Most Expensive Reported Domain Name Sales in The First Half of 2014

MI.com was the biggest domain name sale in the first half of 2014,based on the data from DNJournal. MI.com was sold for an impressive $3,6 million.

Sedo, eName/ .CN Registry Auction and DomainNameSales brokered most of the big-value domain name sales in the first half of 2014.Compared to the same period a year ago, sales slightly increased. In the first half of 2013, the top 40 domain name sales add up to a total of $22 million, while in the first half of 2014 the top 40 domain name sales add up to a total of $25 million.

One thing hasn’t changed : .COM was and still is the most popular TLD,accounting more than 50 percent of all TLD sales.

Here are the 40 biggest domain name sales in the first half of 2014:

1. MI.com     $3,600,000
2. Whisky.com     $3,100,000
3. Sex.xxx     $3,000,000
4. Youxi.com     $2,430,000
5. 37.com     $1,960,800
6. MM.com     $1,200,000
7. 100.com     $950,000
8. Wan.com     $800,000
9. Teamwork.com     $675,000
10. Game.cn     $512,307
11.tie     DataCenter.com     $500,000
11.tie     Mobile.net     $500,000
13. Symphony.com     $375,000
14. True.com     $350,000
15. Malls.com     $320,000
16. LK.com     $287,500
17. Accommodation.com     $286,000
18.tie     FlashCards.com     $250,000
18.tie     BitcoinWallet.com     $250,000
20. Wan.cn     $247,830
21. Mob.com     $220,000
22. DL.com     $210,689
23. Gab.com     $200,002
24. YouPay.com     $200,000
25. LB.cn     $176,000
26. LGG.com     $175,000
27. Autos.de     $166,800
28. One.cn     $160,640
29. Shop.cn     $160,320
30. LIU.com     $155,688
31. CornerstoneHomes.com     $150,000
32. ME.cn     $147,200
33. Kaffee.de     $136,000
34. AI.cn     $130,560
35. 0060.com     $120,848
36. BOE.com     $120,000
37. Scada.com     $110,000
38. SAT.cn     $108,800
39. 106.com     $107,000
40.     VitaminC.com     $104,000
41.tie     MEH.com     $100,000
41.tie     Liao.com     $100,000
41.tie     Credits.com     $100,000
41.tie     QY.com     $100,000
41.tie     DDOS.com     $100,000

June 2014 Highest Reported .COM Domain Name Sales

MM.com was the highest selling .COM domain name in June 2014. MM.com changed hands for $1,2 million through Sedo.

Here are the top 20 biggest .COM domain name sales in June 2014:

1. MM.com $1,200,000

2. Symphony.com $375,000

3. Mob.com $220,000

4. MEH.com $100,000

5. Suzies.com $62,050

6.BigSale.com $50,000

7.AutoAssurance.com $42,500

8.Tolo.com $40,250

9.1346.com $38,000

10.Weights.com $36,500

11.RoyalFortunes.com $35,000

12.MyLifebox.com $27,500

13.BMH.com $27,200

14.Sozcu.com $27,000

15.MySex.com $25,000

16.InterracialPorn.com $24,000

17.tie HotelNews.com $20,400

17.tie JobBoerse.com $20,400

17.tie Healthspark.com $20,000

17.tie GardenHotel.com$20,000

20.PuzzleRings.com$18,000

Mobile.co Sells for $238,000

According to Chadi B. Ghaith, the domain name Mobile.co was sold for a whopping $238,000. The announcement was made on Chadi’s Facebook page.

According to whois records, the domain name was first registered in 2010.Current Whois records shows Lawrence Darwish of Urbbana as the new owner.

Congratulations to both the seller and the buyer.

New gTLDs Stroll Past 1.5 Million Registrations With .XYZ Taking One In Five

The 1,500,000th registration of a domain name under one of the new gTLDs happened in the last few days, probably last Friday, although exactly when is hard to pinpoint on newTLDstats.com daily update.

Currently total new gTLD registrations are showing at 1,517,747 with around one in five (301,627 – 19.87%) of these being .xyz registrations. Just on registrations, the second most successful new gTLD has been .berlin, which now has 136,943 domains under management, or 9.02 percent of all new gTLDs.

Both of these new gTLDs have had differing promotions that have been extremely successful at getting them initial registrations. Network Solutions has run a promotion for .xyz where their .com registrants received the equivalent .xyz domain for free, resulting in Network Solutions being responsible for 232,685 of the gTLD’s DUM, or over three-quarters (77.14%) of the total.

The .berlin gTLD ran a successful promotion itself with a limited number of registrars where the maximum fee charged per domains was €5.55, with some even giving away domains. After three days of the promotion, DUM had jumped almost 90,000.

According to the latest nTLDstats.com statistics, the third most popular of the new gTLDs is .club with 83,003 DUM, followed by .guru (65,137) and then .photography (40,603).

These are the only gTLDs with over 40,000 registrations. There are a total of 13 of the new gTLDs with over 20,000 registrations, 29 with more than 10,000, 62 with more than 5,000 and 137 with more than 1,000.

Overall there appears to be 152 of the new gTLDs that have entered General Availability and 322 that have been delegated. There are 28 registries responsible for the new gTLDs and 161 registrars that are accepting registrations for at least one of the new gTLDs with GoDaddy being the largest with 286,069 domains registered through it.