Jobs.ca Changes Hands in Blockbuster Deal That Ranks Among the Year's Ten Biggest Domain Sales

Jobs.ca takes the spotlight this week after being sold for $600,000 in the biggest Canadian country code sale ever reported. Ogopogo Media purchased the domain from Montreal's Domed Technologies Inc.  Ogopogo's founders, Shaun Pilfold and Robert Montgomery are well known in domain circles. I had more about this deal in a post in our Lowdown section Tuesday morning (May 6).

We had a report of another major deal being concluded for Win.com at a price of €1,000,000 ($1,533,180) but non disclosure provisions prevent us from being able to release the details necessary for us to treat this is as a verified sale that we can chart.

In another strong sale RickLatona.com moved SimiValley.com for $90,000 to take the #2 slot on our new Top 20 chart. The AfternicDLS had a very hot week, putting six names on the big board and racking up three of the first six sales. Their roster was led by #3 YourChat.com at $35,200. Sedo.com also had their usual solid outing with seven charted domains - more than any other venue - including #4 Bucket.com at $30,000. 

By Ron Jackson

.Com claimed 13 of the 20 chart positions and country codes took five spots leaving .net and .mobi to split the final two openings. The tiny Pacific Ocean island nation of Niue accounted for two of those highly ranked ccTLD's, #9 CO.nu ($16,111) and #16 Info.nu ($12,500). Sedo sold both of those names, as well as a German IDN, #15 Reisebüros.de ("travel offices" in German) at €8,100 ($12,575).

Here is how all of the top sellers stacked up for the week ending Sunday, May 4:

There were five more five-figure sales just off the chart. Sedo had three of those including TSJ.com at $10,100. They also sold a a pair at $10,000 each; 3GForex.com and Juegos.com.uy (.uy is Uruguay's country code), which means "games" in Spanish.  The AfternicDLS also sold two names at $10,000 each; MySofa.com and Cenotaph.com. 

.Com Supporting Cast

As always there was a long parade of solid four-figure sales. The AfternicDLS had the grand marshal in that procession with MississippiNews.com ($9,400) and a pair at $8,800 each; Tangerines.com and Necatarines.com. They raked in $8,000 apiece for R3R.com and CamerasDirect.com, while Atime.com added $7,000 and HDVideoConferencing.com connected for $6,000. 

BankingWorld.com deposited $5,800 while TVChoices.com and TennesseeNews.com dispatched $5,500 each. eBusinessCenter.com banked $5,400, followed by a six-name logjam at $5,000 each that included TTech.com, Kiitos.com, HellDiver.com, Fivi.com, CertificationTraining.com and AbsoluteSlots.com.

The AfternicDLS had 81 more .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $4,888 that you can check out in the table below.

Back at Sedo H-Art.com sketched out €5,000 ($7,762), BankingWorld.com withdrew $5,800 and WeatherClub.com cleared €3,500 ($5,434). PokerSpot.com raked in a $5,100 pot, RunShop.com walked off with $5,000 and BangBangBang.com brought down $4,500.

RubberBracelets.com and Looted.com locked up $4,000 each, Deprave.com drew $3,600 and AssuranceMoto.com mined €1,990 ($3,089). VonSchmidt.com and FEHU.com contributed $3,000 apiece while VocalWeb.com clicked for $2,125. 

At SnapNames.com Lifeminders.com located $6,751, ApartmentNews.com reported $4,100 and CaliforniaKitchen.com cooked up $3,219. BeautyTherapist.com posted $3,010, WisconsinSexOffenders.com dug up $2,433, KentuckySexOffenders.com cornered $2,054 and DailyContactLenses.com focused on $2,000. 

At NameJet.com AllStarPoker.com dealt out $6,243, AmateurModel.com posed for $6,200 and Pendejo.com produced $5,800. Karavan.com drove home $5,199 and Bessie.com brought $5,045. NameJet had 43 more .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $4,999. You can review those in the table below.

Several sales closed from recent Moniker.com live auctions. From the Affiliate Summit sale, KitchenLights.com flipped on $8,000 and OrganicShopping.com paid $4,500 at checkout. At T.R.A.F.F.I.C. West FlatscreenTelevisions.com tuned in $7,000, at the Casino Affiliates Convention SportsRecords.com broke $3,250 and at Internext, DeepHoles.com dug $2,500.

At TDNAM.com ArabicTelevision.com and Torched.com lit up $2,005 each.

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

Roulette.mobi had the winning number in the Global Contenders race with a $15,000 sale from Moniker's Casino Affiliates Convention auction putting that domain at #1. The runner-up spot went to Busy.net, sold for £3,302 ($6,517) at Sedo. That helped .net sweep the majority of chart positions, taking 13 of 20 overall.

.Org charted three domains, led by GivingTree.org at $5,400. .Info and .Mobi each had two names on the top 20. The best .info was OpenDomains.info at $4,000. In the race among venues, the AfternicDLS dominated this chart, taking 12 of 20 positions. 

Here's how all of the Global Contenders stacked up for the week ending May 4:

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