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First
Domain Sales Chart of the New Year Led By a 7-Figure Sale and
3 More in 6 Figures
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...and they're
off! The 2023 domain sales season is now underway
and there is some good news coming out of the gate. We already
knew Above.com's
$3 million sale of Help.com would be gracing our
new all-extension Top 20 Chart as we broke that
news in a Lowdown
post last week. Only three sales in 2022 were higher
than that, so Help.com is also very likely to top our first
2023 YTD Top 100 Chart when it comes out the evening of February
1 (since this week's Top 20 Chart is the first one of the
new year it is also the current YTD Top Sales Chart). The
final Top 100 Charts for 2022 will remain on our YTD
Sales Charts page until Feb. 1 when the 2022 list
will move (but remain permanently available) in our Domain
Sales Archive.
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The
Help.com sale was back up by three solid six-figure
sales at Sedo,
led by a $275,000 sale of SkyWin.com. That
represented a remarkable return on investment for the seller
who had picked up the domain for
just $2,118 in a 2019 NameJet auction! Sedo
booked another €100,000 ($108,000) for TopFX.eu,
the highest ccTLD sale reported and one that was bigger
than all but four of the country code sales reported in 2022.
Sedo rounded out the big money quartet at the top with #4
Nevis.com at $100,000.
Sister
sites NameJet
and SnapNames
just released their December sales today (Jan. 18). We chart
sales when they are first reported (as long as they have
occurred within the trailing 12 months) and their list
included a trio of Top 20 Sales led by #11 JVZ.com for $14,601
at SnapNames. .Coms swept 13 of the 20 chart entries
with Greg Everett's $15,000 sale of #9 (tie) SYAI.com
via Uniregistry
also helping the .com cause.
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The
ccTLDs kicked off 2023 the same way they ended 2022, with
a steady flow of solid sales. Five country code domains
claimed places on the Big Board with that big $108,000 sale of
TopFX.eu getting top ten back up from #8 UTrace.de at €15,000
($16,200) via Sedo.
The non
.com gTLDs wound up with two spots on the honor roll -
Sedo's $27,500 sale of #5 CasinoApps.net and a $12,701
sale of AmericanPainSociety.org at NameJet.
One
other note before we go to the charts. With this report we
will return to our usual bi-weekly release schedule
with a new report coming out every other Wednesday evening.
So, I'll be back here February 1 with the next update as well
as the unveiling of our first 2023 YTD Top Sales Chart.
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By Ron Jackson
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Here is how all of the
leaders stacked up for the two weeks
ending ending Sunday, January 15, 2023:
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The DN Journal Top 20
Highest
Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Jan 2 - Sun. Jan. 1, 2023
(Foreign
currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in
Effect Jan. 18, 2023) |
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Domain
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Sold For
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Where
Sold
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Help.com |
$3,000,000 |
Above.com |
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SkyWin.com |
$275,000 |
Sedo |
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TopFX.eu |
€100,000
= $108,000 |
Sedo |
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4. |
Nevis.com |
$100,000 |
Sedo |
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5. |
CasinoApps.net |
$27,500 |
Sedo |
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