Newer report: domain sales for 19–25 October 2026, led by Daytona.com at $500,000.
These are the domain sales this week that made the public record: the top 20 transactions for 12–18 October 2026 as compiled by Domain.News, with ties at ranks 18 and 20 taking the list to 24 names. We checked each price against NameBio’s daily market reports and DNJournal’s latest chart. Twenty-three of the 24 prices have a second source; one, jiudian.com, rests on Domain.News alone. The $6,984,624 total is our own sum of the listed prices, not a figure Domain.News published.
Clarity.com and the top three
Clarity.com sold for $3.5 million in a private sale. The buyer is the founder and CEO of Clarity, the private-markets investment platform formerly known as Hiive, and he announced the price on LinkedIn. DNJournal quoted his answer to how he got the name: “Dollars. 3,500,000 of them, to be exact.” He also called the .com “one of the last definitive brand moats”. DNJournal’s Lowdown on 16 October forecast that, if nothing changed, the sale would rank as the fourth biggest publicly reported sale of the year to date; our top domain sales of 2026 chart shows where it landed.
tradingcards.com sold for $2,000,000 at Afternic, GoDaddy’s aftermarket. NameBio credits Afternic; DNJournal lists the venue as GoDaddy and says the deal was “brokered by GoDaddy”. Domain.News reports that the name had been listed with a Buy It Now price of $2.5 million, and that the buyer is hidden behind WHOIS privacy. Nobody has named them.
Nor.com sold for $700,000 through Atom.com, with K-Ventures on the selling side, according to DNJournal. Domain.News, citing Atom’s Zack Gabor, says the buyer wanted a three-letter .com. The buyer is not named, and the date is disputed: Domain.News’s list puts it on 14 October, while NameBio logs it on 15 October and Atom announced it that day.
All 24 domain sales this week, 12–18 October
The full list as Domain.News compiled it. “Confirmed” means NameBio or DNJournal reported the same price; where only the venue is single-sourced, the status says so.
| Rank | Domain | Price | Venue | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clarity.com | $3,500,000 | Private | 16 Oct | Confirmed |
| 2 | tradingcards.com | $2,000,000 | Afternic | 15 Oct | Confirmed |
| 3 | Nor.com | $700,000 | Atom.com | 14 or 15 Oct | Confirmed; date disputed |
| 4 | wellness.net | $146,000 | GoDaddy | 18 Oct | Confirmed |
| 5 | jiudian.com | $77,000 | DropCatch | 15 Oct | Reported, Domain.News only |
| 6 | vyra.com | $50,500 | Namecheap | 17 Oct | Confirmed |
| 7 | openrouter.si | $50,000 | Atom.com | 17 Oct | Confirmed |
| 8 | 6364.com | $43,500 | GoDaddy | 14 Oct | Confirmed |
| 9 | 7121.com | $32,508 | GoDaddy | 14 Oct | Confirmed |
| 10 | 83.ai | $32,397 | Dynadot | 16 Oct | Confirmed |
| 11 | distributedcompute.com | $32,000 | DomainGrid.com | 18 Oct | Price confirmed; venue Domain.News only |
| 12 | igamingtimes.com | $29,000 | DropCatch | 12 Oct | Confirmed |
| 13 | rebellion.si | $28,700 | Name.si | 15 Oct | Price confirmed; venue Domain.News only |
| 14 | 9135.com | $27,008 | GoDaddy | 14 Oct | Confirmed |
| 15 | 7570.com | $27,000 | GoDaddy | 13 Oct | Confirmed |
| 16 | qda.com | $26,016 | Dynadot | 17 Oct | Price confirmed; venue Domain.News only |
| 17 | mzs.com | $25,500 | GoDaddy | 14 Oct | Confirmed |
| 18= | pempo.com | $25,000 | Sedo | 13 Oct | Confirmed |
| 18= | stocks.si | $25,000 | Sedo | 13 Oct | Confirmed |
| 18= | kadence.ai | $25,000 | Afternic | 13 Oct | Price confirmed; venue Domain.News only |
| 19 | greeted.ai | $22,495 | Atom.com | 16 Oct | Confirmed |
| 20= | dubai.si | $20,000 | Sedo | 13 Oct | Confirmed |
| 20= | plasma.si | $20,000 | Sedo | 13 Oct | Confirmed |
| 20= | southkorea.si | $20,000 | Spaceship.com | 14 Oct | Price confirmed; venue Domain.News only |
By extension the list holds 14 .com, 6 .si, 3 .ai and 1 .net. The original list, with its embedded table, is on Domain.News.
The .si cluster: six sales, $163,700
Six Slovenian .si names made the list, together worth $163,700. The trigger is not hidden. Domain Name Wire reported that in a United Nations speech on 22 September, Donald Trump said the US government would refer to artificial intelligence as super intelligence. The registry told the same publication that 46,066 new .si domains were registered in September, at €10 a year. DNJournal, on its two-week chart for 5–18 October, wrote that “.ai has a new baby brother” and counted 10 .si entries on its country-code chart against 9 for .ai. It called OpenRouter.si’s $50,000 “a clear indicator that .si is being taken seriously by a lot of people.”
Who is buying is less clear. Domain Name Wire wrote on 1 October that most aftermarket .si trades “can be tracked back to domain investors, not businesses.” The end-user buys it found look defensive: Plasma AI uses plasma.ai and forwards plasma.si to it. openrouter.si, the top .si sale at $50,000, still redirected to an Atom landing page on 22 October; no source says OpenRouter bought it. Names like these read across the dot in the way domain hacks do, which is part of the appeal and part of the risk.
Numeric .coms, .ai and the DropCatch catches
Four four-digit numeric .coms (6364, 7121, 9135 and 7570) sold for a combined $130,016, all at GoDaddy. NameBio’s 14 October report noted that GoDaddy had the day’s top four sales. Domain.News describes four-digit .coms as scarce, liquid collectibles; that is the compiler’s view, not data, and no source says who bought them or why. Three of the four changed hands on the same day, 14 October, at prices between $27,008 and $43,500.
Three .ai names sold: 83.ai at $32,397, kadence.ai at $25,000 and greeted.ai at $22,495. That is a quiet week for the extension by recent standards; our round-up of recent .ai domain sales tracks it in more detail.
Two sales came from DropCatch auctions. igamingtimes.com went for $29,000, and jiudian.com for $77,000. Domain.News says jiudian means “hotel” in Pinyin and can also read as “nine o’clock”; it is the only source for that sale, so treat the price as reported. DropCatch handles expiring names, which makes these the week’s clearest example of an expired domain being caught and resold at auction. How that process works is covered in domain drop catching.
How to read this list, and what to do with it
Prices are as reported by the venues, buyers and compilers. Private sales appear only when someone discloses them, as Clarity’s CEO did; most never are, so a weekly list is a sample of the market, not a census. Tied prices share a rank. DNJournal’s chart covers two weeks, not one, which is why its order differs. To check what a single name sold for in the past, see domain sales history.
If this list has you wondering about a name you own, be realistic: most domains never sell for anything like these prices. The free Domain Worth Calculator scores a name on extension, length, words, characters, age and links, and gives a value band rather than one number. It is not a market appraisal, and it was not run on these sales. If you do decide to sell, you can list it on the SERPHeroes Domain Marketplace; listing is free and a flat 10% commission applies only when it sells.
Frequently asked questions
What was the biggest domain sale this week?
Clarity.com at $3.5 million in a private sale, announced on LinkedIn by Clarity’s founder and CEO and reported by DNJournal and Domain.News.
Why are so many .si domains selling?
Domain Name Wire links it to a 22 September speech in which Donald Trump said the US would call AI “super intelligence”. Most buyers so far appear to be investors, with a few defensive end-user purchases.
Who bought tradingcards.com and Nor.com?
Neither buyer has been named. Domain.News says the tradingcards.com WHOIS is private; DNJournal names K-Ventures only as the Nor.com seller side.
Does this list include every sale?
No. It covers publicly reported sales only. Private deals that are never disclosed do not appear anywhere.
The takeaway One private .com sale made half the week’s reported value. Below the top three, the money went to .si speculation, numeric .coms and a handful of .ai names, mostly between $20,000 and $50,000.
