Domain name statistics
Bishopi records what domain names actually sell for: 2,238,160 priced sales across 827 extensions, from 1993 to August 2026. Fewer than one sale in fifty clears $1,000, and 199 have ever cleared $1,000,000. Every figure below is counted, dated, and shown with the sample behind it.
- $1,000+
- 442,24019.8%
- $10,000+
- 32,6831.46%
- $100,000+
- 2,1060.094%
- $1,000,000+
- 1990.0089%
Of 2,238,160 recorded sales
The same market, 66x apart
Median sale price depends more on where a name changed hands than on the name itself. A median domain clears $60 at one venue and $4,000 at another. Any single marketplace can only report its own book, so this comparison needs a corpus that spans them.
Every venue below cleared at least 2,000 recorded sales. Prices are USD.
| Marketplace | Recorded sales | Median price |
|---|---|---|
| Uniregistry | 10,836 | $4,000 |
| Sedo | 148,654 | $2,000 |
| Afternic | 68,678 | $2,000 |
| BuyDomains | 28,649 | $1,888 |
| SnapNames | 34,055 | $510 |
| NameJet | 155,041 | $430 |
| Flippa | 10,638 | $315 |
| Dynadot | 83,328 | $205 |
| DropCatch | 206,892 | $199 |
| Namecheap | 103,281 | $177 |
| GoDaddy | 1,219,097 | $160 |
| Park.io | 17,219 | $125 |
| Sav.com | 53,377 | $60 |
What a median domain costs
Measured inside a single marketplace, so the line reflects prices rather than which venues were being recorded that year. The corpus’s largest venue, 1.2 million sales, continuously present since 2021.
| Year | Sales | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 258,254 | $47 |
| 2022 | 139,720 | $143 |
| 2023 | 160,225 | $133 |
| 2024 | 147,924 | $155 |
| 2025 | 178,253 | $186 |
| 2026to 10 Aug | 78,048 | $311 |
Where names change hands
Recorded sales by extension. This is a count of transactions observed, not a claim about what any extension is worth — median price by extension is governed by which marketplaces trade it, so it is reported by venue above instead.
| Extension | Recorded sales |
|---|---|
| .com | 1,756,133 |
| .org | 135,735 |
| .net | 89,836 |
| .io | 27,171 |
| .ai | 25,492 |
| .co | 22,203 |
| .de | 18,080 |
| .info | 13,454 |
| .xyz | 10,225 |
| .co.uk | 8,729 |
| .me | 7,388 |
| .cc | 7,305 |
The most expensive domain names
The highest price ever paid for a domain name is $90,000,000, for lasvegas.com in 2005. The seven sales below are the largest on public record, cross-checked against reporting outside this corpus.
| Domain | Price | Year |
|---|---|---|
| lasvegas.com | $90,000,000 | 2005 |
| ai.com | $70,000,000 | 2025 |
| carinsurance.com | $49,700,000 | 2010 |
| property.com | $36,000,000 | 2021 |
| voice.com | $30,000,000 | 2019 |
| rocket.com | $14,000,000 | 2024 |
| sex.com | $14,000,000 | 2005 |
What these numbers are not
- Not a registration count
- This is a corpus of sales, not a census of the DNS. It cannot tell you how many domains exist on an extension — only how often one was recorded changing hands.
- Not every sale
- Private transactions are only here when they were reported. Public marketplace sales are covered far better than brokered ones, so the corpus under-represents the top of the market.
- Not adjusted for inflation
- Prices are nominal USD as recorded. A 2005 sale and a 2026 sale are not directly comparable.
- Not a valuation
- A median is what a typical name fetched, not what yours will. Domain Value Analysis estimates a single name; Investment Analysis scores a whole keyword.
All figures measured 12 August 2026 against Bishopi’s own corpus. Non-USD sales (0.06% of rows) are excluded rather than converted.
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