.Org edged .Net 9-8 in the Global Contenders race this week, but .net took the top two chart entries, with the leading domain, Slovakia.net, a runaway winner after selling for $10,250 at SnapNames.com. The water level dropped quickly after that with the runner-up domain, FreeVideos.net, far back at $3,433. SnapNames also accounted for that sale and swept 14 of the 20 positions on the leader board.

.Org took  the third and fourth positions with SustainableUSA.org at $3,355 and Jucee.org at $3,165. .Info scored with two domains that tied for 7th at $3,000 each; NLP.info and Archive.info. You may have done a double take when you saw Archive.info. Yes, that domain was also on the chart just last week when it sold for $1,200 at Sedo. The buyer, Matt Wegrzyn, immediately put the domain back up for sale at the DomainState.com forum and re-sold it for $3,000! Not a bad return on investment for one week and I'm not sure my calculator has enough digits to calculate what the ROI works out to on an annualized basis!

.Biz was also represented this week with ASI.biz selling for $1,250 at Pool.com to tie for 17th. Here's a complete look at the Global Contenders list for the week ending June 18:

There were six more four-figure sales just off the chart with Pool, SnapNames and Afternic each claiming two of those. Pool sold Geneva.biz for $1,175 and TLR.org for $1,060. SnapNames banked $1,150 for Caes-scae.org and $1,095 for WoodstockHistSoc.org. Afternic answered with RetailSolutions.net at $1,100 and WikiBase.org at $1,000. 

Country Codes

It was a big week for the country codes, especially for Germany's .de as the extension swept the top three spots on our new ccTLD chart (and four of the first five positions and seven overall). You've already seen the first three on our all-extensions leader board, so no need to go into detail on those, other than to have Blackjack.de take one more bow for that blockbuster $300,000 sale at NameDrive.com. 

.US had the next highest number of chart entries with three, including #4 Roommates.us at $10,000, another country code domain that was strong enough to crash the all-extension leader board at the top of this report. The American ccTLD also scored with #10 WII.us, sold by NameDelivery.com for $2,500 in a private transaction and Ryder.us, which went for $1,000 in another private deal. 

The European Union's new .eu and Canada's .ca claimed two positions each and .cc (Cocos Keeling Islands) posted one of the largest sales we have ever seen in that extension with US.cc going for $6,000 at Sedo. The seller was Ron James, who is the owner of the NamePros.com domain forum. Here's a look at the complete Country Code list for the week ending June 18:

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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