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3-Digit .Com Commands Over 200K to Top This Week's Sales Chart - 11 of First 12 Entries are 3 Characters or Less

It's the same old song but it's a tune that owners of ultra-short domain names never get tired of hearing. That category continued to rule our all extension Top 20 Sales Chart this week with 11 of the first 12 entries (and 14 of 20 overall) running 3 characters or less left of the dot. Eight of those were ever popular 3-letter .coms but the biggest of all banked on numbers with 701.com commanding $205,001 at NameJet in another in a long line of great numeric domain sales this year (four of the six biggest sales reported so far this year have been 3-digit .coms).  

The runner up spot on this week's leader board went to the only domain in the top ten that was more than three characters long. That was Rankings.com, a name that Pedro Romero sold through the Above.com Marketplace for $100,000.

The week's biggest non .com sales (both representing new gTLD .top) tied for the #3 slot with 6.top and M.top changing hands for $93,600 each through the Jiangsu Bangning registrar in China. The extension is doing well in that country and now has more than 900,000 total registrations, second only to .xyz among new gTLDs. 

By Ron Jackson

ZCN.com rounded out the first five with a $78,077 sale at NameJet followed by three more 3-letter .com sales at the same venue. Joining them on the top half of the elite list was #9 C.Club, sold for $50,000 in an Eachnic.com auction, and #10 RE.net at $49,000 via NameJet. That gave the non .com gTLDs four spots overall but the .coms swept everything else, piling up 16 chart entries and leaving the ccTLDs empty handed. 

SnapNames contributed to the .com onslaught with one of the few entries that stretched beyond 3-characters in #13 Changyu.com. Sedo had two others with #17 AirFashion.com ($29,000) and #18 Xpose.com ($27,500) and IndusDomains.com chipped in with FLIO.com at $25,000 (though at just four letters that one wasn't "long" by anyone's standard).  

Here is how the sales leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, Dec. 6, 2015:

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The DN Journal Top 20 
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Nov. 30, 2015 - Sun. Dec. 6, 2015
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Dec. 9, 2015)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. 701.com $205,001 NameJet
2. Rankings.com $100,000 Above Marketplace
3.
tie		 6.top ¥600,000 = $93,600  Jiangsu Bangning
3.
tie		 M.top ¥600,000 = $93,600  Jiangsu Bangning
5. ZCN.com $78,077 NameJet
6. LJR.com $71,509 NameJet
7. RSC.com $66,000 NameJet
8. JFS.com $60,500 NameJet
9. C.Club $50,000 Eachnic
10. RE.net $49,000 NameJet

11. NTQ.com $44,600 NameJet
12. EJB.com $41,900 NameJet
13. Changyu.com $39,010 SnapNames
14.  Hora.com $36,999 NameJet
15. IPJ.com $31,600 NameJet
16. Epos.com $30,100 NameJet
17. AirFashion.com $29,000 Sedo
18. Xpose.com $27,500 Sedo
19. FLIO.com $25,000 IndusDomains
20. EIQ.com $24,600 NameJet

Keep in mind that these are the highest value cash only sales that have been reported to us in the past week. This column is meant to be an educational tool, not a complete list documenting ALL high value domain sales. Such a list is impossible to produce because many sales are kept private at the insistence of buyers, sellers or both. Our procedure for verifying the accuracy of domain sales reports is available here.

CLICK HERE for our Year-To-Date Top Sales Charts

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The All-Time Top 20 All-Cash Domain Sales Reported By DNJournal.com
 (2003 to Now)

There were 16 more five-figure sales off the chart led by Sol Orwell's $24,000 purchase of SJO.com at Heritage Auctions. Sol, a successful domain investor turned top notch developer who was profiled in our current Cover Story, promptly turned SJO.com into his personal website. 

NameJet has seven more sales at this level including GXV.com at $23,000. That was a great flip for the seller who had picked it up last February for just $8,450 (also at NameJet) - an example of how quickly three-letter .com prices have escalated this year. NameJet added $19,500 for 9472.com, $18,400 for BBOO.com and $15,100 for 259999.com. Also on their list was JohnDoe.com ($14,600), Baza.com ($14,100) and Jami.com ($10,300).

DomainHoldings.com collected $22,000 for StayFit.com, Flippa fetched $21,500 for Bart.com and Sedo sold six more, four of those .coms -  PerfectCo.com for $11,500, Fisico.com for $10,500 plus Avexis.com and Imagic.com at $10,000 apiece. They also moved two ccTLDs at this level - Cam.tv at $13,000 and Cool.it at $11,000.

.Com Supporting Cast

Sedo led the .Com Supporting Cast of four-figure sales with SocialChain.com ($9.985) and Barbut.com ($9,900). ZZCapital.com kicked in $8,000, Bilmo.com booked $7,900 and Asate.com secured $7,800. IlRiccio.com rang up $6,050, 33Y.com corralled $5,700 and 4488.com clicked for $5,500. DanTech.com drew another $5,499, FoodBrothers.com harvested $5,390 and Stroom.com delivered $5,000. 

Sedo had 59 more four-figure sales ranging from $2,000 to $4,999 that are listed in the table below:

Additional Sedo .com Sales Between $2,000 - $4,999
clickforchange.com $4,999   dzos.com $2,600
lzch.com $4,995 swtx.com $2,550
stealmyidea.com $4,950 ghff.com $2,530
sanantonioautoauction.com $4,888 dlds.com $2,500
bioresonance.com $4,851 garagedoorspares.com $2,495
inspectify.com $4,500 jrlr.com $2,450
thened.com $4,500 zqpm.com $2,449
rainydays.com $4,300 jxtr.com $2,399
fway.com $4,000 instantlocal.com $2,350
musicjet.com $4,000 btgp.com $2,331
sacolas.com $3,995 lmkb.com $2,300
sympli.com $3,888 nbsf.com $2,300
ogod.com $3,700 hellopass.com $2,295
atlasinformatics.com $3,500 fkkp.com $2,250
inpet.com $3,420 vsale.com $2,200
69h.com $3,400 fioruccifood.com $2,195
iwesee.com $3,285 pdny.com $2,175
lllw.com $3,200 nyry.com $2,151
aa188.com $3,095 ltlf.com $2,150
peoplewho.com $3,060 lncm.com $2,101
hatandcap.com $3,045 jylq.com $2,100
goingo.com $3,000 lucentfinancial.com $2,095
urogen.com $3,000 rmpr.com $2,090
aaa999.com $2,995 jeuxdecartes.com $2,077
entregafacil.com $2,970 fdzk.com $2,049
dmfr.com $2,888 rcsn.com $2,001
3uv.com $2,800 burgercorner.com $2,000
notwork.com $2,750 fcwt.com $2,000
techeast.com $2,750 wnmx.com $2,000
kindorganic.com $2,650   

Back at NameJet CourtReporter.com recorded $9,100, EEDD.com contributed $8,300 and VoipPhone.com dialed up $7,500. Gumo.com grossed $7,260, Wheelz.com braked at $7,061 and SmartVR.com captured $7,000.

MuddyWaters.com went for $6,100, 438888.com deposited $6,000 and Bellas.com bagged $5,655. CounterIntelligence.com and KidsClinic.com cornered $5,600 each and HQ8.com welcomed $5,425. 

NameJet had 148 more four-figure .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $5,400 that are listed in the table below: 

Additional NameJet .com Sales Between $2,000 - $5,400
yibing.com $5,400   dror.com $2,700
freehomepage.com $5,350 espectaculo.com $2,700
pb8.com $5,250 goze.com $2,700
87478.com $5,200 smfk.com $2,700
flowing.com $5,200 clbn.com $2,675
walnutcreekrealestate.com $5,125 kgnm.com $2,654
98569.com $5,079 tlld.com $2,609
76757.com $5,020 54m.com $2,600
sbrh.com $5,000 70686.com $2,600
forexrate.com $4,735 8tm.com $2,600
888867.com $4,700 noyu.com $2,600
stonegroup.com $4,577 nsjr.com $2,600
rk8.com $4,500 rtwb.com $2,600
vody.com $4,400 wildplanet.com $2,600
fffe.com $4,350 picgroup.com $2,560
paho.com $4,300 redhen.com $2,555
postings.com $4,300 slsj.com $2,520
ecdn.com $4,235 29428.com $2,500
datacorp.com $4,122 myperspective.com $2,500
33832.com $4,000 tarrytownhomes.com $2,500
acteva.com $3,850 xmasgift.com $2,500
skkw.com $3,809 tydz.com $2,451
insurancehealth.com $3,800 372333.com $2,431
cassiopeia.com $3,778 jiapinhui.com $2,420
ettt.com $3,777 nclc.com $2,412
underthesun.com $3,750 gblh.com $2,409
firstmedical.com $3,600 impressum.com $2,405
221666.com $3,520 568999.com $2,401
xgzx.com $3,509 kangying.com $2,400
mimen.com $3,500 pftt.com $2,350
sdwj.com $3,300 rgxf.com $2,320
xydx.com $3,300 chalv.com $2,319
34818.com $3,220 84242.com $2,300
careerpark.com $3,200 rfnp.com $2,300
gzzt.com $3,180 sgkf.com $2,300
rkqq.com $3,134 khrn.com $2,299
cjqb.com $3,125 whpn.com $2,299
rfdc.com $3,121 ctgr.com $2,263
bzny.com $3,109 pgrr.com $2,263
871871.com $3,100 hybridautos.com $2,215
kexuejia.com $3,100 166555.com $2,210
philibert.com $3,076 xtqy.com $2,209
viney.com $3,069 pysm.com $2,205
planohomes.com $3,050 tfym.com $2,200
homecinemas.com $3,018 thrr.com $2,200
hg358.com $3,016 skhw.com $2,199
bkbf.com $3,010 bnln.com $2,176
mrhd.com $3,001 prtw.com $2,169
dmh.com $3,000 rnpp.com $2,165
fyjm.com $3,000 marcona.com $2,155
nthg.com $3,000 chlp.com $2,147
saly.com $3,000 zntq.com $2,120
widy.com $3,000 cppm.com $2,119
sbrr.com $2,950 dsfy.com $2,111
rnmy.com $2,908 pjsl.com $2,110
smcy.com $2,908 medicaledu.com $2,106
lawexpert.com $2,901 istuff.com $2,101
cmny.com $2,900 989000.com $2,100
lbtn.com $2,900 vggv.com $2,100
lyll.com $2,900 napping.com $2,085
nxln.com $2,900 onigiri.com $2,057
tosha.com $2,900 geosphere.com $2,026
snowmaster.com $2,877 pcts.com $2,021
ppfr.com $2,870 gldr.com $2,020
mlny.com $2,835 5886888.com $2,012
hgpc.com $2,800 fashionpoint.com $2,010
hhgh.com $2,800 htrn.com $2,001
oood.com $2,800 27714.com $2,000
khwn.com $2,799 988958.com $2,000
dpst.com $2,788 gamesgeni.com $2,000
fbwz.com $2,770 irab.com $2,000
gnhb.com $2,710 pffn.com $2,000
scqn.com $2,708 socialgiving.com $2,000
glgh.com $2,705  

SnapNames notched $7,500 for 539539.com while DIGroup.com gained $3,925 and 3SE.com sold for $3,910. MyDV.com made $3,700, $2,818 flowed from FluidNow.com and MegaDesign.com managed $2,603. Credita.com claimed $2,401, XGFQ.com extracted $2,119 and CTWB.com tacked on $2,110. Two others - GreenPois0n.com and HelpAddiction.com -  hauled in $2,049 apiece. SnapNames also teamed up with Sedo to sell Zhucha.com for $5,147.

Elsewhere, DomainHoldings took in $6,000 for CityTap.com while Flippa piled up 10 more four-figure sales led by GGTT.com at $9,102. They added $4,300 for CreditTips.com, $3,900 for ResidentialTowers.com and $3,150 for PLIF.com. 

Also at Flippa, MMLM.com closed at $2,950, Encouraged.com rang up $2,900 and BXNN.com billed $2,600. Orbiting.com circled $2,250, Lengthy.com landed $2,100 and Forthcoming.com found $2,045. 

Country Codes

The ccTLDs were led by a pair of five-figure sales at Sedo - Cam.tv at $13,000 and Cool.it at $11,000. Flippa filled the #3 hole in our latest weekly Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart with Left.io at $6,600. Sedo then rounded out the first five with Gleitsichtbrille.de at $6,283 and YA.ma at $5,000.

Sedo went on to sweep 13 of the 20 chart entries including #6 Flexibus.de at $4,950. Flippa was the only other venue with multiple chart entries, ringing the bell four times, including two more in the top ten - #9 Atl.as at $3,500 and #10 Scratch.io at $3,350.   

Germany's .de won the extension race with five chart entries. Only two other TLDs had multiple chart entries - .io with three and .co.uk with two.  Here is how the country code leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, Dec. 6:

Country Code Top 20 Chart
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Nov. 30, 2015 - Sun. Dec. 6, 2015
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Dec. 9, 2015)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1. Cam.tv $13,000 Sedo
2. Cool.it €10,000 = $11,000 Sedo
3. Left.io $6,600 Flippa
4. Gleitsichtbrille.de €5,712 = $6,283 Sedo
5. YA.ma $5,000 Sedo
6. Flexibus.de €4,500 = $4,950 Sedo
7 32.ca $4,888 Sedo
8. SpiderSolitaire.co.uk €4.000 = $4,400 Sedo
9. Atl.as $3,500 Flippa
10. Scratch.io $3,350 Flippa

11. Dugun.de €2,999 = $3,299 Sedo
12. Memoria.de €2,750 = $3,025 Sedo
13. HQ.io $2,950 Flippa
14. Hypothekenvergelijking.nl €2,200 = $2,420 Sedo
15. Puppets.co.uk £1,450 = $2,204 DomainLore.co.uk
16. 5186.cc $2,010 NameJet
17. Carousell.hk $2,000 Sedo
18. Cornerstore.co $1,985 Sedo
19. InvestmentSolutions.eu €1,770 = $1,947 Golem.eu
20. Bett-Shop.de €1,650 = $1,815 Sedo

CLICK HERE for our Year-To-Date Charts.

There were several more four-figure ccTLD sales off the chart led by Sedo's $1,788 sale of WX.pw. They added $1,650 for UU.to and $1,606 for Tyr.cc.

Sedo had 17 more four-figure ccTLD sales ranging from $1,000 to $1,520 that are listed in the table below:

Additional Sedo ccTLD Sales Between $1,000 - $1,520
MEB.co.uk $1,520   kapuzentuch.de $1,100
autobahn.eu $1,375 marcello.it $1,100
huet.eu $1,375 gripperatgeber.de $1,099
jsg.ch $1,375 geogroup.de $1,089
799.in $1,329 skill-coach.de $1,089
fb.pw $1,265 europaforum.ch $1,045
ssl.us $1,250 gebaermutterhalskrebs-impfung.de $1,045
9330.cc $1,200 360.la $1,000
growland.fr $1,100  

Elsewhere, DomainLore.co.uk sold MEB.co.uk for $1,520,  Golem.eu sold ARG.be for $1,099, Flippa moved Product.io for $1,000 and Webcraft Domains picked up another $1,000 for 888.com.ro.  

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. 

Non .com gTLDs (.net, .org, .biz, .info & others, including new gTLDs)

The boom in the China market has done wonders for the Non .Com gTLDs. This group has trailed the ccTLDs in annual dollar sales volume reported to us for several years now but demand from Chinese buyers for ultra short domains in .net and a few of the new gTLDs has given the category new life. That was never more apparent than this week with 6.top and M.top booking $93,600 each to lead our latest Non .com gTLD Top 20 Sales Chart (a pair of sales that also rank among the year's 10 biggest in this group).

.CLUB has also benefited in a big way from Chinese interest, piling up a dozen chart entries this week led by #3 C.Club at $50,000. That domain, like many of their others on the leader board, was sold in a premium .CLUB domain auction staged by Chinese registrar Eachnic.com.

Short .nets also continue to do very well and those produced half of the top six sales, led by RE.net at $49,000 via NameJet. Still, all of those solid auction sales gave .CLUB an easy win in the extension race (a competition usually won by the .nets).  Here's how all of the Non .Com gTLD leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, Dec. 6, 2015:

Non .Com gTLDs Top 20 Sales Chart
Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Nov. 30, 2015 - Sun. Dec. 6, 2015
(Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect Dec. 9, 2015)
  Domain

Sold For

 Where Sold
1.
tie		 6.top ¥600,000 = $93,600  Jiangsu Bangning
1.
tie		 M.top ¥600,000 = $93,600  Jiangsu Bangning
3. C.Club $50,000 Eachnic
4. RE.net $49,000 NameJet
5. VO.net $17,100 NameJet
6. 2016.net $10,100 NameJet
7. YT.org $9,999 NameJet
8. PC.Club $9,750 Eachnic
9. LY.Club $7,751 Eachnic
10. ZQ.Club $6,600 Eachnic

11. LearningMachine.org $6,150 Sedo
12. FTB.net $6,128 NameJet
13. QC.Club $6,050 Eachnic
14. ZJ.Club $6,001 Eachnic
15. Case.Club $5,760 .CLUB Registry/
RU-Center
16. 555.Club $5,755 Sedo
17. DS.Club $5,751 Eachnic
18. JS.Club $5,750 Eachnic
19. PK.Club $5,500 Eachnic
20. 111.Club $5,320 Sedo

CLICK HERE for our Year-To-Date Charts.

There were dozens of additional four-figure sales in this category led by Eachnic's $5,251 sale of SQ.Club - along with many more 2-letter .CLUB domains including JD.Club, YM.Club and YX.Club at $5,250 each. 11 others went for $5,000 apiece - those were CG.Club, DK.Club, GW.Club, GZ.Club, HJ.Club, KF.Club, PJ.Club, TB.Club, YC.Club, YQ.Club and ZS.Club. MH.Club added another $4,800.

The .CLUB Registry also sold some premium domains through their registrar partner channel including Maker.Club at $2,531 (eNom), Trunk.Club at $2,000 (GoDaddy), FUT.Club at $1,000 (GoDaddy), Grey.Club at $1,999 (OVH SARL) and 1234.Club at $1,549 (Uniregistrar). 

At Flippa ZWW.net went for $5,000, Jog.org ran down $4,951 and ZHW.net nailed $4,800. Ibuprofen.info provided $4,500, Ski.info skidded to a $3,100 stop and Pineapple.net posted $1,650.

Back at NameJet We.biz banked $4,900, YGD.net yielded $4,230 and FGS.net notched $4,120. 8986.net added $4,100 and ColoradoSprings.org spawned $4,050.

NameJet piled up 44 more in this category, ranging from $2,000 to $3,909 that are listed in the table below:

Additional NameJet Non .com gTLD Sales Between $2,000 - $3,909
xnj.net $3,909   pxc.net $2,900
pqf.net $3,900 jon.net $2,870
npy.net $3,720 sas.net $2,822
bdn.net $3,701 2829.net $2,800
pfq.net $3,655 2933.net $2,750
ncjrs.org $3,601 tqf.net $2,700
sgp.net $3,478 outsourcing.org $2,605
mqb.net $3,400 ama.net $2,600
qdt.net $3,400 asteroid.net $2,600
qhh.net $3,220 sti.org $2,600
7985.net $3,100 zkn.net $2,521
ynd.net $3,086 bqz.net $2,519
987.org $3,060 rmy.net $2,501
bfy.net $3,020 8185.net $2,453
qfb.net $3,020 6717.net $2,420
rzn.net $3,020 2925.net $2,400
gqb.net $3,019 rlg.net $2,322
hg365.net $3,009 8211.net $2,302
fqf.net $3,000 2017.org $2,117
nqp.net $2,992 2812.net $2,077
qtd.net $2,909 muse.net $2,010
dqf.net $2,900 yaya.net $2,001
  nat.net $2,000

At Sedo 3-letter .nets remained en vogue with five of those - BXX.net, BYY.net, KKT.net, XMZ.net and ZTW.net - bringing $4,800 each. RJJ.net chipped in another $4,140. 

Sedo had 35 more four-figure non .com gTLD sales ranging from $1,001 to $3,900 that are listed in the table below:

Additional Sedo Non .com gTLD Sales Between $1,001 - $3,900
frs.net $3,900   818.Club $2,010
666.Club $3,600 ewu.net $2,000
688.Club $3,220 hostland.net $2,000
flix.org $3,200 333.Club $1,801
dnh.net $3,000 theopenstring.org $1,500
startupedia.org $2,999 800.Club $1,451
jec.net $2,549 177.Club $1,310
myc.net $2,500 988.Club $1,300
whx.net $2,390 121.Club $1,250
nk.biz $2,310 788.Club $1,250
118.Club $2,260 868.Club $1,250
femail.net $2,255 iqoption.net $1,200
34.biz $2,222 858.Club $1,105
dyp.net $2,200 hxl.org $1,099
wettsteuer.org $2,200 mwx.org $1,099
wu.biz $2,200 151.Club $1,001
288.Club $2,060 wrc.info $1,001
November.Club $2,015  

Sedo also teamed up with SnapNames to sell QIW.net for $1,800. 

The Jiangsu Bangning registry sold five more .top domains at $4,680 apiece. Those were 338.top, 558.top, 669.top, 778.top and JR.top. 

Elsewhere, SnapNames sold Calcpa.net for $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. 

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