Top reported sale was Uber.org for $36,000.
GoDaddy Auctions tallied 38,841 domain name sales in December, according to preliminary numbers in the company’s Domain Market Report.
The top reportable sale was Uber.org for $36,000. Although the whois record does not yet reflect the buyer, a likely buyer is taxi/black car service Uber.
Here are the top ten reported sales for the month:
uber.org $36,000
supporter.com $35,000
personalcfo.com $29,000
squid.com $25,500
3dprinters.net $23,001
uchat.com $20,000
adata.com $15,000 (purchased by electronics company ADATA, which uses Adata-Group.com for its web address)
vipfinance.com $13,522
vipwoman.com $13,522
americanscholarships.com $12,995
58% of the domain names were sold via auction and 41% via “buy now” prices. A handful were sold by negotiation.
“Online” was by far the most common keyword found in the domain names sold.
3d printer names are going to go viral as this is an economically disruptive technology.