When looking at sales data reported on Namebio it’s clear that GoDaddy rules the roost when it comes to the number of reported .com domain name sales. For the most part these sales are at the wholesale or investor level as names are won on GoDaddy auctions. You will see in the data below how the average price per sale is much lower. These numbers are for .com only, let me stress this is not all extensions.
Taking a look at the past few years here is how the sales breakdown.
2019
There were 93.1k total .com sales reported at Namebio, of those sales 60.2k were at GoDaddy.
$130.8m was the Dollar Volume and GoDaddy was responsible for $25.8m. The average price for all sales came in at $1,406 while at GoDaddy the average price was $429.
2020
Namebio recorded 108.8k total .com sales in 2020. GoDaddy racked up 76.9k. The total dollar volume came in at $105.8m with GoDaddy contributing $40.5m to that number. Average price per domain for all sales came in at $973. GoDaddy saw an average sale price of $527.
2021
Total .com sales in 2021 came in at 128.6k, GoDaddy racked up 94.9k. Total dollar volume came in at $152.3m, GoDaddy dollar volume came in at $45.6m. Average sale price jumped up from the sub $1,000 in 2020 to $1,184. For GoDaddy the average sales price actually dropped to $480 from $527.
2022 First 6 months
For the first half of 2022 Namebio registered 75.9k .com sales with GoDaddy being responsible for 51.6k. Total dollar volume came in at $83.9m. GoDaddy has posted $29.5m in dollar volume. Average sales price for the first half of 2022 came in at $1,105 in line with 2021. GoDaddy average sales price came in at $573 almost $100 higher than 2021.
GoDaddy has come in at 41.4% of total dollar volume in the first half of 2022, 29.94% of 2021, 38.2% of 2020, and 19.72% of 2019.
Namebio also has close to 2M sales that are under $100.
All sales data courtesy of Namebio
Note: There are many sales that are unreported each month. We cannot comment on the unknown, so we deal with what’s reported to and by reliable sources.
