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The
2025 Domain Sales Season Starts the Way 2024 Ended - With .Com &
.AI Large and In Charge
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In
its brilliant 40-year history, .com has never had to
share the spotlight on center stage with any other TLD
- but now we have an artificial intelligence boom that has
super charged the .AI ccTLD and made it highly
competitive at the top of the charts throughout 2024 (as
you can see on our final Top
100 Chart for the year). How this rivalry will
play out long term was the primary topic of conversation in
our new 2025 State of
the Industry Cover Story: 30 Domain Experts
Weigh in On What Mattered in 2024 and Where Money Will Be Made
This Year.
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Some
argued that the .ai trend will eventually run out of steam
when the AI start-ups that are fueling it eventually
"upgrade" to .coms. Others believe .AI is such a
perfect match no upgrades will be needed on top tier names in
the TLD. Time will tell who called it right but in the near
term the prospects for both look golden. Take
our first all extension Top 20 Sales Chart of the 2025
domain sales season below for example. A six-figure .com
and a six-figure .AI sit at the top of the pack.
In
this instance there is a big price difference between the two
though with Sedo's
$600,000 sale of #1 Pack.com outpointing yet
another big sale from .AI advocate Andy
Booth who banked $100,000 for 3D.ai.
Andy is an industry veteran who has been one of the most
successful ever to do it with both .com and .ai sales.
Meanwhile, The Pack.com sale (news that we broke
here January 11) represented another big win for Sedo's
Mark"Mr. Premium" Ghoriafi, who has had a
meteoric rise in the business over the past
decade.
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As
you might expect, Mark and Andy are both featured in the new
State of the Industry story, as is brokerage all-star and Saw.com
Founder Jeff Gabriel who is in the new chart's top five
with #5 (tie) Accountably.com at $45,000 (a spot
shared by DomainName.com's
sale of Qwerty com). Sandwiched between Mark, Andy and
Jeff are two nice sales at NameJet
- a monster .org in #3 Seniors.org at $78,499
and #4 Tapestries.com at $68,607.
The new chart does
give the .Com is King crowd something to crow about as
the world's most popular TLD went on the kind of rampage its
reputation was built on, sweeping 17 of the 20 chart
entries overall. That is still worth a wow!, even
more than it used to be given the more competitive
environment. Aside from 3D.ai and Seniors.org, the only other
charted domain to break the .com rule was Sedo's $18,720
sale of #20 Awake.de.
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By Ron Jackson
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Since
this the first chart for 2025 it is also the de facto Year to
Date leader board. When we get the next round of sales data in
for our bi-weekly report that will come out February 5, we'll
publish the first separate YTD Top Sales Chart of the new
year. At that time we'll also be updating the 2022 Top 100
Chart in our Domain
Sales Archive to include Elliot's Silver's discovery
that $600,000
was paid for Macro.com in a sale made that year.
Now,
here
is how all of the leaders stacked up for the two weeks ending
Sunday,
Jan. 19, 2025
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The DN Journal Top 20
Highest
Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Jan. 6 - Sun. Jan. 19, 2025
(Foreign
currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in
Effect Jan. 22, 2025) |
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Domain
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Sold For
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Where
Sold
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1. |
Pack.com |
$600,000 |
Sedo |
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2. |
3D.ai |
$100,000 |
Andy
Booth |
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Seniors.org |
$78,499 |
NameJet |
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4. |
Tapestries.com |
$68,607 |
NameJet |
5.
tie |
Accountably.com |
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