Invest.com Rings Up Over $1 Million to Top All Sales Reported Over the Past Two Weeks

We were away covering the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York conference so there was no domain sales report last week. This week we will bring you completely back up to speed by covering all of the notable sales reported since our last column Sept. 16. We have also doubled the length of all three charts, from 20 to 40 positions, to accommodate the top sales from the expanded data pool that we will be wading through this time out. 

There is no doubt about  the premier domain - that's Invest.com - a name that rang up a hefty $1,015,000 through Sedo's GreatDomains. That was the first seven-figure sale reported since the first quarter of this year. The completion of this transaction and the $4 million in live auction sales at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. last week helped to close out the third quarter of 2008 on a positive note (we will have more details on the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. auctions and all show events in our comprehensive conference review article that is scheduled for publication this coming weekend). 

By Ron Jackson

After that million dollar sale at the top of the chart, the rest of the headliners dropped back into the five figure range, but there were 37 of those to report, led by a very strong .net sale, #2 CoiffureFemme.net ("women's hairstyle" in French) at €55,000 ($77,550). Sedo sold that domain and went on to claim 15 of the 42 chart entries, more than any other venue (the extra two positions resulted from a three-way tie for the final spot on the Big Board). 

Moniker had a hand in eight sales, with #3 EstrellaDigital.com ("star digital" in Spanish) heading their roster at $70,326. The AfternicDLS also piled up eight chart entries en route to another solid week. While .com enjoyed its usual chart dominance, five non .com Global Contenders and five ccTLDs also managed to crash the all extension leader board. The Global Contenders were represented by a pair of .nets, a .org, a .mobi and a .info. The country codes included a pair of German domains (.de) and one each from France (.fr), Switzerland (.ch) and the European Union (.eu). 

Two of those ccTLDs soared all the way into to top ten with #8 (tie) Allgemeine.de
("general" in German) commanding €14,000 ($19,740) and #10 Rachat-de-Credit.fr
("repurchase of credit" in French) banking €13,500 ($19,035) - quite a nice sum for a double hyphenated country code domain. Europeans tend to be less averse to hyphens than domain buyers in the U.S. are. 

Here is how all of the top sellers stacked up for the two week period ending Sunday, September 28:

.Com Supporting Cast

As always, there were hundreds of solid four figure sales over the past fortnight. Sedo had the top sale in the .com supporting cast with GreenSUV.com at $9,500. Zozo.com added $8,900, MurrellsInlet.com drew $7,785 and LaptopInfo.com fetched $7,500. 

SaveMyLinks.com located $7,191, AffordIt.com found $7,000 and MYLT.com tacked on $6,500. GraphingCalculators.com tallied $6,500 and three others; ComTrade.com, Equinity.com and SportsPowers.com produced $6,000 each. Sedo had 23 more .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $5,650. You can see those in the chart below:

Sedo also sold Hochschulen.com ("universities" in German) for €4,500 ($6,345) through the Sedo/DomainVermarkterForum conference in Germany and posted two other sales via their GreatDomains premium auction site; XAG.com at €3,933 ($5,546) and KungFuMovies.com at $5,000.

Moniker pulled $9,100 for a double hyphenated domain, PHP-MySQL-Tutorial.com and added $8,000 for a Japanese IDN,  株マップ.com ("stock maps" in Japanese). InVegas.com notched $4,649, GoodToWear.com donned $4,149 and SitesToGo.com generated $2,099. In completed sales from their live auction at Internext, BigFatBooty.com backed into $9,000, BootyGalleries.com gained $5,000 and AutoFellatio.com downed $2,000. In a sale from Moniker's live auction at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East, AirForceBase.com flew in $3,000. 

With their mainstream business media marketing campaign aimed at small to medium sized business owners still going full bore, the AfternicDLS continued to pile up mounds of four-figure sales. Lochs.com landed $8,000, H8O.com clicked for $7,500 and Roncalli.com returned $6,789. TheHighwaymen.com hauled in $6,750, Aronia.com rounded up $6,380 and Chrys.com kicked in $6,088.

TourLine.com tripped $6,000, AIMP.com paid $5,000 and two others; Hybrida.com and DealHere.com captured $4,888 apiece. BigBoats.com floated $4,800, MyBSI.com billed $4,688 and DentalHealthCare.com drilled $4,590. RightLogo.com reached $4,288, TuningKit.com connected with $4,271 and two more; AAFIN.com and ColumbiaViva.com delivered $4,088 each.

The AfternicDLS had 122 more .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $4,000. You can check those out in the table below:

The AfternicDLS sold three others through Sedo; Kollegi.com ($3,050), RustySpur.com ($3,000) and Loan365.com ($2,800). 

At NameJet.com, QueBuena.com contributed $7,320, IdeaTree.com grew $7,200 and Casco.com collared $7,100. MDJ.com dispensed $6,900, JustInTime.com clocked in at $6,791 and FundManagement.com focused on $6,250. AllUsedCars.com cranked up $4,544, MysteryIsland.com attracted $4,050 and Pokec.com dealt out $3,845. 

NameJet had 21 more .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $3,500 that you can check out in the table below:

At SnapNames.com, ZZL.com cornered $7,251, Mandt.com mined $7,166 and ZZE.com extracted $6,349. Niba.com nibbled on $4,800, NarutoArena.com welcomed $4,075 and Zuna.com zipped up $3,650. 

StartUpCompany.com staked out $3,301, FreewareGaming.com unwrapped $2,900 and Anchoi.com chewed up $2,608. ClientBuilder.com claimed $2,510, GreenHealth.com greeted $2,401 and RustedRoot.com rustled up $2,169. Tites.com tied up $2,080 and WonderfulWorld.com went for $2,050. 

Elsewhere, DownloadForum.com changed hands for $5,000 in a private sale, TopWebNames.com moved MagneticBeds.com ($4,400), SwornIn.com ($3,500) and BelizePropertyForSale.com ($3,000). Pool.com plucked $4,004 for Planetas.com, $3,450 for Contexts.com, $2,468 for HiltonGarden.com and $2,051 for Fengwo.com.

DNCartoons.com reeled in $4,000 with FishingLure.com. Yine.com yielded $3,000 and four others; 11V.com, 4BB.com, 80K.com and Fooc.com cleared $2,500 each. RentBeachHouses.com bagged another $2,000. 

At TDNAM.com SpecialtyFonts.com spawned $2,570, VideosZoofilicos.com chalked up $2,400 and AdNetSpots.com displayed $2,000. Finally, CondoMatch.com sold for $2,000 at URLs.net.

Global Contenders (.biz, .info, .mobi, .net & .org)

The Global Contenders chart features a quartet of five-figure sales this week and the best of those,  CoiffureFemme.net (women's hairstyle" in French), ranks among the year's ten biggest sales in this category after changing hands for $77,550 at Sedo. 

The first five sales on the GC chart all made the all extension leader board you saw at the top of this report. The biggest sale you haven't seen yet is #6 Joes.net, sold for $8,750 on the AfternicDLS. Ride.net was close behind after ringing up $8,000 at eHot.net. The .nets swept 23 of the 40 positions on this week's expanded chart.

.Org took nine spots, including #9 Phila.org at $7,500. .Info also had a good week with seven charted domains led by #4 Belgium.info ($10,000) and #8 Cooking.info ($7,700). .Mobi had one representative on the leader board, #3 MyCellphone.mobi, sold through DonsDomainNames.com for $15,000.

Here's how all of the Global Contenders stacked up for the two weeks ending September 28: