I put together this infographic using data from DNJournal.com. Important to note that these are pure domain sales verified by Ron Jackson, not website + domain sales. Keep in mind these are only reported sales, there is a lot going on behind the scenes and probably just as many if not more transactions don’t get reported for various reasons.
That being said, unless there are a heap of six figure sales in the remaining three months of this year, we’re looking at a pretty sharp decline of $xxx,xxx sales in 2012. In the last weekly sales report from DNJournal, nothing even cracked the $50k mark to add to the YTD sales chart. The closest was afterparty.com which went for $45k.
With only one reported and verified seven figure domain sale so far this year (PersonalLoans.com $1m), the domain industry is in danger of only having a single reported million dollar sale since 2005 on the chart. I should note that DomainHoldings, a very reputable brokerage and monetization company, did mention that they have brokered two seven figure domain name sales this month as reported by Elliot Silver.
What do you think is going on here? Are high dollar domain sales in general on a decline? Or, Are fewer and fewer high dollar sales being reported?
Infographic data source:
2012 YTD Sales
2011 DN Sales Chart
2010 DN Sales Chart
2009 DN Sales Chart
2008 DN Sales Chart
2007 DN Sales Chart
2006 DN Sales Chart
2005 DN Sales Chart
2004 DN Sales Chart
Sure there are 6- and 7- figure sales that are not reported and most likely year by year more of high amount sales are protected by NDAs.
Strange chart, generally years are raising from left to right ???
@Francois – Lol, I knew something was weird with the chart. Correction made! Thanks 🙂
Hardly any of the huge 6 and 7 figure sales are publicized. The major domain buyers and sellers like to keep their business deals totally private.
Kevin, do you agree with Jay that year by year less and less high dollar sales are being reported?
Someone mentioned to me that I should only have the infographic data up to 2011 since 2012 is not over yet. I agree so the chart has been updated to not show 2012. So far in 2012 we have 1 reported 7 figure sale and 43 reported six figure sales according to DNJournal.
Have a look at the complete stats here:
http://domainindex.com/indices/sales-index/total/number-of-sales
clearly the market is very week in 2012, or very few people only report nowadays.