Blockbusters Take a Breather But Three Dozen Five-Figure Deals Dot This Week's Domain Sales Report

No completed six-figure or higher sales were reported this week but there were three dozen solid five-figure sales. While we wait to see if the recent auction for Pizza.com (ending at $2.6 million) successfully closes, the door was left open for a lot of mid-range domains to take the spotlight.

The AfternicDLS had the best of those and gave .net a rare turn in the top position after selling FilmSchool.net for $49,501. That was one of five chart entries for Afternic and they put another .net in the first five with #5 Trabajo.net ("work" or "job" in Spanish) at $34,000.

We again expanded the usual Top 20 by ten positions this week to make room for another round of completed auctions from the Moniker/T.R.A.F.F.I.C. West sale in February (plus one from the iDate conference live auction). Six of the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. auction sales landed on the leader board, led by GoldDigger.com and GoldDiggers.com at $40,000 each.

By Ron Jackson

Sedo.com had another big week claiming 14 of the 30 chart positions. Their roster was led by #4 Bobblehead.com at $36,000. Sedo had sold the plural version of that domain last month for $29,112. Sedo put three more names in the top ten; N5.com ($25,500), SGN.com ($25,001) and NeoNet.com ($21,500) and also had the highest country code sale with #18 Voeding.nl (Netherlands ccTLD with a keyword that means "food" in Dutch) at €10,000 ($15,878).

The Castello Brothers, who seldom sell domains, made their first chart appearance after deciding to let #17 JupiterIslandRealEstate.com go for $17,500. Jupiter Island is a wealthy enclave off Florida's Atlantic Coast, close to where Michael and David Castello of the Castello Cities Internet Network grew up in Boynton Beach.

There is a fair amount of variety on this week's chart. In addition to 20 .com domains, there are five .nets, a .org and four country codes (.nl, .tv, .lu and .de, with the latter three representing Tuvalu, Luxembourg and Germany respectively). Here is how all of the top sellers stacked up for the week ending Sunday, April 20:

There were six more five-figure sales just off the chart. The AfternicDLS had three of those; MedicalSupplies.net ($11,000), Welcome.tv ($10,000) and Deliverer.com ($10,000). Moniker moved two more; Wolfenstein.com ($10,200) and SpinBikes.com ($10,200) and Sedo sold Cadxp.com for $10,000.  

.Com Supporting Cast

NameJet..com led the always huge four-figure sales contingent with SoldierOfFortune.com at $9,700. Their list also included IMLS.com ($7,500), SumterCounty.com ($6,584) and a pair at $5,600 each; WritingServices.com and BikeRoom.com.

JapanFood.com cooked up $4,999, Elaon.com landed $4,400 and Askari.com added $4,200. Warfield.com went for $4,139, FamilySites.com secured $4,100, MountainTravel.com ascended to $3,988 and Firebirds.com skidded to a $3,900 stop. NameJet had 31 more .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $3,810. You can see those in the table below:

At SnapNames.com, LegalMusic.com downloaded $9,250, CheepVacations.com booked $7,388 and Photopedia.com posted $5,000. RealEstateWebsite.com returned $4,100, BusinessPlanet.com banked $4,001 and an IDN, 21點.com (puny code xn--21-dk3h.com), clicked for $3,604.

SnapNames also collected $3,000 for CreditCardFees.com, $2,602 for Integrates.com, $2,050 for FoodGrinder.com and $2,002 for CheesePlate.com.

Back at Sedo, KRW.com contributed €5,900 ($9,228), Croydon.com drew $9,000, EXF.com kicked in $8,100 and AideNet.com notched $8,000. VJT.com commanded $7,379, Tinkle.com doused $6,400 and Monarchs.com received a $6,100 tribute. Sedo had 15 more .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $4,000. Those are listed in the table below:

When it comes to overall numbers at the four-figure price point (the sweet spot for small businesses), nobody matched the AfternicDLS. Their usual massive sales list included SecretFormula.com ($9,000), along with AmericanAutomobiles.com ($8,330), MYGF.com ($6,400) and hundreds of others. 

TrustedSource.com revealed $5,800, NORC.com captured $5,681 and ZAMM.com zoomed to $5,488. FitNow.com, Comprime.com and Boje.com bagged $5,000 each while Karum.com cracked $4,888 and ShowMagazine.com distributed $4,800. Wundervoll.com welcomed $4,700, GourmetChannel.com tuned in $4,650, AllWebDesign.com fetched $4,500 and PsychiatryToday.com analyzed $4,188.

The AfternicDLS had 109 more .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $4,000 that you can check out in the table below.

Moniker sold GivingBack.com for $7,700 and BeijingStuff.com for $2,625. In other sales from their various live auctions, DateMyWife.com cleared $5,000 at iDate and at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. West OilFund.com fetched $2,950 and DailyJoke.com delivered $2,596. At the Affiliate Summit SinglesWeekend.com attracted $2,750 and Hairwax.com held $2,500 in place. At the Internext Expo AmateurDollars.com dispensed $2,360.

At TDNAM, Evangelioeterno.com corralled $4,105, Conoce-Mexico.com marked up $2,715 and Gift2Go.com went for $2,205. Mkkamnik.com contributed $2,065 and PenPen.com penciled in $2,009. 

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

.Net ruled the Global Contenders chart again with its most powerful performance of the year, sweeping 17 of 20 positions on the elite list, including the first three. You saw all of those, including #1 FilmSchool.net ($49,501) on our all extension leader board earlier, as well as the lone .org on the chart (Show.org at $13,000).

The highest sale you haven't seen is the $9,750 deal for #8 Lottery.mobi concluded after a Moniker auction at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. West. The only other non .net domain on the Top 20 is #17 Washington.biz, also sold at T.R.A.F.F.I.C., for $3,500.

The AfternicDLS was the leading venue in the GC category, piling up nine entries overall. Here's how all of the Global Contenders stacked up for the week ending April 20:

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