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Fast
2025 Start for Domains Continues with Multiple 6-Figure Sales and
More Fireworks from .AI
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The first month of
the 2025 domain sales season is now in the books and if
the next 11 are like this, there will be a lot of happy
campers in the aftermarket. Over the past couple of weeks,
five more six-figure sales have been publicly reported
(and far more were completed under NDAs). We also saw another
big wave of .AI sales with nine of those flooding our
latest all extension Top 20 Sales Chart (including one
that is a member of that 6-Figure club).
The
headliner is an eye-popping $431,400 sale of Fanbase.com.
One thing of particular interest about this sale
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is where
it took place. That was on the Fruits.co
platform that many of you (especially in the U.S.) might not
be familiar with yet. Fruits.co is an aftermarket sales
platform that just launched last year and already has over 1
million listings. The innovative site, based in Munich,
was built by some of the industry's most successful Europe-based
entrepreneurs
and investors (I've known some of them for over 15
years and will be sharing all of the details about their
latest venture in an upcoming article). Fruits.co joins a
number of impressive new marketplaces that have risen since GoDaddy
bought DAN.com and merged that popular platform into Afternic.
Also
making big news this time out is Sedo's
£300,000 ($375,000) sale of #2 Tyres.co.uk. That
is not just the highest ccTLD sale of the new year, it is
bigger than any country code sale reported all of last year
when Girlfriend.ai at $274,610 led the final
ccTLD Top 100 Chart. Namecheap
gave the ccTLD's another 2025 headliner with their $100,000
sale of #5 Tether.ai. Namecheap, who just started a daily
.ai auction, went on to put six more .ai
domains on the leader board, with .ai filling nine
spots overall.
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...and
the hits just keep on coming, the two top 5 sales between Tyres.co.uk
and Tether.ai both went to Kate
Buckley's busy brokerage at Defining.com.
They closed a $176,943 sale of #3 Candidly.com and
a $101,900 sale of #4 VirtualAssistants.com. But
wait - there's more! They also closed a six-figure deal for Hilo.com
that was under an NDA, so the exact price hasn't been
revealed. I just saw Kate and her partner Todd Henderson last
week at the 2025
ICA Annual Meeting in Las Vegas. They
are always smiling, but this would explain the especially big
smiles at our latest get together.
One
other note before we go to the bi-weekly Top 20 - now that we
have a full month's worth's of sales data in, we have
published our first 2025
Year-to-Date Top Sales Charts. The final Top
100 Chart for 2024 has now taken up permanent residence
in our Domain
Sales Archive where it will always remain
available for reference.
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By Ron Jackson
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Now,
here
is how all of the leaders stacked up for the two weeks ending
Sunday,
Feb. 2, 2025
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The DN Journal Top 20
Highest
Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Jan. 20 - Sun. Feb. 2, 2025
(Foreign
currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in
Effect Feb. 5, 2025) |
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Domain
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Sold For
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Where
Sold
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1. |
Fanbase.com |
$431,400 |
Fruits.co |
2. |
Tyres.co.uk |
£300,000
= $375,000 |
Sedo |
3. |
Candidly.com |
$176,943 |
Defining.com |
4. |
VirtualAssistants.com |
$101,900 |
Defining.com |
5. |
Tether.ai |
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