There are several resources available for finding reported domain name sales history, so I thought I would put them together and give my view on the best and easiest way to find the sales price of a specific domain name or based on keyword, TLD and many more options. One thing I can tell you from the start, just because a domain name sold, doesn’t always mean you will be able to find out what it sold for because many domain name sales go unreported. Secondly, it may take a little digging to find a reputable source for the price of a domain sold but just because it is posted doesn’t always mean the domain name really sold or at that price. You can try and do further verifying using whois history records at DomainTools.com for help or by contacting the past or present owner of the domain name to verify.

The following are the 5 resources I use, how, why and what they offer to find domain name sale prices:

Domain Name Sales History Services

Domain Tools

DomainTools.com Domain Sales History ~ This free service is not talked about that much but it is really accurate and almost always will have the domain name if it was reported sold (sometimes even if the domain was meant to be kept private but did sell)! The service works based upon a simple "keyword" search like dating or will work by putting in the exact domain name with TLD, like Dating.org .

Data provide is: Domain Name, Date Sold, Price and Location

The DomainTools.com Domain Sales History tool simply works and is often my #1 place to visit to find a reported domain name sale! It may surprise some but data dates back to 1997 and is likely the only service with data that old!

Using domain name sales history is a good idea if you are purchasing a specific keyword related domain or to see if or what price the domain name you are buying may have sold for in the past or even to use the sales as a baseline to compare to a domain name you may own. The "bells and whistles" are small using this service but the data provided is very accurate, fast, to the point and the likely source you will find the domain name you are looking for.

NameBio

NameBio.com ~ was started by a good friend of mine Justin Allen and NameBio was sold in January of 2010 as reported first by DotWeekly (without my friend even telling me I might add due to a NDA). The site has not changed since the sale but is still full of bells and whistles the site is know for. One that many like is the ajax function of showing results as you type in a keyword(s) in real time. NameBio offers a wide range of search functions that seem endless but can be very helpful. The sites database is updated daily from many of the popular domain name aftermarket services.

NameBio also offers an RSS feed, which is nice as it allows you to easily follow domain name sales as they are reported by NameBio daily. NameBio is by far the only service that offers the largest amount of "features" in finding a specific domain name, type of domain name, by TLD, patterns and much more.

Google

Google.com is often a great source to use if the first two did not return the results you are looking for. I normally use the search terms "domainname.com sold" or if I know where it sold, will include "domainname.com sedo" etc. Use caution based on the source that is reporting.

DnJournal

DnJournal.com is run by Ron Jackson and is a very trusted source for domain name sales which has been reporting since 2004. Ron puts his own twist on reporting domain name sales and publishes a weekly reported domain name sales list. The weekly reported domain name sales are reported here every Wednesday and you can also check out a list of the highest year to date (YTD) domain name sales by TLD. This list is often referenced many times through a year! Ron even offers an archive of the YTD domain name sales reports from years past which are fun to browse from time to time.

The weekly reports are great (and fun) to read and the YTD is nice to follow as well. If you are looking for a specific reported domain name sale, DnJournal is likely not the best resource to find it, even though they have likely reported it. Using DomainTools or NameBio are the likely two best to find a specific domain name due to the search functions they offer.

DnJournal’s sources include Sedo.com, Afternic DLS (buydomains.com and afternic.com), SnapNames.com, Pool.com, Latonas.com and many more.

Sedo

Sedo.com reports its domain name sales using an RSS feed which gets updated week days at random times during the week. The domain name and price are the only two things displayed. This is a direct from the source kind of sales feed but still shows repeat sales and even "available" reported sales from time to time. This doesn’t happen often but does happen, just so you are aware of it.

Those are the 5 resources I use to obtain the information available about reported domain name sales. Some sales are very easy to find and many are not. One thing to keep in mind is that many domain names get "reported sold" when a domain name simply ended at auction. This does not always result into a "sale" (payment and transfer of ownership of the domain name) as deals do fall through.

Some domain names may sell several times in a year or even in a specific month, so that is another thing to keep in mind.

Side Note: DnSalePrice.com is a another service similar to NameBio.com but the problem I see here is from what is stated on the sites home page while doing research for this article. DnSalePrice.com states "Last updated Dec 11, 2009 @12:25:00 AM." Having an outdated domain name sales database is never a good thing for users of the service.