A look at six figure sales over the last 3 years

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Six figure sales

So far in 2019 we have had 50 reported sales of six figures or more, the highest of course being voice.com for $30,000,000.

If we remove the outlier sale of voice.com the other 49 sales have generated $18.3 million. 45 out of 50 have been .com sales. 4 seven figure sales. 31 of the 50 sales were 5 characters or less.

2018 saw 84 reported sales of six figures or more for a total of $28.8 million. 72 out of 84 were .com sales. 4 seven figure sales.

2017 saw 74 reported six figure sales for $27.6 million. 60 out of 74 were .com 6 seven figure sales

Data courtesy of Namebio

voice.com30,000,000 USD2019-05-30Private
california.com3,000,000 USD2019-01-20VIPBrokerage
eko.com1,500,000 USD2019-10-20Uniregistry
rx.com1,000,000 USD2019-07-30Sedo
nursing.com950,000 USD2019-06-09GetYourDomain
ol.com900,000 USD2019-01-28NamesCon
links.com797,361 USD2019-06-25Sedo
medidata.com600,000 USD2019-02-06Private
carrot.com565,000 USD2019-09-29Name Ninja
ij.com550,000 USD2019-11-03Phenom
gorilla.com496,320 USD2019-10-27RightOfTheDot
bettingodds.com487,867 USD2019-07-08Sedo
leads.com435,000 USD2019-01-28NamesCon
cooking.com402,500 USD2019-04-25Sedo
casinos.org400,000 USD2019-06-19Sedo
domainnames.com370,000 USD2019-01-28NamesCon
chaos.com350,000 USD2019-02-17HQBrokerage
free.games335,000 USD2019-05-26WebQuest
joyride.com300,000 USD2019-08-18Uniregistry
ncc.com300,000 USD2019-07-07VIP Brokerage
fora.com285,000 USD2019-07-14NameExperts
money.com.au280,000 USD2019-06-27Private
pff.com270,000 USD2019-06-09Pvt Sale
cumberland.com250,000 USD2019-03-25Pvt Sale
taxes.com250,000 USD2019-01-03Sedo
sexe.com231,223 USD2019-09-16Sedo
message.com195,000 USD2019-07-28CanvasMedia
crystals.com188,000 USD2019-06-27Sedo
viajes.es164,746 USD2019-07-09Sedo
glance.com160,000 USD2019-09-16Sedo
accidentattorney.com150,000 USD2019-04-14GoDaddy
mortgagerefinancing.com148,500 USD2019-06-09Warren Mae
gpa.com140,000 USD2019-02-17BQDN
snake.com135,000 USD2019-04-07BQDN
c5.com135,000 USD2019-02-03NameExperts
djs.com130,000 USD2019-01-28NamesCon
pay.com.au117,810 USD2019-07-07VPE Pty Ltd
import.com115,000 USD2019-05-26ApexMoon
gme.com115,000 USD2019-01-20BQDN
1992.com110,000 USD2019-03-31eName
stop.com110,000 USD2019-01-28NamesCon
bestdeals.com105,000 USD2019-08-04Uniregistry
skim.com105,000 USD2019-07-28CanvasMedia
crete.com105,000 USD2019-02-03VPN.com
rude.com100,000 USD2019-11-03Phenom
4t.com100,000 USD2019-08-18Afternic
katie.com100,000 USD2019-08-04Uniregistry
role.com100,000 USD2019-07-07BQDN
auer.com100,000 USD2019-06-18Sedo
yotta.com100,000 USD2019-04-18Sedo

About Raymond Hackney

Raymond is a writer, domain trader and consultant based in Pennsylvania. Raymond is the founder of 3Character.com and TLDInvestors.com.

Comments

    • VR says

      Who cares? All that matters is what’s reported, it’s like saying, oh the person who won the world’s strongest man contest well there is a stronger guy he just didn’t have the nads to compete.

      All that matters is what’s out there, it why guys like Berkens, Mann and Schwartz matter, they put their sales out there. People like Silver and Linton and the other wannabes mean jack.

      And that post on namepros was just stupid, nothing of any real information there.

  2. CZ says

    I just completed an 8 figure sale, wish I could say the name, but hey maybe I’ll start a blog and post that. I get instant credibility right?

  3. FD says

    I know of an employment related domain that was bought by my brother in law’s employer, that went for 350k. Private business, he said they’ll never report it. Sold first quarter this year, .com, more than one word, bought from inventory of an IT consulting company. I bet we can’t imagine the volume of sales that are never reported.

    • Snoopy says

      Escrow.com release data so we have a fair idea. A very big chunk of the unreported sales (perhaps 50%) would go through escrow.com. I suspect the entire market is maybe $600-800million per year, maybe 5x what gets reported.

  4. Andrew Hyde says

    I would think that these sales represent only a very small percentage of the actual sales. I have sold a few above 6 figures and each time they want to keep the sales numbers confidential. In the end, that may help keep prices down for the purchaser, but the guys that make real money in this industry know the value of what they have.

  5. El Agamirza says

    Regardless of the ratio of reported, 2019 at 50 after 10 month, projected to 60 over full year, is steep decline from 2018 (about 30% down).

    Consumers have too many choices at hand reg or premium annual renewals that confuses the heck out of them, so they just stick to the bad name they have or go on experimenting with names.

    I know a 100MM+ company that uses Brand+Location.com, but now is expanding beyond the location, so need another name. They could buy their exact brand .com for low xx,xxx$, but they are contemplating just using a handreg .co

    The biggest problem of this industry is low level of understanding, among business leaders, of matching domain importance for their brands in .com or their local cctld, or even choosing a great brand.

    It is always an afterthought.