.Net dominated the Global Contenders action this week, taking the top spot with YT.net going for $10,000 in a private sale, and piling up 13 of 20 chart entries overall. .Biz also made some waves with the biggest sale in that extension so far this year and two names in the top ten. The big hitter was #2 OnlineCasino.biz, sold for $7,500 at Sedo. #9 CarLoans.biz added another $2,500 in a private deal.

.Org was held to four entries this week, led by #3 HandsOffCain.org, sold for $4,223 at SnapNames.com. .Pro hit the chart for the third week in a row, scoring with Sex.pro which went for $2,000 at Sedo.

In an interesting portfolio sale, Moniker.com/DomainSystems sold 37,000 .info domains for $105,745. That averages out to just $2.86 per domain, so how does that make sense? Answer: Because the domains were acquired at .info promotional prices of $1.75 per domain. The end result was a 61% return on the owner's investment in less than a year.

The rest of the new GC list was nothing but net. Here's a complete look at the Global Contenders chart for the week ending July 23:

There were 16 more four-figure sales just off the chart, with SnapNames accounting for all but three of those. .Org owned this group with SmokeFreeForHealth.org exhaling $1,601, ComotionMakers.org drumming up $1,551 and FLPPR.org generating $1,485. ChildrensFilm.org screened $1,400, Grove.org grew $1,383 and ITWorks-Ohio.org added $1,300. 

Also at SnapNames, Cast-Net.org notched $1,275, Autobahn.org pulled in $1,222, SunSafety.org shined at $1,124 and SolarHome.org soaked up $1,050. On the .net side of the ledger, Dania.net delivered $1,605, DLI.net sold for $1,151 and Unilu.net brought $1,124.

Sedo had two four-figure sales, pocketing $1,600 for Pocket.info and $1,000 for Porn.pro. Enom's Club Drop added another with Stoff.net standing out at $1,300.

Country Codes

The country codes had a great week with a trio of five-figure sales, each in a different extension. You've already seen those three; Tonight.de, Gay.dk and Gig.co.uk because they all ranked among the 12 biggest sales on the all extension Top 20. .co.uk was really rocking with five entries on the new GC list including #4 SecureServe.co.uk at £4,112 ($7,563) and #5 Oli.co.uk at £5,500  ($6,439).

The European Union's new .eu extension also had another strong outing with four charted domains including #8 Ventilator.eu, sold for €3,050 ($3,836) at Sedo. With the news this week that 74,000 prime .eu domains have been suspended by the central registry, EURid, it will be interesting to see if that dries up the pool of .eu resales in the weeks ahead.

Fresh off their $5,000 sale of EU.cc last week, Original Web Ventures, Inc. sold another two-letter .cc, UK.cc,  for the same price this week. .cc is the country code for the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Other countries represented this week included Canada (with two .ca entries sold at Pool.com), New Zealand (.co.nz) and The Netherlands (.nl). Here's a look at the complete Country Code leader board for the week ending July 23:

In another four-figure sale just off the chart, MortgageQuotes.us rang up $1,000 for America's extension in a sale at Sedo. Also SexBusiness.co.uk was sold at www.domaini.co.uk for £500 ($920).

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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