Moniker has sold three domain names for over $100,000 each including two two-character .com domains.
The latest domain name sales report from DNJournal shows the domain name industry is ending the year with a bang, thanks in part to domain name company Moniker. The company brokered three domains for over $100,000 including Partners.com for $130,000, and FJ.com and TJ.com for $105,000 each.
Moniker has had a record year in 2006. It is now a top 10 registrar in terms of domains under management and oversaw the biggest live domain auction ever, tallying up over $5M in sales.
In other interesting domain sales news, domain name flippers should rejoice about the recent sale of Announce.com for $90,000. The seller of the domain had purchased it for only $5,000 a couple years ago according to DNJournal. There’s still ample opportunity to buy domains at wholesale prices and sell them to end users. It just requires some capital and the ability to hold onto domains for several years until the right buyer comes along.
eBay even got into the domain name sales action this week. A buyer chose “BuyItNow” to pick up SingleMen.com and SingleWomen.com in a package for $80,000. eBay usually isn’t a good venue for quality domain names.
A thread over at DomainState suggests that Candle.com sold for $390,000 recently to PetsUnited. The sale was briefly listed on Afternic’s sales page before being removed. The same thing happened on a previous sale to PetsUnited, Farm.com.
Brandon says
Not quite as good as the $3 million given for vodka.com recently, but I would be pretty happy with $100k.
Pete says
I would have to disagree on the comment on Ebay being a good venue for domain name sales.
Pete says
Let me correct my previous post. I disagree with the comments on Ebay. Ebay has been a good place to sell domain names for me.
Editor says
Pete, have you sold high dollar domains on eBay? I find that most of the domains there aren’t very good and it’s hard to find the good ones amongst the bad.
Pete says
I sold one domain last year on for a little over $2,000 and another for $750.00 both on Ebay.
I have bought one domain name on Sedo and enjoy that service – though I can’t sell anything over at that house unless someone makes an offer.
With Ebay’s domain auction service I can sell something within one day if I choose and find a buyer. Ebay also has a huge audience. Also I can sell a large domain name portfolio on Ebay.
Right now Sedo I think does not sell domain name portfolio’s. On Ebay you can sell one domain or huge amount of them all at once.
I also have bought one domain on Snap Names and like someone warned me – I was in an auction with myself over at Snap Names – the other bidder was my backorder at Godaddy.com! I had backordered the domain at Go Daddy. I got the domain for $60.00 the opening bid.