Author: Doron Vermaat

The top-grossing brandable sales that was reported last week was that of HelpWare.com which sold for $35,000 at DomainMarket.com. The buyer is Helpware, an outsourcing company that builds customized teams in customer support and back-office for modern companies. The company is currently using a .io domain name for its website but it’s likely they will be upgrading to the matching .com soon.

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I took a bit of a break from the blog as we’re very busy prepping our family for a big move. More on that later. Meanwhile, I hope everyone is doing well amid recent events. I connect with domain name investors on a daily basis and I am pleased to see the majority of them have been doing well and are seeing plenty of activity and strong results over the past few months.

We have a pretty juicy list today with twenty five-figure sales that were reported during the last four weeks.

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GoDaddy Auctions dominates this week’s list and charts five sales in the five-figure range. The top sale, however, goes to DropCatch where Tema.com sold for $43,805 in a second auction. The domain name was sold for $128,938 on May 13th but the winning bidder did not pay for the auction, and the domain name was reauctioned. The 2nd highest sale was that of Raptr.com, an expired domain that had a winning bid for $39,500. Raptr was a social-networking website and instant messenger for gamers. The service was shut down in 2017. Now, it is not sure if the domain name was renewed by the previous owner as a new landing page went up on the domain stating “Raptr.com will be back shortly “.

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Rumour has it that Keith deBoer might return with a regular brandable review in podcast format. I’ve always loved Keith his insights and commentary around brandable domain names and I am excited about the prospect of hearing him share his thoughts around recent sales, pricing, and current trends.

With Uniregistry having stopped reporting their sales data it’s not uncommon to see more than half of the domains on this list are investor purchases. I’d say you have to be AlmostFearless.com to pay $11,251 for EvolveX.com, what do you think?

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“Investors are paying end-user prices”. I’ve heard it over and over again since I started publishing this list. For years now, many have been saying that prices at auction are unsustainable and leave little margin for a profitable investment strategy. Clearly, outbidding everyone else must be working for some deep-pocketed investors as they have been doing it for years on end. Looking at the list below, at least four domains were purchased by the same investor. The same investor that also won CodingSchool.com for $43,000 in the same week.

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The top-grossing brandable sale from the last couple of weeks is that of the expired domain name WebMonkey.com which went for a whopping $65,500 at auction at NameJet.com. Now, animal names always have been in high demand among brandable domain name investors but the reason this one went so high is that in a previous life, Webmonkey.com was a popular online tutorial website composed of various articles on building webpages. The site covered many aspects of developing on the web like programming, database, multimedia, and setting up web storefronts and according to Ahrefs, the domain has 280,582 backlinks from 11,539 referring domains.

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The top-grossing brandable sale was an expired domain that closed at GoDaddy Auctions for a cool $64,500. The acronym doesn’t have any significant meaning as far as I know and there are only a few obvious end-users out there, including a German toy manufacturer and a health-tech startup based out of Costa Rica. Another noticeable sale of a CVCV domain was that of Zuji.com which went for $16,050 at DropCatch. Now Zuji is a company I know well because it used to be one of the larger online travel agencies in the Asia Pacific region and I remember booking a few holidays through their website in the past. According to this article in the SCMP, the company got into trouble in 2019 and lost its license.

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Sedo is dominating the leaderboard by taking the top 3 grossing brandable sales this week. They are however the only sizable marketplace that is currently reporting sales data after Uniregistry stopped doing so the moment the announcement of their acquisition by GoDaddy came out. The top sale of the week is that of Aqualand.com which sold for a cool $25,000. The domain name hasn’t changed nameservers yet but I have reasons to believe the buyer is Australian-based property developer Aqualand. FoodCrowd.com is a BrandBucket name which sold through their partnership with Sedo.

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For now, it seems that there’s still plenty of cash being pumped into domain name acquisitions by both investors and end-users. The two top-grossing sales are both typo domains (for social media juggernaut Instagram and department store retail chain Kohl’s) that will most likely be used for monetization through PPC or affiliate marketing. Risky business.

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