Dan.com has been acquired by GoDaddy it was announced this week. The acquisition, which appears to have been under discussion for some time brings Dan’s products and engine to the world’s largest domain name registrar and their 21+ million customers.
Following a couple of editions with some six figure sales, and one seven figure sale, the Domain Name Journal list of top reported sales was a trifle disappointing in the week to 8 June. The top reported sale was suzies.com, selling for $62,050 through GoDaddy/Afternic. Nice for the seller, but not so exciting for the rest of us!
Coming in second was tolo.com, which sold for $40,250 through MediaOptions and then interracialporn.com, which sold for $24,000 through HuntingMoon.
There were 17 .com sales in the top 20. The other three were one each for .org, .co.uk and .com.br, all in the top eight. While on the aftermarket side of things there were 11 sales through Sedo and six through GoDaddy/Afternic.
To check out the Domain Name Journal list of top reported sales for the week ending 8 June in full, go to:
dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2014/20140618.htm
Sex is always popular when it comes to domain name sales, and the sale of sex.xxx was no exception, selling for $3,000,000 through ICM Registry, becoming the third largest sale in the year-to-date and topping the Domain Name Journal chart in the two weeks to 1 June.
In second place was datacenter.com, which would have topped the charts itself in most weeks, selling for $500,000 in a private sale while lk.com came in third, selling for $287,500 in a sale that would also have topped the charts in most weeks, selling through Heritage Auctions.
The chart consisted of 41 sales being for two weeks and included 35 .com domains. There were also two each for .tv and .org and one each for .xxx and .de.
On the aftermarket side of things there were 14 sales through GoDaddy/Afternic, 13 through Sedo and eight through NameJet.
To check out the Domain Name Journal list of top reported sales for the fortnight ending 1 June, go to: dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2014/20140611.htm.
It appears Domain Name Journal took a week off compiling domain name sales, and back for the week ending 18 May the top reported sale was scada.com, selling for $110,000 through DomainNameSales, one of a trio of six-figure sales to top the chart.
The other two were vitaminc.com, which sold for $104,000 and credits.com, which sold for $100,000, both through Sedo.
There were 18 .com sales in total out of the top 20, with cloud.com.au and pj.net being the two exceptions.
And on the aftermarket outlet, there were eight Sedo sales and seven GoDaddy/Afternic sales.
To check out the Domain Name Journal list of top reported sales for the week ending 18 May, go to:
dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2014/20140528.htm
The autos.de domain topped the Domain Name Journal chart of top reported sales for the week ending 4 May, selling for a very handy â¬120,000 ($166,800) through Sedo, more double the second highest selling domain for the week, maimaiche.com, which sold for $80,000 through GoDaddy/Afternic.
Third was kalamata.com, which sold for â¬45,000 ($62,550) and then lolly.com ($50,000), both through Sedo.
Overall there were 17 .com sales, and one each for .de, .fr and .net. On the aftermarket outlets there were eight sales each through Sedo and NameJet and two through GoDaddy/Afternic.
To check out the Domain Name Journal chart of top reported sales for the week to 4 May, go to:
dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2014/20140514.htm
FlashCards.com was the top sale for the week ending 27 April, selling for $250,000 through Sedo to easily eclipse the second biggest sale on the Domain Name Journal chart, intensity.com, which sold for a handy $57,000 through Outcome Brokerage/Sedo and then tel.fr for â¬22,000 ($30,580) through Sedo.
Sedo had a nice week with a hand in 15 of the top 24 sales â there was a five-way tie for 20th place. But GoDaddy/Afternic also had a good week with the nine remaining sales.
There were 15 .com sales, three .de sales, two .net and one each for .fr, .info, .ch and .tv.
To check out the Domain Name Journal list of top reported sales for the week ending 27 April, go to:
dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2014/20140507.htm
In what may end up being the yearâs biggest reported sale, mi.com topped the Domain Name Journal weekly sales chart for the week ending 20 April, selling for $3.6 million in a private sale.
As could be expected, it dwarfed the second biggest sale, trade360.com, which sold for $42,500 through GoDaddy/Afternic and then a tie for third place with fun8.com and jsa.com selling for $25,000 through Sedo and GoDaddy/Afternic respectively.
There were 14 .com sales in the top 20 on the chart and interestingly three .club sales along with one each for .de, .ly and .net.
On the sales outlet, there were ten Sedo sales and eight for GoDaddy/Afternic.
To check out the Domain Name Journal chart of top reported sales for the week ending 20 April, go to:
dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2014/20140430.htm.
A trio of six-figure domain name sales topped the Domain Name Journal chart of top reported sales for the week ending 13 April, with gab.com topping the list, selling for $200,002 in a sale brokered by Sedo.
Coming in a very close second was youpay.com, selling for $200,000 through MostWantedDomains while sat.cn came in third, selling for CNY680,000 ($108,800) in a private sale. And in another significant sale, blow.com sold for $80,000 through DomainNameSales.
Overall Sedo brokered the sale of 11 of the top 21 (there was a three-way tie for 19th place) while GoDaddy/Afternic had five sales and CityAdvertising two.
On the TLD side of things, there were 16 .com sales and one each for .cn, .ca, .co, .co.uk and .de.
To check out the Domain Name Journal list of top reported sales for the week ending 13 April in more detail, see:
dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2014/20140423.htm.
Blacklist.com sold for a very handy $85,000 to be the biggest reported sale in the week ending 30 March in a private sale, according to the Domain Name Journal list of top reported sales.
Coming in second was like.it, selling for â¬55,000 ($75,900) through Nidoma while arwin.com came in third selling for $60,000 through DomainMarket/Sedo. There was also a fourth sale to top the $50,000 mark, with iacademy.com selling for $55,000 through GoDaddy/Afternic.
On the TLD side of things, .com was dominant, taking out 17 of the top 20 sales while there were two .it sales and one .de sale.
On the sales outlet, Sedo had a hand in seven of the top 20 sales, but they were beaten by GoDaddy/Afternic with eight sales including one sale they shared. NoktaDomains and Nidoma had two sales each.
To check out the Domain Name Journal list of top reported sales for the week ending 30 March in more detail, go to dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2014/20140409.htm.
The up and down world of the weekâs biggest sales continued in the week ending 23 March, with nm.org topping the Domain Name Journal chart of top reported sales, selling for $35,000 in a sale brokered by Sedo.
Second for the week was freespins.de, which sold for â¬20,000 ($27,600) in another Sedo sale while there was a tie for third between catterton.com and ntent.com, both selling for $25,000 through Go Daddy/Afternic and Sedo respectively.
Overall Sedo had another good week, brokering 12 of the top 20 sales while Go Daddy/Afternic had another six.
On the TLD side of things, there were 12 .com sales, three .de sales, two .net and one each for .org, .tv and .it.
To check out the Domain Name Journal list of top reported sales in more detail for the week ending 23 March, go to dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2014/20140402.htm.