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Lucky 8’s: Rick Schwartz Tops $10.5M in Sales For 2015: Sells 989.com For $818,181.81

October 20, 2015 by Michael Berkens

Rick Schwartz a/k/a the Domain King just sold the domain name 989.com for $818,181.81, topping $10.5 Million in domain name sales in 2015.

For Rick who always talked about having a 20 year plan, 2015 marks the 20th year and its been a record setter.

For a guy who made a reputation for saying NO to offers,  has said Yes for the 4th time in 2015:

Rick previously announced the sales this year of shows that “8” is his lucky number too:

Porno.com for $8,888,888 which is still by far the highest reported sale of 2015 by a mile and is the 4th largest reported domain sale of all time.

899.com for for $801,000.

9595.com for $180,000 which marks the highest reported price for a NNNN.com domain name.

989.com will become the 4th highest reported domain sale of the year,  right ahead of Rick’s sale of 899.com which will drop to the 5th spot.

With this sale, 9 of the top 11 reported sales of 2015 will be either a two letter .com (LL.com) or a three numbered .com (NNN.com) domain as recorded by DNjournal.com.

Rick’s remaining NNN.com can be seen on 399.com.

 

 

 

Filed Under: .com, Domain Names, Domain Sales, Domains, LL.com, NNN.com, Rick Schwartz Tagged With: .com, 3 numbered .com's, corporate domain acqusitions, domain, domain king, domain name, domain name sales, domain names, Domain Sales, rick schwartz

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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Comments

  1. AbdulBasit Makrani says

    October 20, 2015 at 10:05 am

    That’s a great sale! Congrats to both parties. Rick is rocking specially this year 😀

  2. Acro says

    October 20, 2015 at 10:15 am

    Rick only needs to sell one domain every 6 months from this list: http://domaingang.com/domain-news/domain-kings-numeric-domains-fine-collection-nnn-com-others/ and that’s not even the full portfolio.

  3. Tom T says

    October 20, 2015 at 10:15 am

    Awesome job Rick! You know the market for these kinds of domains is red hot when a savvy guy like Rick is selling. Thanks for the article Michael!

  4. Acro says

    October 20, 2015 at 10:40 am

    I believe 886.com has also been sold – not by Rick and most likely not even close to that amount.

  5. DrDomainer says

    October 20, 2015 at 10:48 am

    Rock & Rick 🙂

  6. M. Menius says

    October 20, 2015 at 10:48 am

    Congratulations!

  7. Ramahn says

    October 20, 2015 at 10:56 am

    Congrats sifu Rick

  8. Michael Berkens says

    October 20, 2015 at 11:08 am

    Acro

    Well if 886.com sold for well less than needless to say the seller left a LOT of money on the table

    I now have 5 different offers on 373.com for $400K+

    Turned them all down

    • Mike says

      October 20, 2015 at 11:31 am

      The power of “NO”. Well done.

  9. leon says

    October 20, 2015 at 11:11 am

    989.com for $818,181.81

    Why not for $989.989 LOL

    Well done Rick!

  10. Doron says

    October 20, 2015 at 12:14 pm

    Great news! Brokered by Guta.com?

    • Peter says

      October 20, 2015 at 3:42 pm

      Are you high?

      • Doron Vermaat says

        November 4, 2015 at 2:45 am

        Read the comments.

  11. Dave says

    October 20, 2015 at 12:31 pm

    Rick is the greatest of all time! Cong.

  12. todd says

    October 20, 2015 at 12:37 pm

    Is he selling to spend it in retirement or is he selling because he sees the bottom falling out soon? That’s the real question.

  13. DonnyM says

    October 20, 2015 at 1:12 pm

    Rick is the Jedi master of domains on top of being the KING. Would be cool if he did one post per year about his thoughts on the domain world going forward.

    DonnyM

  14. brian says

    October 20, 2015 at 2:43 pm

    good stuff rick
    congrats

  15. robb says

    October 20, 2015 at 6:42 pm

    Wow what a year Rick is having! Congrats to him! Too bad he isn’t still blogging, he’d have a lot of great negotiating insight to give on all the inquiries that must be coming in on his short domains. 2015 has been the year of short domains…

  16. Michael Berkens says

    October 20, 2015 at 6:56 pm

    Todd

    Well Rick is retired so selling his domains makes sense he still has plenty of them including 12 more NNN.com domains

  17. Eric Jenkins says

    October 20, 2015 at 11:32 pm

    Congratulations to Rick! A true visionary!!

  18. SoFreeDomains says

    October 21, 2015 at 12:44 am

    To succeed in domaining, one must have the brain of Rick.

  19. Michael Berkens says

    October 21, 2015 at 8:19 am

    Doron

    I checked with Rick and he confirmed that Guta.com did broker the deal

  20. brad davis says

    October 21, 2015 at 3:42 pm

    wow…818k…that’s pretty darn good…are these going up or heading down???

    Acro..are you worried you could lose a potentially good payday??

  21. brad davis says

    October 21, 2015 at 4:03 pm

    i saw that too doron…

  22. Neil@DNALogic says

    October 27, 2015 at 12:04 am

    Congrats on the sale. As far as sales rationale goes, that’s for Rick to know. However, we all know which market is paying for the number eight. We also know the major market there has some uncertainty. We also know that NNN.come will, by their very nature, always be a limited commodity, but it’s not necessarily a bad time to cash out names to Chinese investors/nouveau riche who want to show off now, rather than have to possibly wait a few years if you’re retired. At least that was my logic in selling my randomly assigned cell phone number – eight digits long, containing five “8”s to an ethnic Chinese gentleman in Singapore….
    Again. Congratulations on the sale.


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