According to DNJournal first quarter 2010 sales report, total dollar volume was down 18% from same quarter 2009. While overall volume was down, the median sales price show a slight improvement over both 1Q-2009 and last 4Q-2009.
The median sales price reported in 1Q 2010 was $2,643 as compared to 4Q-2009 that number was $2,610 and 1Q-2009 it was $2,600. This suggest that the overall domain values have held up with slight improvement over the past 12 months.
Sedo has recently announced the sale of Gifted.com for $94,000. Gifted.com was purchased by The Hut Group, a company based in the United Kingdom. The Hut Group was founded …
Software.de recently sold through Sedo for 235,025 EUR, or about $315k USD. The new owner has not yet been disclosed, as the domain is still …
Toys.com was sold through Bankruptcy Auction for $5.1 million dollars in March, 2009.
If CreditScore.com was sold for more than $5.1 million dollars, it places the domain at the number one spot for domain sales in 2010 and makes it one of the highest domain sales, ever.
UsedAirplanes.com has purchased Flying.com for $1.1 Million.
The new owners of Flying.com are currently developing the site to be launched on June 1st, 2010. The website will be used to display used airplanes and aircraft from UsedAirplanes.com. Flying.com currently states that it is “in the process of developing the first community and social media based portal for flying.”
The website, MakeUp.com recently sold for a seven figure price to makeup company L’Oreal; the domain was transferred to L’Oreal USA Creative, Inc. in early March.
Personally I think the generic domain name sold relatively low.
L’Oreal is already one of the worldwide leaders in the makeup and beauty industry and acquiring this domain name will increase the success of an already successful company.
Morgan Linton founder of Linton Investments LLC has just announce the launch of, ccTLDInvestors.com, an online magazine dedicated entirely to investing in Country Code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs).
See my earlier post with top sales like Credit.fr $851,875 and Free-SMS.de for $162,150 already this year. In 2009 ccTLD sales doubled making it the quickest growing segment in the Domain Investing space.
Read more at ccTLDInvestors.com .
According to Ron Jackson at DNJournal, Moniker competed the sale of Guns.com for $800,000 March 10.
Guns.com is third followed by Poker.org and Credit.fr in biggest sale overall this year.
Poker.org $1,000,000
Credit.fr $851,876
PartySupplies.com $360,000
Biking.com $250,000
Boating.com $250,000
Metal.com $165,000
Free-SMS.de $162.150.
Website.de $141,610
When sex.com sold for a reported, but never confirmed, $14million back in 2006, everyone thought it was the end of a (very) long story.
After all this domain history is so complex that even a book has been written on it!
It looks like the story is not complete yet.
Sedo recently brokered the largest .org sale to date for A-1 National Advertising. Poker.org was sold to PokerCompany.com for $1 million. Prior to this, the highest sale of a .org was $198,000 for engineering.org, followed by sexe.org for $151,400.
The buyers of the domain, PokerCompany.com, are an affiliate marketing company who help acquire customers for many major poker rooms, casinos, skill game and betting companies on the internet. They also operate a number of other websites including: EveryPoker.com, InsideBet.com, Craps.net, Blackjack.org, Rakeback.org and Loyalty.net.
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