Wild Week in the Aftermarket With a Trio of Six-Figure Sales and An Avalanche of Big 3-Letter .Com Buys 

We saw something happen in the domain aftermarket this week that we've never seen before. There was a stunning wave of 3-letter .com sales including 15 of them at $40,000 apiece at the AfternicDLS alone! Those totaled a tidy $600,000. All told 18 of the 30 positions on our expanded Top 30 sales chart went to 3-letter .coms including the #1 domain - CPC.com, sold for a whopping $201,750 at Moniker.com. 

That was one three six-figure sales this week. The other big guns were 248.com and Coffee.org, both sold at Sedo.com. 248.com commanded an impressive $175,000 while Coffee.org brewed up an even $100,000 in the biggest .org sale reported so far this year.

By Ron Jackson

Those big sales were followed by an unprecedented 16-way tie for the 4th position thanks to all of those 3-letter sales at the AfternicDLS and another sale for the same amount at another venue. Last week the Senior VP and General Manager of NameMedia's Domain Marketplace (which includes the AfternicDLS) Peter Lamson told us that the company had a record quarter in 1Q-2008 and that business continued to look good early in the second quarter as well. Today he told me May wound up being the best sales month in the company's history. Quite a contrast from the unrelenting bad news coming out of real world real estate companies these days. 

The other 3-letter .coms on the Big Board this week were #19 TOA.com, sold for $35,300 at NameJet.com and #23 MIF.com which went for €17,000 ($26,259) at Sedo. There were only two non .com sales on  the elite all-extension list, Coffee.org and #24 Televisions.tv, a name that NameBroker.tv sold through Sedo for $25,000. 

There were a couple of interesting private sales. #26 Rudder.com went for $20,000 and #30 DoggieSpace.com dug up $15,000. 

Here is how all of the top sellers stacked up for the week ending Sunday, June 1:

There were there five more five-figure sales just off the chart. Numismatic.com coined $11,750 for Sedo who added another $10,000 with Swordfish.org. The AfternicDLS sold ClimateCentral.org for $11,000 and HorseChat.com for $10,000 and SnapNames.com booked $10,106 for ReservationsOnline.com.

.Com Supporting Cast

As always there was a huge group of solid four-figure sales. NameJet had the highest of those with eWoman.com at $9,100 and eWomen.com at $8,901. WoodenFlooring.com laid down $6,100, NetChat.com generated $6,000 and SailPlanes.com cruised to $5,100. ThisWorld.com went for $5,099, eTeens.com turned in $4,800 and Viga.com grabbed $4,553. 

Lightsticks.com lit up $3,900, CommunionDresses.com drew $3,600 and Jiyu.com yielded $3,320. SexLube.com squeezed out $3,101, Posy.com posted $3,100 and WFSG.com tuned in $2,911. Fosson.com fetched $2,800, PrecastFireplaces.com burned through $2,600 and ACBC.com bagged $2,501. GrainPop.com grew $2,500, Wingfield.com found $2,400 and ResumePros.com provided $2,301. Also at NameJet, JustCakes.com and DIYStore.com banked $2,100 each.

In addition to dominating the Top 30 chart, the AfternicDLS had the most four-figure sales as well, including Sumeria.com ($9,000), MyUmbrella.com ($8,000) and ServiceBox.com ($7,700). LowFatYogurt.com stirred up $7,500, DockingStations.com connected for $6,750, UKRentals.com returned $6,500. 

DropShipment.com delivered $5,100 and four others; VideoCore.com, SoftwareEngineers.com, MerchantPaymentServices.com and HomesInsurance.com hauled in $5,000 apiece. Internet4You.com clicked for $4,800 while three others; SerialPort.com, Germex.com and CateringCompany.com cooked up $4,500 each. 

The AfternicDLS had 92 more .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $4,488 that you can check out in the table below.

Back at Sedo the top four-figure sales were Vert.com ($8,500), Assurancevoiture.com ($7,723) and CWL.com ($6,800). Web-Solutions.com wound up at $5,100, Settlepoint.com paid $4,585 and Vova.com captured $3,985. Wudo.com unwrapped $3,715, Wwwmegarotic.com distributed $3,600 and LadiesBoots.com buttoned up $3,500. 

Also at Sedo, eMade.com managed $3,100, while three others; Tocquevillefinance.com, Neptuneinvestment.com and LocalTransfer.com located €2,000 ($3,089) apiece. YY1.com contributed $2,550, CRMHosting.com and DreamlandPoker.com drew $2,500 each, ChickenSausage.com ground out $2,455 and BuildingsCover.com billed $2,050.

At SnapNames, HawiianVacations.com attracted $8,250, WimaxWireless.com transmitted $7,250 and Dadi.com dished out $5,850. Dunaway.com discovered $4,301, Clawson.com served up $4,037, PurePrivacy.com produced $3,704 and Haku.com coughed up $3,659. 

SnapNames had 21 more four-figure .com sales ranging from $2,051 to $3,600. You can check those out in the table below:

Elsewhere, Pool.com picked up $6,200 for Withdraw.com while TDNAM.com tallied $4,100 for Alabai.com and $2,893 for HawaiianResort.com. They also sold MVPSportsbook.com ($2,505), SneakPeeks.com ($2,005) and PersonalPhotographer.com ($2,005). 

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

That huge $100,000 sale of Coffee.org, the biggest .org sale of 2008, easily tops our new Global Contenders Top 20 and it also helped .org sweep the top three spots on the GC chart. However, .net, as it usually does, wound up with the most positions overall, taking 14 of 20 openings. The top .net was #4 Tiles.net, sold at the AfternicDLS for $8,500. 

.Org was next with five entries including an IDN at #5, Führerschein.org ("driver's license" in German), a name that attracted €5,000 ($7,723) at Sedo. The remaining slot went to .info with #6 Televisions.info tuning in an even $7,000 at the AfternicDLS. 

Here's how all of the Global Contenders stacked up for the week ending June 1:

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