Cardiology.com Closes at $550,000 To Take a Place Among the Year's Top Ten Reported Domain Sales  

Another wave of completed sales from Moniker.com's live auction at the New York T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference hit the charts this week, led by a trio of six-figure blockbusters. The best of those, Cardiology.com, closed at $550,000 to lead this week's Big Board and take a place among the ten highest sales reported so far in 2007. #2 Bald.com also looked slick at $400,000 while #3 Supplies.com stocked the shelves with $323,530.

To make room for another barrage of auction results, we again expanded our usual Top 20 chart to 40 positions. Domains from the Moniker/T.R.A.F.F.I.C. event in New York occupy 18 of those slots. 

By Ron Jackson

Sedo.com also had a big week, bagging 13 chart entries and sharing another with Moniker after working together to close #7 Femmes.com at $110,000. They thus had a hand in three of the eight six-figures sales finalized over the last seven days. Their big gun was #4 Chinese.net at $180,000. That was the second highest .net sale reported this year. We also saw the third highest .net sale as Moniker sold #5 Ringtones.net for $175,000 in a non-auction transaction. 

Sedo sold Chinese.net during the first live auction on their newly acquired GreatDomains.com site. The event that closed July 26th attracted almost $1 million for the 14 domains that changed hands. That sale kicked off a series of live premium domain auctions to be run on GreatDomains.com. Another 7-day auction sale will begin August 16 with Gymnasiums.com and other one-word premium domains scheduled to go under the gavel.

Considering that summer is supposed to be the slow season we are seeing some eye popping numbers for August. The secondary market is on fire as several venues have rolled out innovative new initiatives aimed at pushing the aftermarket to the forefront of the industry. We will be detailing what they have been up to and why their moves are likely to have a very positive impact on your sales efforts in our upcoming August Cover Story (due out in the next day or two).

Name Media's powerhouse combo of Afternic.com and BuyDomains.com (the foundation for their Afternic DLS platform) will be among the companies featured in that article. They had their usual strong outing this week and place five names on the elite list, even though their focus is more on the small to medium sized business sector than big spenders. Their list included the week's top country code sale, $25,000 for #22 AuctionNetwork.tv. 

.Info and .org each scored twice with #15 Chinese.info ($37,111) and #24 Mexico.org ($21,000) leading the way for their respective extensions (Justin Godfrey sold Mexico.org in a private transaction). .Biz even got into the act with Mortgages.biz selling for $15,000 in the Moniker/T.R.A.F.F.I.C. auction to tie for #30. Of course, .com as always dominated the numbers game, piling up 27 of the 40 chart entries. 

One other note before we hit the charts. I will be busy covering the Domain Roundtable conference in Seattle at this time next week so there will be no sales report next Tuesday night (August 14). However, we will bring you completely up to date with a double-length report the following week. Now, on with the show - here is how all of the top sellers stacked up for the week ending Sunday, August 5:

There were seven more five-figure sales just off the chart. Sedo accounted for four of those; Juego.tv ("game" in Spanish) at $10,500, a one-letter IDN - ç.com - at $10,000 and two other names at the same price - Buyz.com and Booq.com. SnapNames.com sold OnlineMedication.com for $10,601, Moniker.com raised $10,220 with PoliticalBase.com and Afternic/BuyDomains rang up $10,000 with RentPages.com.

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In some other completed sales from the Moniker/T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York auction, Bolsos.com brought $9,300, 494.com and 593.com dialed up $5,890 each and LiftRecliner.com drew $2,950.

Back at Sedo, Colocated.com landed at $8,700, Mobilo.com banked €6,000 ($8,246) and QIK.com kicked in $7,975. ShareNow.com chipped in €5,000 ($6,872), ChildCure.com dispensed $6,400 and five others; SilverWing.com, RivaPoker.com, PokerRiva.com, Mosquee.com and EnglishIsFun.com added $5,000 each.

The SnapNames roster was reduced as a result of a lot of non disclosure requests this week but the popular venue was still able to release a lot of winners, including VisitCabo.com ($7,877), KXR.com ($7,600), TheNutcracker.com ($6,700) and CulinaryTools.com ($4,909). KnockoffHandbags.com pocketed $4,260, UKJet.com took off with $3,911 and Turkiyem.com tacked on $3,800. DirectDesign.com drew up $3,700, YorkiePuppy.com lapped up $3,425 and Mortgage-Lenders.com locked in $3,200.

Also at SnapNames, an IDN, xn--a-nt7c.com, delivered $3,170, LicenseTag.com turned in $3,160 and Belgo.com captured $3,000. 34D.com clicked for $2,666, FailureAnalysis.com found $2,600 and two others; NewYorkCityShoppingGuide.com and 34DD.com unhooked $2,450 each. PCSD.com posted $2,383, Ongbuom.com commanded $2,272 and 32D.com contributed $2,244. The SnapNames list was rounded out with DataEntryMoney.com ($2,210), DiscountFabricsUSA.com ($2,010), 32DD.com ($2,002) and eStationary.com ($2,001).

At Afternic/BuyDomains RochesterJobs.com and RocketPower.com lifted off with $7,500 each. RuggedComputers.com, Ripa.com and FlyAngler.com reeled in $6,000 apiece and YieldManagement.com marked up $5,325. SearchRealty.com, NetworkApplications.com and FederalInsurance.com produced $5,250 each while BuildingServices.com and Loretta.com attracted $4,500 apiece.

LocalFarmers.com harvested $4,488, GetCable.com tuned in $4,236 and two others; WeBuyHousesFaster.com and Realiser.com rounded up $4,000 each. A trio of names that included SportsConsulting.com, FashionStatements.com and EyeSafety.com distributed $3,750 apiece. Afternic/BuyDomains had 92 more .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $3,688 You can review those in the table below.

As if that weren't enough, Afternic/BuyDomains had over 400 more .com sales under $2,000.

Elsewhere, Mexico's Walter Sanchez Escobar acquired Multinivel.com ("multi-level" in Spanish) for $7,000 in a private sale. TDNAM.com checked in with ETGames.com ($4,996), KitchenBacksplashes.com ($3,238), FreightRate.com ($2,693), QuoteZapper.com ($2,227) and TheDamnBlog.com ($2,005). Pool.com penciled in $4,300 for Travelocy.com and $2,700 for Exspidia.com while Nahrungsmittel.com notched $2,090. At HuntingMoon.com, HDMovieClub.com coralled $2,500.