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.This record claims victory over .com Sweden as ccTLD Enjoy rapid growth in the main markets around the Globe
It one of the most interesting trends in 2009 was the rapid growth that we witnessed sales of ccTLDs in spite of an economy world goes through one of the worst economic crisis in the last century. As we noted in our last newsletter, the total volume of sales of ccTLDs $ informed us in 2009 soared 28%'s total for the year 2008.Esto happened while total sales reported for all domain after sales slid 12.5% year on year.Clearly the most important country codes have been outpacing the market as a whole and do a very impressive margin.
Yesterday, I found an article about how to increase interesting extension . au Australia, especially now that registry operators have eliminated some of the severe restrictions on the property. au (resale by mid-2008 domains. au was banned - speak a damper in sales aftermarket!).Today I found myself on an article on increased sales of ccTLDs in another market - Sweden.
Country code for Sweden is .se and this headline on the registry website .se caught my attention - .se domain dominates the Swedish while .com is receding market .article says that, according to a report released in January 2010 the Government responsible for the Central Bureau of statistics (SCB), "the .se domain is growing stronger while .com is lose its? establish themselves in Sweden".According to the report of SCB?s, it used by enterprises of 2009, 88% of all companies decided to register .se addresses, while 32% chose by. coms.
Danny Aerts, Director General of the .se registry says, ?We see the same trend internacionalmente.País code top level domains like., are growing faster in comparison with generic, such as .com, .net and .org in other markets, así.En Sweden top level domains, .se is the obvious choice of top level for corporate domain."Now we can also clearly see that small businesses and individuals who are increasingly prefer .se other top-level domains."
According to the SCB, Swedes are choosing .com with fewer frecuencia.En 2008, 42% chose .com among companies with more than ten employees, but in 2009 between these companies .com market share dropped by 6% to 36%.Small businesses with fewer than ten employees were in the same direction. in 2008, 34% of these companies chose .com, while in 2009 that number reduced to 28%.
At the end of 2009 there were active .se domains of 936,428, a jump of 12% of the 834,004 which occurred at the end
2009.Suecia is only receiving one of several countries that are experiencing strong growth in use of its ccTLD local.estos ccTLD as well as flourishing IDN use high-growth markets (worldwide) is creating new opportunities for domain investors seek to diversify their holdings.
Roland LaPlante
Country CodesThe country code category produced a quintet of five-figure sales this week, all oh which made the all extension Top 20 Chart you saw earlier. Those, of course, also rank as the five biggest sales on our new Country Code Top 20 Chart (led by Austrian ccTLD Tracker.at at $22,320). The biggest ccTLD sale you haven't seen yet is #6 Korsetter.se ("corsets" in Swedish), a name that sold through MissDomain.com for $9,643. Sedo and BliXem Internet team up to sell #7 Folders.eu for $6,450. That gave Sedo a hand in 17 of the 20 chart entries. Nothing new there - Sedo always dominates the ccTLD category. Just as Sedo is the strongest country code venue, Germany's .de is, more often than not, the most popular extension on our weekly chart. That was the case against this week with .de claiming seven chart positions. The European Union's .eu was next with five. Here is how all of the country code leaders stacked up for the week ending August 15:
Country Code Top 20
There were dozens of additional four figure sales off the ccTLD chart. Sedo had the highest of those with EDGroup.co.uk at $3,120. An IDN, Ausrüstung.de delivered $2,580 as did EuroShopping.be. Fiction.al (representing Albania's seldom seen .al extension) added $2,340 and OrganicXSeeds.com sprouted $2,129. Sedo had 42 more ccTLD sales ranging from $1,000 to $1,935 that are listed in the table below:Additional Sedo ccTLD Sales Between $1,000 - $1,935At NetFleet.com.au, XS.com.au (Australian ccTLD) sold for $2,925, Octane.com.au added $1,305 and Janssen.com.au yielded $1,161. In a private sale, Beads.us went to a Chinese bead supplier for $2,700. If there are country code extensions in our report that you are not familiar with, you can look up the nation each extension goes with here.Global Contenders (Non .com gTLDs: .biz, .info, .mobi, .net, .org, .asia, .pro & .tel)The .non .com gTLD category was dominated by one sale this week - Lottery.net for $220,000 at Sedo. That was the only non .com gTLD to sell for more than $10,000. That left MLF.org in the #2 spot on our Global Contenders Top 20 Chart at $9,888, followed by #3 LegalForms.net at $9,500 and #4 Offshore.info at $6,451. Sedo accounted for all of those sales as well and went on to sweep 16 of the 20 chart entries. The AfternicDLS was the only other venue with multiple chart entries, taking three places, led by #8 Liberi.org at $3,500. Sedo's list included #5 Europe.biz at $5,000. That was one of two .biz domains on the elite list, joining #18 Antarctica.biz ($1,935). .Info also had two entries; the aforementioned Offshore.info and #15 Bakers.info at $2,332. Both extensions trailed the usual chart leader, .net, which won again with 11 representatives on the chart. The .orgs were next with five. Here's how all of the Global Contenders stacked up for the week ending August 15:
Global Contenders Top 20
There were more four-figure GC sales just off the chart with Sedo again accounting for the majority of those. Their list included Cannabiz.net ($1,700), ClimatePredictions.org ($1,620), Wanduhren.org ($1,548) and Persee.org ($1,520). Sedo had 16 more GC sales ranging frong $1,000 to $3,200 that are listed in the table below:Additional Sedo GC Sales Between $1,000 - $1,500At the AfternicDLS Safecom.net drew $1,700, ECA.biz banked $1,677, Scaglia.net nailed $1,500 and GayForum.org gathered $1,454.
*****As always, we welcome all verifiable sales reports from companies, private sellers or individuals with knowledge of an important sale made through any channel. To contribute information and help make this column better, just drop a note to editor@dnjournal.com.We truly appreciate the industry leading companies who share their sales information with us to help everyone in the business get a handle on current domain values. Richard Meyer of Domain Sales Center also provides invaluable help in collecting data for these sales reports each week.Every Wednesday we publish the highest reported domain name sales for the previous week. On Mondays and Tuesdays our contributors send us their sales data for the previous 7 days. We then compile that information and write this article to give you the most comprehensive sales report in the industry. Editor's Note: If you wish to review previous Domain Sales columns, they are available in our Archive.
