To bring in the New Year we have three six figure domain name sales.

With the help of social media, Victor Pitts, senior broker for Moniker.com, announced on Facebook the sale of Migraine.com for $125,000. This was a joint sale between Sedo and Moniker, with Sedo representing the buyer. Whois records still show the seller, Gina Presson, as the owner of record. It looks like Gina has owned this domain name for almost a decade and at some point it was used for the Florida Neurological Institute.

Migraine.com $125,000
Google Search: Not listed on first three pages
Google Page Rank: 1
Compete.com Traffic: 390 Unique and Total Visits
Alexa Rank: 7,121,818

Also reported earlier this week…

Leisure.com $150,000
Google Search: Not listed on first three pages
Google Page Rank: N/A
Compete.com Traffic: 138 Unique and Total Visits
Alexa Rank: 2,283,068

CookingGames.com $350,000
Google Search: Not listed on first three pages
Google Page Rank: 0
Compete.com Traffic: 7,330 Unique and 8,882 Visits
Alexa Rank: 676,064

Congratulations to all the buyers and sellers.

Update: Migraine.com was a cooperative sale with Sedo.com representing the buyer.

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We beat last year’s top domain name sales by $2,031,358. Notice that all of the top sales are .com compared to last year which had 4 non .com sales.

2009 sales $18,150,000 (left side) 2008 sales $16,118,642 (right side)

Some may argue the numbers and would say that we’ve sold even more. A few domain name sales not recorded in DNJournal’s YTD sales chart are Cricket.com ($1.7mil), DropShippers.com ($1.5mil) and Insure.com ($16mil). Ron Jackson does not include a sale that may have an increased value because of the established business/website on those domain names. If we were to include these domain names we would have doubled last year’s sales.

Good job domain industry! Now let’s see if we can beat these numbers next year.

Data collected from DNJournal.com

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Visiting Sedo.com today I found the sale of Russia.com for $1.5 million under recent sales.

The current whois information is with Sedo. Using DomainTools history search I was able to find out that the previous owner was NewMedia Holdings, Inc.

NewMedia portfolio consists of domain names like…

• PuertoRico.com
• Scotland.com
• Birds.com
• Airplanes.com
• many more premium domains

Russia.com $1.500,000
Google Results: Ranks 3rd for “Russia”
Google Page Rank: 6
Compete.com Traffic: 8,723 Unique and Total Visits
Alexa Rank: 168,693

Congratulations to the buyer and seller.

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DNJournal reports Moniker has sold Best.com for $331,561 and Best.net for $36,840. Current whois information is protected by Moniker’s privacy service. Previous owner is believed to be NTT Communications. By visiting Archive.org it appears that Best.com was a domain registrar and web host with Best.net forwarding to the .com version. Best.com/.net are both currently parked with Sedo.

Best.com $331,561
Google Results: Not on the first page for buy domain names or register domain names.
Google Page Rank: 6
Compete.com Traffic: 18,070 Unique and 18,194 Total Visits
Alexa Rank: 14,986

Congratulations to the buyer and seller.

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Sedo sells Software.co.uk for £150,000 which is approximately $248,549 US. Whois information shows the new owner as Software.com Holdings Pty Limited and redirects to Software.com. Kudos to Software.com for securing their brand!

Below is a break down of domain stats.

Software.co.uk $248,549
Google Results: 99,700,000 (does not show on the first page)
Google Page Rank: 3
Compete.com Traffic: no stats
Alexa Rank: 3,378,752

This is currently the top .co.uk sale of the year. Coming in second place would be a tie at 100,000 EUR / $165,000 US with OnlineCasino.co.uk and HorseRacing.co.uk. The top .co.uk sale of all time (reported) would be Cruses.co.uk for 734,618 EUR / $1,099,798 US.

Congratulations to the buyer and seller.

Source: Sedo.com

*UPDATED price from EUR to Pounds*

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