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A Look at the Top Sales of 2021 So Far

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Earlier this year we wrote that 2021 might just be the best year ever for domain name sales and we see no reason to believe that won’t be the case. There have been a number of high profile publicly announced sales, but most sales are still private. The largest sale of the year was probably Home.com and Ass.com reportedly sold for $6m. Just in the past week we’ve learned of several private sales that might have placed in the top 10 if they were public: Front.com, Universal.com, Bulletin.com, and Cool.com all were reportedly sold. Single word .com domains are the hottest segment of the market.  It’s been a long time coming, but companies have recognized the value of having the best possible domain.

Here are the top 10 public sales reported by DNJournal:

Christmas.com    $3,150,000
The domain has been developed into a holiday and seasonal decor site.  Currently it features decor for the 4th of July.
  
Angel.com    $2,000,000
Angel.com is a crowd funding site for family friendly TV, web shows and movies.

Exodus.com    $1,945,000   
Exodus.com is now a crypto wallet allowing you to send, receive and exchange various forms of crypto.

Meme.com    $1,250,000
Meme.com is still under development, but it promises to be the “first project that builds a platform to measure the value of memes, using different crypto incentives that help fund meme creators.”
 
eBike.com    $1,008,900
eBike.com currently forwards to Bosch.com.  Bosch, a huge multinational company, makes ebike systems among many other things.  Perhaps they are going to move further into the space?
 
SelfMade.com    $977,500
STOFF & STIL bought SelfMade.com and it looks as though they are going to rebrand.  They are a large chain of European “do it yourself” stores.
   
Recursion.com    $904,000
They describe themselves as “a clinical-stage biotechnology company decoding biology by integrating technological innovations across biology, chemistry, automation, data science and engineering to industrialize drug discovery.”  A great name and some lofty goals.

GoBet.com    $850,000   
Nothing here yet.

Tattoo.com    $812,000
Currently a lifestyle site focused on tattoos, tattoo artists, and music.
   
Poker.net    $750,000
Just a parked page right now.

If you’re looking to upgrade to a one word .com domain, we recommend working with a domain broker.  

Free.Games Tops Recent New TLD Sales

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While .com domain name sales still rule the top of the charts in terms of volume and value, for example, Nursing.com reportedly sold for $950,000 just last week and Voice.com is making headlines over the past few days with it’s $30 million dollar sale, don’t count out new TLDs. New TLD domains that exact match valuable terms like ‘home.loans’ or ‘vacation.rentals’  have reportedly sold for large amounts and while these big sales are less frequent, they are worth making note of. Here are a few recent headline making sales:

Free.games @ $335,000 USD on 2019-05-26

This sale made headlines in the domaining industry recently as one of the biggest new TLD sales reported publically to date.

Business.club @ $60,936 USD on 2019-04-2

The domain doesn’t currently resolve to a functioning website, but has potential to be used in any business-related endeavours.

Swipe.io @ $68,000 USD on 2019-06-10

Technically, .io is a country code TLD, but this is still noteworthy. We’ve previously commented on the rising interest in .ai and .io domain names.

Going back a bit further, these two sales also made headlines when announced:

Home.loans @ $500,000 USD on 2018-01-21

This record sale was reported in 2018, and the domain now points to a website aimed at helping customers with, unsurprisingly, home loans.

Vacation.rentals @ $500,300 USD on 2017-12-04

Topping the charts at just over half a million USD, this domain now points to a website geared towards vacation rentals.

Not bad at all!

As an aside, DomainAgents is a privacy-based platform and thus maintains confidential domain name sales figures and records, so you won’t often see sales we’ve made made public.

Voice.com Domain Sold for $30M!

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What a month for domain name sales! MicroStrategy, a publicly traded company, has just announced that they have sold Voice.com to the startup company Block.one for $30 million.

Block.one says they acquired the clearly valuable domain name to use as “a blockchain-based social media application” that will be free of bots and the other ills that plague established social networks like Twitter and Facebook. The website on Voice.com is already live and you can request beta access to their new social network.

To our knowledge, this is one of the highest domain name sales to date, with PrivateJet.com selling for $30.18 million and Tesla.com being acquired for $11 million.  What’s also notable about this acquisition is that it is a cash deal. Often large deals such as this involve stock or creative payment terms.

While this deal is making headlines inside and outside of the domaining world, most record breaking sales are never reported due to NDAs or one of the parties not being interested in the publicity.  Microstrategy appears to be using this sale as a way to drum up interest in their other premium domain holdings like Strategy.com and Hope.com, and Block.one is obviously interested in getting as much attention as possible for their new site.

One reason that buyers use DomainAgents is that we allow both parties to negotiate confidentially. If you’re looking to make your own stealth acquisition, we’re happy to help.