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2024
Goes Out With a Roar - 7-Figure Sale and a Half Dozen in Six Figures
Light Up the Year's Last Chart
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Here
we are at the end of another eye-opening domain sales season
with the arrival of the last batch of sales data for 2024.
Several factors came together at once to make our final
bi-weekly all extension Top 20 Sales Chart of the year
an especially memorable one. First among those was Domain King
Rick Schwartz's $1,025,000
sale of BestOdds.com, making it one of the
top five publicly
reported sales in 2024. Rick gave the buyer 3
years to pay for this domain (an especially timely one with
the arrival of legal sports betting by mobile phone in
many states) and they decided to make the final payment six
months ahead of schedule to finalize ythe deal.
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In another
development that added fuel to the fire, we were able to get
documentation verifying a large number of impressive sales
that TOP.DOMAINS
(a company that holds a portfolio of over 10,000 domains) made
throughout the year. With those sales added to our
charts for the first time, a $600,000 sale of Bet.bet
that was made early in the year earned the top spot on our
2024 Non .Com
gTLD Top 100 Sales Chart, as well as #1 on our
last bi-weekly Top 20 Chart for 2024. The domain was purchased
through Afternic
by a casino company registered in Curaçao that serves the
Brazil market. That is one of five TOP.DOMAINS sales on the
leader board, including another one of the six 6-figure sales
on the honor roll, #4 People.love at $255,000,
also via Afternic.
Adding
more fuel to the sales steamroller was the continuing boom in
.AI sales, led this time around the track by a $230,000
sale of Boyfriend.ai at Afternic. That is the third
biggest ccTLD sale reported in 2024. What's #1? That
would be Andy
Booth's $274,610 sale of Girlfriend.ai
through Atom.com
that we told you about in our last
report. Way to go girls, you beat the boys again!
:-)
Also
ringing the six-figure bell was Park.io Founder Mike
Carson's $399,999 sale of Cursor.com (a name he
bought just last year for $60,000), Sedo
with #6 Tachat.com at $103,000 and Swetha.xyz
with a $100,000 sale of #7 Stable.xyz through
Afternic.
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Two
of the sales I was most happy to see were #12 (tie) DreamHomeLottery.com
at $60,000 amd #20 DreamHomeLottery.org at $30,000,
both made by Josh Goddard through his Brokerage.Domains
site. What was so special about those? I'm glad you asked! I
met Josh for the first time during the Namescon
Global conference in Austin last summer when we
both attended the Internet
Commerce Association's member dinner. He is a
personable guy with a great passion for domains and I
immediately thought "this is someone I'll be hearing a
lot more from in future" and sure enough I did with these
sales. Oh, by the way, Josh is 19 years old! How can
you not love a business where this is possible for anyone
willing to study it, then get to work making their dreams come
true? (PS - thanks to Josh's dad Drew for the
introduction)!
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By Ron Jackson
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Here
is how all of the leaders stacked up for the two weeks ending
Sunday,
Jan. 5, 2024
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The DN Journal Top 20
Highest
Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Dec. 23 - Sun. Jan. 5, 2025
(Foreign
currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in
Effect Jan. 9, 2025) |
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Domain
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Sold For
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Where
Sold
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1. |
BestOdds.com |
$1,025,000 |
Rick
Schwartz |
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2. |
Bet.bet |
$600,000 |
TOP.DOMAINS/Afternic |
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3. |
Cursor.com |
$399,999 |
Mike
Carson |
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4. |
People.love |
$255,000 |
TOP.DOMAINS/Afternic |
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5. |
Boyfriend.ai |
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