770.com Dials Up Over $343,000 In This Week's Top Domain Sale

7 was a lucky number this week as Sedo.com brokered a big £175,000 ($343,208) sale of 770.com to easily take the top spot on our weekly chart. The domain was purchased by European online gaming operator Casino770. The price for that domain was almost five times larger than #2 SmartTrade.com, a name that tallied $72,000 at the AfternicDLS. 

A late wave of completed sales from the Moniker.com live auction at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. West in February finally hit the beach this week. As a result we expanded our usual Top 20 chart to 30 positions, something we do on these occasions so that special event sales don't obscure the transactions that occurred at the every day venues. 13 of those auction sales made the Big Board with #3 Vet.net leading the way at $35,000. 

By Ron Jackson

Moniker got another top ten entry with their sale of #9 AromatherapyCandles.com for $22,000 in a live auction at the Affiliate Summit. Add in three sales from their every day site and Moniker wound up having a hand in 17 chart entries this week. 

Sedo put three names in the first ten, including #4 VideoShop.com at $30,990 and took four positions overall. SnapNames matched that number and the AfternicDLS also had multiple chart positions with three. 

.Com had a dominating week, sweeping 26 of the 30 slots. The remaining four openings went to a trio of .nets and a .org, #20 GreenCard.org at $17,000. 

There were several unconfirmed blog posts this week indicating that Dot Zinc Ltd. had purchased Money.co.uk for $2,400,000, which would be a record for a British ccTLD sale. However, we have not been able to confirm that price and the sites that did mention the number gave no attribution for where that figure came from. Certainly it is a very valuable name and Dot Zinc has quickly installed a nice full-featured site on the domain. If they eventually elect to confirm the price they paid we will let you know.

 Here is how all of the top sellers stacked up for the week ending Sunday, April 13:

There were nine more five-figure sales just off the chart and Sedo had four of those - a quartet of 3-letter .coms; TYL.com ($11,500), NCJ.com ($10,100), DJL.com ($10,100) and TXH.com ($10,000). SnapNames sold SoloSex.com for $11,700. Moniker moved Kerry.com for $12,250 and in a pair of sales from the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. West auction they rang up $10,120 for SexStuff.com and $10,000 for DillPickles.com. Meanwhile, Froyo.com fetched $10,255 at TDNAM.com. 

.Com Supporting Cast

The biggest deal in the strong supporting cast of four-figure transactions was NameJet's $9,900 sale of Airhorn.com. They also scored with NoPainNoGain.com ($9,300), Prisa.com ($8,600) and FreeXPictures.com ($7,299). CareerListings.com commanded $6,555, NetFish.com reeled in $5,911 and CollegeAmerica.com kicked in $5,901. HomeTools.com chopped up $5,220 while OnlineFX.com and Ipex.com pulled $5,000 apiece. 

NameJet had two dozen more .com sales ranging from $2,000 to just over $4,600. You can see those in the table below:

Back at Sedo JFU.com drew $9,100, VYI.com corralled $8,000 and PokerClick.com raked in $7,896. MotorBoot.com bagged $7,107, Fela.com found $6,700, i-port.com posted $6,317 and Flansche.com cornered $6,159. 

Sedo had 18 more .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $5,600. Those are listed in the table below:

As they do week in and week out, the AfternicDLS piled up dozens upon dozens of additional four-figure sales. Their roster included MDPI.com ($9,000), TechIt.com ($8,000) and a pair at $7,000 each - Pisma.com and Chloroform.com. 

Magnetoscope.com detected $6,788, DirectTechnology.com produced $6,120 and PersonalizeThis.com penciled in $5,850. ForexStrategy.com mapped out $5,400, JustWeather.com scorched $5,088 and two others; GunSpace.com and FitNow.com notched $5,000 apiece. VoiceMailboxes.com left a $4,730 message, Boewe.com brought $4,500 and another pair; EgyptLive.com and CompareOptions.com discovered $4,488 each.

The AfternicDLS had 104 more .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $4,000 that you can check out in the table below.

Moniker sold CarsGame.com from their website for $8,200. In sales from their live auction at the Affiliate Summit, they ladled out $8,000 worth of ChineseNoodles.com while PregnancyCenters.com produced $6,750. VintageAirplane.com and Bombers.com blew up $5,750 apiece and SkateboardsForSale.com attracted $4,250. 

FreeVehicles.com fired up $3,000, Battlefields.com blasted $2,750 and BrooklynAppraisals.com came in at $2,250. Two others; RomanticGreetingCards.com and NewYorkCityLuxuryCondos.com contributed $2,000 each. Moniker had another 21 sales close from their T.R.A.F.F.I.C. West live auction. Those are listed in the table below:

 In still another Moniker auction sale, Slamming.com sold for $3,500 at the Internext Expo.

In a pair of private sales, PortableFuelCell.com generated $6,050 and iClassical.com tuned up with $5,000. 

Back at SnapNames, HDTravel.com cruised to $3,700, MarketingPrograms.com paid out $3,100 and Rakefree.com returned $2,850. SystemLogic.com launched $2,300 and Commercial-Loans.com landed $2,000. 

At TDNAM, BloodyVirgins.com buttoned up $3,500, AuthenticJordans.coms chalked up $2,805, Relian.com reached $2,256 and Neflix.com screened $2,255.

And finally, at HuntingMoon.com BabyHQ welcomed $2,000.  

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

.Net ruled the Global Contenders chart this week taking 11 of  the 20 entries including the top two and six of the first eight positions. .Org put three in the first ten and claimed six spots overall. The final three openings went to a pair of .infos and a .mobi.

The first four names on this chart all made the all-extension leader board you saw earlier. The top name you haven't seen yet is #5 ParisSportifs.org, sold at Sedo for €6,000 ($9,475). Six of the charted domains were just closed sales from the Moniker/T.R.A.F.F.I.C. West auction. The AfternicDLS led the everyday venues with five names on the Top 20 and Sedo racked up four.

Here's how all of the Global Contenders stacked up for the week ending April 13:

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