Domain broker, Kate Buckley, announced the sale of two gerund domains, sleeping.com and snoring.com, for over $500,000 dollars each.
Such gerund domains, keywords that end in “ing,” can be very profitable, and such sales that have been made public reach seven figures.
Using historical data from NameBio, we’ve compiled the full list of such domains:
- Ending in a gerund (*ing)
- That are .com
- Which sold for $100,000 dollars and up
Here is the full list, courtesy of NameBio:
- gambling.com 2,500,000 USD 5/4/2011 Sedo
- investing.com 2,450,000 USD 12/19/2012 Private
- dating.com 1,750,000 USD 6/16/2010 Moniker
- flying.com 1,100,000 USD 4/8/2010 Private
- snoring.com 502,225 USD 7/16/2018 Buckley Media Group
- sleeping.com 502,225 USD 7/16/2018 Buckley Media Group
- housing.com 500,000 USD 10/9/2013 Private
- wrestling.com 500,000 USD 8/15/2006 Private
- greeting.com 350,000 USD 4/3/2007 Moniker
- recycling.com 300,000 USD 12/1/2006 Private
- emarketing.com 265,000 USD 12/3/2017 GetYourDomain
- biking.com 250,000 USD 2/11/2010 Afternic
- boating.com 250,000 USD 2/10/2010 Afternic
- slimming.com 185,000 USD 8/29/2006 Dotcom Agency
- consulting.com 181,000 USD 11/1/2005 Private
- bookkeeping.com 150,000 USD 4/8/2016 Uniregistry
- adopting.com 125,000 USD 5/24/2015 DomainHoldings
- cleaning.com 100,000 USD 11/4/2008 T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
