Seventeen new end user domain sales up to $60k

End-user sales are the closest thing this market has to a truth serum. Flips between investors measure liquidity; a semiconductor company paying real money measures demand.

Mike Mann moved the top public sale through Sedo at $59,888. Mann rarely needs a marketplace to locate a buyer — listing it publicly keeps the comp on the record, which is worth more to the market than the fee.

• The buyer mix: a semiconductor firm, a Toronto rental property, a Nigerian real estate operation. Real estate remains the most dependable end-user vertical; it buys exact strings because the string is the storefront.

The $60k ceiling matters less than the spread beneath it. Seventeen closed sales mean a working middle market, not just trophy hunting at the top.

For sellers, every public number becomes ammunition in the next negotiation. Public sales become comps; comps become leverage.