I’m Mostapha. I buy and sell names from Morocco. Record sales are useful the way lottery photos are useful: they show what the ceiling looked like for a handful of names. They do not price your hyphen. Wikipedia keeps a list of most expensive domain names with citations. Industry reports live on DNJournal. Searchable neighbors: NameBio. Viral posts about AI.com at $70 million are the kind of unverified number this page used to repeat. If it is not sourced, do not bid from it.
The Domain Value Checker will not spit out thirty million dollars. If it did, the tool would be lying. How we score. FAQ. Psychology of why short names stick: that page this one is the sales tape, not the café test.
Sales that are actually documented
| Name | Reported | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Voice.com | $30 million | 2019 |
| 360.com | $17 million | 2015 |
| Chat.com | $15.5 million | 2023 |
| NFTs.com | $15 million | 2022 |
| Sex.com | $13 million | 2010 |
Packages that mix a company and a name (old headlines around CarInsurance.com) are not clean “domain-only” comps. Treat them as a different object. Asks on Sedo are not sales.
What they share: almost always .com, short, sayable, no hyphen, a word a stranger already knew. That is the five factors at the extreme. It is not a template you apply to best-ai-tools-online.com.
What not to copy
- Pricing your leftover as “a fraction of Voice.com.”
- Buying fashion strings because Chat.com sold: no secret niche list.
- Trusting an AI yield that interpolates from this table: not a reason to buy.
- Dressing the bid in DCF theatre: metrics that are easy to misuse.
Your range still comes from the letters in front of you: a range, not a guarantee. History still: snapshots. Marks still: WIPO.
Decision
Read the tape to learn the shape of a ceiling. Bid from the checker and comps in your weight class: before you buy / before you sell. Keep the Google row. The million-dollar club is a museum. Your portfolio is a drop list.