Reglikedomain industry desk

Sells 39,830 domain names in October — GoDaddy Auctions

GoDaddy Auctions sells nearly 40,000 domain names in October.

The monthly GoDaddy Auctions Domain Market Note won’t be as full of surprises going forward now that GoDaddy is publishing its sales along with Afternic’s each week. But there is still unique data in the October note.

The headline number: GoDaddy Auctions sold 39,830 domain names last month.

Whereas Buy Now and Auction sales usually account for regarding half each, this time auctions had a noticeable edge with 21,223 sales compared to 17,769 Buy Now sales.

“Online” was the term most commonly found in sold domains. Other popular words were home, best, and blog.

Here are the top ten public sales for the month:

baristas.com $45,000
skylofts.com $41,250 – purchased by MGM Mirage
suvidhaa.com $28,000 – bought by firm that owns MySuvidhaa.com
getcar.com $28,000
rah.com $20,000
wannago.com $20,000
livid.com $19,000
biblioteka.com $18,000
ahr.com $16,000
fn.net $15,050

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