Escrow.com notes mixed bag for Q3 domain sales

Total transaction value was down compared to Q2 but domains sold without content were up.

Escrow.com released its Q3 market note (pdf) today, and it was a bit of a mixed bag.

The firm noted that total domain volume slipped from USD $89 million in Q2 to $85 million in Q3.

On the upside, transactions of domains without content increased from $40.6 million to $49.7 million quarter to quarter. The median price of domains without content increased from $4,500 to $4,614.

Sales of .ai domains decreased from $1.7 million in Q2 to $1.3 million in Q3.

Escrow.com’s parent firm Freelancer.com (ASX:FLN)(OTCQX:FLNCF) recently noted Q3 results. It noted that Escrow.com’s total payment volume for Q3, counting non-domains, was $122.9 million, down 9.2% compared to the same quarter a year ago. The firm noted that fewer very sizable domain name transactions hurt results, and that a rebound in venture capital funding would help drive more sizable sales.