Moniker has sold three domain names for over $100,000 each including two two-character .com domains.
The latest domain name sales report from DNJournal shows the domain name industry is ending the year with a bang, thanks in part to domain name company Moniker. The company brokered three domains for over $100,000 including Partners.com for $130,000, and FJ.com and TJ.com for $105,000 each.
Moniker has had a record year in 2006. It is now a top 10 registrar in terms of domains under management and oversaw the biggest live domain auction ever, tallying up over $5M in sales.
In other interesting domain sales news, domain name flippers should rejoice about the recent sale of Announce.com for $90,000. The seller of the domain had purchased it for only $5,000 a couple years ago according to DNJournal. There’s still ample opportunity to buy domains at wholesale prices and sell them to end users. It just requires some capital and the ability to hold onto domains for several years until the right buyer comes along.
eBay even got into the domain name sales action this week. A buyer chose “BuyItNow” to pick up SingleMen.com and SingleWomen.com in a package for $80,000. eBay usually isn’t a good venue for quality domain names.
A thread over at DomainState suggests that Candle.com sold for $390,000 recently to PetsUnited. The sale was briefly listed on Afternic’s sales page before being removed. The same thing happened on a previous sale to PetsUnited, Farm.com.
