Domain Market Update, Bankruptcy Auctions and High Value Resale Transactions

Industry Information 27 Sep 2024 10:33:26 AM By:DN editor
Abstract:

The past two weeks in the domain name secondary market have seen some compelling sales stories. The bankruptcy auction frenzy resulted in over $400,000 in sales and LegalBrandMarketing founder Braden Pollock turned a $15,000 investment

The past two weeks in the domain name secondary market have seen some compelling sales stories. The bankruptcy auction frenzy resulted in over $400,000 in sales and LegalBrandMarketing founder Braden Pollock turned a $15,000 investment into an amazing $150,000 in just 60 days.

ASAP.com was successfully acquired at Heritage Global Partners' bankruptcy auction for $404,600, making it one of the top 10 public sales of the year, and Pollock's previously reported sales of Continue.com for $550,000 and $330,000 for Cancel. com, reaffirming his strength in the market. He also recently realized a 10x return on his successful sale of the Super.net domain for $150,000.

In the .AI space, ccTLDs performed strongly, with Namecheap reporting four of the five .AI sales in the top 10, with Authentic.ai coming in third at $50,000, followed by Strawberry.ai at $45,000. The strong performance of country code domains resulted in 11 entries in the ranking.

Here are the sales charts as of September 22, 2024

Domain Market Update, Bankruptcy Auctions and High Value Resale Transactions

Domain Market Update, Bankruptcy Auctions and High Value Resale Transactions

Luxury brand Falcons acquires Falcons.com for $400,000

Luxury brand Falcons acquires Falcons.com for $400,000

Falcons.com is a special word .com domain name that means “falcon, falcon” in Chinese. Long owned by Future Media Architects (FMA), the brokerage announced in a post on X on September 26 that Falcons.com had been sold for $400,000

Industry Information 26 Sep 2024 10:32:07 AM

Facebook startup Meta acquires Threads.com domain name

Facebook startup Meta acquires Threads.com domain name

Last July, Meta (formerly Facebook) launched a social networking service to compete with Twitter (now known as X). The service is branded as Threads, and the company uses the Threads.net domain as its platform.Threads.com is owned by

Industry Information 25 Sep 2024 10:13:23 AM

Shocker! Rocket Word Domain Name Rocket.com Sold for Millions of Dollars!

Shocker! Rocket Word Domain Name Rocket.com Sold for Millions of Dollars!

In early September, it was revealed that the word domain name Rocket.com for rocket was sold for millions of dollars in what some believe could be one of the most expensive domain sales ever, a deal reportedly brokered by HilcoDigital

Industry Information 24 Sep 2024 02:37:27 PM

Super.net Sells for High Price! $150,000 Sold for Nearly 10x ROI!

Super.net Sells for High Price! $150,000 Sold for Nearly 10x ROI!

Just recently, Braden Pollock sold Super.net for $150,000 (roughly Rs. 1,050,000), a domain name registered in May 1993 and acquired for $15,556 (roughly Rs. 110,000) on Snapnames in July. That's a return on investment of almost 10 times

Industry Information 24 Sep 2024 11:07:36 AM

One word domain HardHats.com may have been sold

One word domain HardHats.com may have been sold

First Place® Internet, Inc. operates a series of historic premium domain names, one of which, HardHats.com, has recently undergone a change. The domain, which has been registered since 1996, has now changed registrars and updated WHOIS

Industry Information 23 Sep 2024 02:11:55 PM

Hairdo.com dispute fails, domain remains with its owner

Hairdo.com dispute fails, domain remains with its owner

Domain Capital recently successfully defended their ownership of the domain name Hairdo.com through a Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). The case involved a complainant, HairUWear Inc., who claimed legal rights to the

Industry Information 23 Sep 2024 11:44:58 AM

Domain Market Update, Bankruptcy Auctions and High Value Resale Transactions