Blockbuster Sales of Printer.com and Affiliate.com Pace Another Big Week for the Domain Aftermarket

The summer doldrums were sent packing again this week as a quartet of huge six-figure sales led another banner outing for the domain aftermarket. Two of those rank among the ten biggest sales of the year. 

Printer.com sits at the top of the heap after a Dutch company, Treasuron, laid out $800,000 to acquire that premier generic domain. Netherlands magazine WebWereld announced the details of the deal (this link goes to a page Google translated from the original Dutch to English, so the grammar isn't perfect but it gets the job done).

In another blockbuster Moniker handled the $579,900 sale of Affiliate.com to Media Breakway, operators of the CPA Empire affiliate ad network. Rounding out the heavyweight division, iSearch.com went to Intellius for $300,000 in a private sale and Sedo.com handled the $220,000 sale of OD.com.

By Ron Jackson

The next three positions on the chart were swept by a trio of .net sales from Moniker's live auction at the Internext Expo in Hollywood, Florida. Those three .nets, totaling $208,000, all rank among the ten biggest sales of 2008 in our Global Contenders category (non .com global TLDs). A pair of .orgs and three ccTLDs also made the all extension Top 20 Chart. Justin Godfrey's $34,500 sale of #9 Weddings.org was the headliner for that TLD while Fight.tv ($18,000 at Sedo) was king of the country code hill. 

Four venues were able to claim multiple entries on the elite list. Moniker had a hand in five of the week's highest sales and Sedo scored four times while the AfternicDLS and SnapNames.com each earned a pair of gold medals. Here is how all of the top sellers stacked up for the week ending Sunday, August 24:

There were five more five-figure sales just off the chart with Sedo serving up three of those; TexasGolf.com ($11,500), JuegosGratis.net ($10,220) and ThreeGreen.com ($10,000). Astuto.com ("astute" in Spanish") changed hands for $10,500 in a private sale and Moniker landed $10,200 for LoveSchool.com.

.Com Supporting Cast

NameJet.com had the top name in the .com supporting cast with DowntownBoulder.com bringing $8,600. IGX.com added $6,900, KidSafety.com secured $5,400 and two others; CoffeeTea.com and Jidian.com drew $5,100 each. 

NameJet has 15 more .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $5,000 that are listed in the table below:

Back at Sedo, BuyTen.com banked $7,500, Fuehrerschein.com and Healy.com hauled in €5,000 ($7,300) each and Fitting.com fetched $7,102. A pair of three-letter domains were next in line with UNQ.com commanding $6,600 and IKH.com kicking in €4,500 ($6,570). 

Sedo had 21 more four-figure .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $6,000. You can check those out in the table below:

The AfternicDLS kept cranking out domain hotcakes for the small to medium size business market. iSweat.com cooked up $6,500, MNetwork.com connected for $6,000 and Skell.com skied to $5,788. TopSolar.com generated $5,188 while four others; Individualism.com, MelbourneTrains.com, TradeToday.com and Seltex.com tacked on $5,000 apiece.

Mechanicals.com drilled $4,500, FirstSys.com found $4,488, DocPost.com pulled $4,388 and TSync.com took in $4,088. The AfternicDLS had 81 more four-figure .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $4,000. You can review those in the table below:

At TDNAM.com Moneytime.com put $7,005 in the till, CogNews.com reported $2,755 and Srabuae.com bagged $2,000. 

At SnapNames OLU.com yielded $5,002, BollyFM.com tuned in $4,830 and SPDBCCC.com captured $3,607. CartoonDirectory.com sketched $2,850, NewZeland.com dispatched $2,401 and LibrarySoftware.com went for $2,000. 

Elsewhere VisitAppalachia.com changed hands for $5,000 in a private sale, TopWebNames.com sold Amber-Coast.com for $5,000 and Moniker moved EpicEvent.com for $4,399. At Pool.com Prinipal.com posted $3,300 and Vierges.com clicked for $2,600. 

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

The top six domains on this week's Global Contenders Top 20 all cracked the six figure mark and were covered in the first section of this report. The top sale you haven't seen is #7 Schule.info ("school" in German), a name that attracted $8,850 at SnapNames. 

.Net dominated the GC board by sweeping 14 of the 20 chart entries. The final six openings were split evenly between .org and .info with three positions each. Here's how all of the Global Contenders stacked up for the week ending August 24:

At SnapNames Cathy.net welcomed $2,731, Ponds.net piped in $2,176 and Promotional.org presented $1,363. QRL.net rang up $1,130 and U5.org fired off $1,100. SnapNames also sold eight 3-letter .nets for $1,030. That group included FQS.net, OMQ.net, OQR.net, QFB.net, QGC.net, QGH.net, QLF.net and QTD.net. 

NameJet sold Cruelty.org ($2,000), LearningDisabilities.org ($1,822), HomeSchooling.info ($1,510) and Phishing.net ($1,112). Elsewhere TDNAM tacked on $1,460 for Eelamurasu.net.

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