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In case you still
need proof of the impact that artificial intelligence
is having everywhere, consider how Sedo's
mind-boggling $700,000 sale of You.ai this week
blew the top off of our latest bi-weekly all-extension Top
20 Sales Chart. In addition to being the biggest .ai
sale ever reported (by far) and the 3rd biggest sale in any
TLD to have been publicly reported this year, .ai has now
accounted for four of the five biggest ccTLD sales
reported year to date.
The You.ai sale is almost three times bigger than the
previous .ai king of the hill, a $258,888 sale of Stack.ai in
August.
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On X
(formerly known as Twitter), widely-known domain investor Yue
Dai (who goes by [email protected]) wrote that You.ai was sold
by a fellow Chinese investor named Jiupeng. Jack noted
that Jiupeng has been investing in .ai domains for 10 years
now and his foresight is paying off in a big way. As I was
writing this, Elliot Silver at DomainInvesting.com
posted an article identifying the You.ai buyer as Darmesh
Shah, the founder of HubSpot and a noted domain
investor whose previous acquisitions included Connect.com
at $10 million in 2022.
As a
domain extension, .ai originally had no association with
artificial intelligence - it was simply the country code
TLD for Anguilla, a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean.
However, when AI applications started taking over the world,
domain investors began snapping up the previously obscure
domains, re-defining them and giving them a prosperous new
life built on the AI boom.
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While
.ai stole the spotlight at the top, .coms swept the
next four spots on the elite list with Sedo accounting for
three of those, including #2 OneLineage.com at $80,000.
SnapNames
rounded out the first five with NorthPoint.com at $31,589.
The .coms went on to pile up 13 of the 20 chart entries
overall, also getting a hand from NameJet's
$11,249 sale of the cleverly named #15 domain - HempHop.com.
You.ai
wasn't the only win the ccTLDs had to celebrate either.
They put four more entries on the Big Board including #7 CarLease.co.uk,
sold by Andy Bell at Andy
Media for $22,140. BusinessForSale.eu
put another one in the top ten, selling #9 GSM.be for $16,960.
UnicDomains
also rang the country code bell, moving #13 PCU.ca
through Afternic
for $14,500 (USD) and Markus Schnermann did it
with a $10,600 sale of #16 WeedShop.de.
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The
non .com gTLDs got into the act too, putting two rare one-letter
domains on the honor roll - #6 R.vip at $30,000
and #19 G.fashion at $10,000 with Afternic
handling both of those sales.
Here is how all of the
leaders stacked up for the two weeks ending Sunday, October
8, 2023:
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The DN Journal Top 20
Highest
Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Sept. 25 - Sun. Oct. 8, 2023
(Foreign
currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in
Effect Oct. 11, 2023) |
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Domain
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Sold For
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Where
Sold
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1. |
You.ai |
$700,000 |
Sedo |
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2. |
OneLineage.com |
$80,000 |
Sedo |
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3. |
HotelDeal.com |
$51,000 |
Sedo |
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4. |
Novita.com |
$32,500 |
Sedo |
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5. |
NorthPoint.com |
$31,589 |
SnapNames |
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6. |
R.vip |
$30,000 |
Afternic |
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7. |
CarLease.co.uk |
£18,000
= $22,140 |
Andy.co.uk |
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8. |
BeeCrowd.com |
$18,000 |
Sedo |
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9. |
GSM.be |
€16,000
= $16,960 |
BusinessForSale.eu |
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10. |
HealClinic.com |
$15,900 |
Sedo |
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11. |
SelfCloud.com |
$15,817 |
Sedo |
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12. |
SexualEnergy.com |
$14,988 |
Sedo |
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13. |
PCU.ca |
$14,500 |
UnicDomains/Afternic |
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14. |
TheFlow.com |
$12,000 |
Sedo |
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15. |
HempHop.com |
$11,249 |
NameJet |
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16. |
WeedShop.de |
€10,000
= $10,600 |
Markus
Schnermann |
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17. |
Stadio.com |
$10,151 |
SnapNames |
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18. |
PlayGroup.com |
$10,110 |
SnapNames |
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19. |
G.fashion |
$10,000 |
Afternic |
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20. |
NailsCompany.com |
$9,900 |
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
reports is available here. |
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Cast
NameJet led the
.com supporting cast of four-figure sales with Molino.com
at $9,895. They went l-o-n-g on IndianCountryTodayMediaNetwork.com
but reaped a $5,400 reward for it. CMHC.com
added $4,500, Iroko.com rang up $4,250
and NortelNetworks.com notched $4,111.
RestaurantEugene.com
served up another $3,700, PartyPro.com produced $3,650
and PayrollOnline.com posted $3,200. ArtPractical.com
drew $2,950, Dealdey.com delivered $2,659
and Ocannabiz.com banked $2,610.
The NameJet hit parade
continued with ThePrimeRib.com ($2,600), AFOL.com
($2,590) and LedgerBook.com ($2,502).
MyCupOfTeam poured another $2,272, VitaEnergy.com
generated $2,255, Compusys.com clicked for $2,150
and Tosta.com tacked on $2,015.
Back at NameJet's
sister site, SnapNames, Athina.com connected
with $9,158, McLennan.com landed $7,500
and EuroMed.com dispensed $6,250. MembershipWireless.com
went for $6,007, OrganicKicthen.com cooked
up $5,577 and Unmetered.com made $5,523.
SellYourApp.com
yielded another $4,995, Aureve.com returned $4,695
and WarehouseEquipment.com hauled in $4,300.
SnapNames had 24 more four-figure sales ranging from $2,000 to
$4,000 that are listed in the table below:
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Additional
SnapNames .com Sales Between $2,000 - $4,000
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| López.com |
$4,000 |
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dmhcares.com |
$2,600 |
| stayactive.com |
$3,853 |
newtoys.com |
$2,600 |
| L-M.com |
$3,850 |
driverclaims.com |
$2,595 |
| brujula.com |
$3,845 |
deepnudeonline.com |
$2,528 |
| focusfirst.com |
$3,742 |
beansandbeer.com |
$2,500 |
| nmusafvirtualtour.com |
$3,713 |
maxendo.com |
$2,475 |
| sandicor.com |
$3,699 |
ourschool.com |
$2,361 |
| emprendamos.com |
$3,695 |
js178.com |
$2,150 |
| rakbank.com |
$3,004 |
innolife.com |
$2,104 |
| thempath.com |
$2,895 |
tripology.com |
$2,050 |
| wittygroup.com |
$2,895 |
skincareingredients.com |
$2,000 |
| ydesign.com |
$2,700 |
valuebridge.com |
$2,000 |
At Sedo, Nokken.com
commanded $8,000, Gioele.com captured $7,950
and Couchy.com collected $7,888. FourVisions.com
found $7,500, Actena.com claimed $6,999
and Odace.com ogled $6,500.
DiscoverDiamond.com
kept the party going at $6,254, 96Win.com
wangled $6,160 and ElectricCity.com plugged
in $6,000. CarbonPool.com piped in $5,830
while Dinsee.com and Sorco.com
cleared $5,000 apiece.
Sedo posted 19
more
four-figure .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $5,880 that
are listed in the table below:
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Additional
Sedo .com Sales Between $2,000 - $4,800
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| filstore.com |
$4,800 |
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visitreutlingen.com |
$2,968 |
| linexo.com |
$4,200 |
suchmaschinenmarketing.com |
$2,756 |
| sombreros.com |
$4,028 |
flustrain.com |
$2,700 |
| watchsports.com |
$3,900 |
herea.com |
$2,650 |
| getautomata.com |
$3,888 |
colourtech.com |
$2,210 |
| mycarlease.com |
$3,690 |
recordai.com |
$2,200 |
| quartzline.com |
$3,179 |
cabmap.com |
$2,000 |
| fxcolors.com |
$3,000 |
spiritbeings.com |
$2,000 |
| tequilagold.com |
$3,000 |
unyu.com |
$2,000 |
| voxbay.com |
$3,000 |
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Sedo also worked with
SnapNames to close a $4,999 sale of Land-Dweller.com.
Country
Codes
We already let the
country code cat out of the bag at the top of this report
when we detailed the You.ai sale at $700,000, a
new #1 for the ccTLDs both this time around the track and
year to date. You also saw the four five-figure sales on the all
extension leader board above, so the biggest sale in this group
that you haven't yet is the #6 name on our latest Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart.
That is yet another .ai sale - HODL.ai at
$9,500 via Sedo.
Sedo went on to sweep
13 of the 20 chart entries. DomainLore.uk
was the only other venue with multiple entries, putting three
names on the elite list led by a pair or two-letter .uk domains
- TW.uk and YP.uk - that sold for $4,428
each to tie at #14.
The TLD race ended up
in a dead heat with Germany's .de and the United
Kingdom's .uk/.co.uk combo claiming five spots each. Here is how the ccTLDs stacked up for the
two weeks ending Sunday, October 8, 2023:
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Country
Code Top 20 Sales Chart
Highest Reported
ccTLD Sales - Mon. Sept. 25 - Sun. Oct. 8, 2023
(Foreign
currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in
Effect Oct. 11, 2023) |
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Domain
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Sold For
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Where
Sold
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1. |
You.ai |
$700,000 |
Sedo |
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2. |
CarLease.co.uk |
£18,000
= $22,140 |
Andy.co.uk |
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3. |
GSM.be |
€16,000
= $16,960 |
BusinessForSale.eu |
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4. |
PCU.ca |
$14,500 |
UnicDomains/Afternic |
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5. |
WeedShop.de |
€10,000
= $10,600 |
Markus
Schnermann |
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6. |
HODL.ai |
$9,500 |
Sedo |
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7. |
Car.re |
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