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Million Dollar Sale and Four in Six Figures Light Up Our Latest Domain
Sales Chart
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Judging
from the latest domain sales, the summer break apparently
ended a little early this year - at least for the domain
aftermarket. We are well past July 4th but there seemed to be
fireworks everywhere with a $1 million sale creating
the biggest boom. That was DomainBooth.com
Founder James Booth's sale of Koko.com that was
made through Atom.com.
That is the third highest publicly reported domain sale of the
year to date,
trailing only Gold.com ($8.515 million) and TP.com
($1.2 million). There have undoubtedly been many more
7-figure sales this year but most at that level are made under
non-disclosure agreements.
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Atom.com also gets
credit of the #2 domain on our latest bi-weekly all extension Top 20 Sales Chart
because they sold Gosh.com for $475,000 on
behalf of Braden Pollock from LegalBrandMarketing.com
- and Atom (formerly known as SquadHelp) still wasn't done.
They also sold #4 Auger.com for K-Ventures
at a cool $125,000. Sandwiched between those was yet
another big sale from industry pioneer Mike Mann who
moved #3 WWI.com for $350,000 on his DomainMarket.com
platform.
I
mentioned Atom not being through - neither was
LegalBrandMarketing or K-Ventures. Braden chalked up another
one for LBM with a $100,000 sale of #5 Spring.net
in one of the five highest non .com gTLD sales reported
so far this year. K-Ventures also rang the bell a second time
with a $33,999 sale of #9 Nason.com that was
made via DAN.com.
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All of this and I
still haven't gotten to the venue that put up the most
chart entries. That was Sedo
who swept 13 of 20 places, including four of the top ten. #6 UpSign.com
at $60,500 led the Sedo charge. They also put another
non .com gTLD on the top half of the leader board thanks to
Premium Broker Mark Ghoriafi working with Geocentic
Media's Fred Mercaldo to move a beautiful city
domain, #10 Seattle.org, for $33,350.
When big numbers are
being thrown around the .coms almost always take the
lion's share of chart entries and that was the case this time
out. The .coms piled up 15 chart entries with the remaining
five all going to non .com gTLDs. That didn't mean it was a
bad couple of weeks for the ccTLDs. On the contrary,
they rang up five five-figure sales (led by Sedo's $20,000 sale
of Reactor.ai) that would have charted almost any other
week but fell just short in the flood of high end sales this
time around. Were it not for NDAs, there would have been even
more. In just one example of that, Sedo's Mark Ghoriafi closed
a $275,000 sale of a two-word .com under an NDA.
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By Ron Jackson
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There
is also some news about historical sales to share with you. As
Elliot Silver reported at DomainInvesting.com,
it was revealed that Public.com changed hands for $900,000
three years ago. As a result, we have added that sale to
the 2021
Top 100 Sales Chart in our Domain
Sales Archive where it ranks as the #20 sale for that year.
While one was added,
one of the biggest sales ever reported - Fund.com at $9,999,950
has been removed. That one was reported in an SEC
filing 16 years ago but many have been skeptical ever since
and, as it turns out, rightfully so. Since knowingly
submitting false information to the SEC can get you arrested
and there was no evidence at the time to disprove it, the sale
was listed. However, as Andrew Allemann detailed at DomainNameWire.com,
it has now been proven to be
a fake sale and thus deleted from our charts.
Now, getting back to current
sales - here is how the
leaders stacked up for the two weeks ending Sunday,
August 11, 2024
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The DN Journal Top 20
Highest
Reported Domain Sales - Mon. July 29 - Sun. August 11, 2024
(Foreign
currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in
Effect August 14, 2024) |
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Domain
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Sold For
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Where
Sold
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Koko.com |
$1,000,000 |
DomainBooth/Atom
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Gosh.com |
$475,000 |
LegalBrandMarketing/
Atom |
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WWI.com |
$350,000 |
DomainMarket |
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Auger.com |
$125,000 |
K-Ventures/Atom |
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5. |
Spring.net |
$100,000 |
LegalBrandMarketing |
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