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.
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.
AbdulBasit Makrani says
October 20, 2015 at 10:05 amThat’s a great sale! Congrats to both parties. Rick is rocking specially this year 😀
Acro says
October 20, 2015 at 10:15 amRick 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.
Tom T says
October 20, 2015 at 10:15 amAwesome 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!
Acro says
October 20, 2015 at 10:40 amI believe 886.com has also been sold – not by Rick and most likely not even close to that amount.
DrDomainer says
October 20, 2015 at 10:48 amRock & Rick 🙂
M. Menius says
October 20, 2015 at 10:48 amCongratulations!
Ramahn says
October 20, 2015 at 10:56 amCongrats sifu Rick
Michael Berkens says
October 20, 2015 at 11:08 amAcro
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 amThe power of “NO”. Well done.
leon says
October 20, 2015 at 11:11 am989.com for $818,181.81
Why not for $989.989 LOL
Well done Rick!
Doron says
October 20, 2015 at 12:14 pmGreat news! Brokered by Guta.com?
Peter says
October 20, 2015 at 3:42 pmAre you high?
Doron Vermaat says
November 4, 2015 at 2:45 amRead the comments.
Dave says
October 20, 2015 at 12:31 pmRick is the greatest of all time! Cong.
todd says
October 20, 2015 at 12:37 pmIs he selling to spend it in retirement or is he selling because he sees the bottom falling out soon? That’s the real question.
DonnyM says
October 20, 2015 at 1:12 pmRick 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
brian says
October 20, 2015 at 2:43 pmgood stuff rick
congrats
robb says
October 20, 2015 at 6:42 pmWow 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…
Michael Berkens says
October 20, 2015 at 6:56 pmTodd
Well Rick is retired so selling his domains makes sense he still has plenty of them including 12 more NNN.com domains
Eric Jenkins says
October 20, 2015 at 11:32 pmCongratulations to Rick! A true visionary!!
SoFreeDomains says
October 21, 2015 at 12:44 amTo succeed in domaining, one must have the brain of Rick.
Michael Berkens says
October 21, 2015 at 8:19 amDoron
I checked with Rick and he confirmed that Guta.com did broker the deal
brad davis says
October 21, 2015 at 3:42 pmwow…818k…that’s pretty darn good…are these going up or heading down???
Acro..are you worried you could lose a potentially good payday??
brad davis says
October 21, 2015 at 4:03 pmi saw that too doron…
Neil@DNALogic says
October 27, 2015 at 12:04 amCongrats 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.