Rural.com sells for $550,000 and tops the domain sales chart!

Industry Information 31 May 2024 04:09:30 PM By:DN platform editor
Abstract:

May has reached its final day, and DN Magazine, the specialized statistics platform for domain names, has come out with the stats on how domains have sold in the last half of the month. Three of the 12 largest sales publicly reported so

May has reached its final day, and DN Magazine, the specialized statistics platform for domain names, has come out with the stats on how domains have sold in the last half of the month. Three of the 12 largest sales publicly reported so far this year have occurred in the past two weeks, led by another chart-topper in Larry Fischer (GetYourDomain.com).

Larry has so many sales records over the years that we've long since lost count. His latest masterpiece is the $550,000 sale of Rural.com, which was first reported here. In addition to topping our latest list of the top 20 sales of all extensions, this is the third largest publicly reported sale of 2024 so far.

Rural.com sells for $550,000 and tops the domain sales chart!

The three most notable domains on the latest list are Sedo's sale of Humanity.org for a staggering $225,000, the largest non-.com gTLD deal reported so far this year. That's more than double the previous top domain (Profile.net for $108,897).

On the ccTLD front, the .ai onslaught continues, with Namecheap reporting two big deals-fourth-ranked Mom.ai for $60,000 and sixth-ranked Rep.ai for $43,500. Sandwiched between the two was Afternic's 0.vip which sold for $50,000. country code domains ended up with six in the elite list. Non-.com gTLDs accounted for four, including Afternic's two-letter .law sale, JM.law and VA.law, which tied for 12th place and sold for $14,999 each.

Nonetheless, .com domains still stood out from the competition, taking 10 of the 20 top spots.Sedo took seven of them, including one that they transferred to DomainMarket.com, and the No. 8-ranked Cornucopias.com domain sold for $24,888.

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Rural.com sells for $550,000 and tops the domain sales chart!