AI.com sold for $70 million. The average reported domain sale in the first half of 2026 was a little over $1,100. Both numbers are true, and a page that shows you one without the other is selling you something.
Reported domain sales grew from about $185 million in 2024 to over $244 million in 2025. The first half of 2026 alone was about $146 million, across roughly 128,300 sales.
Business.com reached $345 million in 2007. AI.com sold for $70 million in 2025 — the largest publicly confirmed pure domain sale. Crypto.com was reported at around $12 million in 2018, though the price was never officially disclosed.
The highest reported .io sale is Mint.io at $230,000, in 2021, followed by Metaverse.io at $175,000 the same year. HandleX is itself a .io. Quoting .com millions without that is how a briefing turns into a pitch.
More than $350 million of usernames and numbers have moved through Fragment since October 2022, over $50 million of it in the first month. @news sold for about 1,000,000 TON.
A sample of 1,032 recent sales averaged $676, and a single NameBio update carried 3,574 sales under $100. The outliers are real and they are outliers.
Business.com reached $345 million in 2007, which is the largest figure on record. AI.com sold for $70 million in 2025 and is the largest publicly confirmed pure domain sale. Cars.com is often listed at $872 million — that was a corporate valuation, not a domain sale, and it does not belong on the list.
In the first half of 2026 there were about 128,300 reported domain sales totalling roughly $146 million, which is an average a little over $1,100. In 2024 and 2025 the average was about $1,280. A sample of 1,032 recent sales averaged $676.
It was bought by Monaco in 2018 for a price reported at around $12 million. The figure was never officially disclosed and reports range from $5 million to $12 million, so it should always be described as reported rather than confirmed. The seller, Matt Blaze, had registered it in 1993.
Mint.io, at $230,000 in 2021, which was the extension’s peak year — Metaverse.io took $175,000 in the same year, and Bank.io’s $80,000 in December 2020 was only that year’s best. $230,000 is the honest ceiling for the extension, roughly three orders of magnitude below the top .com sales. HandleX runs on a .io, which is why this figure is on the page rather than only the .com ones.
The username @news sold for about 1,000,000 TON — roughly $1.7 million at the time — in November 2022. @auto went for 900,000 TON, @avia for 800,000, @chat for 700,000 and @fifa for 600,000. Prices are quoted in TON first because the dollar equivalents move with the TON price.
Some have, enormously. Ass.com was bought for $12,500 and sold for $6 million, about 500 times its purchase price. That is one documented pair, and it is an outlier. The reported market averages a little over $1,100 a sale and is dominated by transactions under $100, so anything presenting the outliers as typical is not describing this market.
Enforced uniqueness, shortness, whether the name owns a category rather than describing a product, whether the network has an installed base to be found through, and whether the name can be transferred at all. The last one overrules the rest — a name that cannot move has no resale market however good it is.