Sedo’s Senior Broker Dave Evanson just reported one of the largest three letter .com domain name sales in the last several years. According to Dave’s tweet, Zag.com was acquired for $450,000 via Sedo:
Just brokered ZAG .com for $450,000!! Congrats to buyer seller!!
— dave evanson (@SedoDaveEvanson) February 1, 2021
In 2009, I reported on the $18 million sale of Internet.com to QuinStreet, Inc. This was not simply a domain name sale, so it should not be listed in any lists of largest domain name sales, but I would imagine a great deal of value was placed on the Internet.com domain name at the time of the acquisition.
I just learned that Internet.com – the domain name alone – is now on the market. I was told that Quin Street no longer owns this domain name, although GDPR is preventing me from being able to see the current registrant of Internet.com.
George Kirikos is quite the sleuth when it comes to quietly reported domain name sales and acquisition. George has a keen eye for detecting domain name transactions passively reported by companies in SEC reports and filings.
Over the weekend, George questioned whether Lending.com was sold for $5,422,000 in October 2015. He made the discovery after reviewing the SEC filings of Finance of America. George laid out his observations and thoughts in a series of tweets:
Yesterday, I reported on the sale of Home.com to Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation. The domain name sale price was not shared by any of the parties, but I would be very surprised if it was not an 8 figure deal. In my opinion, Home.com is one of the top domain names possible, and Fairway has the potential to turn it into an iconic brand name.
Andrew Rosener tweeted about the sale and mentioned that he think it is one of the top three domain names. Someone replied to Andrew to ask what other domain names he thinks are in the top 3 (he said X.com and did not name the other name).
I thought I would give it a go and share what I think are 10 of the top possible domain names there are based solely on intrinsic value. Some of these domain names are actively used and developed, but I think they are top domain names without any of the additional goodwill and/or traffic. These are not listed in any particular order – just as I am thinking of them off the top of my head:
One of the most valuable domain names has changed hands. Home.com has been sold by Anything.com. I noticed the domain name transferred from Tucows to GoDaddy this afternoon. Although the domain name is now registered under GoDaddy’s Domains by Proxy Whois privacy proxy service, the landing page shows that Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation will be launching a website on Home.com in the Spring.
Former GoDaddy CEO Scott Wagner was the guest on Howard Lindzon’s Panic with Friends podcast. In addition to being an author, Howard is an angel investor, fund manager, and co-founder of StockTwits. His insights are always worth considering, and I enjoy listening to people like him talking about domain names. Scott served as CEO of GoDaddy prior to Ahman Bhutani. He left the company in 2019 due to undisclosed health reasons.
The podcast, embedded below, is not solely focused on domain names. According to Howard’s description of the episode, “In this episode, Scott and I talk about his career path, the domain industry, the state of the markets, content syndication, ecommerce, digital real estate, SPACs, Scottsdale National, branding and more.”
I have not had time to listen to the podcast yet, but I will when I have some free time.
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