Video.games leads list at $183,000.
The list is led by Video.games, a domain name the company sold in February for $183,000. The buyer currently uses Whois privacy, but a historical Whois record shows that the buyer is likely an individual game developer in California.
Three names sold for at least $100,000, but some of Rightside’s sales aren’t included. Only five of its top ten sales are disclosed.
Notably missing from the list is 3D.software, which the company previously revealed sold for six figures.
The full list of revealed domains is below.
So, what does this data reveal?
It depends on how you look at it. On the one hand, all of these sales are good sales. On the other hand, it’s a relatively small number for 40 top level domains.
In fact, the list publicly released today only has names for 17 of the company’s 40 TLDs. Even if the names were evenly spread, there would be an average of just two per TLD.
17 of the names are in the .market top level domain, and most of the domains I checked are registered with Whois privacy at Epik.
15 unique buyers are responsible for the purchases, Rightside says.
Does the data show a robust market for premium new TLDs? Or are they merely “lottery ticket” sales that come from owning such a large portfolio of domains? I’m curious what readers think.
| Domain Name | Sale Price |
|---|---|
| video.games | 183000 |
| sex.live | 160000 |
| porn.live | 120000 |
| homes.forsale | 75000 |
| personalinjury.attorney | 60000 |
| for.sale | 50000 |
| art.market | 50000 |
| job.market | 50000 |
| caraccident.attorney | 50000 |
| auto.market | 40000 |
| accident.lawyer | 40000 |
| global.market | 40000 |
| organic.market | 35000 |
| luxury.market | 35000 |
| app.market | 35000 |
| insurance.market | 35000 |
| i.news | 35000 |
| local.market | 35000 |
| live.live | 25000 |
| finance.market | 25000 |
| medical.market | 25000 |
| stream.live | 20000 |
| church.live | 20000 |
| berlin.immobilien | 20000 |
| solar.engineer | 20000 |
| drug.rehab | 20000 |
| sex.forsale | 20000 |
| sex.social | 20000 |
| hollywood.live | 15000 |
| design.studio | 15000 |
| energy.market | 15000 |
| flower.market | 15000 |
| the.market | 15000 |
| meat.market | 15000 |
| fish.market | 15000 |
| bitcoin.market | 15000 |
| furniture.market | 15000 |
| ferien.haus | 15000 |
| houses.forsale | 15000 |
| wetter.live | 15000 |
| irish.pub | 15000 |
| neworleans.attorney | 15000 |
| edu.video | 15000 |
| hamburg.immobilien | 15000 |
| water.engineer | 15000 |
| accident.attorney | 15000 |
| injury.lawyer | 15000 |
| porn.reviews | 15000 |
| dot.market | 10000 |
| koeln.immobilien | 10000 |
| stuttgart.immobilien | 10000 |
| adult.reviews | 10000 |
| wrongfuldeath.attorney | 10000 |
The data simply means that the registries make the bigger sales, not domainers.
Registry sales of their ‘best of breed’ keyword matches to new gtlds does not show a robust market for all new gtlds. These are category killer terms and there is a very limited supply of such names.
The one I’m most surprised by is .market, but most of those domains appear to have been purchased by the same person.
Some of the “market” ones are quite weak and undesirable imo.
Are these ‘sales’ legit? AutoMarket.com could very likely be bought for $40,000 right now. The timing is suspect, March 2017 brought a lot of negative attention to the .pigeon s*** new gTLDs. Suddenly, Q2 2017 these random sales a reported, even though the dot-Com equivalent could probably be had at similar or reasonable price?
…I’m not convinced.
They are legit. Rightside is a public company. They’d be in a heap of legal trouble if they reported false data.
Thanks for that confirmation Andrew.
With that said, you should revisit this thread 6-12 months from now to see if any commercial websites have been launched on these locations. I don’t see end users paying dot-Com money to park these sites,especially with the volatility in renewal prices.
We shall see…
what was the cost of making these sales that is the question.
what would have been the cost for a domain investor to make sales like that, that is another question.
It’s nothing but a big no-brainer. The best are considered worth something, and the registries tend to keep them for themselves to sell for big bucks. In some cases the speculation goes a bit overboard, so some weak ones get sold for more than you would expect.
Just another attempt to prop up a failing market, most domainers already know the game is up.
This is really feeling like a crash and burn scenario. That’s all the big sales they got for all these years now? That’s across 40 extensions.
I think this is the calm they are trying to create before the big storm blows their barn down.