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Drive.us
Sold for $99,999 in Biggest Verified .US Sale Ever
Reported
Editor's
note: This article, first posted on DNJournal.com,
has been reprinted with their permission.
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By
Ron Jackson
Since
the current domain sales boom began (soon
after the start of the global pandemic that forced
countless businesses to create or strengthen their
online presence) we've gotten used to seeing big
sales in an increasingly wide variety of TLDs.
While .coms continued to command the most
money, TLDS like .io, .co, .xyz and and a few
others have flirted with, or even surpassed the
six-figure mark. Now,
in the biggest .US sale we have ever been
able to verify, the ccTLD for the United States
of America (and the first ccTLD created on
internet in 1985) has thrown its hat into the
ring. Veteran domain investor Keith Trost
just sold Drive.us for $99,999 in a
Buy It Now transaction on the Afternic
platform (we've seen the documentation). |
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Keith,
who had the year's 4th highest reported domain
sale in 2020
with NAS.com at $720,000, doesn't
yet know who the Drive.us buyer is. As of this
writing, the domain is resolving to a GoDaddy
parking page, however the public WhoIs record now
shows a registrant email address tied to Mark
Monitor, a firm well known for managing domain
asserts for some of the biggest companies in the
world. So, odds are good the new owner's name,
when it is revealed, will be one that is already
familiar to a lot people.
The
$99,999 paid for Drive.us is a big jump
from what the highest publicly reported .US sales
fetched last
year when Yellow.us and PPE.us
went for $20,000 each and Task.us
attracted $18,000. With the bull market
sending prices for one-word and short acronym
domains in .com into the stratosphere, short
domains in some other TLDs will likely continue to
attract buyers who either can't afford the
term they want in .com or can't get it at any
price due to it being in use and off the market.
The rising tide may not be lifting all boats, but
it is certainly lifting a lot more than it used
to. |
