NameJet

The other day, I was doing some domain auction research, and I placed a backorder for a domain name I saw had many bids at NameJet. The name looked great, although I was a bit surprised there weren’t more backorders. I figured it may have been a passe term, but I didn’t give it much thought.

When it went into auction, I was on my iPhone. I almost immediately placed a higher bid and was the leading bidder for this domain name. I still didn’t know it was a typo.

A few hours later,

143.com is pending auction at NameJet, and it will enter the auction phase in a couple of hours. The current high bid is $60,000, but the reserve price has not yet been met. There are 239 bids placed as of the time of publication.

The 143.com domain name is owned by Finlead, a domain investment firm based in Switzerland. The company also owns other liquid domain name assets such as EG.com, EO.com, Soft.com, Season.com, and Leading.com.

I checked NameBio, and I do not see any public sales records for 143.com. Based on historical Whois records from DomainTools, it looks like Finlead acquired the domain name in May of this year for an undisclosed price.

As you likely know, numeric domain names have been hot for the last couple of years. Michael Berkens’ company sold 345.com for $800,000 earlier this year, and Rick Schwartz reportedly just sold a NNN.com domain name “for an amount which will land him as the 2nd highest reported sale of 2015.” Many other NNN.com domain name have changed hands privately for large sums of money.

Finlead  CEO

The two letter GJ.com domain name was up for auction on NameJet this week, and the auction concluded today. The domain name  sold for  $694,095. This is the largest  sale at NameJet in 2015, and it may be the largest sale of all time on the auction platform.

Once the GJ.com sale is closed, it should rank as the fourth largest public sale of the year on DNJournal,  following the sales of Porno.com, 345.com, and the 7 figure sale of PX.com  (which should be added in the next report).

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