3-Letter .Com Domain Draws $100,000 at Sedo in This Week's Top Sale 

Sedo.com sailed to the top of this week's Top 20 domain sales chart by handling a $100,000 deal for AMT.com. That is the biggest three-letter .com sale reported so far this year. We understand that Sedo completed another big 3-letter .com sale today (May 22) that will be eligible for next week's chart. That was BCF.com, purchased by Burlington Coat Factory for $71,000. Our weekly reports cover sales made in the 7-day period ending on Sunday. 

While we are on the subject of the timeline for this column, let me give you a heads up about next week. Next Monday will be Memorial Day, a major holiday in the U.S., and the offices of all of the USA-based sales venues will be closed. We normally gather our sales data from them each Monday, then write the column Tuesday for publication that night. Due to the upcoming holiday, everything will move back one day next week and the column will be published Wednesday night (May 30) instead.

By Ron Jackson

One other bit of housekeeping to take care of before we dive into the rest of this week's sales. Last week we told you about the sale of Porn.com that was brokered by Moniker.com. The exact price of the sale was not released at that time (though both the buyer and broker announced that the figure was over $9 million). Moniker CEO Monte Cahn has since told us that the exact sale price was $9.5 million in cash. Other terms of the deal were not announced and as of this writing the WhoIs record still shows this domain in Moniker's escrow account. Once the domain has been transferred to the buyer (MXN Limited) this domain will be become eligible for our Year-To-Date chart (where it would currently rank as the biggest sale of 2007, as well as the biggest all-cash sale ever reported). 

Now on with this week's show.  Sedo, SnapNames.com and Afternic.com/BuyDomains.com each put five domains on our new leader board. A Korean IDN (International Domain Name) led the SnapNames roster and ranks as the week's second biggest sale. 휴대폰.com (the puny code is xn--vk1bq83dvhc.com) attracted $36,194. We are told by the buyer that the translation is ("carry/portable phone" in Korean)," essentially equivalent to what English speakers would refer to as mobile or cell phone.

All five of Sedo's charted domains landed in the top ten, including #3 Geisha.com at $28,777. That was followed by the biggest .TV sale reported so far this year, DE.TV at $21,500. James Barclay of AllThings.tv made that sale in a private transaction. Moniker took the 5th slot, one of three names they put on the Big Board, with WannaGo.com at $20,350. Pool.com was the only other venue with multiple entries this week, scoring twice with #10 (tie) Netica.com leading the way for them at $13,000. Afternic/BuyDomains sold PetKeeper.com at the same price to start their run of five charted domains.

.Com took 15 of the 21 positions (there was an extra spot due to a three-way tie for the last rung on the ladder). The country codes also enjoyed a solid week with five entries and all of those hit five figures. All but one of them reached the top half of the elite list. In addition to the .TV at #4, the 6th, 7th and 8th slots went to ccTLDs representing Great Britain, the Netherlands and Germany. Spain also got into the act with #13 Bueno.es ("good" in Spanish) at €9,000 ($12,105).

The only other non .com on the list is #12 HM.net, sold at Moniker for $12,250. Here's a look at the complete leader board for the week ending Sunday, May 20:

.Com Supporting Cast

Sedo supplemented their five chart entries with winners like JOZ.com ($9,350), PureSkin.com ($6,000) and ActiveFitness.com ($5,750). RMQ.com added $5,400 and StarSite.com sold for $5,000. Sedo also had a nice developed website sale, moving PortalBulgaria.com for €6,000 ($8,089).

The SnapNames starting five all made it to the Big Board and the popular expired domain auction house also had a boatload of solid four-figure sales. OlympiaWA.com went for $9,211, TuxShop.com looked dashing at $9,100 and Frostbites.com put a cool $8,180 on ice. BeachThongs.com flashed $7,243, DreamDating.com connected for $6,700 and Chuang.com drew $6,100. BulkBarn.com bagged $6,000, UnitedVacation.com clocked out at $5,600 and WoodenShips.com sailed with $5,100.

LongTermInvestments.com returned $5,009 and another Korean IDN, 요리학원.com (xn--oy2b19ugf746c.com) added $5,000. That term roughly translates to "cooking classes". CollegeDebtConsolidation.com deposited $4,988, PhotoTShirts.com captured $4,867 and HealthInsurer.com covered $4,595. AmericanJets.com took off with $4,533, BuyAndSale.com booked $4,222 and SMSAlerts.com lit up $4,111. 

SnapNames sold another 38 .com domains ranging from $2,000 to $3,803. You can check those out in the table below:

Back at Afternic/BuyDomains, the ActiveExchange kept cranking out hits with names like Farmlands.com ($5,499) and a six-domain pack at $5,000 each that included Nervus.com, MobilePhoto.com, iResorts.com, HouseInteriors.com, FaceCard.com and Club19.com. 

DADT.com dealt $4,812, ThePoorhouse.com provided $4,288 and ChinaSat.com checked in at $3,900. ChoiceCollection.com clicked for $3,815, PartyProducts.com produced $3,800 and two others, TheFinePrint.com and JustEyes.com ogled $3,700 apiece. FutureMail.com delivered $3,688 and PerfomanceParts.com (typo) tacked on $3,500. 

Afternic/BuyDomains had another 58 .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $3,488. Those are listed in the table below:

Afternic/BuyDomains had over 200 more .com sales ranging from $1,988 all the way down to just $388.

Elsewhere, Josh Orter sold IdentityBureau.com for $5,000 in a private sale, Pool picked up $4,523 for PostalCodes.com and TDNAM.com gained $3,340 with GLaing.com.

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

A sweet two-letter .net, HM.net leads this weeks Global Contenders chart after ringing up $12,250 at Moniker.com. That was one of eight .nets on the new list. .Org has been missing in action recently (the extension had only one charted name last week), but the TLD came back with a vengeance this week, tying .net with eight chart entries of its own. The .org leaders were #2 Mame.org, sold for $7,500 at Sedo and #3 (tie) Sociopath.org, sold for $5,000 at Afternic/BuyDomains.

.Info and .Biz each put two names on the elite GC list. Eric.info tied for third at $5,000 while Rentenfonds.info ("fixed interest fund" in German) deadlocked for the 7th slot after attracting $3,000 at Sedo. #5 Gold.biz banked $3,700 and #16 IdahoFalls.biz drummed up $2,050, with both .biz domains selling at Sedo.

Here's how all of the GC leaders stacked up for the week ending May 20: