Gibraltar.com Rocks This Week's Domain Sales Chart in $360,000 Deal 

Incidently, we indicated it was imminent last week and now the time has come to permanently increase the size of our weekly Big Board - doubling capacity from the 20 positions we have spotlighted since we started tracking sales four years ago to 40 places from this point forward. The aftermarket has been on steroids this year and expanding the leader board is necessary to focus on all of the five and six figure sales that have become commonplace.

The live auction boom has had a lot to do with that - the latest example being the $3.8 million event at the recent Domain Roundtable conference in Seattle. As those transactions are finalized they will join the flood of charted sales that already appear each week from Moniker's many live auctions. 

By Ron Jackson

The Afternic DLS (powered by Afternic.com and BuyDomains.com)  had another solid outing scoring with #2 Rey.com and two other names on the elite list (plus hundreds of solid four figure sales you will read about later in this report). HuntingMoon.com had their biggest sale to date, banking $77,000 from #3 Spend.com. The #4 spot went to a late closer from the Moniker/T.R.A.F.F.I.C. auction in June - Sub.com at $71,000. Moniker also put domains from their recent Affiliate Summit and Internext auctions in the Top 10.

.Com claimed all but six of the chart entries. Four went to Global Contenders (3 .nets and 1 .org) led by #19 (tie) Number.net, sold at Sedo for $16,000. The other two openings were claimed by country code domains; #25 (tie) Nail4You.de (German ccTLD) at $13,604 and #33 (tie) Add.us (United States ccTLD) at $10,000. Sedo sold the German domain (the name of a company that already has nail care sites on a number of other country code extensions around the world) while the American domain changed hands in a private transaction. The seller of Add.us had just recently acquired the name in a Pool.com auction for $1,050 (Pool caught the name when it dropped after the previous owner failed to renew it).

Here is how all of the top sellers stacked up for the week ending Sunday, August 26:

.Com Supporting Cast

Sedo's big week extended well beyond their 26 charted domains. They also sold UKCredit.com for $7,566 and Organic-Food.com for €5,000 ($6,803). Eject.com pulled the ripcord on $6,700, MiniRepublic.com decreed $6,250 and 065.com counted out $6,100. Feminino.com fetched $6,000, CompleteComputers.com downloaded $5,050 and NationalWind.com broke $5,000. You'll hear about still more Sedo sales in our Global Contenders and Country Codes section a bit later.

At SnapNames.com, Mantbank.com deposited $7,351, AlliedInterstate.com located $6,916 and Truckmaster.com hauled in $6,500. SmartBuyers.com bagged $6,250, TheStones.com rolled up $6,000 and Navigare.com notched $5,101. FinancialForum.com clicked for $4,100, Moniteurs.com lit up $3,988 and PSPGame.com scored $3,220.

Other winners at SnapNames included Chromatic.com ($3,200), SeattleYellowPages.com ($3,000), TurboBike.com ($2,900) and BuyMedication.com ($2,612). The bottom line also benefited from Colposcope.com ($2,556), VantageSystems.com and Jarek.com ($2,450 each) and MexicoBusiness.com ($2,372). AirTV.com tuned in $2,309, MobileNation.com dialed up $2,200 and CrossroadsMall.com attracted $2,179. Rounding out the SnapNames roster were MyFling.com ($2,085), MontrealYellowPages.com ($2,052), PhotoMousepad.com ($2,038) and AquaSystems.com ($2,000). 

The hits just kept on coming at Afternic/BuyDomains thanks to Inspirator.com ($6,500), Joueurs.com ($6,472), WebFTP.com ($6,000) and dozens more. PolishSausage.com served up $5,000, InteriorsByDesign.com delivered $4,388 and Thos.com drew $4,150. DistributionCenters.com kicked in $4,139, GuitarsOnline.com strummed $4,100 and Xget.com got $4,088.

Zinsen.com zipped up $4,079 while three others; Vippi.com, WorldCellphones.com and PSOS.com posted $4,000 apiece. MyH20.com quenched $3,900 while Just1.com and IndustrialGas.com passed $3,888 each. Afternic/BuyDomains had 88 more .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $3,800 You can review those in the table below. 

Afternic/BuyDomains had over 250 more .com sales under $2,000.

Moniker reported additional closed sales from three of their recent live domain auctions. From the Internext auction three domains; TinyBoobs.com, MegaPorn.com and BustyModels.com brought $6,000 each. A step back were BisexualPorn.com ($5,000), TheHotlist.com ($4,500) and PornCash.com ($4,250). Boobz.com added $2,849 and Stroking.com stopped at $2,500.

From the Moniker/Affiliate Summit auction, GasolineCreditCard.com and CruiseInformation.com closed at $5,500 each, LowRateCards.com returned $3,890 and DiscountedBooks.com contributed $3,500. DiscountStockBrokers.com billed $3,000, PreApprovedCard.com produced $2,950 and DiscountCollegeBooks.com collared $2,500.

Some stragglers from the Moniker/T.R.A.F.F.I.C. auction also closed this week including GuideToCreditRepair.com ($4,950), WebHostingProviders.com ($3,530) and PayingBillsOnline.com ($2,360). 

Elsewhere, Pool.com sold Trier.com ($4,050) and LeightonBuzzard.com ($2,650) while Enom's Club Drop wrapped up $3,600 from WUYE.com.