The table below this introduction is rendered directly from our database of 128,867 recorded sales. This page explains where those rows come from, how to read them, and how to use recent sales without overreacting to a single headline number.
Where the latest recorded sales come from
Each sale comes from the public NamePros "Daily Domain Sales" reports, which republish NameBio top sales charts. We record the domain, the price in USD, the venue, the sale date and the link to the report thread. We do not add sales from any other channel.
Two consequences follow from that.
First, every row is at least 1,000 USD, because that is the floor of the public reports. Cheaper trades happen every day but are not reported, so they are not here.
Second, there is a delay between a sale and its appearance in a public report, and the corpus is updated in batches. That is why we always show the date of each sale and the date of the newest recorded sale instead of calling anything "today". As of this page, the latest recorded sales are from 2026-05-28. On that date, for example, tav.com sold for 57,500 USD (GoDaddy) and buyora.com for 7,900 USD (Atom.com).
How to read the table
Each row has five things worth looking at, and each one changes what the price means.
The domain and its extension
Read the extension before the price. A 7,000 USD .ai name and a 7,000 USD .com name are very different signals. The .com market is by far the largest, with 100,357 of our recorded sales, while .ai has 4,925 and .io has 1,431. A price that looks normal in one extension can be high or low in another.
The price
All prices are in USD as reported. A recorded price is what the report lists as the final sale price. It does not include fees, and it does not tell you whether the buyer paid in one go or in instalments.
The venue tier
We label every venue honestly.
| Label | What it usually means | Typical venues |
|---|---|---|
| Expired auction / investor venue | An investor buying to resell | DropCatch, NameJet, Park.io, Dynadot, Namecheap, Sav.com |
| End-user marketplace | A business or project buying to use | BuyDomains, Afternic, Sedo, Atom.com, DAN.com, Spaceship.com |
| Mixed venue | Could be either | GoDaddy and unknown venues |
The tier matters because wholesale and retail prices sit on different levels. Across the corpus the median wholesale sale is 1,725 USD and the median retail sale is 2,288 USD. The averages are further apart, 3,312 USD wholesale against 6,437 USD retail, because retail has a longer tail of large deals.
The date
A recent sale is good evidence for the current market in its segment. A sale from three years ago may still be useful, but less so in fast moving extensions. The .ai market, for instance, went from 547 recorded sales in 2023 to 2,070 in 2025.
The source link
Each row links to the public report thread. If a number looks surprising, open the link and read it in context. That is the point of keeping sources visible.
What recent sales can and cannot tell you
Recent sales are the best quick read on market direction. If short .ai names keep clearing five figures at investor venues, that tells you investors expect end users to pay more. If a category of brandables keeps selling around 2,000 to 3,000 USD on end-user marketplaces, that is a realistic retail band for similar names.
What a recent list cannot do is value your specific name. A single big sale in your niche does not mean your name is worth the same. The most common mistake is to see one standout result and anchor on it. One sale is an anecdote. Five to ten close comps, weighted by how similar they are, is evidence.
A short checklist before you use a recent sale as a comp
- Same extension as your name.
- Similar length and structure (one word, two words, brandable, acronym).
- Related meaning or the same type of buyer.
- Same venue tier as the price you want to estimate.
- Recent enough for the segment you are in.
If a recent sale fails two or more of these, treat it as background, not as a comp. Our page on domain comps covers this in detail, and sold domain names shows the shape of the whole recorded market.
How SoldComparables uses recent sales
Recent sales are part of a larger search. When you check a name, SoldComparables searches all 128,867 recorded sales, not only the latest ones, and scores each candidate comp from 0 to 100. The score accounts for extension, length, style, term class, singular or plural, digits, hyphens, venue tier and meaning. Meaning comes from an embedding language model that has precomputed which words are close, so a sale of a scheduler or task name can be a comp for a cron name.
Each comp shows its date, venue tier, source link and up to three plain reasons for its score. The estimate then gives low, likely and high values, separate wholesale and retail figures, a confidence level and a written rationale that cites comps by name, price and date. If good comps are scarce, the report says so and widens the range.
The result is a data-backed estimate, not a certified appraisal and not a promise of a sale price.
Using the table below
Sort and filter the table by extension or venue to see the segment you care about. If you want the history of one specific name rather than the latest market, see domain sales history.
To see which recent sales are true comps for your own name, run a search on the domain appraisal tool, or see what each plan includes on the pricing page.