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Continues to Command Attention With Three of the Top Four Sales on
Our Latest Chart
In the movie Groundhog
Day a TV weatherman finds himself reliving the same
day over and over again. I'm starting to understand what that
feels like (I was even a TV weatherman myself many years
ago). The difference is I am starting to feel like I am relivingthe same two weeks over and over again when I prepare
our bi-weekly domain sales reports. That's because every new all extension Top 20 Sales Chart
seems to feature a half dozen or more .AI domain names
(even though it is a ccTLD for Anguilla, a sparsely populated
British island territory in the Caribbean). We all know the
artificial intelligence boom is fueling that
explosion, leaving just one question - how long can this go
on?
No
one knows for sure but there remained no sign of a slowdown
this time around the sales track as three of the four highest publicly
reported sales were .AI domains and they took six places
overall on our latest leader board, including #1.That
spot went to Golf.ai at $140,000, the leader in
a trio of top drawer sales reported by Namecheap
that also featured #3 Resolve.ai at $64,490 and
#4 Hamilton.ai at $60,000. Alex Verdea's
$75,000 sale of #2 TheDeeply.com temporarily
interrupted the party and a $50,172 sale of #5 Spaces.ca
by Ilze Kaulins-Plaskacz at ExcellentDomains.ca
showed that, despite its dominance, .ai isn't the only country
code game in town.
The .coms
and the ccTLDs wound up tying with eight chart entries
each with Sedo
providing ammunition to both sides. They posted five of the
.com sales, including #6 (tie) BirdBuddy.com at $50,000
and also added #18 GolfZone.de to the country code side
of the ledger at $19,278.
That
left four spots to for the non .com TLDs and they went
to four different TLDs, .net, .xyz, .org and .academy, with
Sedo's $50,000 sale of #6 (tie) LI.net leading
that category.
The
single biggest sales story from the past two weeks came from George
Kirikos who wrote on his FreeSpeech.com
account at X.com about how he discovered that
Shift.com and Fair.com had changed hands in
separate bankruptcy auctions that included some additional
assets of minimal value. The Shift.com assets went for $1,365,000
and the Fair.com lot for $900,000. In order to
compare apples to apples we have always charted sales of
individual domain names only but those two warrant widespread
attention because George's research proved those two names
were the only assets in the lots that made them worth what was
paid for them - giving all of us two more excellent examples
of the kind of prices top tier domains like those
attract.
By Ron Jackson
Here is how all of the
leaders stacked up for the two weeks ending Sunday, March
31, 2024:
The DN Journal Top 20
Highest
Reported Domain Sales - Mon. March 18 - Sun. March 31, 2024 (Foreign
currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in
Effect April 3, 2024)
Domain
Sold For
Where
Sold
1.
Golf.ai
$140,000
Namecheap
2.
TheDeeply.com
$75,000
Alex
Verdea
3.
Resolve.ai
$64,490
Namecheap
4.
Hamilton.ai
$60,000
Namecheap
5.
Spaces.ca
CAD
67,800 = $50,172
ExcellentDomains.ca
6.
tie
BirdBuddy.com
$50,000
Sedo
6.
tie
LI.net
$50,000
Sedo
6.
tie
Soga.com
$50,000
Sedo
9.
BitLayer.com
$36,371
Dynadot
10.
Anthology.ai
$35,000
Namecheap
11.
Muenzer.com
€30,000
= $32,400
Sedo
12.
tie
Inspiration.ai
$30,000
Namecheap
12.
tie
Maha.xyz
$30,000
Swetha.xyz
14.
Playhouse.ai
$24,999
Sedo
15.
NewLion.com
$24,000
Sedo
16.
Nuda.com
$23,000
Sedo
17.
Birk.org
$22,000
Sedo
18.
GolfZone.de
€17,850
= $19,278
Sedo
19.
Bitcoin.academy
£15,000
= $18,900
Sedo
20.
RightChoiceConstruction.com
$14,888
DomainMarket.com
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.
There were nine more
five-figure sales just off the chart with Sedo accounting for
six of those including TI.co at $14,500, VoteVote.com
at $13,200 and RiskApp.com at $12,000.
They added $10,800 for Ziopeppe.com and $10,000
apiece for Blog.link and DayBright.com. Dynadot
booked the other three - PPLE.com at $11,121, LanguageLessons.com
at $10,811 and Tattoo.ai at $10,857.
.Com Supporting
Cast
Sedo led the
.com supporting cast of four-figure sales with AIFB.com
at $9,900, UZON.com at $9,180 and DigitalAgora.com
at $8,700. JobMap.com made another $6,750,
ChocFactory.comfetched $6,300 and BreakCore.com
brought $6,000. The hits kept on coming with Hatia.com
at $5,695, Aiten.com at $5,200 and TakaraStandard.com
at $5,184.
Sedo had 27 more
four-figure .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $5,000 that
are listed in the table below:
Additional
Sedo .com Sales Between $2,000 - $5,000
boomchaga.com
$5,000
servicewatcher.com
$3,150
stockbase.com
$5,000
vcpu.com
$3,000
myloanapp.com
$4,995
lovelypair.com
$2,999
manaxa.com
$4,920
gladdays.com
$2,899
newsmore.com
$4,104
thinkia.com
$2,800
alucoat.com
$4,000
khai.com
$2,700
spin101.com
$3,600
spontigo.com
$2,700
ecomania.com
$3,500
digihow.com
$2,299
michelleli.com
$3,495
erotikfan.com
$2,160
tarrify.com
$3,495
5main.com
$2,000
jens-s.com
$3,300
artiris.com
$2,000
megaeth.com
$3,239
permanents.com
$2,000
pesogame.com
$3,239
pyqs.com
$2,000
ezanta.com
$3,175
Back at Dynadot,
Barpitty.com posted $5,410, DecentralPay.com
provided $5,000 and Kiwee.com collected
$3,827. SpatialDomains.com spawned $3,000,KilimShop.com attracted $2,500 and ScorpiusBio.com
banked $2,498. Fighter-Planes.com commanded
$2,349, Today90.com notched $2,135
and AspenGuide.com drew $2,045. Two others
- CardioLiinkScience.com and CXSurvey.com
- secured $2,000 each.
Elsewhere,XYNames.com
collected $4,999 for MadHub.com and $4,200
for ShootForIt.com.
Country
Codes
As you would expect,
.AI domains dominate our latest bi-weekly Country
Code Top 20 Sales Chart with six of the top seven entries - all
names that appeared on the all extension Top 20 Chart above -
led by that $140,000 Golf.ai gem from Namecheap.
Four other 5-figure ccTLDs were also listed on or just under the
main chart, so the biggest sale from this group that you haven't
seen yet is Sedo's $9,400 sale of #11 Butternut.at.
Sedo went on to sweep
12 of the 20 chart entries including nine of the last ten with a
roster than included #12 Regimen.co at $8,500. No surprise
that .AI won the TLD race with seven chart entries but
Germany's .de gave them a run for the money with five
charted sales.
Here is how the ccTLDs stacked up for the
two weeks ending Sunday, March 31, 2024:
Country
Code Top 20 Sales Chart
Highest Reported
ccTLD Sales - Mon. March 18 - Sun. March 31, 2024 (Foreign
currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in
Effect April 3, 2024)
There were dozens of
additional four-figure ccTLD sales off the chart, led by Sedo's
sales of Extraitkbis.fr at $5,400, Anima.fr
of $4,590 and CSI.ch at $4,266. Move.to
made $3,999 while Coadmin.euand FlexScreen.eu
yielded $3,780 apiece. Eazybot.de brought $3,672,DayAway.de delivered $3,537 and Halloween.ai
scared up $3,500.
Sedo added 27 more four-figure sales ranging from $2,160 to
$3,240 that are listed in the table below:
Additional
Sedo .com Sales Between $2,160 - $3,240
kostbaar.nl
$3,240
greenimpact.eu
$2,699
retirerich.de
$3,239
labonneetoile.fr
$2,699
deinekueche.de
$2,970
olala.fr
$2,699
deintraumauto.de
$2,970
deltabloc.ch
$2,592
element1.de
$2,970
herno.ch
$2,592
lager365.de
$2,970
donify.de
$2,581
nest.se
$2,900
quickparking.de
$2,581
greenstage.eu
$2,808
vezo.eu
$2,484
juju.eu
$2,807
hsplus.de
$2,430
familyandfriends.de
$2,700
ark.se
$2,171
hausheim.de
$2,700
doccare.de
$2,160
pluscoaching.de
$2,700
newdot.de
$2,160
schreibliebe.de
$2,700
personalservices.eu
$2,160
super-solar.de
$2,700
Dynadot sold JBS.ai
for $3,500, 739.tv for $2,261 and Infinity.tv
for $2,086. They added $2,065 for Sailor.io
and $2,000 for Gang.tv.
Elsewhere, MartyKaulins collected $3,478 for Ray.ca
and DomainLore.uk captured $1,159 from CasinoWebsite.co.uk.
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 the five 5-figure sales you saw on the
all-extension section above, led by Sedo's $50,000 sale
of LI.net. The highest sale in this category that you
haven't seen yet is #6 on our latest Non .Com gTLD Top 20
Sales Chart. That is an $8,500 sale of AP.link via
Afternic.
The TLD race in this
group wound up in a dead heat with the .nets and the .orgs
claiming five entries each. Here is how all of the non
.com gTLD leaders stacked up for the two weeks ending Sunday, March
31, 2024:
Non
.Com gTLD Top 20 Sales Chart
Highest
Reported Non .Com gTLD Sales: Mon. March 18 - Sun. March
31, 2024 (Foreign
currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in
Effect April 3, 2024)
Domain
Sold For
Where
Sold
1.
LI.net
$50,000
Sedo
2.
Maha.xyz
$30,000
Swetha.xyz
3.
Birk.org
$22,000
Sedo
4.
Bitcoin.academy
£15,000
= $18,900
Sedo
5.
Blog.link
$10,000
Sedo
6.
AP.link
$8,500
Afternic
7.
Askew.xyz
$4,888
Sedo
8.
Kitsune.net
$4,805
Sedo
9.
CasinoGames.online
$4,000
Sedo
10.
Coadmin.net
€3,500
= $3,780
Sedo
11.
tie
Airgato.org
$3,500
Dynadot
11.
tie
Colorado.guide
$3,500
Synergy.media
13.
Laravel.cloud
€3,170
= $3,424
Sedo
14.
Stand.art
$3,250
GoDaddy
15.
Botbot.bot
€2,999
= $3,239
Sedo
16.
HispanicFund.org
$2,561
Dynadot
17.
Oyster.org
$2,283
Dynadot
18.
Saskatoon.org
$2,236
Dynadot
19.
Exquisite.net
$2,088
Dynadot
20.
OptimumTennis.net
$2,050
GoDaddy
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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Editor's
Note: If you wish to review previous Domain Sales columns,
they are available in our Archive.