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Sunny Days for Domains with $1.2 Million Sale Topping Latest Chart and $15.5 Million Deal for Chat.com Revealed

The last couple of weeks have been exciting ones for the domain aftermarket. Solid sales were already rolling in at the fastest clip we've seen this year when we broke the news Tuesday (April 16) about the historic $15.5 million price paid for Chat.com in 2023. That is the second highest publicly reported domain sale on record, trailing only Voice.com at $30 million (our all time Top 20 list is here). While that sale was a year ago, it is recent enough and jaw-dropping enough to open a lot more eyes to how extraordinarily valuable top tier domain names can be. 

Hilco Digital Assets Managing Director Andrew Miller and fellow pioneering domain 

broker Larry Fischer helped Hubspot Co-Founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah acquire Chat.com, a name that has now been placed at the top of the 2023 Top 100 Sales Chart in our Domain Sales Archive. There is another interesting note about that sale that wasn't in our story. Larry Fischer pointed out that this was the second time he was involved in the sale of Chat.com as he helped another buyer acquire the domain form CBS back in 2014! Andrew Miller (who will be profiled in the next DNJournal Cover Story), is also no stranger to sales at this level having had a hand in over $600 million worth of sales over the years.

Now let's look at some more good news - sales reported over the past two weeks. A $1.2 million sale of TP.com - the biggest publicly reported sale of the year to date - tops that list (as well as our latest all extension Top 20 Sales Chart). This is also the first seven-figure sale to be reported this year. TP.com is a huge upgrade for the buyer, digital services company Teleperformance. Elliot Silver at DomainInvesting.com was the first to break that news and Elliot also uncovered one of the three six-figures sales on our new chart - #4 Sandbagger.com at $100,000. Both of those sales were made through Afternic.

Sandwiched between those was a solid $275,000 sale of #2 Galatea.com by James Booth at DomainBooth.com and a $234,000 sale of #3 ALA.com that went through SquadHelp - the company naming and branding powerhouse that just rebranded itself to today as Atom, complete with a shiny new ultra premium web address at Atom.com.

While .coms swept the top four spots, the .ai ccTLD continues to be red hot, led this week by the $94,900 sale of Invent.ai reported by Namecheap. That was one of six .ai domains that crashed the Big Board. The ccTLDs got another impressive entry from a Irex.ca's CAD 76,557 ($55,121) sale of a Canadian beauty, #12 Buy.ca.

The non .com gTLDs were limited to two spots, both .orgs, but one of those, #6 Miami.org at $90,000, is one of the three biggest sales made in this category so far this year. It was yet another standout sale from Sedo Premium Broker Mark Ghoriafi who also holds the year's second biggest sale to date, regardless of category, in Bagels.com at $500,000 (it was the #1 sale prior to that TP.com blockbuster this week). 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

           By Ron Jackson

While .com has a lot more competition these days, the world's most popular TLD's reign as King of the Hill remains firmly intact. The .coms piled up 12 of the 21 chart entries overall. NameJet, SnapNames and SecretBrokerage.com were among those contributing to the .com cause (SecretBrokerage also took a dip in the .ai pool, joining CryptoExchange.com in closing the #19 sale of Baby.ai). 

Here is how all of the leaders stacked up for the two weeks ending Sunday, April 14, 2024:

The DN Journal Top 20 
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. April 1 - Sun. April 14, 2024
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect April 17, 2024)

 

Domain

Sold For

Where Sold

1. TP.com $1,200,000

Afternic

2. Galatea.com $275,000 DomainBooth
3.

ALA.com

$234,000 Atom (Squadhelp)
4. Sandbagger.com $100,000 Afternic
5. Invent.ai $94,900 Namecheap
6. Miami.org $90,000 Sedo
7. Akira.com $75,000 NameJet
8. LightBet.com $74,999 Sedo
9. Wallo.com $70,000 SecretBrokerage.com
10. Modu.com $63,088 SnapNames
11. Berg.com $62,500 SnapNames
12. Buy.ca CAD 76,557 = $55,121 Irex.ca
13. Masa.ai $54,000 Namecheap
14. Xash.com $39,000 Sedo
15.
tie
Doris.ai $35,000 Namecheap
15.
tie
PafiKotaBogor.org $35,000 Sedo
15.
tie
Vero.ai $35,000 Namecheap
18. Specter.com $33,000 Sedo
19. Baby.ai $32,500 SecretBrokerage.com/
CryptoExchange.com
20.
tie
CLO.ai $30,000 Namecheap
20.
tie
ZXO.com $30,000 Sedo

Keep in mind that these are the highest value cash only sales that have been reported to us in the past two weeks. 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.

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There were so many five-figure sales this time out we had enough to fill TWO charts and still have a dozen sales left over! Michael Mann's DomainMarket.com had the three highest sales just off the Top 20 Chart. Here is how the 32 additional sales at this level stacked up:

Domain Sold For Where Sold
FishingCo.com $29,888 DomainMarket
MetalBase.com $29,888 DomainMarket
VentureForge.com $29,888 DomainMarket
pokerplus.com $26,750 Sedo
weq.com $25,111 NameJet
nexys.com $25,000 Sedo
oremus.com $25,000 Sedo
kiffen.com $24,022 Sedo
booyah.com $22,724 SnapNames
FUD.io $22,000 DomainBooth
assepro.de $21,400 Sedo
1xm.com $21,170 Sedo
hotelnearby.com $20,000 Sedo
reg.de $20,000 Sedo
United States.ai $20,000 DomainBooth
VolunteerBank.com $20,000 Christain Calvin/Afternic
logcabin.com $19,850 NameJet
agentworkplace.com $18,600 Sedo
meinekreuzfahrt.de $16,050 Sedo
bizscout.com $15,000 Sedo
ContinentalSupply.com $15,000 DomainMarket
zaba.com $13,638 SnapNames
brighthealth.com $13,100 NameJet
alan.de $12,733 Sedo
specialplace.com $12,500 Sedo
Web3.bot $12,000 CryptoExchange.com
ghc.eu $11,126 Sedo
whfoods.com $10,669 NameJet
biopure.com $10,500 NameJet
identify.org $10,500 Sedo
giftwell.com $10,000 Sedo

.Com Supporting Cast

Sedo led the .com supporting cast of four-figure sales with ProfileTech.com at $9,900 and also scored with HighEndRealEstate.com at $9,588 and OKFun.com at $8,000. Ravek.com and Topikos.com tacked on $7,700 apiece while CGames.com garnered $7,500.

Sedo had 30 more four-figure .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $5,000 that are listed in the table below:

Additional Sedo .com Sales Between $2,000 - $6,900

myseum.com $6,900   facexpert.com $3,499
correctsolutions.com $6,420 phonehq.com $3,499
gptstudio.com $6,000 wpharmacy.com $3,499
searchad.com $6,000 askscore.com $3,000
afropa.com $5,500 dynaso.com $3,000
parenzana.com $5,000 oilfacts.com $3,000
tomsys.com $5,000 lanters.com $2,900
workinpoland.com $5,000 movingcanvas.com $2,888
rummy1.com $4,885 geoiceland.com $2,782
rummyone.com $4,885 aiprinciples.com $2,500
aldocozzi.com $4,500 bee-group.com $2,500
sangita.com $4,212 pensec.com $2,500
dotmobi.com $4,160 joyatwork.com $2,354
turkbankasi.com $3,880 concordiacapital.com $2,140
vertexsupply.com $3,699 realtyloans.com $2,000

Back at NameJet, WelcomeNepal.com went for $9,500, Petroleo.com produced $9,265 and Wolfs.com captured $7,588. Bonitas.com bagged another $7,350 and Porters.com provided  $6,264.

NameJet had 25 more four-figure .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $5,099 that are listed in the table below:

Additional NameJet .com Sales Between $2,000 - $5,000

benow.com $5,099   kleberg.com $2,525
funeralservices.com $5,005 alanbean.com $2,460
finegan.com $4,700 ironhand.com $2,405
norva.com $4,112 kumy.com $2,350
huffpostbrasil.com $3,899 aresta.com $2,261
flasports.com $3,800 lcms.com $2,255
wallpanels.com $3,580 gwap.com $2,210
cryptogate.com $3,544 commandercody.com $2,200
cognant.com $3,500 rickyjay.com $2,150
rivercreek.com $3,438 viceroyhotels.com $2,049
poetes.com $3,119 islandsun.com $2,040
luud.com $2,920 mandoweb.com $2,000
lngworldnews.com $2,650   

At NameJet's sister site, SnapNames, Nugo.com clicked for $9,056, GoldCash.com drew $6,750 and GTRNews.com reported $5,751. SnapNames had 16 more four-figure .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $5,556 that are listed in the table below:

Additional SnapNames .com Sales Between $2,000 - $5,556

cherrywood.com $5,556   qiva.com $2,843
porous.com $4,655 westernenergy.com $2,807
controlchaos.com $3,200 eliminatedebt.com $2,625
keyweb.com $3,199 boatfinance.com $2,527
chainforce.com $3,124 foldit.com $2,301
bioteca.com $3,099 floridahasarighttoknow.com $2,020
brightchoice.com $3,004 britishvolt.com $2,000
karon.com $2,938 edial.com $2,000

Elsewhere, DomainBooth.com banked $6,995 for RuneChain.com and $4,995 for BitcoinWire.com while CryptoExchange.com joined SecretBokerage.com to move SexExercise.com for $6,000 and Web3Productions.com for $4,999. CryptoExchange also sold TheFintech.com on their own for $5,291

...and we're not done yet!

Continue to Page 2 for the ccTLD and Non .Com gTLD Top 20 Charts and all other sales reported in those categories over the past two weeks.

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