We’re kicking off the year with a list of brandable domain name sales for the first two weeks of 2019. We’re off to a great start with the top-grossing sale fetching a cool $68,000. The domain: FinalGoal.com which already resolves to some sort of football related site in Thai.
Here’s this week’s list:
(more…)Four years ago I compiled a list of the top 100 brandable domain name sales during 2014 which planted the seed for a weekly blog series on the highest, reported, brandable domain name sales all throughout 2015, 2016, 2017 and now 2018. Based on more than 1000 reported brandables sales this year I have once again compiled a list of the top 100 brandable domain name sales for 2018.
The criteria for inclusion in the list remain the same as previous years.
The 100 biggest sales this year account for $3,079,880 in sales compared to
$4,516,680 in 2017, $3,343,894 in 2016, $3,168,440 in 2015 and $2,989,652 in 2014.
Sedo is the dominating sales venue this year claiming 50% of all sales on the list with Uniregistry as the runner-up, accounting for 23% of sales. Unfortunately, Afternic, GoDaddy, Undeveloped and niche marketplaces such as BrandBucket and BrandRoot.com do not share sales data and sales made through platforms such as Efty remain private unless a seller decides to report a sale to DNJournal or NameBio.
Here’s this years list:
It was a solid week for brandable domain name sales with six domains fetching five-figure sales prices. The top grossing sale was Verway.com which sold for $16,950 via Sedo and is currently forwarding to Verway.ch which seems to be some sort of direct sales / MLM company.
Some names I like on this weeks list include Kanso.com and Potex.com which both already have been put to use by
Here’s last weeks list:
(more…)CannaCorp.com was one of my favorite domains that were up for auction last week and I knew there would be a lot of interest. The auction closed at $16,500 on Friday last week and the Whois currently shows “Afternic, LLC – On Behalf of Domain Owner” as the registrant. Sedo went on to take the four runner-up spots on the board with, what seems to be, all end-user sales.
Here’s this weeks list:
(more…)The top grossing brandable sale last week was that of eKing.com which sold to what seems to be a Chinese buyer for $28,000. I suspect it will a nice domain name upgrade for eKing Technology, a subsidiary of Shanghai-based tech giant HNA Technology that currently operates on the hyphenated eking-tech.com domain.
Here’s this weeks list:
(more…)The top grossing brandable sale last week was Payen.com which sold for a cool $28,250 at Sedo.com. The domain name is not resolving as of yet and the Whois is under privacy so it’s unclear who the buyer is as of today.
The high price tag for Tackk.com is because it was the domain of a high-traffic, EdTech platform which raised 1.8M in funding prior to shutting down in 2017.
Daniel Ben-Ezra sold BizzyBee.com for $5,000 via Efty.
Here’s this weeks list:
(more…)Brandable domain names had a stellar week with 8 sales reaching five figures. The top grossing sale with $20,050 was for the expired TopMall.com domain name. The domain name was previously developed in what seems to be some sort of e-commerce site from Saudi Arabia which might explain the high price it went for.
My favorite name on the list is WePower.com. The most obvious end-user is a blockchain-based green energy trading platform operating under the same name. The company completed an ICO at the beginning of the year, raising a significant amount of money but is currently still using a .network domain name for their website. As of today, it is not clear who the new owner of the domain name is.
Here’s this weeks list:
(more…)The top grossing brandable sale last week was Kiaro.com which sold for a cool $15,000 at Sedo. Not a bad price for a 5-letter
I have always liked 5-letter invented brandables, especially since my first sale as a domain name investor was that of Obria.com for $4,696
Here’s this weeks list:
(more…)It’s not often we see a four-keyword domain name making this list. But last week, CurryInAHurry.com sold for a spicy $9,000 at Sedo.com. The domain name has yet to resolve but the buyer is Pure Indian Foods Corporation, an online grocer that sells organic, Indian food.
Here’s this weeks list:
(more…)Let’s talk about Jobster.com – a domain name with a rich history in an industry I know well: online recruitment. Jobster was founded in 2004 by serial entrepreneur Jason Goldberg (who later founded Fab.com and blockchain platform OST) to take on the established players of that time such as Monster.com and CareerBuilder.com. The young founder raised a staggering $52.5M in funding for the company and went through a large number of pivots but the startup ended up being sold off to another HR Tech company in 2010 for a fraction of its previous valuation.
The site was neglected over the years and went completely offline around a year ago and more recently showed a “this domain name is expired” landing page from GoDaddy. When I saw the domain name appear on GoDaddy’s expired auctions list I pinged Jason on Twitter in case he wanted to buy back the domain name of his first startup. The domain name never made it to auction however as it was removed from the expired auction list which usually indicates that the owner renewed the domain name during its redemption period. I didn’t think much of it until I saw the domain name was sold for $200,000 via Sedo last week.
The majority of the Whois details of the new owner are private but there are some hints that the buyer is Dutch staffing company Young Capital. It will be interesting to see what they will do with the name.
Here’s this weeks list:
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