I can assure you that almost no one is going to report publicly their really big sales in gTLDs in this venues. Many ".com people" think that because there are now 1000 new gTLDS, you have unlimited choice in your buying. The truth is, for really good names it is extremely competitive area, only few really good combos are available per gTLD, and people who are making good investments and sales there are not going to show you what names are really selling, as there is no need for competition. Buying is still ongoing. Not only private investors, also registries woke up and protecting good names. I was privately discussing this with several gTLDs investors, and only 1 of them wants to report his sales there (to promote awareness of gTLDs, he is a really nice guy) while all others were like "no way, we do not want competition. And I for sure understand this.
So if you take seriously stats there, it is funny
No offense but this is entirely incorrect. There is and has to be competition of every level of domain name sales. On the registry level, there's a reason it costs $180,000 to start a new one, and often there are auctions for far more money to own and run these new extensions.
If you look at their pricing, like .xyz for example, the "good" domains are held by the registry for $x,xxx-$xx,xxx, while everything else is practically given away for $0.01. If they priced everything for around $10 like .com, then the decent names would go but all of the other drivel wouldn't get touched. If they did that, they wouldn't have enough registrations, wouldn't make enough money, and would collapse. Instead, they lure you into thinking "oh, MesotheliomaLawyerFortWayne.xyz is only $0.01, what would it hurt to hold on to it and hope for a sale?" But next year, the renewal cost won't be $0.01, rather $10 with the hopes that people will forget about it and auto-renew will kick in. While many people shop their flea market of garbage domains, they hope the large number of registrations will cause a stir and result in someone spending too much money on one of their reserved names. A blind person can see that this is an embarrassing business model, but even they need to create competition (even if it's entirely artificial) to stay relevant.
On the domain investor level, competition is what makes any sale above registration fee occur. The reason .coms sell for $x,xxx everyday is because all of the new extensions make .com look even better, thus raising prices. A .com and a .vip do the same job when it comes to addressing a website, but the success of one only hurts the other. At this point, NTLDs are only competing with eachother, which is why they resort to the tactics .xyz does.
Think about it, if all of the people who are hiding their NTLD sales made them public, wouldn't everyone else be rushing to get their hands on them? Thus making your already registered names even more valuable?
Seems to me that either those sales didn't actually happen, or people just don't understand business
