Jasmin.com Goes For Over $310,000 To Give SnapNames Their Biggest Domain Sale Ever 

by Ron Jackson
  

With Jasmin.com as their flag bearer, SnapNames put together a phenomenal sales week, taking 12 of the 20 positions on the Big Board, including five of the first seven. NameDrive.com and KuwaitNET.net were the only venues able to interrupt SnapName's streak at the top of the chart. NameDrive did it with the week's second six-figure sale, Amistad.com ("friendship" in Spanish) at $100,000. The domain was sold in their new traffic based Park & Sell aftermarket. KuwaitNet's big sale was 62.com at $30,000. That ranked #4 on our new Top 20 and they placed another numeric domain, 512.com, in a tie for the 8th position at $15,000.

The SnapNames juggernaut continued with #3 GolfSimulators.com ($41,500), #5 Hiller.com ($23,500), #6 IrelandVacations.com ($17,250) and #7 HarryHoudini.com ($16,861).

 Sedo.com made their first official appearance at #8 with MrSite.com at $15,000 but Sedo also had a six-figure sale we are aware of that couldn't be released due to a non-disclosure agreement. 

Afternic.com was the only other venue with multiple entries on the leader board. They scored with  267.com (#11 at $14,500) and a nice 3-letter org, IRD.org (tied for 17th at $9,100). The other non .coms on this week's list were #15 Scout.net (sold for $10,250 at SnapNames) and #19 WeatherShop.co.uk (sold for $8,768 at Sedo).  Here's a look at the complete Top 20 for the week ending Sunday, Feb 26:

Pool.com had one of the week's 15 five-figure sales, mopping their brow with $14,750 from #10 Perspiration.com. SnapNames dominated both halves of the chart and easily salted things away with seven of the last nine entries on the list.

.Com Supporting Cast

As they do each week, SnapNames also piled up dozens of additional solid four figure sales. KoreanFinance.com fetched $7,500,  GraniteHills.com carved out $6,843 and Tangram.com took in $6,600. CigaretteLighters.com lit up $6,313 while BreastCancerResearch.com and Snippet.com snatched $6,300 each. 

Eastleigh.com added $5,220 while Drosophila.com and OldMill.com ground out $5,100 apiece. SellingRealEstate.com yielded $4,388, FortisAdvantage.com contributed $4,350 and Lovin.com attracted $4,095. SnapNames had another three dozen .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $3,900. You can check those out in the table below: 

Back at Pool.com, BuyBoxes.com booked $6,800, Dongdat.com deposited $6,767 and EasyCreditRepair.com returned $6,100. MayPay.com did pay $4,100, CanadianMilitary.com marched off with $3,450, Canga.com commanded $2,222 and PortlandCars.com pulled in $2,049.

Afternic added to their trophy case with Gagas.com ($6,800), InsuranceUSA.com ($5,000) and a pair at $3,500 each; VIPSex.com and NakedCoeds.com. SilverAngel.com answered a $2,800 prayer, NYCLoans.com landed $2,200 and GalileoResearch.com discovered $2,000. 

Sedo supplemented their winner's list with FortLauderdaleRestaurants.com at $5,000, iLance.com at €3,100 ($3,697) and wwwFlashGames.com at €3,000 ($3,578). CasinoMagician.com made another $2,400 appear, Obiavi.com brought €1,679 ($1,943) and iPropertyNet.com notched $1,600.

At Enom's Club Drop QRU.com sold for $3,700, wwebay.com went for $2,100 and ShoeShack.com found a good fit at $1,800. In a private sale Gupp.com (Hindi for "gossip") changed hands for $2,000. 

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

If you thought SnapNames was dominant on the main chart, check out the new Global Contenders rankings. SnapNames swept 17 of 20 positions on this week's list, including #1 with Scout.net at $10,250. Afternic and Pool were the only other venues appearing in the GC spotlight, Afternic doing it with #2 IRD.org at $9,450. Another .org, Allergies.org, took the #3 slot at $7,544. After that it was nothing but .net on the top half of the leader board.

SnapNames reeled off seven straight .net winners starting with #3 LowRider.net ($4,801) and #4 ArtHistory.net ($4,200). .Biz finally halted the .net streak by gulping $2,500 worth of Beer.biz. That #11 domain sold at Pool, as did #13 Rottweilers.net ($2,153).

As you will see on the complete list below, a number of other nice one-word .nets graced the new GC chart.  Here's how they stacked up for the week ending Feb. 26:

There were 17 more four-figure sales in this category over the last seven days. Eight of those were .orgs, five were .nets, three were .infos and one was a .biz. The .nets included FTD.net ($1,500 at Enom's Club Drop) and four that found new owners through SnapNames; Immortality.net ($1,350), BurglarAlarms.net ($1,259), ILB.net ($1,161) and Pharoah.net ($1,013). 

The long list of strong .orgs all sold at SnapNames. That group included JQF-Jerusalem.org at $1,400, EDIF.org at $1,250 and Yonkers.org at $1,225. WeddingCakes.org sliced off $1,206, SDH.org drew $1,103 and AlarmSystem.org sounded a $1,050 alert. Another $1,024 went to Lina.org and BetterCampaigns.org punched a $1,000 ballot. 

Most of the week's best .infos changed hands at Sedo. Kupplungen.info kicked in €1,249 ($1,490),  Placement.info provided €1,100 ($1,311), Thermal.info was hot at €1,000 ($1,192) and Walk.info stepped out with €550 ($655). Elsewhere, a superb 3-letter combo, CFI.info, sold for $975 at TheNameStore.com. 

Back on the .biz front Daniel.biz brought €1,120 ($1,335) and NJS.biz added $500 with both of those selling at Sedo.

Country Codes

Great Britain's .co.uk took center stage on the Country Code chart this week, claiming five of the first seven entries including #1 WeatherShop.co.uk, sold at Sedo for £5,000 ($8,768). Sedo wound up handling 8 of the 12 sales on the new ccTLD list with the other four deals being done in private transactions. The .co.uk run continued with #2 Prayer.co.uk at £4,300 ($7,540).

America's country code, .us, was right on .co.uk's heels, racking up four charted sales, including #3 Classfieds.us at $7,000. That domain was bought in a private transaction by Ohio's Columbus Web Solutions, Ltd.  The other .us domains on this week's list were all bought by Chris Zouzas in a private deal. Zouzas added Revenue.us ($2,000), Project.us ($2,000) and Union.us ($1,200) to his already outstanding .us portfolio (which includes America.us among others). 

As the world's second most popular extension (behind only .com), Germany's .de is usually expected to dominate this list, but this week the best it could do was an 8th place finish with Bedrucken.de ("printing" in German) at €2,600 ($3,101). Here's a look at the complete Country Code chart for the week ending Feb. 26:

Austria scored this week with #4 Meinewerkstatt.at ("my workshop" in German) at €4,250 ($5,068). The only other country represented this time out was the Cocos Keeling Islands with #12 Loan.cc at $940. In another sale off the chart, Hi5.es (Spain's country code) brought $900 at Afternic. 

Now that you're up to date on what happened over the past seven days, check out how the leaders stand year to date in all categories by visiting our Year To Date Charts page.

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