The Year's Second Biggest Sale to Date Headlines a Solid Fortnight in the Domain Market
I was away for my mother's funeral last week (after a long, inspirational life she left us peacefully in her sleep at age 97). As a result I have two weeks worth of sales data for you this week that will bring you up to date on all sales reported since my last column. It was a solid couple of weeks for the domain aftermarket headlined by the blockbuster $800,000 sale of Kiwi.com thatElliot Silver reported at DomainInvesting.com.DomainNameSales handled the sale to Czech companySkypicker.com, S.R.O. on behalf of seller Future Media Architects. That is the second biggest sale reported so far this year, trailing only NameJet's $929,000 sale of TP.com that we reported earlier this month. In another six-figure transaction Sedo claimed the #2 slot on our latest all extension Top 20 Sales Chart with a $150,000 sale ofCirca.com booked by their Senior Broker Dave Evanson. Sedo went on to pile up seven of the top ten entries including #3Pferde.net ("horse" in German) at $49,950 in one of the year's biggest non .com gTLD sales. They rounded out the first five with1787.com ($40,501) and FZV.com ($26,085). FZV.com was the first in a string of 3-letter .com sales that filledfive consecutive positions on the top half of the leader board. Sedo had three of those and KeywordDomain.com got the other two with IVJ.com and OEJ.com at $25,000 each. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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It was a very diverse couple of weeks with the 12 .coms on the Big Board joined by three non .com gTLDs and five ccTLDs. DomainLore.co.uk led the latter group with their $12,605 sale of #12 DistanceLearning.co.uk. One of the three charted non .com gTLD sales was a new gTLD - #15 Earth.works - sold by Mark Sherwood for $11,250 in a private transaction. In addition to the all of these sales, George Kirikos from Leap.com discovered a previously unreported 2015 sale in which Connection.com changed hands for $450,000. As he has done many times before, George found the purchase while examining SEC filings - this one filed by buyer PC Connection (Connection.com now re-directs to the computer supplier's existing website). Thanks to George we have been able to add this sale to our 2015 Top 100 Chartwhere is ranks as the 17th biggest sale of that year. Now, back to the past fortnight, here is how all of the sales leaders stacked up for the two weeks ending Sunday, March 13, 2016: HealthInsurance Services, Inc eHealthInsurance Services, Inc eHealthInsurance Services, Inc
There were five more five figure sales off the chart with Sedo booking all of those.Kladionica.com claimed $10,545, RailEnergy.com generated $10,500 and three others -Acing.com, OfBusiness.com and TransferGuru.com - drew $10,000 each. .Com Supporting Cast Sedo led the .Com supporting cast of four-figure sales with 66B.com and BuyBoxes.com at$9,999 apiece. Those were followed by another pair - JojobaOil.com and Upscreen.com - at$8,000 each. Plaisir.com kicked in $7,646 and Azyan.com added $7,500. LotteryService.com and OutGo.com went for $7,000 apiece while two others -HangMyTV.com and MoralFibers.com - fetched $6,900 each. Sprec.com spawned $6,500,OpenUser.com yielded $6,400 and RiskStrategies.com captured $6,325. Two others -Imoba.com and Sachwert.com went for $6,105 apiece. Sedo had 74 more four-figure sales ranging from $2,000 to $6,000 that are listed in the table below:
SnapNames had another dozen sales to report including MG777.com ($4,050), MV8.com ($3,900) and H999.com ($3,600). 35352.com dialed up $3,588, X-C.com sold for $3,020and SugarDaddyWebsites.com wangled $2,990. Vegassist.com secured $2,200, YFFC.comfound $2,158 and TechExpress.com produced $2,156. DSDZ.com deposited $2,112,GreenEco.com attracted $2,038 and MarineDeals.com drew $2,000. Elsewhere, Dusty Field sold Videotrac.com for $2,500 in a private transaction and Flippa.comrang up a quintet of sales led by 12C.com at $5,555. NetworkManager.com notched $5,300,RecruitingPros.com commanded $3,000 and two others - SMSY.com and YEFT.com - tallied$2,500 each. Country Codes The ccTLDs were led by the five five-figure sales you saw on the all extension Top 20 above, with DistanceLearning.co.uk leading the pack at $12,605. The biggest sales in this category that you haven't seen yet are a trio of names tied for #6 on our our latest Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart. Those are Ardo.de, Cicero.eu and EKO.eu at $8,325 apiece. Sedo handled the Ardo.de sale while the latter two were logged by Golem.eu. Rounding out the top ten were Want.co.uk ($7,332 at DomainLore.co.uk) and Bid.io ($7,000 at Flippa.com). Germany's .de won a tight extension race with four chart entries. Great Britain's .co.uk and the European Union's .eu were right behind with three each. Here is how the country code leaders stacked up for the two weeks ending Sunday, March 13, 2016:
There were dozens of additional four-figure sales off the chart with Flippa posting three of the six highest in that group including Art.io ($5,000), Ice.io ($4,800) and Ho.ly ($4,700). Sedo had the other three at the top of the supplemental list with Firmenkundenbank.de at$4,995, 24-stunden-pflege.de at $4,662 and Bimi.de at $4,440. Sedo had 31 more four-figure ccTLD sales ranging from $2,000 to $4,000 that are listed in the table below:
Park.io sold Robo.to for $4,025 while Fllippa added three more with Inspire.io going for$4,000, 777.io brining $2,777 and Rental.us ringing up $1,427. In private transactions ESP.us went for $4,000 and NLS.us notched $1,177. Back at Golem.eu, Dots.be banked $3,329, LifeCoach.at commanded $2,398 and two others -Dsign.eu and Humm.eu - yielded $2,219 each. Samana.be bagged $1,998, Quip.eu gained$1,664 and ProDecor.eu provided $1,364. Two others - Delcampe.eu and MrBig.eu - brought$1,109 apiece. Elsewhere, DomainLore.co.uk gathered $1,911 for Genes.co.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 (.net, .org, .biz, .info & others, including new gTLDs) The non .com gTLDs were led by that big $49,950 sale of Pferde.net at Sedo. That was one of three five-figure sales from this group that you saw on the all extension leader board earlier. The highest sale in this category that you haven't seen yet is #4 on our latest Non .Com gTLD Top 20 Sales Chart. That is Grit Brokerage's $9,875 sale of Caps.org. A recently completed sale from the RightOfTheDot/NameJet auction at NamesCon rounded out the first five with Smart.watch winding up at $9,500. A trio of numeric .top sales followed in a tie for the 6th position. 182.top, 658.top and 696.top sold for $6,132 each at the Jiangsu Bangning registrar. Four of the next six spots went to new gTLD .top domains sold by the Jiangsu Bangningregistrar. Those were led by #6 Fang.top at $9,792 and #7 News.top at $9,486. The .nets won the extension race with 8 chart entries, followed by .club with five. Here's how all of the Non .Com gTLD leaders stacked up for the two weeks ending Sunday, March 13, 2016:
There were more four-figure sales off the chart led by Sedo's $2,609 sale of Housebook.org. They also moved iCompete.net and PK10.net for $2,000 each. .CLUB reported a dozen more premium sales made through their registrar partner's network.GoDaddy sold four of those at $2,000 apiece - Arcadia.club, Junior.club, Sphere.club andTransportation.club. They also sold BreakFree.club and SelfDirected.club at $1,000 each. EJEE Group sold XIN.club and ZAO.club for $2,000 apiece and PSI USA got the same amount for Beats.club. Name.com got $1,760 for Primavera.club, eNom added $1,691 forJoint.club and OVH SARL secured $1,100 for Illimite.club. Elsewhere SnapNames picked up $1,650 for NewEraCap.net. Now that you're up to date on what happened over the past week, check out how the leaders stand year to date in all categories by visiting our Year To Date Charts page. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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