WebQuest bought the domain name as part of a $100,000 package; sold free.games for $335,000.
Last week DNJournal reported that free.games sold for $335,000.
I believe this is the highest new top level domain sale between a domain investor and a buyer. There have been larger public sales but they were directly between the registry and buyer.
Chad Wright of WebQuest sold the domain name. WebQuest has purchased many new top level domains and I see the company name showing up frequently in Whois on the best new TLDs combos.
I have confirmed that WebQuest originally purchased the domain from the registry as part of a three-domain package for $100,000. The domains were free.games, shooting.games and racing.games.
Wright said that he picked these names because they have high search volume. He thinks the domain could have sold for more.
“I knew this one could command a much higher price when the right time came,” he told Domain Name Wire. “Personally, I feel I sold it on the lower end of what it could have gone for but I need more Bitcoin.”
This buddy have a great new g portfolio.
Could you please share the link of his portfolio? I can’t find his website by searching on Google.
Wow
Sincerely,
Daniel
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The question is: Who among us would have been crazy enough to invest 100k in a new gtld and think we could still make a profit?
Congrats to Chad
And now you know where all the domain investor money has been going in the last few months, crypto.
Great sale, congrats to Chad!
Hi,
Thak you so much… Great Sale….
Well done Chad.
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We sold the second highest nTLD name at $300,000 : The.Club at https://www.brandaisy.com
Is there an update to this story?
All three domains have Uniregistry parking landers with sales inqury links on them and the whois data still shows that they are registered to Webquest.
it does not look like a sale was consummated, or if a payment plan is being used the buyer does not have control of the urls and the domains appear to still be available for purchase.