BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sedo, the world’s largest domain marketplace and monetization provider, today announced the highest-valued public domain sales along with additional categories of highlighted sales from the past year. At $375,000 USD, Broker.com had the highest price tag among domains sold through Sedo in 2016. Short domains were particularly popular; demonstrated by the most bid on web addresses having only one to three characters.
Top 5 Domain Sales
1.) broker.com | 375,000 | USD | ||||||
2.) mikihouse.com | 224,224 | USD | ||||||
3.) ada.com | 200,000 | USD | ||||||
4.) circa.com | 150,000 | USD | ||||||
5.) hotbot.com | 155,000 | USD | ||||||
Top 5 Most Popular Domains in Auctions
Each with 84 bids,
there is a three-way tie for the most popular domain. And the trend
towards short, concise web addresses continued this year and is clearly
reflected in this category: all five of the chart toppers have no more
than three characters. The release of new .at short domains fueled this
trend even further.
1.) ö.at | 84 Bids | 7,400 | EUR | |||||||||
2.) cun.com | 84 Bids | 113,611 | EUR | |||||||||
3.) 4.at | 84 Bids | 6,900 | EUR | |||||||||
4.) 111.club | 82 Bids | 5,320 | USD | |||||||||
5.) dj.at | 78 Bids | 3,600 | EUR | |||||||||
Top 5 Longest Domains
In contrast to high-priced short
domains are the longest domains sold during 2016. These are
significantly lower in price and are usually related to a particular
niche topic. Domain names can be a maximum of 63 characters and 2016’s
winner proudly stands at 60 characters.
comcomcomcomcomcomcomcomcomcomcomcomcomcomcomcomcomcomcomcom.com | 60 Characters | 250 | USD | |||||||||
chiropractic-acupuncture-homeopathy-self-help-workshops-dvd.com | 59 Characters | 148 | USD | |||||||||
berufsunfaehigkeitsversicherung-vergleich.net | 41 Characters | 500 | EUR | |||||||||
aansprakelijkheidsverzekeringvergelijken.nl | 40 Characters | 100 | EUR | |||||||||
mercer-tazewellcountyboardofrealtors.com | 36 Characters | 404 | USD | |||||||||
About Sedo
Sedo, headquartered in Cologne and Boston (USA),
is the world's leading domain trading platform with 2 million customers
and 19 million domains listed for sale. Sedo offers buyers and sellers a
full suite of domain-related services, such as domain parking,
appraisals, transfers as well as marketing and promotional activities.