COOKING.COM Grills at $402K USD to Head Sedo’s Weekly Domain Sales Recap

Sedo Weekly Domain Sales Recap

Each week, the online domain marketplace Sedo.com releases a list of their top public domain sales of $2,000 USD or higher (private sales are not reported). This chart is separated into three sections, the .COM domains, the ccTLDs (Country Code Top-Level Domains) and lastly, the Other domains, which represents the .ORG, .NET and other gTLDs.

This Sedo Weekly Public Domain Sales Recap covers public domain transactions from May 20 to May 26, 2019. We start off the .COM section of this recap by addressing the elephant in the room, which is obviously cooking.com steaming off to a new kitchen with a massive $402,500 USD price tag. This is certainly an ultra-premium domain, but hitting mid 6-figures is always a big deal. Naturally, there is a significant drop-off after that, with the next-largest .COM sale being happylook.com at very respectable $40,000 USD, and we complete the 5-figure selection with 3xr.com ($15,000 USD), netring.com ($15,000 USD), gardenangel.com ($11,250 USD), coppermark.com ($10,000 USD), and infralink.com ($10,000 USD). In all, we counted a total of 36 Sedo .COM transactions of $2,000 or higher this week, which is down a bit next to the 42, 42, and 50 similar sales from the previous three Sedo domain recaps.

The ccTLD section begins with a bang, as we have a pair of 5-figure transactions to report, including serramenti.it selling for an even 25,000 EUR and onlinecasino.me changing hands at $20,000 USD. Other notable ccTLD transactions include the 2-character v8.cc hitting 7,605 EUR, along with a number of single-word domains like beach.de (8,500 EUR), balance.ca ($7,000 USD), spurt.ch ($2,888 USD), draw.in ($2,712 USD), and club.vc (2,199 EUR). Overall, this week’s chart featured a whopping 24 ccTLD domain sales that reached a price of at least $2K (which is up from the 13, 8 and 17 sales of the last 3 weeks), with the country extension leaders sorting out in this order: .DE (9 listings), .IT (3), .CH (2), .FR (2), .IN (2), and then single entries for .CA, .CC, .CO.IL, .IO, .ME, and .VC.

The Other section of our recap starts off with something we don’t see every week, a 5-figure transaction, as the single-word electronics.org sold for 12,888 EUR. After that we have the trio of rewards.biz ($4,500 USD), thepictaram.club ($4,330 USD), and cxo.info ($4,330 USD), and then a pair of .NET domains closing off the list. This week’s face-off between the old and new school extensions (while not “brand new”, .BIZ and .INFO are still newer than .NET and .ORG) results in a 3-to-3 tie in terms of individual sales, while the total dollar amount race is a solid win for the old boys club. In terms of overall sales, the 6 total Other domain sales of $2K or greater was again very close to the 8, 8, and 6 transaction range from the last 3 weekly updates.