2021 continues to be hot for domains – both in news and in sales.
GoDaddy Acquires .Club and 29 Other TLDs
After years of preferring to stick to the registrar side of the domain business, GoDaddy has continued its moves in the registry space with a pair of big acquisitions. It was reported that GoDaddy acquired the .Club top-level domain, in addition to other top-level domains including .Design and 28 others from MMX. Currently, .Club has over 1 million registrations.
.Club CEO Colin Campbell states that he will continue to support and promote the gTLD, even after its acquisition by GoDaddy.
Presumably GoDaddy will keep it’s registrar and registry teams separate from each other to avoid any conflict of interest issues.
Escrow.com Reports $110m is Domain Sales in Q1 2021
Anecdotally, 2021 has been off to a great start and now we have the Q1 Domain Investment Index Report from Escrow.com to prove it. Most domain sales aren’t reported publicly, so having a report like this from the largest domain escrow company is incredibly valuable. They reported $110m in domain sales vs around $80m in the same quarter last year.
As for noteworthy individual sales, on April 15th, it was announced that Angel.com sold for $2M, again demonstrating that single-word .com’s still reign supreme. The domain currently redirects to invest.angelstudios.com, a crowdfunding website that allows backers to support content they want.
At the end of March, Recursion.com sold for $904,000. This is the fourth biggest public domain sale of 2021. The domain now points to a biotechnology company website. Taking second place is SelfMade.com, a two-word .com domain that sold for just under a million, at $977,500 on March 17, 2021.
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