Country code sales ticked up in 2019 versus the last two years. Over dollar volumes were slightly up, with the number of total sales up substantially vs 2018.
Average sale price was down vs 2018 by just under $700. Keeping the data balanced it’s important to note 2200 (2178 from whois.ai) .ai sales this year as Namebio started reporting a lot more sales from Whois.ai. 310 .ai sale were reported in 2018.
2017
5,885 Total Sales
$9.8m Dollar Volume
$1,664 Average Price
$237.5k High Price
2018
4,251 Total Sales
$9.8m Dollar Volume
$2,301 Average Price
$253.3k High Price
2019
6,086 Total Sales
$10.2m Dollar Volume
$1,669 Average Price
$280k High Price
Top 10 sales for 2019 Data courtesy of Namebio
| money.com.au | 280,000 USD | 2019-06-27 | Private |
| viajes.es | 164,746 USD | 2019-07-09 | Sedo |
| pay.com.au | 117,810 USD | 2019-07-07 | VPE Pty Ltd |
| 21.de | 89,857 USD | 2019-06-19 | Sedo |
| swipe.io | 68,000 USD | 2019-06-10 | Park.io |
| seereisen.de | 66,258 USD | 2019-04-25 | Sedo |
| ia.de | 62,234 USD | 2019-04-12 | Sedo |
| shopping.uk | 56,055 USD | 2019-08-11 | DomainOrder |
| it.de | 55,699 USD | 2019-06-27 | Sedo |
| smart.co | 52,820 USD | 2019-04-07 | Uniregistry |
Once you factor out the increased reporting from .ai is looks like a significant decline in both volume and value, down around 10%.
Both .co and .io saw larger falls also when split out, around 30%.
These are poor results considering the overall market saw a large volume and value increase, around 30% up. Having said that the “value” increase is mainly due to voice.com.
.CO has had alot of unreported six figure sales. its on FIRE
.com has had alot of unreported six figure sales. it’s always on fire.
Doesn’t mean anything, all extensions have unreported sales.
Agree that sales are still at quite high levels but the amount has been dropping significantly over the last two years.
It Means im a millionaire sitting on my boat about to ring in the new year and you are in your mothers basement eating parade macaroni out of a one use container screaming towards the stairs “mom are my underwears dry yet?”
List your millions in sales then. This sounds made up.
premium domain pricing destroys the value of the domain to the registrant. it would be as if the copyright office charged more for copyright of valuable works. harry potter books? look how valuable, well charge a million a year.
a ministerial business with a government ( or ICANN ) granted monopoly wants to skim off the value you created in a business.
its no wonder registrants are moving to get away from ant tld with premium name pricing. most ccTLDs have no premium pricing. if you make a .de name a valuable property it belongs to you not the .de registry to extort you
It isn’t really like those analogies. These registries paid a lot of money to “buy” those tlds and they can do what they like. The ntld program has run into the ground and nobody outside of the domain industry cares.
Different story for .org where PIR are just managers and never paid to acquire a whole extension.