Country Codes

The country codes continue their hot start to 2012, ringing up a half dozen five-figure sales this week. You saw all of those on the all extension chart at the top of this report, so the highest sale you haven't yet seen in  this category is #7 on this week's Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart. That is EuroNews.co.uk, sold at Sedo for $9,240. 

Rounding out the top ten were three tightly bunched British .co.uk domains. GiftFinder.co.uk and HauntedHouse.co.uk (both sold at Sedo) tied for 8th at $7,700 each and #10 Raven.co.uk, sold at DomainLore.co.uk) kicked in $7,099. 

Sedo wound up sweeping 15 of the 20 chart entries. The other spots went to the AfternicDLS, NetFleet.com.au (with #11 FreeSamples.com.au at $6,350), eMall.ca, who sold #12 (tie) ePhone.ca for $6,000 in a private transaction, and Drop.com.au (with Affiliate.com.au at $3,806). 

Germany's .de won the race among extensions with seven chart entries, nipping .co.uk's six. Two other TLDs had multiple chart entries; Canada's .ca and Australia's .com.au with two apiece. 

Here is how the ccTLD leaders stacked up for the week ending January 15:

There were several dozen additional four-figure ccTLD sales off the chart with the AfternicDLS accounting for the best of those - Rides.tv at $3,750. They also sold BuildingBestBrands.in for $2,000 and ZenDesk.fr for $1,950.  

As usual Sedo had the vast majority of additional country code sales. Their list included HIK.in at $3,619 and three others; ACM.de, ReifenDiscount.at and Wohngemeinschaft.at at $3,225 apiece. 

Sedo had 55 more four-figure ccTLD sales ranging from $1,000 to $1,905 that are listed in the table below:

Elsewhere, Drop.com.au sold SportsNews.com.au ($2,825), GeneralClassifieds.com.au ($2,419) and MachineryHub.com.au ($1,428) while NetFleet.com.au moved CosmeticDentistsMelbourne.com.au for $2,105 and AppsStore.com.au for $1,500. Also DomainLore.co.uk sold TabletComputer.co.uk for $1,463. 

If there are country code extensions in our report that you are not familiar with, you can look up the nation each extension goes with here. 

Non .com gTLDs (.biz, .info, .mobi, .net, .org, .asia, .pro & .tel)

A pair of nice five-figure sales set the pace for the non .com gTLDs this week. #1 Gold.biz at $20,640 and #2 Broadband.org at $12,500 (both sold through Sedo) sit atop our Non .com gTD Top 20 Chart. The AfternicDLS rounded out the first three with Quizzes.net at $7,979. 

The AfternicDLS went on to sweep 12 of the 20 chart entries including #5 LikeLive.net at $5,000 (as you saw earlier, the same price that the .com sold for). Sedo claimed the eight remaining openings with a group that included #4 Alcolock.net at $5,031.

The .nets easily won the race among extensions, piling up 14 of the 20 chart entries. The .orgs took four places while .biz grabbed the other two. Here's how all of the Non .Com gTLD leaders stacked up for the week ending January 15:

There were several dozen additional four-figure non .com gTLD sales just off the chart with the AfternicDLS posting the best of those; RSI.net at $1,929 and ContentMarketing.org at $1,888. Puertas.net added $1,750.  

The AfternicDLS had 16 more four-figure sales in this category ranging from $1,000 to $1,500. Those are listed in the table below: 

At Sedo GLD.org generated $1,800 while JewishFamily.org and Calendarios.net contributed $1,500 each. HelpBook.org hauled in $1,290, PrivateTour.net tacked on $1,200 and Infidelity.org fetched $1,100.

Finger.net flagged down $1,008 and four others; CheapAutoInsurance.biz, FleaMarket.net, MotocrossGear.net and Nekretnine.biz went for $1,000 apiece. 

Elsewhere YummnyNames and the AfternicDLS teamed up to sell GolfPencil.net ($1,500) and InteractiveMedia.org ($1,105) and YummyNames worked with Sedo to sell Venture.biz for $1,099. 

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