Take Five: Quintet of 6-Figure Deals Jazz Up This Week's Domain Sales Chart 

The first wave of completed sales from last month's Moniker live auction at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East conference in Orlando hit the beach this week. Three of those cracked the 6-figure mark, led by #1 InsuranceRates.com at $225,000. Sedo.com also posted a pair of 6-figure sales including #2 OV.com at $200,000. Moniker's power trio also included a two-letter .com, #4 OW.com at $120,000. 

.Com swept 19 of 22 positions on our new leader board (the two extra spots on the Top 20 come from a three-way tie for the final position). The other three openings all went to country code domains including a blockbuster at #5. That is Relatiegeschenk.nl ("relative's gifts" in Dutch), a Netherlands ccTLD that rang up an amazing €72,000 ($111,347) at Sedo. That ranks as the fourth biggest country code sale reported so far in 2008.

By Ron Jackson

The other ccTLDs making the elite all-extension list were #10 Searchers.co.uk at £10,500 ($20,520) and #16 BAM.co.uk at £6,500 ($12,703). Sedo, who always dominates the country code category, accounted for both for those sales. In fact Sedo wound up scoring a clean sweep of the 21 positions on our Country Code chart this week (again the extra spot resulted from a tie for the final position). You'll find that chart in our ccTLD section further down this page.

Sedo also had the most entries on the Big Board, taking 11 of the 22 rungs on the ladder. Moniker accounted for five and the AfternicDLS hit the trifecta with three, led by #6 iPets.com at $75,000. The last two spots went to #7 Football360.com at $33,000 in a private sale and NameJet.com who banked $10,700 for #17 eMedical.com.

This week's chart also includes an IDN as SnapNames.com sold #15 München.com ("Munich" in German) for $13,500. Here is how all of the top sellers stacked up for the week ending Sunday, June 8:

.Com Supporting Cast

Three-letter .coms, which are always in vogue, headlined the supporting cast this week. Sedo sold several including QWA.com ($9,743), VNY.com ($9,100), RBY.com ($8,600) and GXD.com ($8,400). To show you how three-letter .coms have gone up in the past year, the previous owner had picked up GXD.com for $3,600 at Enom's Club Drop last July, so they turned a $4,800 profit in less than 12 months.

Sedo's roster also included Vert.com ($8,500), BodrumHotels.com ($8,500) and Uploadr.com ($7,100). Sedo had 20 more .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $6,000 that you can check out in the table below:

At NameJet, Remixed.com returned $9,200, Noles.com notched $5,901 and LoanSolutions.com secured $5,650. ElectricalEquipment.com plugged in $5,099, MyMan.com mined $4,860, 7888.com counted out $4,300 and Begins.com brought $4,100. 

NameJet had 20 more .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $3,800. Those are listed in the table below: 

Back at the AfternicDLS they were busy shooting the lights out as they always do in the four-figure sweet spot of the market. Their line-up included FamilyMobile.com ($7,888), CentralChina.com ($6,710) and iEnvironment.com ($5,890). Canguru.com generated $5,600, ViewTop.com took in $5,070 and PlanetCenter.com displayed $4,990. 

Lettland.com located $4,700, DWOS.com drew $4,388 and IRCNetwork.com connected for $4,288. Two others; SEO-Services.com and Rule3.com racked up $4,188 each. The AfternicDLS had 84 more .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $4,000 that you can check out in the table below.

At SnapNames Chexian.com chalked up $6,868, CreditCardSales.com banked $4,626 and HoustonCounty.com corralled $3,800. Wangpu.com piped in $3,201, Sportscoat.com donned $3,100 and Ayakkabilar.com kicked in $3,000. LondonDirectory.com distributed $2,174, ReservationServices.com booked $2,152 and Tutsat.com tacked on $2,104. Caffene.com left a $2,060 wake up call and Moderated.com muted $2,050. 

In other Moniker sales Valken.com captured $7,923, Kaufmich.com cornered $7,700 and UltimateTailgateParty.com grilled $2,875. Also in another closed sale from the live auction at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East, WebClass.com called on $5,500. 

At TDNAM.com, BlogSucker.com swept up $2.000. 

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

It was a relatively quiet week for the Global Contenders with no five-figure sales, no entries on the all-extension leader board you saw earlier and none that were able to crack the Year to Date Top 100 charts. There were however a lot of solid four-figure sales, led by Route.mobi, a name that rounded up $7,775 at Sedo. The runner-up spot went to MaxGames.net, sold for $6,000 at the AfternicDLS. That venue had the most chart entries with eight, followed closely by Sedo's six.

.Net led the extension race with 13 entries, but .info broke through the .net logjam with three names in the top ten including Sochi2014.info and Pensions.info which tied for third at $5,413 each. .Org also claimed three spots on the chart with their team led by #5 AppliedSoc.org, a domain that went for $5,110 at NameJet.

Here's how all of the Global Contenders stacked up for the week ending June 8:

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