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Peddle to the Metal: $165,000 Sale at Sedo Sends Metal.com to Victory Lane in This Week's Aftermarket Race
Metal.com scored a runaway win in this week's domain aftermarket race, selling for $165,000 at Sedo.com to take the pole position on our new Top 20 Sales Chart. Metal.com finished more than $100,000 ahead of the next closest sale, StockPrices.com at $60,000. Sedo also sold that domain and they went on to sweep 12 of the 20 positions on our all extension leader board.
Sedo's roster included four ccTLDs that broke through the strong .com defensive line to take places on the elite list. Two of those country codes landed in the top ten; #4 Furniture.co.za (South African ccTLD) at $33,000 and #8 MO.de (German ccTLD) at $21,039.
The non .com gTLDs had two representatives on the Big Board, led by #5 FuneralHome.net at $30,000. That sale, made by ProForma Inc., the sales wing of Frank Schilling's company, Name Administration, is the second biggest non .com gTLD sale of 2010 to date.
By Ron Jackson ProForma was the only other venue besides Sedo to ring up multiple chart entries, taking five places including four of the first ten. A pair or four-letter .coms helped their cause. #6 Itao.com commanded $25,000 and #7 HRSI.com drew $22,000.
Also earning chart honors this week were Moniker.com who closed the $40,000 sale of #3 FederalAid.com from their DOMAINfest Global live auction, Bido.com who banked $16,500 from the sale of #12 UDRP.com and the AfternicDLS who scored with #14 Swifty.com at $16,000.
Here is how all of the sales leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, Feb. 28:
The DN Journal Top 20
Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Feb. 22, 2010 - Sun. Feb. 28, 2010
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reported to us in the past week. This column is meant to be an educational tool,
not a complete list documenting
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There were a dozen more five-figure .com sales just off the chart led by Sedo's sale of
FranceHotels.org for
?9,999 ($13,599). They also sold
ISP.co.uk for
?7,500 ($11,250) and a trio of domains for
$10,000 each;
2C.com,
KCMS.com and
Manilla.com. ProForma Inc. sold
Weena.com ($13,000),
EmbroideryPatterns.com ($12,500) and
Locox.com ($10,000). The AfterDLS.com sold
Discern.com for
$12,800 and
General AutoInsurance.com for
$10,000 while Moniker moved
GuyTube.com for
$12,250 and
SpamGuard.com for
$12,000 through their DOMAINfest Global auction.
.Com Supporting CastNameJet.com led the four-figure .com supporting cast with
wwwintuit.com at
$9,999.
Balmoral.com bagged
$8,000 and
WinGames.com went for
$6,500.
PayXpress.com provided
$5,544,
Practica.com pulled
$5,532 and
USATrade.com tacked on
$4,300.
MichaelsFurniture.com delivered
$4,200,
FirstQuote.com fetched
$4,074 and
GreatBeginnings.com grossed
$4,055. NameJet had 25 more .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $3,601 that are listed in the table below:
Additional NameJet .com Sales Between $2,000 - $3,601Back at Sedo
SageCollege.com conferred
$9,860,
CityHouse.com seated
$8,500 and
Solar-Panel.com generated
$6,528.
SocialFlow.com soaked up
$6,500 with three others;
Simman.com,
Topicology.com and
TravelRobot.com returning
$6,000 each.
ShockBox.com plugged in
$5,440 and
AvWorld.com unwound
$5,237 while
SeizeTheDay.com and
Kakoo.com kicked in
$5,000 apiece. Sedo had
40 more .com sales ranging from
$2,000 to
$4,999 that are listed in the table below:
Additional Sedo .com Sales Between $2,000 - $4,999At the AfternicDLS
BeachBabies.com and
Pipsa.com produced
$9,000 each while
2DR.com and
BestHeadphones.com brought
$7,000 apiece.
FamilyAttorney.com found
$6,900,
IntegratedMarketingServices.com added
$6,800 and
MarijuanaSeed.com sprouted
$6,622.
Sobrevive.com secured
$6,400,
StarSites.com attracted
$5,188 and
MasterArt.com displayed
$5,100.
Locol.com landed
$4,600 while
GetVisible.com and
Guud.com grabbed
$4,388 each. The Afternic DLS had
63 more .com sales ranging from
$2,000 to
$4,188 that are listed in the table below:
Additional AfternicDLS .Com Sales Between $2,000 - $4,188As part of their expanded promotion program, the AfternicDLS also sold three more names through Sedo;
OffShow.com ($3,888),
Andare.com ($3,150) and
Unguru.com ($2,488). At
Rick Latona Auctions,
DebtConsolidator.com cornered
$9,500,
CleaningCompany.com and
TireCenter.com tallied
$3,500 each and
Romanced.com connected for
$2,500. Sales from Moniker's DOMAINfest Global auction also continued to close. Those finalized this week included
Chilling.com ($8,000),
CollectibleCards.com ($5,000) and
DigitalServers.com ($2,700). From their online platform Moniker also sold
IdealNetwork.com for
$4,574 and
HVC.com for
$4,149. At
SnapNames.com GoPolitics.com produced
$7,750,
StateAutoInsurance.com covered
$4,115 and
WoolScarves.com warmed up
$3,607.
MotorcycleSupplies.com braked at
$3,150,
Whitefield.com corralled
$3,005 and
TicketPlus.com admitted
$2,155. Elsewhere,
GoDaddy Auctions sold
Pravo.com for
$3,010 and
FileQube.com for
$2,227,
YummyNames.com got a
$3,000 yield from
Travelology.com and
MediaOptions.com captured
$2,350 with
iTattoo.com.
Country CodesSouth Africa's .co.za extension has been making some noise in recent months and that trend continued this week when
Furniture.co.za produced the leading sale on our new
Country Code Top 20 Chart. That domain went for
$33,000 at Sedo, a venue that swept 19 of the 20 positions on our latest weekly leader board. With the
2010 World Cup soccer championship coming to South Africa in June, that nation is going to be in a global spotlight that may add additional fuel to the .co.za fire. The next three spots went to a trio of five-figure
.de domain (
German ccTLDs). You saw all of those on the all extension leader board at the top of this report. The biggest country code sale you haven't seen yet is #6
DI.de at
$9,520. The .de and
.co.uk (Great Britain) extensions pied up eight chart entries each. The other countries earning chart entries this week were
Italy (.it),
France (.fr) and
Australia (.com.au). Here is how the country code leaders stacked up for the week ending Feb. 28:
Country Code Top 20
Highest Reported ccTLD Sales: Mon. Feb. 22, 2010 - Sun. Feb. 28, 2010
Euro to Dollar Conversion (? to $) is Based on Rates in Effect Tue. March 2, 2010
There were dozens of additional four figure sales off the ccTLD chart with Sedo again accounting for the vast majority of those. Their supplemental list was led by
Sonometre.fr ($3,944),
EYC.de ($3,808),
KGForum.de ($3,468) and
MLED.de ($3,305). Sedo had
55 more country code sales ranging from
$1,000 to
$3,200 that are listed in the chart below:
Additional Sedo ccTLD Sales Between $1,000 - $3,200Elsewhere
NetFleet.com.au sold
WaterRestrictions.com.au ($2,115) and
EnergyNews.com.au ($1,260) while the AfternicDLS moved a 1-letter
Costa Rican domain -
O.cr - for
$1,300. 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, .pro & .tel)The $30,000 sale of FuneralHome.net by ProForma Inc. tops our new
Global Contenders Top 20 Chart and ranks as the second highest
GC sale so far in 2010, trailing only
Poker.org (admittedly trailing by a mile since Poker.org went for
$1 million last week). The FuneralHome.net sale was one of three five-figure transactions in the non .com gTLD category this week - all of which were listed in the all extension section earlier. The top GC sale you haven't seen yet is #4
Testberichte.info, a name that brought
$8,160 at Sedo. That was the only
.info on the leader board. The
.nets set the pace by sweeping 10 spots, followed by
.org with seven.
.Biz hit the daily double with a pair of names that reached the top ten; #7
Gutscheine.biz at
$6,800 and #9
Denver.biz at
$4,700. Both of those domains were sold by Sedo whose 12 chart entries led all venues. Here's how all of the Global Contenders stacked up for the week ending Feb. 28:
Global Contenders Top 20
Highest Reported Non .Com Global TLD Sales
(.Net, .Org, .Biz & .Info) Mon. Feb. 22, 2010 - Sun. Feb. 28, 2010
Euro to Dollar Conversion (? to $) is Based on Rates in Effect March 2, 2010
There were several dozen additional GC sales just off the chart. NameJet had the highest of those with
Visit-Annapolis.org at
$2,102.
HospitalList.net added
$2,000 and
Routes.net returned
$1,410.
KWRU.org contributed
$1,354,
Limsat.org located
$1,345 and
Hoax.net notched
$1,200. At the AfternicDLS
Spielautomat.net and
GetLocal.org got
$2,088 each while
Preva.net nailed
$1,988. The AfternicDLS had
23 more non .com gTLD sales ranging from
$1,000 to
$1,888 that you can review in the table below:
Additional AfternicDLS GC Sales Between $1,000 - $1,888The AfternicDLS also used Sedo to sell
Educaweb.net for
$1,588 through their expanded promotion platform.At Sedo the winners included
Cree.org ($1,999),
Bracelet.org ($1,700) and
Hmong.net ($1,499).
LoveBox.info flirted iwth
$1,360,
Fussballtrikot.net trapped
$1,292 and
CarHifi.net cranked out
$1,258.
Adnoc.net drew
$1,170,
SolarHosting.org sold for
$1,156 and
Truculenica.org locked up
$1,047.
Webstar.info and
Brillenmode.net brought
$1,020 each while
StrokeAwareness.net and
Sheba.net buttoned up
$1,000 apiece. Elsewhere, SnapNames sold
HairDryer.org ($1,500),
Zhibo.net ($1,263) and
Plotter.net ($1,250) and MediaOptions moved
Rentals.biz ($1,600) and
Pickles.net ($1,200). Now that you're up to date on what happened over the past week, check out how the leaders stand year to date in all categories by visiting our
Year To Date Charts page.
*****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
Tuesday night or
Wednesday morning 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.
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