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Blockbuster
Sale of Gold.com Tops Latest DNJournal Chart While .AI Continues to
Shine
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There was no
doubt about what domain would be topping our latest
bi-weekly sales chart after George Kirikos reported the
eye-popping $8,515,000 price paid for Gold.com
in March on his FreeSpeech.com
blog last week. The deal, brokered by Hilco
Digital Assets Managing Director Andrew
Miller (who also happens to be the subject of our
current Cover Story),
also takes over the top spot on our Year
to Date Top Sales Chart and it ranks among the 10 highest
publicly reported cash domain sales of all time.
We've
all heard the expression that something very valuable is
"worth its weight in gold." If anyone doubts
that is true of a great domain
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name,
consider that this one, from a weight standpoint, sold for the
equivalent of 243 pounds of gold! To calculate
that, all we had to do was look up today's gold price (just
under $2400 per troy ounce) at the site of precious metals dealer JM
Bullion, the very company that made the wise
decision to purchase this magnificent asset.
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While
the Gold.com sale may have briefly taken eyes off the red hot .ai
ball, it didn't slow the ccTLD's torrid sales streak. Led by
The $104,900 sale of #2 Crew.ai reported by Namecheap,
.ai piled up five of the top ten entries and six spots overall
on our latest all-extension Top 20 Sales Chart. Another
hot ccTLD, .io, took the #3 spot with a $70,000
sale of Mind.io that was jointly handled by Joe
Uddeme at NameExperts.com
(representing the buyer) and Efty.com
(representing the seller). To show you just how dominant .ai
and .io have been this year, look at our YTD
Top Country Code Top Sales Chart (the second chart
on the page linked to) and you will see that every one
of the top ten sales in that category have been either .ai or
.io.
On
the bi-weekly chart the .coms still narrowly
out-pointed the ccTLDs (10 entries to 9) with the .coms
getting top 10 support from #4 SocialExchange.com at $50,000
(sold through GoDaddy
by Bruce Sadowitz) and #9 Lumeno.com, sold for $25,000
at Sedo.
NameJet
pitched in too with three charted sales on the second half of
the honor roll.
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By Ron Jackson
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The
non .com gTLDs obviously ran into some very stiff competition
this time around the track but they still secured a pair of
spots on the Big Board, both of which were made through Afternic.
They collected $23,500 for #10 VVV.net and
another $10,000 for #10 (tie) Harmony.cloud.
Here is how all of the
leaders stacked up for the two weeks ending Sunday, May
12, 2024:
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The DN Journal Top 20
Highest
Reported Domain Sales - Mon. April 29 - Sun. May 12, 2024
(Foreign
currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in
Effect May 15, 2024) |
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Domain
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Sold For
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Where
Sold
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1. |
Gold.com |
$8,515,000 |
Hilco Digital
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2. |
Crew.ai |
$104,900 |
Namecheap |
3. |
Mind.io |
$70,000 |
NameExperts/Efty |
4. |
SocialExchange.com |
$50,000 |
GoDaddy |
5.
tie |
Intangible.ai |
$35,000 |
Namecheap |
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