000
= $37,800 |
Sedo |
7.
tie |
BusinessOwner.com |
$35,000 |
SlashDomains |
7.
tie |
Direct-Flights.com |
$35,000 |
Sedo |
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9. |
CocktailSuit.com |
€20,500
= $22,140 |
Sedo |
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10. |
Kultura.com |
$20,000 |
Sedo |
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11. |
BeeGlobal.com |
$19,500 |
Sedo |
12.
tie |
Riyadh.net |
$18,000 |
Sedo |
12.
tie |
TBIBank.com |
$18,000 |
Sedo |
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14. |
WalkingForHealth.org.uk |
£13,250
= $16,165 |
DomainLore.uk |
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15. |
MROH.com |
$16,000 |
GoDaddy |
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16. |
Flirty.com |
€14,000
= $15,120 |
Sedo |
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17. |
PrizePlay.com |
$15,000 |
Sedo |
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18. |
Replay.com.au |
$14,454 |
Above.com |
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19. |
PriorityWorld.com |
$13,000 |
Sedo |
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20. |
OTW.org |
$12,500 |
Sedo |
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Keep in mind that these are the highest value
cash only sales that have been reported to us in the
past two weeks. This column is meant to be an educational tool, not
a complete list documenting ALL high value domain
sales. Such a list is impossible to produce because many sales
are kept private at the insistence of buyers, sellers or both.
Our procedure for verifying the accuracy of domain sales
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Eight more
five-figure sales were reported just off the chart, led by three sales
at Sedo - Togroup.com at $12,000,
Comohacer.com at $11,800 and 360.shop at $10,800.
Five sales at $10,000 each followed, including Domain
Buy App's sale of Ordinals.market. Sedo posted the
other four at the same price with MyChoice.org, Provenance.ai,
Somethings.com and StrongBaby.com.
.Com Supporting
Cast
Sedo led the .com supporting cast
of four-figure sales with Linapp.com ($8,888), Poomsae.com
($8,694) and AstroPhotographie.com ($8,424).
Madeca.com made another $8,100, Tord.com
tallied $8,052 and OptiCapital.com commanded
$6,999.
MYJE.com drew $6,480
while LetsExchange.com and RoadConnect.com
returned $6,000 each. Circolo.com sold for $5,600,
Coci.com kicked in $5,599 and two others - HappyLoop.com
and ZXJK.com cleared $5,500 apiece. Collectyve.com
added $5,495 and HumanPossible.com posted $5,250.
Sedo had 65 more
four-figure .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $5,000 that
are listed in the table below:
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Additional
Sedo .com Sales Between $2,000 - $5,000
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| 411insurance.com |
$5,000 |
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service-hero.com |
$2,700 |
| grandrealty.com |
$5,000 |
showinguhomes.com |
$2,699 |
| niteowl.com |
$5,000 |
fc178.com |
$2,680 |
| performanceparadox.com |
$5,000 |
acepunk.com |
$2,665 |
| flowroll.com |
$4,999 |
asyo.com |
$2,550 |
| qolid.com |
$4,999 |
augsburger.com |
$2,500 |
| advenion.com |
$4,995 |
blackbandit.com |
$2,500 |
| bytheload.com |
$4,945 |
globalbluestar.com |
$2,500 |
| 83n.com |
$4,237 |
masturbationvideotube.com |
$2,500 |
| ad-tec.com |
$4,104 |
newwavesoftware.com |
$2,499 |
| pornlux.com |
$4,050 |
green-living.com |
$2,495 |
| mimet.com |
$4,000 |
mniglobal.com |
$2,400 |
| novamd.com |
$3,950 |
italylottery.com |
$2,363 |
| preprod.com |
$3,850 |
thebutlerfamily.com |
$2,288 |
| legacytrustservices.com |
$3,500 |
montegobayjamaica.com |
$2,250 |
| theeventhouse.com |
$3,499 |
mindlovers.com |
$2,200 |
| bookreward.com |
$3,495 |
qoyy.com |
$2,200 |
| ziptopia.com |
$3,450 |
onkoshop.com |
$2,172 |
| 4feet.com |
$3,400 |
akcel.com |
$2,160 |
| trustlaunch.com |
$3,295 |
almio.com |
$2,160 |
| nodownpayments.com |
$3,050 |
insurancesherpas.com |
$2,160 |
| mathpractice.com |
$3,000 |
nicop.com |
$2,160 |
| wandl.com |
$3,000 |
srbijaoglasi.com |
$2,160 |
| exgrowth.com |
$2,999 |
infocog.com |
$2,060 |
| sgky.com |
$2,999 |
caliexpress.com |
$2,000 |
| barcelonaweed.com |
$2,995 |
coffeefilter.com |
$2,000 |
| bikinginsurance.com |
$2,995 |
elwi.com |
$2,000 |
| b24h.com |
$2,988 |
imperiall.com |
$2,000 |
| harmonyads.com |
$2,980 |
shimaken.com |
$2,000 |
| tabiba.com |
$2,900 |
slidebutler.com |
$2,000 |
| auraofficial.com |
$2,888 |
survpos.com |
$2,000 |
| katecurtis.com |
$2,888 |
talentsvalley.com |
$2,000 |
| earthlymarket.com |
$2,700 |
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Elsewhere, Dynadot
sold Snowriders.com for $3,995, BiboLabs.com
for $2,498 and FractylHealth.com for $2,495.
Country
Codes
While the ccTLDs are
celebrating another strong outing (no surprise since over 132
million country code domains are now registered worldwide!) we
want to note that today (Feb. 15 as we write this) is the 38th
birthday of the first ccTLD on the Internet - .US). .US
launched on February 15, 1985 but it wasn't opened to all
Americans (and people who do business in the US) until 17 years later
in April 2002. Now every country in the world (as well as some
additional geographic regions) has their own TLD and many of
those have proven to be very good investments as our ccTLD Top Charts
have consistently shown.
As you saw in the all
extension section above, Finland's .fi earned the top honor
this week, headlining our latest ccTLD Top 20 Sales Chart with
that $100,000 sale of De.fi at Domeen.com. You
also saw the rest of the top five on the Big Board so the biggest
sales in this group that you haven't seen charted yet are #6 Provenance.ai
at $10,000 and #7 Verwaltet.de ("managed" in
German) at $8,640, both via Sedo.
Sedo went on to sweep 16 of
the 20 chart entries. The only other venue with multiple entries was Above.com
who scored with #5 Replay.com.au at $14,454 and #15 Duress.com.au
at $4,455. Germany's .de, as it so often does, won the
extensions race by taking six places on the honor roll. Here is how the top
ccTLD sales stacked up for the two weeks ending Sunday, Feb.
12, 2023:
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Country
Code Top 20 Sales Chart
Highest Reported
ccTLD Sales - Mon. Jan 30 - Sun. Feb. 12, 2023
(Foreign
currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in
Effect Feb. 15, 2023) |
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Domain
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Sold For
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Where
Sold
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1. |
De.fi |
$100,000 |
Domeen.com |
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2. |
Payments.co |
€45,000
= $48,600 |
Sedo |
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3. |
Pornos.de |
€35,000
= $37,800 |
Sedo |
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4. |
WalkingForHealth.org.uk |
£13,250
= $16,165 |
DomainLore.uk |
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5. |
Replay.com.au |
$14,454 |
Above.com |
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6. |
Provenance.ai |
$10,000 |
Sedo |
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7. |
Verwaltet.de |
€8,000
= $8,640 |
Sedo |
8.
tie |
Metawin.eu |
€5,000
= $5,400 |
Sedo |
8.
tie |
Prompts.de |
€5,000
= $5,400 |
Sedo |
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10. |
StempelExpress.de |
€4,700
= $5,076 |
Sedo |
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11. |
A2B.com.br |
$5,000 |
Sedo |
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12. |
TalentFactory.de |
€4,500
= $4,860 |
Sedo |
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13. |
Geprueft.de |
€4,400
= $4,752 |
Sedo |
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14. |
SexShop.kr |
$4,700 |
Sedo |
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15. |
Duress.com.au |
$4,455 |
Above.com |
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16. |
Beta.it |
€3,999
= $4,319 |
Sedo |
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17. |
Bocaux.fr |
€3,990
= $4,309 |
Sedo |
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18. |
MetaFit.io |
$4,300 |
Sedo |
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19. |
Calls.io |
$4,250 |
Sedo |
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20. |
Queen.ai |
€3,800
= $4,104 |
Sedo |
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There were dozens of
additional four-figure ccTLD sales off the chart led by Sedo's
sales of Coacher.co ($3,995), CarBranding.de ($3,780) and
76.no ($3,779).
Sedo had 24 more
four-figure ccTLD sales that are listed in the table below:
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Additional
Sedo .com ccTLD Sale Between $2,000 - $3,600
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| patron.io |
$3,600 |
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jin.eu |
$2,592 |
| sharkbite.in |
$3,538 |
cc.ly |
$2,500 |
| artpraxis.de |
$3,240 |
aisecurity.eu |
$2,430 |
| fitnesscode.de |
$3,240 |
lath.de |
$2,430 |
| laminat-shop.de |
$3,240 |
i-a.fr |
$2,376 |
| utiq.de |
$3,240 |
vanflyta.de |
$2,376 |
| koreanbeauty.de |
$3,239 |
meinreihenhaus.de |
$2,375 |
| sevenleaves.de |
$3,239 |
potential.io |
$2,300 |
| tabula.io |
$2,999 |
solarx.de |
$2,267 |
| idyou.de |
$2,916 |
movers.co.za |
$2,200 |
| mobitel.eu |
$2,807 |
ecomnow.de |
$2,160 |
| nazar.de |
$2,699 |
erc.co |
$2,000 |
Elsewhere, LegalBrandMarketing.com
scored with Mountain.vc at $3,500 while Dynadot
booked $3,000 for TurkishAirlines.eu and $2,750
for Boxd.io. Above.com chimed in
with ClubChampion.au and ClubChampion.com.au
at $2,950 apiece and Area.com.au at $2,000.
Back at DomainLore.co.uk,
Broadway.co.uk attracted $2,577, Final.co.uk
fetched $1,647 and Veggie.co.uk drew $1,525.
DLP.co.uk kicked in another $1,144 and KeswickPlus.co.uk
clicked for $1,126.
If there are country code
extensions in our report that you are not familiar
with, you can look up the nation each extension goes with here.
Non .com gTLDs
The Non .Com gTLDs
were led by a nice quintet of five-figure sales, led by Sedo's sales
of Riyadh.net at $18,000 and OTW.org at $12,500.
We listed all of the five figure sales in the all extension above, so
the highest sale you haven't yet seen in this group is the #6 domain
on our latest bi-weekly Non .Com gTLD Top 20
Sales Chart - Okapi.xyz at $9,888 via Sedo. The
next two domains were very close behind - Dyandot's $9,540 sale
of #7 Delo.org and another Sedo .xyz sale in #8 Liftoff.xyz
at $9,500.
With respect to the TLD
race, this is almost always a very diverse chart -
no surprise considering that there are now over 1,000 non .com gTLD
extensions on the web. 13 different TLDs are represented on
this week's chart. .Org and .tech had the most entries
with three each. The only other TLDs with multiple chart entries were,
.net, .xyz and .art with two each.
Here is how the
non .com gTLD leaders stacked up for the two weeks
ending ending Sunday, Feb. 12, 2023:
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Non
.Com gTLD Top 20 Sales Chart
Highest
Reported Non .Com gTLD Sales: Mon. Jan 30 - Sun.
Feb. 12, 2023
(Foreign
currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in
Effect Feb. 15, 2023)
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Domain
|
Sold For
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Where
Sold
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1. |
Riyadh.net |
$18,000 |
Sedo |
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2. |
OTW.org |
$12,500 |
Sedo |
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3. |
360.shop |
€10,000
= $10,800 |
Sedo |
4.
tie |
MyChoice.org |
$10,000 |
Sedo |
4.
tie |
Ordinals.market |
$10,000 |
Domain
Buy App |
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6. |
Okapi.xyz |
$9,888 |
Sedo |
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7. |
Delo.org |
$9,540 |
Dynadot |
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8. |
Liftoff.xyz |
$9,500 |
Sedo |
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9. |
Shopping.shopping |
€8,000
= $8,640 |
Sedo |
10.
tie |
CMF.tech |
$8,500 |
Sedo |
10.
tie |
Nightingale.tech |
$8,500 |
Sedo |
10.
tie |
Watershed.tech |
$8,500 |
Sedo |
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13. |
Capital.capital |
€7,000
= $7,560 |
Sedo |
14.
tie |
Abstract.art |
$6,500 |
GoDaddy |
14.
tie |
IMG.art |
$6,500 |
NameCheap |
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16. |
Marketing.marketing |
€5,000
= $5,400 |
Sedo |
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17. |
Lightspark.app |
$5,000 |
Sedo |
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18. |
360.homes |
€4,000
= $4,320 |
Sedo |
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19. |
Coma.online |
€3,456
= $3,732 |
Sedo |
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20. |
Poomsae.net |
€3,450
= $3,726 |
Sedo |
Nine more four-figure
non .com gTLD sales were reported with Sedo accounting for eight of
those including Venom.network at $3,739 and two
others - Antiques.org and Eric.group
- at $3,000 apiece. Sedo added $2,823 for IEVS.org
and $2,620 for SmartBlockchain.net. Alzheimers-Society.org
and NoGatekeepers.org tacked on $2,174 each while
NextWorld.org went for $2,100. Gandi SAS joined
the party with a $2,800 sale of Letter.art.
Now that you're up to date
on what happened over the past two weeks, check out how the leaders
stand year to date in all categories by visiting our Year
To Date Charts page.
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verifiable sales reports from companies, private sellers or
individuals with knowledge of an important sale made through any
channel. To contribute information and help make this column better,
just drop a note to [email protected].
We truly appreciate the industry leading companies who share their
sales information with us to help everyone in the business get a
handle on current domain values.
Every other Wednesday
we publish the highest reported domain name sales reported to us over
the preceding two weeks. Thanks to those data contributors we are able
to produce the industry's most comprehensive sales report.
Editor's
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