AutoLine.com Sells For Over $42,000 As Domain Sales Keep Running at Full Throttle

by Ron Jackson
  

Sedo's top contenders were drafting tighter than a NASCAR team as they zipped across the line is positions 2, 3, 4 and 5. Three of those four entries were country code domains, helping ccTLD's continue to rise in the domain world's hierarchy. #2 Pauschalreise.de ("package tour" in German) went for €19,500 ($25,117) while #4 Spiel.de ("game" in German) netted €14,000 ($18,032) and #5 Rock.co.uk rolled up £9,000 ($16,950). Sedo slipped #3 AdEurope.com into the middle of their lead pack, with that domain going for €15,000 ($19,321).

Then it was time for SnapNames to flex their muscles again. They rang up 5 of the last 6 chart entries to place an exclamation mark on a very impressive week for the Portland, Oregon powerhouse. Their hot streak down the stretch included #6 IAD.com at $13,010 and #7 Lesionado.com ("wounded" in Spanish) at $10,250. There were nine 5-figure domains on this week's Big Board and dozens of solid sales in the mid four-figure range, including several at that level on our New TLD chart.

We'll run down all of the action for you, but first let's take a look at the complete Top Ten reported sales for the week ending May 8:

SnapNames and Sedo shared the #8 position with the final two 5-figure sales on this week's list, eNote.com and DonsWorld.com which went for $10,000 each. SnapNames then anchored the chart with a pair of $7,500 travel domains; SwitzerlandVacation.com and DiscountAirlineTicket.com. Those half dozen chart entries were just the start of the SnapNames story this week. Their sales sheet also included DiscountWarehouse.com at $6,800, SelfPortrait.com at $6,534 and Waterfall.com at $5,831. NudeCelebrityPictures.com flashed another $5,655, while SacredGeometry.com kicked in $5,600 and Launch.org landed $5,100. 

The other winners at SnapNames included Microbes.com at $4,899, GuitarPedals.com at $4,850 and Snoop.net at $3,600. They also flew F16.com to a $2,350 payday and heard $2,000 worth of good news from BroadbandVoice.com.

Sedo also had a huge roster of high dollar sales, many of them in a sector they dominate, country code extensions. GlacierExpress.de iced €5,800 ($7,470), Telefonpassning.se ("telephone operator" in Swedish) rang up €4,000 ($5,153) and Madame.cz gave the Czech Republic ccTLD a rare four-figure sale at €3,000 ($3,863). Sedo scored with a couple of Indian domains as well. MobilePhones.in dialed up €1,500 ($1,932) and OnlineBanking.in deposited €1,000 ($1,288). They picked up another €1,000 ($1,288) for CityBank.be (Belgium's country code) and even completed a rare .name sale, collecting €700 ($901) for Posters.name!

Sedo also cranked up the .com sales machine, collecting €5,000 ($6,444) for the typo Hotlmail.com (182 with the extension in Overture) and €4,500 ($5,796) for VoyanceGratuite.com. 8P.com added another $5,556 while MEJ.com and Cusino.com each contributed $5,000. Another 3-letter domain, FZB.com added $2,500 and a pair of IDN .coms also changed hands; Clarνn.com at $2,300 and Diseρo.com at €600 ($773). A nice 2-character .org polished off the banquet with FT.org attracting €2,000 ($2,576). You'll be hearing more from Sedo in our New TLD section where they ran rampant again, rolling up 8 of this week's 9 chart entries.

A .net led the hit parade at Pool.com where Prom.net was the belle of the ball, ringing up $6,261. Lavallife.com brought $5,221, Merchandiser.com booked $5,109 and PaidInternships.com added $4,125. Someone went on an insurance domain buying binge as well, piling up LosAngelesAutoInsurance.com ($4,050), SanDiegoAutoInsurance.com ($3,800), SanDiegoCarInsurance.com ($3,700), SanFranciscoAutoInsurance.com ($2,050), SacramentoCarInsurance.com ($2,050), PhoenixAutoInsurance.com ($1,550) and PhoenixCarInsurance.com ($1,505).

Also making a splash at Pool were HorseRacingForms.com at $3,587, UltimateVacation.com at $3,300 and OneBody.com at $3,250. ColoradoRockyMountains.com hit a $2,800 peak, BilliardsClub.com pocketed $2,055 and CheapLeather.com split with $1,950. AmericanMusician.com chimed in with $1,730, Deckmasters.com commanded $1,650, BuyMedical.com and SilverBlue.com each contributed $1,600 and BloodSubstitute.com added $1,553. In other extensions, Jerk.net yanked $1,550 and GTP.net brought $1,410. Canada-based Pool continues to move .ca's as well. EmpireTheaters.ca went for $415 and YamahaMotors.ca rode off with $360.

At Afternic.com, $5,000 flowed from InStream.com, 3DScience.com discovered $4,637 and VOIPSoftware.com contributed $3,888. HotEscorts.com went home with $3,488, Comeback.org returned $2,888 and ABCWatch.com ticked off $2,300. UFIA.com added another $2,250, ContractorUSA.com brought in $2,190 and EcoStore.com banked an even $2,000. 

KWR.com was the top catch at Enom's Club Drop, going for $3,700. MP3Books.com brought in $1,600, DentalFreePlan.com extracted $1,500 and a typo domain, CapitolOneMortgage.com (69 with the extension in Overture) went for the same price. Ken Cunliffe of TopNames.com went shopping at BuyDomains.com and came home with SunZone.com ($5,600), SkateZone.com ($3,300) and JokeWorld.com ($2,000). 

In private transactions, Stuart Wood acquired Classification.com for $3,500, Ira Zoot of DigitalEstates.com sold RNNR.com for $3,000 and Brinkle.com sold FreeSpecialReport.com for $2,000. 

In the Pipeline: An auction for Bird.com ended at Afternic.com for a whopping $200,000 and early indications are that it is a legitimate bid. If it goes through it will be one of the top three reported sales of 2005. 

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Speaking of the year's top sales, Our Year-To-Date chart gets three new members this week, led by AutoLine.com which joins at #27. To keep our list at 75 domains, we upped the entry level to $18,750 this week. Here are the biggest winners so far in 2005:

New TLD Section

After a strong week last week, the new extensions stepped it up still another notch with the number of 4-figure sales rising from five last week to six this time out. .Info was the leading extension with 6 of the 9 chart entries (a tie for 8th accounted for the extra position). Sedo practically owned the chart, accounting for 8 of the 9 sales, including #1 Adventure.info at £2,500 ($4,708).

Pauschalreisen.info and Pauschalreise.info (the plural and singular versions of the German term for "package tour") finished 2nd and 3rd respectively at €3,500 ($4,507) and €2,800 ($3,606). Still another .info, the hyphenated New-York.info was next at $3,500. .Biz then made it's first appearance with Cheerleading.biz going for $1,605 at Pool (preventing Sedo from making a clean sweep of the chart).

All three of the new TLD's notched four-figure sales. .US did it with #6 WebCams.us at an even $1,000. Here's a look at the complete new extension leader's list for the week ending May 8: 

Howard Hoffman of PPCIncome.com sold #7 Thunderbird.info at Sedo for $800. Prepaid.info and Ohana.biz tied for 8th to anchor the chart at €500 ($612) each. Elsewhere, in private transactions Aaron Kluge sold LegalAdvice.us for $500 and OBGYN.us for $300. A couple of .biz domains also changed hands, Skater.biz at $405 and Paymaster.biz at $350.

We raised the minimum entry level on our New TLD Year-To-Date chart to $1,600 this week, but with five new entries the list still contains over 50 domains. Here are 2005's top reported new extension sales through May 8: