Recent Domain Name Sales Trends for .NET, .COM, .AI, .IO and .XYZ

Some domain name professionals abroad have counted the amount of sales of different suffixes in the last three years. There are: last 3 months, last 12 months and last 3 years. He states that the data was collected on April 17, 2024, so the time period starts on that date.

To focus on retail sales, only sales of $1,000 or more were included. Sales from all venues were included, so there will be some high value wholesale acquisitions in the data.

To easily visualize sales rates, I adjusted all data to the corresponding dollar sales over the course of a year.

Is .NET on the rise?

Here are the numbers for . Dollar volume has increased compared to the previous year and the previous three years, but the increase has been fairly modest. Net sales for the most recent three months are up 11.6% compared to the same three-year period and 20.5% compared to the most recent year.

Calibrating with .COM

But perhaps what we're seeing is just a trend in the overall domain market. To verify this, I performed the same calculations for .com sales only, obtaining the following data.

We find that overall market sales do not explain the .net performance, as .com transactions are down 16.7% in the most recent 3 month period compared to the 3 year period.

Keep in mind, however, that this 3-year period includes the push associated with the shift to digital sales and services during the epidemic.

Also, note the very different percentages on the charts in this article. Over the 12-month period, .com sales ($1,000 plus sales) were more than 36 times greater than .net.

Is .IO back?

Interestingly, there have been a number of impressive .io sales recently, prompting at least one investor to say ".io is back". Both .co and .io had strong sales during the pandemic-related shift in their businesses, but declined last year. So let's see if .io rises again.

NameBio data shows that .io has indeed been strong over the last 3 months, both compared to the previous 12 months and the last 3 years. Over the last 3 months, .io sales (sales of $1,000 and above) are up 32.8% compared to the same 3-year period and 40.4% compared to the last 12 months.

.ai continues to

booming.The impressive rise in AI expansion is closely tied to the business disruption created by AI adoption. I'm wondering if we've peaked or are we still on the upswing?

The growth in .ai sales doesn't seem to be stopping, up 57.9% compared to the previous 12 months and over 280% compared to the three-year average.

What about .XYZ?

Many end users of .xyz domains are in decentralized applications and services. Sales of the extension have somewhat synchronized with the dominance of the cryptocurrency market. I used the same methodology as I did for the other extensions to show the trends for .xyz.

Not only are .xyz sales growing strongly compared to last year, which has fallen back, but .xyz's 3-month sales are also up 16.6% over the last 3 years.

Keep in mind that any changes in the venues reported to NameBio or privately reported sales could affect these results. In addition to the sales you have made so far in 2024 on .