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The
2025 domain sales season has come to and end but the
demand for top tier domain names hasn't skipped a beat with
the arrival of a New Year. That was became clear Monday
(January 5) when we reported two big Sedo
sales in our Lowdown
section - Midnight.com at $1,150,000 and C4.com
at $265,000. Both were closed by Sedo Premium Broker Mark
Ghoriafi, AKA "Mr. Premium". Mark
represented the seller in both cases. Those sales rank
#1 and #3 on our latest bi-weekly all extension Top 20 Sales
Chart with a 2025 sale of GameFi.com at $300,000
sandwiched in between. James Booth at DomainBooth.com
closed that eye popping deal through Atom.com.
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Two more rang the
six-figure bell - #4 RWA.exchange at $135,000
via Spaceship
and #5 HealthStrategy.com at $100,000 in a sale
that Hiran Patel at QualityNames.com
closed through Afternic.
The record breaking sale for a .exchange domain stemmed from
it's highly valued RWA acronym that that represents real
world assets. There's a great story behind Hiran's sale of
HealthSrategy.com that began with his acquisition of the
domain for just $3,000 in April of 2024. You can read
about his rewarding journey through the negotiations that
followed and finalizing the deal in this
thread at X.com. While
some great sales were revealed over the past couple of weeks, very
few sales were reported because of where the holidays fell
this season. Our last
bi-weekly report was published on Christmas Eve
(December 24) and almost all of the two weeks that
followed
fell within the
two-week holiday break that ran through New Year's Day and
weekend. Many offices around the world were closed during that
stretch. As a result less than 50 notable sales were reported
to us. Of course, that means the flood gates are about to
open when everyone is back at work and those sales are
released at once. Sedo, for example, who normally releases
sales weekly, will be sending out three weeks worth of sales
at once next Tuesday (January 13),
Mike Mann's DomainMarket.com
was one key venue that did send in sales. That was much appreciated
but not surprising because the industry pioneer has been known
for nearly three decades as someone who works as close to 24/7,
365 days a year as anyone you are ever likely to meet.
Mike wound up accounting for 10 of the 20 chart entries with a
pair that tied for #6 at $50,000 each -
AirTransfer.com and DesignArena.com - leading his
roster.
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Eric
Lyon at NamePros
connected us with another interesting ledger, this one
covering some previously unreleased 2025 sales as well as some
high end historical sales from 2023 and 2024 that have been
added to the Top 100 charts for those years in our Doman
Sales Archive. All of these sale were made by the
owner of one high quality portfolio who used NamePros landers
to promote his domains. Four of them made the new Top 20, led
by #8 Clearly.co at $38,777.
From
prior years, three made the all-extension 2024
Top 100 Chart - Motion.co ($150,000), Remember.co
($120,000) and Paragon.com ($112,500). A fourth one
also joined those of the same page's 2024 ccTLD Top 100
Chart - Deck.co at $52,000.
Three
of the newly revealed sales earned spots on our 2023
ccTLD Top 100 Chart (2nd chart in the page). Those
were Eternal.co ($45,000), Sixty.co ($21,000)
and Fragile.co ($19,750).
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By Ron Jackson
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With
this report our 2025 Top
100 Sales Chart is now finalized (subject to
previously unrevealed sales that may surface in the future).
Three top sales from this week's chart are 2026 sales so they
are not on the 2025 Top 100. Instead, Midnight.com, C4.com
and Ueberall.com will be added to our first 2026
YTD Top 100 when that chart debuts with our next bi-weekly
report January 21. Now.
here is how the
leaders lined up for the two weeks ending Sunday, January
4, 2025:
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The DN Journal Top 20
Highest
Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Dec. 22 - Sun. Jan. 4, 2025
(Foreign
currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in
Effect Jan. 7, 2026) |
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Domain
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Sold For
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Where
Sold
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1. |
Midnight.com |
$1,150,000 |
Sedo |
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2. |
Gamefi.com |
$300,000 |
DomainBooth/Atom.com |
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3. |
C4.com |
$265,000 |
Sedo |
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4. |
RWA.exchange |
$135,000 |
Spaceship |
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5. |
HealthStrategy.com |
$100,000 |
QualityNames.com/Afternic |
6.
tie |
AirTransfer.com |
$50,000 |
DomainMarket |
6.
tie |
DesignArena.com |
$50,000 |
DomainMarket |
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8. |
Clearly.co |
$38,777 |
Pvt
Sale/NamePros Lander |
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9. |
SmithSolar.com |
$24,888 |
DomainMarket |
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10. |
Ueberall.com |
$20,000 |
DomainMarket |
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Being.co |
$19,000 |
Pvt
Sale/NamePros Lander |
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12. |
DomeSystems.com |
$15,000 |
DomainMarket |
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13. |
GoldenPets.com |
$14,888 |
DomainMarket |
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14. |
Nearsite.com |
$13,000 |
DomainMarket |
15.
tie |
Subtle.co |
$10,000 |
Pvt
Sale/NamePros Lander |
15.
tie |
UUTY.com |
$10,000 |
NameAhead.com |
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17. |
Maisee.com |
$9,888 |
DomainMarket |
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18. |
OnTheLoop.com |
$8,888 |
DomainMarket |
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19. |
LegacyReserve.com |
$7,999 |
DomainMarket |
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20.
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Deadline.co |
$6,000 |
Pvt
Sale/NamePros Lander |
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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. |
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CLICK
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Click Link Below
for
The All-Time Top 20
All-Cash Domain Sales Reported By DNJournal.com
(2003
to Now)
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HealthInsurance Services, Inc
eHealthInsurance Services, Inc
eHealthInsurance Services, Inc
.Com
Supporting Cast
Nine additional .com
sales were reported with DomainMarket accounting for
seven of those. Each of those was sold at the same price - $4,888.
They were Baybook.com, Mainhattan.com,
PowerRiver.com, SunAirport.com,
TeenSupermodel.com, TheParisGroup.com
and UpFrontServices.com.
The other two sales
were made by private sellers using NamePros.com Landers
- Venture5.com at $5,000 and Castive.com
at $2,195.
Country
Codes
Our latest ccTLD
Top 20 Sales Chart is led by those four NamePros lander
sales you saw on the all extension leader board above, led by Clearly.co
at $38,777. Nameshift
claimed most of the remaining entries, 14 of 20 places overall,
with a group lead by #5 VDS.be at $4,930. DomainLore.uk
filled two spots with #7 QIC.co.uk and #15 Admire.co.uk
and
Here is how
the top ccTLDs lined up for the two weeks ending Sunday,
January 4, 2025:
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Country
Code Top 20 Sales Chart
Highest
Reported ccTLD Sales - Mon. Dec. 22 - Sun.
Jan. 4, 2025
(Foreign
currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on
Rates in Effect Jan. 7, 2026)
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Domain
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Sold
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Where
Sold
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Clearly.co |
$38,777 |
Pvt
Sale/NamePros Lander |
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Being.co |
$19,000 |
Pvt
Sale/NamePros Lander |
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Subtle.co |
$10,000 |
Pvt
Sale/NamePros Lander |
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Deadline.co |
$6,000 |
Pvt
Sale/NamePros Lander |
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VDS.be |
$4,930 |
Nameshift |
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Milwaukee.nl |
$10,027 |
Nameshift |
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QIC.co.uk |
$2,843 |
DomainLore.uk |
| 8. |
Levant.nl |
$2,668 |
Nameshift |
| 9. |
Kenniscentrumsuiker.nl |
$2,321 |
Nameshift |
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Hospital.ch |
$2,314 |
Nameshift |
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Vago.be |
$1,740 |
Nameshift |
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Projectkeukens.nl |
$1,739 |
Nameshift |
13.
tie |
Ketamine.nl |
$1,450 |
Nameshift |
13.
tie |
Goedvast.nl |
$1,270 |
Nameshift |
| 15. |
Admire.co.uk |
$1,206 |
DomainLore.uk |
| 16. |
Elki.nl |
$1,160 |
Nameshift |
| 17. |
Klangverwaltung.de |
$1,160 |
Nameshift |
18.
tie |
CVOnline.nl |
$1,154 |
Nameshift |
18.
tie |
Mast.be |
$1,154 |
Nameshift |
| 20. |
ProjectManagement.gr |
$1,154 |
Nameshift |
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HERE for our Year-To-Date Charts.
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There was one other
reported sale off the chart. That was Caliber.co.uk at $1,072
via DomainLore.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
Only one notable non
.com gTLD sale was reported over the holidays, but, as noted
on the all extension chart above, that was a startling one
- RWA.exchange at $135,000. Obviously that
means no chart for this group this time around but you can
expect it to be back up and at full strength with all of
those unreported sales from recent weeks expected to be released
prior to our next report January 21.
Now
that you're up to date on what happened over the past two weeks,
check out our Year-to-Date
Top Sales Charts here.
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