For some reason our industry chooses to only record certain select sales results in our weekly and annual sales results. These are real, authenticated (as authenticated as any domain sale is) sales. I guess a few billion people buying and selling domains isn’t worth bothering with. I think all official sales are important, especially if you deal in specifics such as NNNN.coms and short letter domains. They are one of the biggest sellers in the world. As a result I will be introducing soon a daily and weekly sales report that incorporates foreign auction houses as well as the tradition North American and European sales results. Each night and at the end of every week. All in a nice searchable, organized list. ( I know that doesn’t sound like me) To give you an example, her are some of the sales that will not reported but happened in the recent past over at 4.cn and don’t ever get reported.
Sanyong.com $1001
YYSC.com $984
Duanjie.com $1919
2520.com $6729
BBShop.com $3299
9650.com $3775
Qun.com $53,997 (an example of a big sale that gets missed)
0540.com $2626
5724.com $2002
LwLw.com $1148
Chuangxun.com $3297
18.la $6975 (not many dot la hit this number)
CNJG.com $985
3964.com $2232
UXZ.com $4595
5720.com $4185
Goubiao.com $2478
99876.com $1329 (yes 5 numbers)
All sale reported from closing sales history at 4.cn
You are right Shane, the reporting system for sales is not always accurate and transparent. Domain sales and website sales are years and years away from the statisical analysis of other investments, ranging from Stocks to even Hockey cards and comic books! Its still the Wild West here!
Looking forward to these daily and weekly reports, Shane.