Listed below are updates on the top 10 domain sales from a year ago, as ranked by DN Journal.
1. 95.net sold for $140,000
No site resolves, owned by an individual in China.
2. YYB.com sold for $68,000
This domain, and two of the following three sales, do not resolve and they’re each owned by individuals in China. All were brokered by George Hong of Guta.com.
3 (tie). MFF.com sold for $50,000
No site resolves, owned by an individual in China.
3 (tie). YYF.com sold for $50,000
The traffic leader for the week by a long shot, with its Alexa rank near 150,000. A Chinese-language eCommerce site is live, and the Google translation is a little rough, “Buy one yuan hair cloud is a truly profitable shopping site, here are the most fashionable merchandise, home shopping feeling, all in one yuan to buy hair cloud.“
3 (tie). YYH.com sold for $50,000
No site resolves, owned by an individual in China.
3 (tie). NBT.com sold for $50,000
The domain redirects to Cashslide.co.kr. The parent company seems to be named NBT, standing for Next Big Thing, and their first product is Cashslide, “a lock-screen mobile advertising platform. Cashslide displays full-screen advertisements and high quality contents to mobile users through the everyday lock-screen in a perfectly seamless way.”
3 (tie). TheStores.com sold for $50,000
Based in Berlin, and with three bricks & mortar locations, “THE STORE is a place to inspire, create and enjoy that reflects contemporary culture from within Berlin and beyond.” Alexa rank near 4 million.
8. AOAO.com sold for $49,900
Domain is parked.
9. YYM.com sold for $47,000
“This site is temporarily unable to access” is the Chinese language message that is live.
10. Draftboard.com sold for $45,000
No site resolves.
I’ve always found it odd when multiple sales are reported with whole rounded numbers (E.g. x5 sales at $50k exactly). I’m not really surprised that most of the sales in the list are Chinese buyers. Personally, I think the buyer(s) paid to much for them. That’s just my opinion though. 😉
Hey Eric, I agree the rounded numbers seem funky, but Ron Jackson has a good track record for scrubbing sales before they make his list.
Re: overpaying, it will be interesting to look back in a few years to gauge if they overpaid. I personally believe those LLL.com prices will be higher in the mid-long term, but that’s just an opinion as well.