Market study plus where the top 10 sold domains are now — Sedo’s Q2

Sedo releases market data from second quarter plus a few fresh end user sales revealed.

Sedo released its second quarter market study today in a fresh infographic format.

The data show that sales volume and dollar volume were down slightly from the first quarter. The firm sold 9,589 domains in the quarter. Total sales for Q2 were $17.5 million, down from $17.9 million in Q1. April was the strongest month with $6.8 million in sales.

The infographic notes the median sales price as $551 for the quarter, but the infographic also shows that 53% of sales were under $500. If more than half of sales were for less than $500, then the median must be under $500. I reached out to Sedo for clarification and will update this story when I hear back. [Update: Sedo got back to me on this. There was an error in the original infographic that calculated the number of sales by price range in Euros instead of USD. The actual number of domains sold under $500 was 48%; the $551 median is correct.]

The note also includes averages, but averages don’t have much value in domain sales since a couple big sales can move them from quarter to quarter.

Also included on the note are the top ten public sales for the quarter. When I do my end user sales notes a lot of these are still in escrow, so this gave me a chance to look back at some of the bigger sales to see who actually bought them.

Three of the domains that I haven’t previously noted right now have a public whois showing an end user buyer:

American Financial Resources paid $140,000 for eLend.com
Fotografen Online Service GmbH paid EUR 89,250 for Fotograf.de
Publicly traded Evora S.A. bought Evora.com for $94,000