Domain Sales Explosion Continues

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Domain Sales Explosion Continues – Seven 6-Figure Sales Totaling Over $2.9 Million Top This Week’s Chart The domain aftermarket turned in another dazzling fortnight over the past two weeks with big sales busting out all over. Seven of those rang the six-figure bell including RightOfThe Dot.com’s chart topper, Tattoo.com, at $812,000. That also ranks as the 6th biggest sale reported so far this year.  
You might recall that RightOfTheDot (ROTD) put that domain up for sale in a live online auction they staged in late February when it drew a $750,000 winning bid. Unfortunately, the “winner” not only failed to pay for that domain, he also reneged on high bids for both Bird.com ($2.5 million) and Fish.com ($1.6 million), costing everyone involved an enormous amount of wasted time and money. It has also resulted in

the bidder being sued by ROTD and the owner of Fish.com and Bird.com. In the meantime ROTD President Monte Cahn found a new buyer who jumped at the chance to own Tattoo.com and the market has gone on to post a long string of eye-popping sales week after week. In the #2 sale since our last report, as detailed by Elliot Silver at DomainInvesting.com, NameCheap.com Founder & CEO Rick Kirkendall plunked down $550,000 to add Wolf.com to the company’s ever-growing collection of premier domain names. James Booth at DomainBooth.com filled the #3 spot with a sale that, big as it was at $440,000 (paid in Bitcoin), must have hurt at least a little. After all, it would be tough for any lover of domains named James to give up James.com – but a price like that does have a way of persuading people! Rounding out the first four is another 400K plus sale – Snappy.com at $415,000 (another hat tip to Elliot for filling in the back story on that deal handled by GetYourDomain.com’s Larry Fischer (representing the seller) and the GoDaddy Brokerage, who represented the buyer).
The six-figure sales did not stop there. Shane Kinsch (who sold FTA.com for $400,000 in March) hit another home run with #5 Bico.com at $350,000, Sedo banked $181,500 for CopyMarkets.com and RightOfTheDot rang the bell again with ExchangeRates.com at $180,000.  
While those .coms were blowing the roof off the place, the ccTLDs also had another great outing led by .io, a red hot extension that accounted for four of the five country sales that earned places on the Big Board. The biggest of those was #8 Avatar.io at $89,999 and #9 Ruby.io at $88,000. DomainBooth also posted one of the .io sales, collecting $45,000 for #16 Club.io. The one charted ccTLD sale that wasn’t a .io was #19 ESN.co.uk – sold through SamCharles.com for £20,000 ($28,200).
 
The non .com gTLDs were limited to one spot on the elite list  but it was an impressive one. They can thank RightOfTheDot for that. One of ROTD’s four charted sales is #13 Organizations.org at $52,500 – a sale that ranks as the category’s 3rd biggest sale of the year to date. We have tipped our hat to George Kirikos for newly discovered domain sales information so many times the brims are worn off all of our hats! Still we owe him yet another one for finding the March 2021 sale of #15 Cuentas.com (“accounts” in Spanish) at $47,000 in an SEC filing. Even more intriguing than that, George found evidence in another filing of Elevate Credit making a domain sale of $1.25 million but the mystery (as he he noted in this tweet and a follow-up tweet) is what domain was it? George’s question about that to Elevate Investor Relations has gone unanswered so that one remains to be unmasked.
Here’s how all of the sales leaders stacked up for the two weeks ending Sunday, May 9, 2021:
 
 
The DN Journal Top 20
Highest Reported Domain Sales – Mon. April 26, 2021 –  Sun. May 9, 2021
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect May 12, 2021)
Domain Sold For
Where Sold 1. Tattoo.com $812,000 RightOfTheDot 2. Wolf.com $550,000 Pvt Sale 3. James.com $440,000 (BTC) DomainBooth 4. Snappy.com $415,000 GetYourDomain/
GoDaddy 5. Bico.com $350,000 Shane Kinsch 6. CopyMarkets.com €150,000 = $181,500 Sedo 7. ExchangeRates.com $180,000 RightOfTheDot 8. Avatar.io $89,999 Pvt Sale 9. Ruby.io $88,000 Pvt Sale 10. SuperWorld.com €45,000 = $54,450 Sedo 11. Volka.com $54,000 Sedo 12. Hina.com $50,000 Sedo 13. Organizations.org $52,500 RightOfTheDot 14. Rabbit.io $48,888 Pvt Sale 15. Cuentas.com
(“accounts” in Spanish) $47,000 Pvt Sale 16. Club.io $45,000 DomainBooth 17. PEE.com $39,900 RightOfTheDot 18. SpaceCoin.com $35,000 Sedo 19. ESN.co.uk £20,000 = $28,200 SamCharles.com 20. SimplexTrading.com $28,000 Sedo Keep in mind that these are the highest value cash only sales that have been reported to us in the past week. 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.
CLICK HERE for our Year-To-Date Top Sales Charts Click Link Below for
The All-Time Top 20 All-Cash Domain Sales Reported By DNJournal.com
 (2003 to Now) There were 20 more five-figure sales off the chart led by a $27,500 sale of Evolution.io by Mark Ghoriafi at MrPremium.com and a $25,000 sale of YH.io at Park.io.
Sedo followed with GE.de at $21,780, Scout.vc at $18,150 and ApexNews.com at $18,000. Sedo went on to pile up 10 of the remaining 15 five-figure sales including Sand.kr at $16,000, Pitch.vc at $15,000 and Auto.biz at $14,900. OpenProject.eu yielded another $12,403, Task.it tacked on $10,890 and five others – Coders.io, Coinbvase.com, Flashstream.com, Pornsocket.com and Voye.com – added $10,000 apiece.
Elsewhere, BuyBrands.com used Afternic to sell DataHub.co at $17,500, DomainLore.uk moved InStyle.co.uk for $15,299, Afternic sold Dragon.tv for $15,000 and DomainBooth.com banked $11,000 for AsteroidX.com.
 .Com Supporting Cast
Sedo led the .com supporting cast of four-figure sales with SportsBonuses.com at $9,995 and PixelPimps.com at $9,500. CryptoChamber.com chalked up $8,999 while GoldGuide.com and OKStaff.com drew $8,000 each.
Profilog.com produced $7,900, Pasithea.com posted $7,700 and Frenny.com kicked in $7,250. Hexomatic.com hauled in another $6,800 and ProjectFinance.com fetched $6,050. Sedo had 68 more four-figure .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $5,501 that are listed in the table below:
 
Additional Sedo .com Sales Between $2,000 – $5,501 albajob.com $5,501   dental21.com $3,199 digitalmoment.com $5,500 academylearning.com $3,125 ichibankuji.com $5,500 condomeet.com $3,025 datatraders.com $5,143 akker.com $3,024 detrans.com $5,000 happycappy.com $3,000 soundshare.com $5,000 ltbh.com $3,000 stkx.com $5,000 luckyfox.com $3,000 trust24.com $5,000 squarebrain.com $3,000 emergents.com $4,999 plantsthatproduce.com $2,999 fantasytrade.com $4,995 br-design.com $2,995 givvo.com $4,995 bentrio.com $2,904 digisaurus.com $4,950 leonhardweiss.com $2,899 partnero.com $4,930 justinmurray.com $2,799 tawatur.com $4,880 thebobblehead.com $2,778 xguns.com $4,719 online-wedding.com $2,588 raregoods.com $4,500 cakea.com $2,530 nachlass.com $4,090 accessid.com $2,500 alternatively.com $4,000 casinoporn.com $2,500 landstock.com $4,000 urbansuccess.com $2,499 lockerr.com $4,000 suboxonenearme.com $2,475 marrones.com $4,000 aeoohio.com $2,448 worldfashion.com $3,800 leadsfactory.com $2,420 diploy.com $3,799 newyorkcrypto.com $2,375 allreco.com $3,630 streetcoin.com $2,300 marie-jose.com $3,509 hper.com $2,250 quadroshop.com $3,509 templateshop.com $2,203 armatupc.com $3,500 vupra.com $2,130 bnormal.com $3,500 solenge.com $2,105 newsky.com $3,500 seedforweed.com $2,100 speedsquare.com $3,500 tosing.com $2,050 travelzilla.com $3,500 copycap.com $2,000 lulab.com $3,388 solarproject.com $2,000 investyx.com $3,330 trustmatrix.com $2,000 immobilie1.com $3,328 zenigma.com $2,000  
XYNames.com also used Sedo to sell 4Payments.com for $5,000. Elsewhere, Steve Orosz sold  Hootah.com for $5,500 in a private transaction, Afternic moved FrontlineProperties.com for $4,500 and BuyBrands.com booked $3,485 for SelfExclude.com.
 
Country Codes
While .com sales always draw more attention because of their bigger numbers, there is no hiding the fact that ccTLD sales have also been on fire this year – especially those of current darling .io. The past two weeks has been no exception with 17 of the 20 entries on our latest Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart hitting five figures and the top two flirting with six! Those were Avatar.io at $89,999 and Ruby.io at $88,000 (both in private transactions). The top four sales and six of the top seven were .io domains.
All of those .io sales cut into Sedo’s traditional overwhelming dominance of this chart a bit, but they still had far more entries than anyone else, piling up nine spots on the honor roll, including a .io sale of their own – #17 Coders.io at $10,000. The big guns for Sedo were #8 GE.de at $21,780 and #9 Scout.vc at $18,150.
It was actually a much more diverse couple of weeks than the .io surge would suggest. 11 different extensions earned chart entries. The only ones other than .io to take more than one place were .co.uk with three and .vc with two. Here is how the top ccTLD sales stacked up for the two weeks ending Sunday, May 9, 2021:
Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart
Highest Reported ccTLD Sales – Mon. April 26, 2021 –  Sun. May 9, 2021
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect May 12, 2021)
Domain Sold For
Where Sold 1. Avatar.io $89,999 Pvt Sale 2. Ruby.io $88,000 Pvt Sale 3. Rabbit.io $48,888 Pvt Sale 4. Club.io $45,000 DomainBooth 5. ESN.co.uk £20,000 = $28,200 SamCharles.com 6. Evolution.io $27,500 MrPremium.com 7. YH.io $25,000 Park.io 8. GE.de €18,000 = $21,780 Sedo 9. Scout.vc €15,000 = $18,150 Sedo 10. DataHub.co $17,500 BuyBrands/Afternic 11.
tie Sand.kr $16,000 Sedo 11.
tie InStyle.co.uk £10,850 = $15,299 DomainLore.uk 13. Dragon.tv $15,000 Afternic 14. Pitch.vc $15,000 Sedo 15. OpenProject.eu €10,250 = $12,403 Sedo 16. Task.it €9,000 = $10,890 Sedo 17. Coders.io $10,000 Sedo 18. Dataiku.jp $9,800 Sedo 19. Psychotherapy.co.uk £6,200 = $8,742 DomainLore.uk 20. Acro.cn $8,500 Sedo CLICK HERE for our Year-To-Date Charts.
There were dozens of additional sales off the chart led by Sedo’s sales of Foods.cn at $8,000, Luckland.de at $7,260 and JW.to at $7,259.
Sedo had 34  more four-figure ccTLD sales ranging from $2,000 to $6,980 that are listed in the table below:
Additional Sedo ccTLD Sales from $2,000 to $6,980 identity.me $6,980 internetworld.ch $3,485 gostudent.nl $6,655 ifdq.de $3,466 diedrich.de $6,050 mein-event.de $3,168 european.ai $6,050 greencable.de $3,026 sk8.es $6,050 cryptoclub.de $3,025 sharenow.ch $5,990 easymining.de $3,025 bockshop.de $5,445 volu.co $3,025 dfinity.io $4,999 oneo.eu $3,024 possible.io $4,800 portugalreisen.de $3,001 happyflowers.de $4,538 palue.de $2,448 immo-tipp.de $4,235 buddyrider.de $2,420 mrcleaner.fr $4,235 online-bestattungen.de $2,420 foodfair.de $4,194 doctor.pe $2,300 uic.io $3,999 smi.io $2,200 sound.es $3,642 dynamite.io $2,000 frw.ch $3,618 invest.cl $2,000 apy.io $3,499 promos.io $2,000 Elsewhere, BuyBrands.com sold DevLabs.io for $2,195 and, in another transaction, they used Afternic to sell Olymp.io at the same price. DomainLore.uk also posted another sale, ringing up $1,840 for Raffle.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 and others, including new gTLDs)
The Non .Com gTLDs were limited to a trio of five-figure sales but the best of those, RightOfTheDot’s $52,500 sale of Organizations.org, is an especially notable one. That is the second biggest .org sale reported so far this year (the Non .com gTLD YTD Top 100 is the second chart on the page linked to) and the 3rd biggest non .com gTLD sale. It also, of course, tops our latest bi-weekly Non.Com gTLD Top 20 Sales Chart.
Just as the .io’s stole the spotlight on the ccTLD Top 20 Chart, the .xyz domains did the same in this category. Thanks to .xyz specialist Swetha Yenugula at DNGear releasing their April sales this week, .xyz was able to pile up nine entries on the leader board with #2 Genesis.xyz at $21,399 leading the way.
The always strong .orgs also showed up in a big way again, taking four of the top five chart entries and seven places overall. Sedo accounted for six of those .org sales, including a couple of nice 3-letter sales – ZEF.org and ZRI.org – at $8,800 apiece. Here is how all of the non .com gTLD sales stacked up for the two weeks ending ending Sunday, May 9, 2021:

Non .Com gTLD Top Sales Chart
Highest Reported Non .Com gTLD Sales – Mon. April 26, 2021 –  Sun. May 9, 2021
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect May 12, 2021))
Domain Sold For
Where Sold 1. Organizations.org $52,500 RightOfTheDot 2. Genesis.xyz $21,399 DNGear 3. Auto.biz $14,900 Sedo 4. PeoplePowered.org $9,000 Sedo 5.
tie ZEF.org $8,800 Sedo 5.
tie ZRI.org $8,800 Sedo 7. Protocol.xyz $8,000 DNGear 8.
tie BitcoinTrade.net $7,888 Sedo 8.
tie Split.xyz $7,888 DNGear 10. Investor.club $7,500 GoDaddy 11. Property.club $5,250 GoDaddy 12. Deca.xyz $5,001 Sedo 13. Statistics.org $5,000 Sedo 14.
tie Blox.xyz $4,995 DNGear 14.
tie Clubhouse.xyz $4,995 DNGear 16. StepTwo.org €3,899 = $4,718 Sedo 17. CHLB.org $4,500 Sedo 18. Soteria.xyz $4,000 DNGear 19. Chia.xyz $3,995 DNGear/Sedo 20. Proof.xyz $3,699 Sedo There were a dozen more four-figure sales off the chart led by DNGear’s sales of Undefined.xyz ($3,495), Lynch.xyz ($3,250) and Switchboard.xyz ($2,995). They also sold Tora.xyz for $2,750, Waterfront.xyz for $2,500 and NightShift.xyz for $1,000.
Back at Sedo, InfiniteCoin.net notched $2,800, Innovation.team tallied $2,799, Picked.net posted $2,499 and Pistachio.org cracked $2,053.
GoDaddy also got into the act with two more .CLUB sales – Performance.club and Trends.club – at $1,500 each.
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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