.Net barely nudged out .org in last week's Global Contenders race (winning the battle for total chart positions 10-9) but this week was a different story, with .net scoring a landslide victory. The extension took the first five positions on the chart and 8 of the top 10. Buy.net led the way after going for $45,450 in the second biggest .net sale reported this year. Another nice five-figure domain, Voiture.net ("car" in French) took the runner-up spot after going for €8,200 ($10,555) at Sedo.

Afternic added fuel to the .net fire by selling #3 PrivateJet.net for $6,000. After two more .net sales at Sedo, .org finally drew blood with #6 Kontaktanzeigen.org ("personals ad" in German) selling for €2,300 ($2,960) at Sedo. .Org had another top ten entry with #9 Jeffrey.org at $2,200. Overall, .org took the 6 slots .net left behind while .biz and .info both went home empty handed. The latter two extensions did have four-figure sales just off the chart though.

Here's a complete look at the Global Contenders list for the week ending May 28:

There were 15 more four-figure sales just off the chart and SnapNames accounted for all but four of those. They scored with CherryHill.net ($1,405), HeartSurgery.net ($1,365) and Dragonball.net ($1,349). In the same extension, WebNursing.com went for $1,211 and Vittorio.net notched $1,161. 

On the .org side of the ledger, SnapNames sold Senadoelapr.org for $1,400 while DCTV.org and BCFN.org brought $1,300 each. Tele.org phoned in $1,272, Nici.org netted $1,250 and ALIC2004.org fetched $1,010. 

.Biz had a pair or four-figure sales this week with Geneva.biz going for $1,175 at Pool.com and Winner.biz bringing $1,100 at Sedo. .Info's best effort was the $1,200 attracted by the double-hyphenated Video-On-Demand.info at Sedo. In another four-figure deal, Afternic banked $1,105 for 1o.net.

Country Codes

The European Union's new .eu extension hit the top of our ccTLD chart for the first time this week and did it in a convincing manner with EinFamilienHaus.eu ("one family house" in German) selling for a solid €11,050 ($14,219) at Sedo. Another .eu also cracked the top half of the Country Code leader board as #8 Autokran.eu ("car crane" in German) hoisted €2,500 ($3,217) at Sedo. A car crane is a piece of heavy machinery used to load and unload cargo vessels that ship automobiles.

America's country code, .us, had the most chart entries with four. PPCIncome.com's Howard Hoffman accounted for three of those, spending $3,150 each on Vehicles.us, Desks.us and Desk.us at the Moniker/T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Auction in Las Vegas. Germany's .de and Great Britain's .co.uk made strong showings on the upper reaches of the chart. The Brits scored with #2 Why.co.uk at £3,500 ($6,592) and #6 Apartment.co.uk at €3,600 ($4,632). .De countered by sweeping positions 3 through 5 with a pair of 3-letter domains, ERS.de ($6,436) and FIO.de ($5,919) doing the most damage.

Other countries represented on this week's chart included the Bahamas, India, Switzerland,  Samoa and China. #7 Poker.bs gave the Bahamas a rare chart entry after going for $3,600 in a private sale. The $3,200 sale of #9 Commodities.in (Indian ccTLD) also came in a private transaction (though Sedo handled the escrow end of that deal). Here's a look at the complete Country Code list for the week ending May 28:

Sedo accounted for the sales of the Swiss and Samoan domains we mentioned earlier. They handled the €2,300 ($2,959) sale of Hausfrauen.ch ("housewives" in German), representing Switzerland's country code and the $1,600 deal for Blogs.ws (ccTLD for Samoa). Afternic gets credit for the $1,450 sale of DragonAir.cn (China's ccTLD).

Elsewhere, someone picked up a nice buy at the NamePros.com domain forum, getting FreeHost.us, FreeHosting.us and FreeWebHosting.us for a total of $1,100.

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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