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The
Top 20 All-Cash Domain Sales Reported Since
DNJournal.com Started Tracking the Aftermarket
in 2003
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Last
week
in
a post
about Marchex releasing a list of
their 500 biggest domain sales
over the past four years, I noted that I
have never published an all-time
top domain sales list, because I can't
vouch for sales reported before
we started tracking and verifying
aftermarket sales in late 2003.
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Many of
the sales reported prior to that were
not cash deals. Instead payment was often made,
at least partially, with stock
(usually of questionable value
at best). Still others were entirely
bogus. Since no one (that I
know of) was checking, it was
something some unscrupulous
people did in an effort to pump
up the perception of value
in a keyword string or TLD that
they had a financial interest
in. Of course, there were some
impressive real sales in
that era too, I just can't vouch
for which ones were and which
ones were not. |
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What
I did do a couple of years ago
this month, is post in this column a list
of the Top 20 Sales ever reported
by DNJournal.com. With the
release of the Marchex sales last week,
it occurred to me that this might be a
good time to update our all time
Top 20 covering sales we have reported
since we began tracking the market
almost 10 years ago.
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As
it happens none of the Marchex
sales were high enough to elbow
their way onto this list. It
takes at least $1.5 million
to make it and the top sale on
the Marchex 500 was Norwegian.com
at $700,000. No surprise
really because at these levels,
sales that rank among the
decade's 20 biggest are few and
far between. In
fact only two sales made
in the two years since we first
published this list qualified
for the DNJ Top 20 (2003-Now).
One of those, the late 2010 sale
of Sex.com,
brokered by Sedo's
Jeff Gabriel (now the
President at DomainAdvisors.com),
soared all the way to #1
where it remains at a
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$13
million. The other newcomer
- coming on board at #12 - is
last year's $2,600,000 sale
of Social.com, handled
jointly by Monker.com
and NameQuiver.com.
Here is the complete Top 20: |
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The
20 biggest cash domain sales
ever reported by DNJournal.com |
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Sex.com |
$13,000,000 |
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12.
Social.com |
$2,600,000 |
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2.
Fund.com |
$9,999,950 |
13.
Computer.com |
$2,100,000 |
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3.
Porn.com |
$9,500,000 |
14.
Seniors.com |
$1,800,000 |
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4.
Diamond.com |
$7,500,000 |
15.
Fly.com |
$1,760,000 |
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5.
Slots.com |
$5,500,000 |
16.
Dating.com |
$1,750,000 |
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6.
Toys.com |
$5,100,000 |
17.
Auction.com |
$1,700,000 |
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7.
Clothes.com |
$4,900,000 |
18.
DataRecovery.com |
$1,659,000 |
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8.
(tie) Vodka.com |
$3,000,000 |
19.
Ticket.com |
$1,525,000 |
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8
(tie). Candy.com |
$3,000,000 |
20.
(tie) Russia.com |
$1,500,000 |
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10.
Shopping.de |
$2,858,945* |
20.
(tie) Tandberg.com |
$1,500,000 |
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11.
CreditCards.com |
$2,750,000 |
20.
(tie) Cameras.com |
$1,500,000 |
| *Shopping.de
sold for €1,960,000 in 2008.
The dollar equivalent at that
time was $2,858,945. |
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While
the Top 20 chart above is
current through today - November
8, 2012 - changes will occur
over time, so, to make an updated
list always available,
I have placed a permanent DNJournal
Top 20 Chart (2003-Present)
link in our Domain
Sales Archve with
that chart being updated every
time a new sale qualifies for
the elite list. |
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(Posted November
8, 2012) |
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