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Your domain name is your brand. One word .Com sales continue to grow in 2018 and in 2019 already with two reported sales breaking seven figures this year Chocolate.com and California.com. Below is a list of the top 20 one word .Com sales that were reported last year. This is just a small sampling of transactions that are happening, most high profile domain sales remain under NDA.
In 2018 Ice.com was the top sale, an acquisition by the Intercontinental Exchange. Several crypto and cannabis related sales trending along with body, comfort and positive brand domains. Almost all of the names on in the top 20 sales from last year are in use which is a strong indicator for the demand based on results for one word .Coms. Industry experts for the most part all agree that the best scarce, short and descriptive .Coms are still undervalued and are great investments.
Digital assets such as premium domains are perhaps the most important investment a business organization or individual can make. Some interesting testimonials to that can be found here, here and here. Also recommend this article by Alan Dunn that highlights 100 more companies that get domains.
2018 Top (reported via NameBio.com) Domain Name Sales
Ice.com $3,500,000
Super.com $1,200,000
Great.com $900,000
Files.com $750,000
Liquid.com $750,000
Christian.com $600,000
Inception.com $550,000
Sleeping.com $502,225
Snoring.com $502,225
Kush.com $500,000
Tokens.com $500,000
Plants.com $450,000
Pain.com $399,999
Inspection.com $335,000
Strength.com $300,001
Signet.com $300,000
Calculator.com $250,899
Gab.com $220,000
Hybrid.com $190,000
Deposit.com $170,000
Hi Insiders!
As part of our service, we run a weekly newsletter that goes out to 2000 targeted and active domain buyers. There are not only domain investors subscribed to our mailer but many digital marketers and entrepreneurs as well. We are seeking quality and aggressively priced inventory to run in our weekly newsletter. While we do offer premium domain brokerage and sell top names for retail prices, that is not what we are calling for in this post.
Types of names we are looking to market via newsletter brokerage:
Short .coms priced to sell: three letter (LLL), pronounceable or western premium four letter (LLLL) and in some cases brandable 5-6 letter .coms
One word domains: .COM preferred but we will consider one words in .ORG/NET/IO as well. If you have a really good ngTLD that does not have premium renewal and is priced aggressively you can send that as well. Please do not send long lists of non .com domains.
Exceptional Two Word .COMs - We're looking for two words with high search volume, CPC and/or exceptional brandability. We will also consider niche .com portfolios (ie..cannabis, blockchain, gambling, etc)
Inventory you send in should ideally be priced between $2k - $25k depending on quality. Please send domains that are priced. You must own the names be willing to let us market them for at least a month.
** Submit domains with best possibly pricing! Our newsletter is a great way to sell your liquid assets for fair prices but we are not looking for retail priced submissions here **
E-mail michael (at) qeip dotcom
LLL .com names are the cornerstone of many domain investor portfolios. This is because they have been extremely liquid, highly sought after assets which have experienced considerable appreciation over the last decade.
QEIP is very active in the LLL .com/.net market, and currently represents over 100 three letter domains. We felt it would be informative to examine some of the LLL .COM sales in 2018. *It is important to note that we are only using sales data reported by NameBio.com in this posting. NameBio.com is a great tool but it only reports a small fraction of total domain sales that occur. As an example, we have been a part of 6 figures of three letter .com sales this year which are under NDA.
All disclaimers aside, it is good to analyze sales data that is available. Below is a list of all 90 LLL .com sales that were reported to NameBio in 2018. There are only four names that are actual dictionary words, including the massive ice.com sale which is a pretty big outlier. Here are some statistics on 2018 three letter .COM sales:
LLL .com incl *words - $8,411,665 total sales / 90 sales / avg sale $93,463 / median $28,800
LLL .com w/o *words - $4,436,665 total sales / 86 sales / avg sale $51,589 / median $27,000
Some other interesting observations to note:
- Domains ending in ‘X’ are very hot! They appear 7 times above the median sale priceand only once below (actually twice but it was the same domain,Vqx which was purchased in June and resold for almost $3k profit in August).
- 11 of the top 20 domains reported in this list are already being utilized by end users, of those 3 are being used as cryptocurrency trading platforms (Ice, Hpx, Emx).
*Ice.com $3,500,000 Jul/2018
Dax.com $500,000 Feb/2018
Nwm.com $325,000 Jul/2018
Een.com $300,000 May/2018
*Gab.com $220,000 Sep/2018
Dxb.com $220,000 Jan/2018
Urw.com $195,000 May/2018
*Can.com $155,000 Jan/2018
Fxt.com $150,000 Aug/2018
Wjx.com $150,000 Mar/2018
Cpu.com $140,000 May/2018
Nbx.com $130,000 Jul/2018
Hpx.com $130,000 Jan/2018
Flo.com $127,258 May/2018
Ila.com $125,000 Aug/2018
Emx.com $120,000 Mar/2018
*Ore.com $100,000 Dec/2018
Wsb.com $85,000 Jun/2018
Nfc.com $77,507 Oct/2018
Ntd.com $75,000 Dec/2018
Osl.com $72,000 Mar/2018
Kug.com $60,000 Feb/2018
Amz.com $57,000 Aug/2018
Ocx.com $50,000 Feb/2018
Maq.com $49,999 Aug/2018
Btm.com $48,605 Jul/2018
Vrk.com $48,440 Apr/2018
Cpx.com $44,700 Feb/2018
Kul.com $43,143 Mar/2018
Scu.com $40,000 Jun/2018
Wsb.com $40,000 Feb/2018
Rfq.com $37,000 Dec/2018
Rhd.com $35,000 Aug/2018
Boj.com $35,000 Jan/2018
Dpn.com $32,220 Aug/2018
Rxs.com $32,200 Aug/2018
Zwz.com $32,200 Feb/2018
Qwe.com $31,400 Jun/2018
Cxp.com $31,000 May/2018
Bey.com $31,000 Feb/2018
Yon.com $31,000 Jan/2018
Ixa.com $30,767 Mar/2018
Ebf.com $30,500 Aug/2018
Ggn.com $29,000 Dec/2018
Bjn.com $29,000 Jan/2018
Oys.com $28,800 Apr/2018
Pfp.com $28,600 Sep/2018
Mvc.com $28,000 Jan/2018
Dkm.com $27,500 Sep/2018
Wzm.com $27,000 Mar/2018
Wxt.com $26,750 May/2018
Krc.com $26,000 Sep/2018
Rxj.com $25,715 May/2018
Daz.com $25,500 Dec/2018
Lzk.com $25,500 Sep/2018
Njd.com $25,322 May/2018
Nzd.com $25,000 Nov/2018
Zdn.com $25,000 Sep/2018
Nbd.com $25,000 Sep/2018
Cyn.com $24,950 Aug/2018
Kga.com $24,550 Jun/2018
Rqd.com $24,500 Mar/2018
Syv.com $23,000 Apr/2018
Imk.com $23,000 Jan/2018
Jld.com $22,792 Sep/2018
Cwr.com $22,665 Dec/2018
Rkl.com $22,500 Sep/2018
Iyb.com $22,000 Feb/2018
Xnk.com $21,000 Dec/2018
Iaw.com $20,501 Aug/2018
Yal.com $20,500 Oct/2018
Tiw.com $20,000 Nov/2018
Uen.com $17,600 Nov/2018
Eum.com $17,400 Dec/2018
Yzk.com $17,000 Jul/2018
Iez.com $16,600 Sep/2018
Yig.com $16,100 May/2018
Huv.com $16,100 Mar/2018
Pxo.com $16,000 Nov/2018
Azh.com $15,000 Dec/2018
Nqi.com $15,000 Apr/2018
Ojv.com $14,500 Sep/2018
Dqo.com $14,500 May/2018
Vqx.com $14,230 Aug/2018
Kju.com $14,100 Sep/2018
Vju.com $13,500 Sep/2018
Uzy.com $13,400 Jun/2018
Vqx.com $11,578 Jun/2018
Zuj.com $11,473 Dec/2018
Zsv.com $11,100 Jan/2018
For premium domain investors and owners, please look over top past one word .com domain sales to see how qeip can help you to make the most money through our innovative domain brokerage services.
#DOMAIN NAME SOLDSALE PRICENEW REGISTRANT (DOMAIN BUYER)SALE DATE
1. hotels.com - $11,000,000Hotels.com GP LLCSeptember 2001
2. fund.com - $9,999,950Gentile, PhilipMarch 2008
3. fb.com - $8,500,000Facebook, Inc.September 2010
4. diamond.com - $7,500,000ATTN DIAMOND.COMMay 2006
5. beer.com - $7,000,000Thought Convergence, LLCJanuary 2004
6. casino.com - $5,500,000Mansion Limited of GibraltarNovember 2003
7. slots.com - $5,500,000Bodog MediaJune 2010
8. toys.com - $5,100,000DNS MASTERMarch 2009
9. korea.com - $5,000,000Korea.com Communications Co., LtdJanuary 2000
10. clothes.com - $4,900,000Domain AdministratorJanuary 2008
11. yp.com - $3,850,000Yellow PagesNovember 2008
12. shop.com - $3,500,000Hunt, VinceNovember 2003
13. wine.com - $3,300,000 Tomaszewski, WilliamSeptember 2003
14. software.com - $3,200,000Software.com Holdings Pty LimitedDecember 2005
15. loans.com - $3,000,000Bank of AmericaJanuary 2000
16. candy.com - $3,000,000Greg BalestrieriJune 2009
17. vodka.com - $3,000,000Russian Standard CoDecember 2006
18. wines.com - $2,900,000Wilferd, JacklynJuly 2004
19. creditcards.com - $2,750,000CCRD Operating Company, Inc.June 2004
20. pizza.com - $2,605,000National A-1 AdvertisingApril 2008
21. social.com - $2,600,000Salesforce.comJuly 2011
22. tom.com - $2,500,000Director of Investigation and Development CenterDecember 1999
23. Investing.com - $2,450,000Fusion Media LimitedNovember 2012
24. coupons.com - $2,200,000Coupons.com IncorporatedJanuary 2000
25. autos.com - $2,200,000Hoover, ChuckDecember 1999
26. england.com - $2,000,000World Media Group, LLCDecember 1999
27. express.com - $2,000,000One Limited ParkwayMarch 2000
28. telephone.com - $2,000,000Itani, AymanJanuary 2000
29. savings.com - $1,900,000Savings.com LLCFebruary 2003
30. seniors.com - $1,800,000YouMuJune 2007
31. mortgage.com - $1,800,000CitiBankMarch 2000
32. dating.com - $1,750,000Harlequin Holdings LimitedJune 2010
33. auction.com - $1,700,000Real Estate Disposition, LLCMarch 2009
34. datarecovery.com - $1,659,000Carmitchel, BenjaminMarch 2008
35. branson.com - $1,600,000Milton, LarryJune 2006
36. ticket.com - $1,525,000StromboliOctober 2009
37. tandberg.com - $1,500,000ASA, TandbergFebruary 2007
38. cameras.com - $1,500,000Domains, CameraNovember 2006
39. deposit.com - $1,500,000Domain DiscreetFebruary 2000
40. fly.com - $1,500,000 -Travelzoo Inc.November 1999
41. marketingtoday.com - $1,500,000DeLegge, PeterSeptember 2005
42. russia.com - $1,500,000Private, RegistrationDecember 2009
43. vip.com - $1,400,000Safenames LtdDecember 2003
44. men.com - $1,320,000Men.com LLCFebruary 2000
45. photo.com - $1,250,000PHOTO.COMMay 2010
46. vista.com - $1,250,000VistaprintNovember 2007
47. feedback.com - $1,230,000Idealab!February 2003
48. find.com - $1,200,000Generation Zero Group, Inc.March 2004
49. phone.com - $1,230,000Ari RabbanFebruary 2003
50. kredit.de - $1,169,175Daniel KirchhofNovember 2008
Here at qeip, we stress our ability to sell premium one word domains to companies. As proof of the demand for such domains by companies, we have compiled a list of companies with the premium domains they own which correspond with the products that they sell. We do so to show that there is a real strategy for companies to acquire premium domains for branding purposes in addition to bring about trust in the owners of premium domains that we represent. Format of [(Company) - (Domain Owned 1)/(Domain Owned 2) etc.]
1800 Contacts - Contacts.com / EyeCare.com / Glasses.com
A&E - History.com
A&W - RootBeer.com
American Express - Open.com / Serve.com
AOL - Advertising.com / Flipper.com / Games.com / Love.com / Seed.com / When.com
Apple - Airport.com / Apple.com / Carbon.com / Newton.com / Next.com
Bank of America - Loans.com
Barnes and Noble - Book.com / Books.com
Bass Pro Shops - Archery.com / Ducks.com / Hunting.com / Tackle.com
Brown Shoe Company - Shoes.com
Burlington Coat Factory - Coat.com
CBS - Download.com / News.com / Radio.com / TV.com
Citi Bank - Finance.com / Mortgage.com / StudentLoan.com
Clorox - Bleach.com / Grease.com
Discount Tire - Tires.com
Disney - Family.com / Kid.com
Dreyers - IceCream.com
Fandango - Movie.com / Movies.com
Fidelity - 401K.com / Retire.com
GlaxoSmithKline - Asthma.com / Depression.com / Diabetes.com
Hidden Valley - Salad.com
Honda - Motorcycles.com / Scooters.com
Intel - Chips.com / Netbook.com / PC.com
Intuit - Apps.com / Banking.com / Payroll.com
J&J - Baby.com / Cancer.com / Cholesterol.com / Obesity.com
Kay Jewelers - Gold.com
Kraft - Dessert.com / Dinners.com / Pickles.com
Lending Tree - RE.com / Tree.com
Mens Warhorse - Tux.com
Microsoft - Docs.com / Office.com / Start.com
Monster - Jobs.com
National Pen - Pens.com
Nestle - Meals.com
NW Mutual - LifeInsurance.com
Office Depot - OfficeSupplies.com
Oracle - Learn.com / Retail.com / Network.com / Sales.com
Orbitz - Trip.com
OTIS - Elevator.com / Escalator.com / Lift.com
P&G - Clean.com / Conditioner.com / Dentures.com / Laundry.com / Nails.com / Toothpaste.com
PetSmart - DogFood.com / Dogs.com / Pet.com / Pets.com
Pfizer - Arthritis.com
Quidsi -Diapers.com / Look.com / Soap.com
QuinStreet - Insurance.com / Insure.com / Internet.com
Quaker - Snacks.com
Roto Rooter - Plumber.com
Sales Force - Data.com / Desk.com / Do.com / Social.com / Work.com
Sanofi-Aventis - Allergy.com / Stroke.com
Scripps - Food.com
Select Comfort - Beds.com
Sherwin Williams - Painting.com
Sunglass Hut - Shades.com
TIME - Money.com / Health.com
Toys R US - Toys.com
Travelocity - Reservations.com / Vacations.com
Unilever - Eat.com / Sauce.com / Soup.com
VIACOM - Film.com
Warnaco - Bras.com / Underwear.com
The Weather Channel - Weather.com
Winchester - Ammunition.com
XEROX - ColorPrinters.com / Documents.com
Zaps - Clothes.com
Zildjian - Cymbals.com
For those who own domains or want to own domains, there are certain levels of selling that need to be recognized depending on your domain investing strategy.
There are three places to sell your domain:
General Marketplaces (Eg. NamePros, Ebay)
Domain marketplace websites (Eg. Flippa.com and Sedo.com)
Private Inquiries (You wait for people to make offers on your domains or you actively seek out buyers)
The value of your domain and the amount you want for your domain should determine what place to sell your domain. This is because there are three different kinds of buyers that you deal with when trying to sell your domain:
Resellers are the people, like qeip, who wish to buy domains at the lowest price possible so that they can make a profit on them immediately. The only place that we might encounter these buyers are in public auction sites and such but we don’t want to sell to these people because they hinder our earnings potential even if we could make a profit off of them.
Investors are the people who pay a premium for a domain just to have it as investment which they believe will gain in value in the future and they can sell it. Investors are our target audience because they are all of all of the venues that we sell on and they can get us large profit margins.
End users are the companies, entrepreneurs, and people that want to buy a domain to develop it into a full-fledged website or want it as a redirect for branding purposes. End users are our target audience because they have generous budgets and they are willing to pay tens of thousands or more to obtain the domain they want without any questions or persuasion necessary.
What you have to understand is that Marketplaces (eg. Ebay) are filled with resellers who won't give you much for your domain because they want to make a quick profit off of it. Domain Marketplaces (Eg. Flippa) are mostly resellers with a few investors. Then you get to Private Inquiries which almost always consistent of end users with a couple investors.
What you see is that End users can only really be found through private inquiries. End users can only really be taken advantage of through strong brokerages. When a company sees that a brokerage firm, like qeip, is representing a domain, they feel more entitled to listen than if a "domain owner" came up to them to ask them to buy said domain. Qeip takes advantage of this fact with our brokerage services which focus on a four step process:
1. Qeip is hired to sell a premium domain for someone.
2. Qeip makes a list of companies that in related industries which they use to make a list of business contacts in the advertising/marketing departments of these companies.
3. Qeip contacts each of these business contacts through calls and emails to announce to them that a premium domain is available .
4. Qeip gets multiple offers from different companies, which they use to start a bidding war to get the domain the highest price.
This process in addition to our extremely low commission prices is why domain owners choose us over the big brokers. If you want to learn even more about our brokerage services, please go to the link below:
There is literally an unlimited amount of domains in existence so how can one tell the different between one that is valuable and one that is worthless? The short answer is scarcity and the amount that the buyer wants that particular domain.
The long answer for the value of domain is that it is determined by a number of factors:
Google Keyword searches - The amount of times that people search for a certain keyword that is within a domain can be a great determiner of its value. An domain such as DomainName.com has around 300,000 searches a month and is therefore a very good investment. These searches are so valuable for companies because each of those searches has a good chance of getting a customer to the domain's website it shares a keyword with. These keyword searches normally have to be bought from Google Adwords by the companies so owning a domain with a lot of keyword searches can save them a lot of money.
Length - The length of a domain is one of the number one ways to immediately determine a domains value. Just looking at a domain, one can tell its worth based on whether it has 2, 3,4, or 5 letters. Each number of letters has its own resellers value, market value and end user value. Short number domains like 1111.com sell for tens of thousands and have been gainly value aggressively. Length can refer to number of letters or numbers but it can also refer to number of words. A domain worth investing in should have only one or two words within it.
Registration Age - Age can be a good indicator of an domain's value as older domains have more money invested to keep them renewed each year. It costs a certain amount to keep a domain each year so if someone is going to pay $20 a year for 20 years to keep a domain, then, they probably have a good reason for keeping that domain. Every premium domain is aged but not every aged domain is premium.
Extension - Nowadays, there are hundreds if not thousands of different domain extensions ranging from the classic .com,.org,.net all the way to .de,.xyz,.io and others. Most premium domains that are worth investing in are .com but a few good ones are .org or .net (like coffee.org sold for $100,000). For the rest of the hundreds of extensions, they are only usually worth something if they are one or two letters (but even then they won't sell for more than a couple thousand).
History - A domain's history can help to determine its value because domains that have previously had successful websites on them increase the domains value exponentially just for the sake of branding. In addition to that, a previous website means that there will probably be a lot of natural traffic coming to that website which makes owning that domain very profitable no matter whether you are cash parking it or trying to make a website out of it. Previous websites also bring backlinks, links to the site from other sites, for the site which makes long term traffic possible. Website history can go both ways though. If you own a domain that used to be a porn site, the domain's value decreases if you are trying to sell the domain to people who want to make a normal website out of it.
Even if you use these tools to help value your domain, you still will probably be wrong about it even though you will be close. At the end of the day, a domain is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it.
Yet, qeip understands the necessity for valuations, that is why we offer free personalized domain appraisals which can be requested by submitting the form below:
Domain names have been continually appreciating in value at a higher rate than most investments. Currently, two letter .com domains that might have sold in 1995 for $10, do not sell for less than $300,000 today.
Our expert planners use our customer's capital to buy premium domain names at below market prices in order to form personal domain portfolios. After obtaining a domain portfolio from us, you have the option to deal with managing them yourself or you can utilize our team's personal registrar. With our advice you get to decide when you want to turn your domain portfolio into liquid cash. If your looking to sell, there are many options for you to see a massive return on your investments. Our team has the options to wait for 3rd party buyers to make offers, to aggressively seek out potential buyers, or to take the domains to public auction. Through all of these options, our team will get you a profit but the highest returns are found typically when 3rd party buyers make outside offers.
Each domain will gain returns anywhere from 10%-1000% based on value that domain is bought and sold for and domains will not be sold for less than they are bought. *Domains managed by qeip are securely monitored through a encrypted registrar.
The domain names that our team specializes in are 3 + 4 letter .com domains (like cef.com and pptt.com) along with generic 1 + 2 word .com domains (like During.com and WebTraffic.com). In general, although your portfolio's domains are not liquid (like a mutual fund might be), they can be sold for any amount, transferred instantly, and accessed anywhere. Domains offer a chance at near unlimited gain and with our expert buyers, you most always will have an portfolio that is worth much more than you purchased it for, from the second that we personally make it for you.