Barbey Puts Boise Back in the Big Leagues With $175,000 Purchase of BoiseIdaho.com 

Idaho real estate broker Steve Barbey raised some eyebrows at this time three years ago when he paid $50,000 for BoiseRealEstate.com. He used the domain to redirect additional prospects to his IdahoRealEstate.com site. The deal worked out so well that Barbey decided it was time to go fishing in the domain pool again. Last week he reeled in BoiseIdaho.com after meeting the $175,000 price set by previous owner Brian Wick of CheapYellowPages.com. Barbey has already redirected that domain to a Boise-specific page at IdahoRealEstate.com. Boise is the state capital of Idaho and has a population estimated at about 208,000 people.

By Ron Jackson

That was the #1 sale on this week's Top 20 chart (and one of five geo domains on the elite list). Last week I indicated that we would permanently double the size of our 20-position all-extension chart this week due to a major increase in sales volume in 2007. However, I forgot to take into account that business activity this week would be disrupted by a major holiday weekend in the U.S. (Labor Day weekend). It's the unofficial end of summer in the States and many people take off from Friday through Monday (I took off all four days myself - flying to Philadelphia to spend some time with my daughter and help her move back into her dorm at Penn). As a result the past week was more like a half-week in the business world, so we will wait until next week to undertake our chart expansion (as always chart length will be subject to size changes when special circumstances warrant it).

Two more sales from the Moniker/T.R.A.F.F.I.C. auction in New York back in June just closed this week to earn spots on the top half of the leader board. DiscountPerfumes.com drew $80,000 to claim the #2 slot while StockTrades.com secured the 6th position at $25,000. Sedo had a hand in five charted sales, more than any other venue. Their hit list included two big ccTLD sales, #3 Theaters.co.uk at £16,000 ($32,324) and #4 MyGame.de at €20,000 ($27,306).

A private seller, Justin Godfrey of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, actually put more names on the elite list than any of the commercial venues did. Godfrey moved four nice geo domains; Rome.net and Bangkok.net at $17,500 each plus Ohio.info at $12,000 and Ontario.info at $10,000. He also broke into his liquor cabinet to produce two more solid sales; Rum.net and Whiskey.net at $15,000 each. His selling spree helped the Global Contenders make one of their strongest showings of the year on the all-extension chart, taking 8 positions overall (led by #5 Post.net, sold for $26,000 at Afternic.com/BuyDomains.com). 

Incidently Afternic/BuyDomains had three big sales (at $75,000, $33,000 and $24,000) that could not be released due to non-disclosure agreements. SnapNames also has many unreleased sales each week. I bring it up occasionally to remind everyone that our report is just a sampling of the overall activity in the domain market. As impressive as the cumulative sales in this weekly report may be - it is still just the tip of the iceberg in a market that continues to click on all cylinders.

With the Global Contenders and Country Codes flexing their muscles this week, the always dominant .coms had to settle for 10 entries. SnapNames.com accounted for two of those, including #8 ShopWorld.com ($21,060) and also scored with a nice .org sale. Here is how all of the top sellers stacked up for the week ending Sunday, September 2:

.Com Supporting Cast

In addition to their three chart entries, SnapNames.com had the top sale in the .com supporting cast, doing $8,750 at the box office with UPJ.com. AuctionAlert.com added $8,100, MortgageDoctor.com dispensed $7,916 and Scola.com scored $7,000. Also ranking high were RateHerButt.com ($6,750), TheBird.com ($6,250) and PolandTravel.com ($6,162).

SnapNames fetched another $5,910 with IndiaFunds.com while TackShack.com tallied $5,575 and FuelAdditive.com delivered $4,995. GPost.com produced $4,700, ManarTV.com tuned in $4,276 and SpySupplies.com spotted $4,029. SnapNames had a dozen more sales ranging from $2,000 to $3,600 that you can check out in the table below.

Back at Sedo, Gamecore.com generated $8,600, Gkail.com commanded $6,200 and ZYG.com gathered $6,000. LatestMovies.com screened $5,500, Instance.com drew $5,200, UWL.com clicked for $5,100 and GayLawyer.com located $5,000. Sedo also sold WXA.com through their recently acquired GreatDomains.com site for $5,100.

Meanwhile, the Afternic DLS machine kept cranking out solid sales at an unmatched rate with a roster that included Nephrologists.com ($8,000), Liwa.com ($7,000) and EZAutoParts.com ($6,842). OEGroup.com greeted $6,000, Network-Security.com unlocked $5,600 and five others; TheBestVacations.com, SpotMobile.com, SafeLasik.com, EyeZone.com and WorldFreight.com unloaded $5,000 apiece.

Profunda.com and NetImage.com captured $4,800 each, PacificDesigns.com produced $4,688 and SpiritOfChristmas.com rang in $4,600. Pichet.com pitched in $4,488, I-Cinema.com seated $4,100 and Zall.com discovered $4,088. Afternic/BuyDomains had 68 more .com sales ranging fron $2,000-$4,000 that are listed in the table below.

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

TDNAM.com got a $7,505 greeting from SendCards.com and SlowForTheConeZone.com overcame its unusually long name to land $2,912.

Moniker.com harvested $8,625 from ChocolateTree.com, $5,355 from AutoCoach.com and another $2,625 from Facilitator.com. Moniker also closed some more transactions from their recent auctions. Sales from Internext included SexProducts.com ($5,000), SexAtWork.com ($3,500), FlipOff.com ($3,000) and DominantMen.com ($3,000). WetPants.com ($2,750), SingleMales.com ($2,360) and Executions.com ($2,000) were also completed. 

From the Affiliate Summit auction, Moniker banked $3,750 for BookkeepingService.com and also sold IceShelf.com ($3,530), ConsumerMarketing.com ($3,000) and NorwegianVacation.com ($2,500).

At Enom's Club Drop, Deting.com connected for $2,200 and YahooYellowPages.com posted $2,000.

In private sales, 0rkut.com (that is a zero at the start, rather than a letter "O") changed hands for $6,500 (this domain has a decent Overture score with extension at 175), Aronson Antiquairs acquired Aronson.com for $5,000 and Patricia Kaehler at DomainBell.com agred to tie Boat365.com up at a new dock for $3,500.