Cowboys.com Ropes Top Spot on This Week's Domain Sales Chart

Cowboys.com has been transferred to its new owners, an LLC group that snapped up the domain in the recent Moniker/T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East silent auction for $370,000. That domain was part of a flood of completed auction sales that dominate our new weekly top sellers chart. 

By now just about everyone on the planet has heard the Cowboys.com story - Sports Illustrated magazine even wrote about it. It originally looked like the Dallas Cowboys had bought the domain for $275,000 in the Moniker/T.R.A.F.F.I.C. live auction but the NFL team then claimed they thought they were bidding $275 instead of $275,000! So Moniker put the domain back up for sale in a silent auction where the winning group outbid several other new suitors to take the name for $95,000 more than the football team could have had it for just days before. As ESPN's Chris Berman would say -  FUMBLE!! 

By Ron Jackson

Sahar Sarid of the Recall Media Group is a member of the LLC that bought Cowboys.com. He invited his fellow co-owners to a party at his South Florida home after the deal was closed and has posted a couple of videos from that event at his Conceptualist.com blog that we think you will enjoy. 

To make room for all of the Moniker/T.R.A.F.F.I.C. auction sales we have expanded our usual Top 20 chart to 50 positions this week. Names from the auction occupy 33 of those openings, including the top four and nine of the first ten. That group included three more six-figure sales; CrosswordPuzzles.com ($210,000), CriminalLawyers.com ($195,000) and CaribbeanVacations.com ($130,000). Moniker also sold a two-domain lot that included SinglesOnline.com and SolterosEnlinea.com for $125,000.

Sedo.com also closed a six-figure sale this week with #5 Hosting.mobi going for $101,000. That was one of 11 names Sedo put on the Big Board, more than any venue other than the Moniker auction. Several of Sedo's sales were made through their GreatDomains premium auction site, including #11 MemoryCard.com at €29,000 ($42,213).

.Mobi had a big week, placing seven names on the elite list. Three country codes also made the all-extension leader board while .Net, .Org and .Info has one entry each. .Com again claimed the lion's share of the list with 38 of the 51 chart entries (the extra spot resulted from a tie for the final position). Here is how all of the top sellers stacked up for the week ending Sunday, November 4:

There were eight more five-figure sales just off the expanded chart. Four of those came from the Moniker/T.R.A.F.F.I.C. auction; SpaghettiSauce.com ($11,000), VideoConferences.com ($10,300), Conventions.org ($10,000) and USTrademarks.com ($10,000). Sedo also had four more sales at this level including VTU.com ($10,189), Payment.mobi ($10,100), Pets.mobi ($10,000) and TGH.com, sold at their GreatDomains site for $10,100. 

.Com Supporting Cast

There was also a mountain of solid four-figure sales this week and again, many of those came from the Moniker/T.R.A.F.F.I.C. auction including InternationalTrademarks.com ($9,899), Perch.con ($9,500) and DesignStudios.com ($8,600). Beggers.com collected $8,200 while BusinessClassAirfares.com and CarRaces.com rolled up $8,000 each. EstateAttorneys.com added $7,333, ConcertTicketsOnline.com drew $7,000 and Bacteriology.com brought $6,710.

ArbitrationServices.com sold for $6,050, GoldPlan.com penciled in $6,000 and Calves.com coughed up $5,555. Those were followed by a five-name logjam that included UpscaleHotels.com, TrademarkAgents.com, NewYorkCityMuseums.com, MusicAgent.com and AirlineCharters.com. There were 44 more completed sales from the Moniker/T.R.A.F.F.I.C. auction that ranged from $2,000 to $4,710. You can check those out in the table below:

In a couple of sales at Moniker's regular website, DisplayIt.com commanded $5,149 and YogaPartners.com yielded $2,563. 

In addition to the two names they put on the all extension leader board, SnapNames.com had a nice group of four figure sales that included iCube.com ($8,250), ZZQ.com ($6,800) and FreeRealTimeQuotes.com ($6,267). They also scored with iSoccer.com ($4,499), SpanishBabes.com ($4,106) and RotaryEngines.com ($4,099). 

NewType.com tacked on $3,037, AddictionCures.com dispensed $2,950 and DontDateThisGuy.com kicked in $2,911. GroupPortraits.com captured $2,500, Mabo.com banked $2,483 and PalmSpringsVacation.com produced $2,259. The SnapNames roster also featured SurfVacation.com ($2,250), FakeBlood.com ($2,104), Petcom.com ($2,100) and Lafamille.com ($2,025).

At NameJet.com JobAdvice.com contributed $7,200, ProMoney.com provided $6,000 and ShortTermRentals.com returned $4,900. TravelOklahoma.com clicked for $3,100, ElmStreet.com delivered $3,000 and DayCareProvider.com paid $2,800.

Back at Sedo, Frende.com attracted $7,000 while GGU.com and 15YearFixed.com fetched $6,000 each. LegalHelper.com landed $5,500, BigTop.com bagged $5,100 and CanYouBelieveIt.com connected for $5,000. Sedo also had a developed website sale, Mesbiens.com, for €5,800 ($8,443) and at their GreatDomains site, Vaccinate.com injected $5,000. 

At the AfternicDLS, Got2Go.com went with $6,000, InformationSciences.com and TrainingPrograms.com posted $5,888 each and LivestockManagement.com corralled $5,088. Rofo.com and Kneat.com notched $5,000 each while three others; TLCTutoring.com, EnterpriseDevelopment.com and ContactSoftware.com sold for $4,888 each. 

CoolChairs.com seated $4,788, BlackWidows.com put the bite on $4,388 and NowLook.com spotted $4,288. Tast.com took in $4,250, GreenYoga.com meditated on $4,150 and NewsAndMedia.com distributed $4,100. The Afternic DLS had 115 more .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $3,888 that are listed in the table below.

At TDNAM.com FlamingoBay.com floated $4,760, Yakoo.com cracked $2,705 and Grafologia.com ground out $2,691. CSSRV.com secured $2,410, White-Smurf.com whipped up $2,370, WinnersWindowsCasino.com paid out $2,140 and AudioCarPlus.com plugged in $2,005.

Elsewhere, Peter Askew picked up AppalachianTrail.com for $3,000 in a private sale and Pool.com sold EnergyOne.com for $2,700.

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

It was .mobi week on the Global Contenders chart as the extension for mobile devices swept the first eight positions on our expanded Top 30 chart. You've already seen all of those on the all extension leader board earlier, including #1 Hosting.mobi at $101,000. That ranks as the year's 6th biggest GC sale and it is the second biggest .mobi sale (trailing only Sportsbook.mobi at $129,800).

The first 14 names on the GC chart all appeared on the all extension Top 50. The biggest sale in this category you haven't seen yet is #15 AirlineTickets.org, sold in the Moniker/T.R.A.F.F.I.C. auction for $8,500. In addition to multiple names in the older .net and .org extensions, the chart includes a pair of .infos, a .biz and a .pro.

Here's how all of the Global Contenders stacked up for the week ending November 4: