Back on Track - $300,000 Country Code Sale Leads a Solid Week in the Domain Aftermarket

With the domain aftermarket coming off its slowest week of the year there was a lot of interest in whether or not it would snap back this week. It did - with one of the year's five biggest ccTLD sales leading the way. Nokta sold FreeCreditReport.co.uk through the AfternicDLS for a whopping $300,000 to take the top spot on our new chart and Nokta also nailed down the #5 spot with a $70,000 sale of the plural version, FreeCreditReports.co.uk, also through the AfternicDLS.

The most likely culprits for last week's fall off were the effects of Wall Street's financial meltdown and the fact that close to $5 million worth of domains had just been sold at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference in New York, sucking a lot of money out of the market at once. The first of those T.R.A.F.F.I.C. auction sales were closed this week through RickLatona.com. Their list was led by #2 MCC.com at $195,000. 

By Ron Jackson

To make room for all of the big ticket Latona sales we expanded our usual Top 20 chart to 30 positions this week. To get an accurate view of how the market is doing it is important to see how the everyday venues are faring, so whenever there is a flood of special event auction sales we expand the chart to keep those from pushing sales from the other venues out of view. RickLatona.com wound up claiming 11 of the 30 positions, including #4 CountryClubs.com at $85,000. 

Sedo.com rang up eight chart entries, the most among the every day venues. Their roster was led by #3 UD.com at $99,000. Two of the Sedo sales were made from their GreatDomains premium auction platform; #6 Breaks.com at $68,000 and #17 Address.net at $20,010. 

Address.net was one of 12 non .com domains that crashed the all extension leader board. Eight of those were country code domains including a trio of nice Swedish ccTLDs sold by NameDrive.com; News.se ($55,802), Store.se ($34,000) and Fotograf.se ("photograph" in Swedish) at $30,600. 

Four domains from our Global Contenders category (non .com global TLDs) also made the Big Board. Those were all .nets with the exception of #15 American.info, sold by SnapNames.com for $23,530. That was one of four domains SnapNames placed on the elite list, with three of those landing on the upper half of the chart. 

Here is how all of the top sellers stacked up for the week ending Sunday, October 12:

There were three more 5-figure sales just off the chart. RentalCondos.com rang up $11,500 in the RickLatona.com/T.R.A.F.F.I.C. live auction, Proverbs.com produced $10,130 for SnapNames and Canadians.com corralled $10,099 at Sedo's GreatDomains. 

.Com Supporting Cast

The AfternicDLS led the .com supporting cast with Virtus.com at $9,350. MagicStick.com conjured up $7,100, KidzRoom.com cornered $5,600 and three others; Petmaster.com, RepoDirect.com and StudentSecurity.com locked up $5,000 each. 

USWatches.com wound up $4,888, AdBucks.com and TobaccoTrade.com lit up $4,500 apiece and OutdoorChairCushions.com added $4,400 worth of padding. TonerTime.com ticked off $4,288, SafetyAtHome.com secured $4,188 and ElPower.com plugged in $4,088. 

The AfternicDLS had 74 more .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $4,000. You can check those out in the table below:

The AfternicDLS also sold a pair through Sedo; TanLaw.com at $2,500 and SlideSpot.com at $2,000. 

Sedo quaffed $9,100 worth of Brews.com at GreatDomains and landed $7,900 at the same venue for LLLL.com. At Sedo's home site Fion.com fetched $8,000, ZZL.com zipped up €5,550 ($7,548) and Prai.com provided $5,500. 

Sedo had 20 more .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $5,440 that you can see in the chart below:

At Moniker.com Releases.com returned $8,600, XAG.com generated $7,175 and AlchemySolutions.com discovered $5,149. CSIControls.com commanded $5,075, SwitchVision.com viewed $3,649 and QStat.com kicked in $2,463. 

Back at SnapNames, Located.com found $8,550, PYM.com posted $8,250 and ActivityCenter.com seated $6,900. NewYorkAccounting.com tallied $4,710, GamblingGame.com garnered $4,590 and Larimer.com lassoed $4,120. PSPWallpapers.com covered $4,119, MexicanDrugs.com dispensed $3,450, AmpMeter.com pegged at $2,950 and PayOffCreditCards.com cleared $2,360.

At NameJet, Bequia.com booked $8,100, EarlyWarning.com detected $6,910 and QOF.com captured $5,701. AircraftWorld.com went for $5,300, LelliKelly.com called in $5,100 and MortgagePlace.com penciled in $4,622. Onco.com claimed $4,200, Oceanica.com docked at $3,510 and Gnarly.com notched $3,400. 

SocialServ.com sewed up $3,344, Gayru.com gathered $2,950 and TaxSettlement.com tied up $2,626. ComputerElectronics.com and Chie.com chalked up $2,600 each, ChicagoFurniture.com delivered $2,599, AnorexicWeb.com unwrapped $2,425 and CreativeRealEstate.com crunched $2,200. 

In additional sales from the RickLatona.com/T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York auction OneHourPhoto.com processed $7,000, GolfClubRepair.com chipped in $6,500 and two others; BreastExamination.com and MicroBrewers.com served up $6,000 apiece. PrinceEdward.com dispensed $4,100 followed by a group of four domains at $4,000 each that included FrenchPerfumes.com, HighFidelity.com, ModelSchools.com and Monopolies.com. 

Elsewhere, TDNAM.com sold Article-Emporium.com ($3,005), DITV.com ($2,227), HelpFinder.com ($2,105) and Gadoe.com ($2,010) and DeliciousNames.com drew $2,000 with QJob.com. 

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

After watching .orgs take the top two spots on the Global Contenders Top 20 last week, the .nets roared back  this week to sweep three of the top four positions including #1 Auctions.net at $26,000. The .nets went on to roll up 13 of the 20 chart entries overall. Their list included a nice two-letter domain at #4, WY.net, sold for $8,100 at Moniker. 

.Info interrupted the .net stranglehold on the upper half of the chart with #2 American.info ($23,530) and #9 WildLife.info ($3,740) and .mobi also placed one in the first ten with #5 Orlando.mobi going for $6,030 at SnapNames. 

In the race among venues, SnapNames piled up seven charted sales while Sedo had a hand in six. Here's how all of the Global Contenders stacked up for the week ending October 12:

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