GetMovies.com and Major.com Give Sedo the Week's Two Best Domain Sales

by Ron Jackson
  

Sedo hit the Daily Double with #1 GetMovies.com at an even $75,000 and #2 Major.com at €48,000 ($58,070). Those sales helped Sedo rack up seven entries on our new Top 20 list while SnapNames.com snagged eight slots on the Big Board.

Loco.com locked up the #3 position with JW Media acquiring the domain for $50,000 from DigiPawn.com. Moniker.com/DomainSystems.com then entered the fray, taking back to back entries with #4 Sbort.com (Welsh spelling of "sport") at $40,300 and #5 PetNation.com at $30,350. 

Next up at #6 was that big GC domain, Ohio.org, acquired by Chad Wright's Webquest.com for $30,000 in a private transaction. That was the year's biggest reported sale in the Global Contenders category which includes the non-.com gTLD's; .net, .org, .biz and .info.

.Com is still the undisputed heavyweight champ of course and this week the world's most popular extension walked off with 16 of the 20 chart entries. Three .co.uk country code domains joined Ohio.org in the other four slots. The British power trio included #14 Duck.co.uk at £6,000 ($10,455), #17 BibleStudy.co.uk at €7,500 ($9,074) and #20 Performance.co.uk at £4,600 ($8,016). All three of those were sold at Sedo.

.Com's tear through the first ten continued with #7 BusinessBuyers.com, sold by CoffeeAM.com to a public company in England for $25,200 in a private transaction. BuzzTracker.com followed at #8 after going for $23,000 at Sedo. Then SnapNames took the spotlight with the two best domains from their sales roster; #9 MORealEstate.com ($21,250) and #10 TheDog.com ($17,251). 

Here's a look at the complete all extension leader board for the week ending Sunday, April 9:

.Com Supporting Cast

As we move on to the supporting cast in .com we find SnapNames back at center stage taking a bow with domains like TransTech.com at $7,518 and JobCity.com at $6,111. AdjustableMortgageRates.com returned another $5,487 while Deta.com and Tanta.com took in $5,100 each.

MCSEBootCamp.com commanded $4,900, GolfClubTrader.com tapped in $4,600 and IndiaForum.com fetched $4,350. ZeroDownHomeLoans.com drew $4,250, GoldAdvice.com added $4,200 and OPX.com posted $4,101. 

SnapNames had 20 more sales ranging from $2,000-$3,800. You can check those out in the table below:

Back at Sedo, SelfMadeMillionaires.com banked $7,500, Leitern.com ("ladders" in German) climbed to €4,250 ($5,142) and TrackPlus.com pulled €4,000 ($4,839). NebraskaDivorce.com divvied up $3,900, Register365.com went for €3,000 ($3,629), 17K.com came in at $3,000 and Cardio360.com turned over for $2,222.

At Afternic.com, WAAV.com swept away $7,450, HostHotels.com welcomed $5,000 and two others; NetDoc.com and InvestorsDaily.com deposited $3,500 each. At TDNAM.com (GoDaddy's Domain Name After Market), HaiKarate.com kicked in $5,500, RZH.com rang up $2,300 and Find4closures.com found $2,200. At Enom's Club Drop, JewelryBroker.com brought $2,100 and TheBedroom.com uncovered $1,800.

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

For the second week in a row, .org dominated the Global Contenders competition. The big headline was Webquest.com's $30,000 acquisition of Ohio.org in a private transaction. That set a new high water mark for all .org, .net, .info and .biz sales reported so far in 2006. .Org wound up taking 3 of the first 5 positions on our new GC Top 20 chart and 11 of 20 entries overall.

.Net also fared well this week with 8 charted domains, including #2 JobFinder.net, sold for $7,326 at SnapNames. Other .net winners included #4 FreeWeb.net ($4,050), #6 Postmark.net ($2,900) and #7 Wart.net ($2,662). 

.Org's other standouts included #3 ICAO.org ($5,700), #5 Roofing.org ($3,600) and #8 Eole.org ($2,150). All of those sold at SnapNames, a venue that swept all but four of the 20 chart positions.

.Info got on board with PPCIncome.com's $1,500 sale of ChaCha.info which tied for the 15th position. .Biz came up empty handed this time out. Here's a complete look at the Global Contenders list for the week ending April 9:

There were 11 more 4-figure sales just off the chart. Afternic had the biggest one with WealthManagementServices.net at $1,288. Sedo accounted for another with Xpad.net at $1,000 and SnapNames sold the other nine including LawEnforcement.org ($1,261), Flex.org ($1,253) and Gertrude.org ($1,250). 

SnapNames also scored with Tonic.net at $1,220, Rebound.net at $1,206 and LOM.net at $1,179. HoustonTX.net added $1,100, EDA-SF.org contributed $1,067 and CIEE.net notched $1,050. 

In the upper three-figure range, Afternic sold Primefit.net for $863, Sedo dialed up €600 ($726) with AreaCode.biz and Enom's Club Drop exchanged XTS.net for $670.

Country Codes

Great Britain's .co.uk reigned over the Country Codes this week, sweeping the top three spots on our new ccTLD chart. Those three domains, Duck.co.uk, BibleStudy.co.uk and Performance.co.uk were all strong enough to crash the Top 20 all extension chart as well (as you saw earlier in our report). The UK trio helped Sedo run off with 11 of 12 chart entries this week.

Germany's .de also did very well by charting 6 domains in a row after Italy's Teatro.it ("theater" in Italian) took the #4 position at €4,500 ($5,444). The .de run began with #5 Geschenk-idee.de ("gift idea" in German) at €3,000 ($3,629) and #6 eGames.de at €2,800 ($3,387).

The surprise of the week was a pair of chart entries from .vc, a seldom seen extension that represents tiny Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. AA.vc and Poker.vc did the honors, selling for $2,000 and $1,655 respectively. Sedo sold the 2-letter domain while Afternic accounted for the poker name.

Here's a look at the complete Country Code Chart for the week ending April 9:

The always popular poker keyword sold in another extension this week as well. Poker.sh (Saint Helena ccTLD) went for $1,500 at Afternic. That venue also sold VietNamNet.tv for $600. Meanwhile, sales reports continue to trickle in from the recent Canadian .ca drops. Sibername.com sold a trio at 500 Canadian dollars each ($437) that included xtreme.ca, NNC.ca and FraserDowns.ca.

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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