The .orgs were kicking butt and taking names this week and wound up sweeping the top three spots on our new Global Contenders chart, with all of those sales hitting five figures. You've already seen them on the all-extension list including the 800-pound gorilla, Refinance.org at $34,980. Only four other GC sales have topped that one in 2006.

The .nets also had a good outing and actually outpointed .org 10-9 in the total number of entries on the leader board. #4 Townhouse.net led the way for that extension at $7,188, followed by #6 Bebe.net at $4,606. Both of those names sold at SnapNames.

.Biz drew blood with #7 Score.biz ringing up €3,500 ($4,492) at Sedo. .Info, after posting the #1 domain last week (CreditCard.info at $20,000) came up empty this time out. Here's a complete look at the complete Global Contenders chart for the week ending August 6:

There were 21 more four-figure sales just off the chart, with SnapNames accounting for most of those. .Org kept scoring there with ArtFest.org ($1,890), ThreeOaks.org ($1,823) and StraightScoop.org ($1,750). 51Green.org chipped in $1,550, Internet-Association added $1,360 and three others; VA-SpaceFlightCenter.org, NEPI.org and Camro.org booked $1,350 each. Italian-Embassy-Israel.org delivered $1,284 and DiscoveryFarms.org harvested $1,050.

On the .net side of the ledger, SnapNames sold All4Vegan.net ($1,550), Heathrow.net ($1,516) and ChainMail.net ($1,500). HitchHikers.net picked up $1,250 and TeachingJobs.net earned $1,224. SolidaridadLatinoAmericana.net and MyPhotoBook.net notched $1,050 each and Transcript.net took down $1,001.

At Sedo, Trafficker.net stopped at €1,200 ($1,540), OLED.info landed €900 ($1,155) and ELB.biz brought €550 ($706). At Enom's Club Drop, Topography.net tacked on $1,200 and at Afternic WebMall.org went for $950 while BoylePoker.net raked in an $800 pot.

Country Codes

Last week .co.uk turned in a dominating performance sweeping the first six positions on our Country Code leader board. Great Britain's extension remained hot this week, posting 2 of the top 3 ccTLD sales and accounting for 5 of the 13 positions on the new Top Sellers list. PetrolPrices.co.uk was the big winner, pumping out £5,500 ($10,494) at Sedo. At the same venue, #3 MyMove.co.uk packed up £2,000 ($3,816). 

.CC is usually a very dark horse but the Cocos (Keeling) Islands extension put three domains on this week's chart including #2 CA.cc at $4,000 and #10 GB.cc at $2,500. Both were sold by Original Web Ventures in private sales (with Sedo handling the escrow).  

The United States (.us) and Germany (.de) each had two charted domains this time around. The top gun for .de was #4 Lazyland.de, sold for €2,780 ($3,568) at Sedo. The flag bearer for America was #5 WeBuyHouses.us which went for $3,500, also at Sedo.

Here's a look at the complete Country Code leader board for the week ending August 8:

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.

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