.Info rose to the top of the Global Contenders chart this week with that big $20,000 sale of CreditCard.info at Sedo. That was one of three .infos on our new GC Top 20, with Roommate.info also appearing on the top half of the chart after selling for $2,500 (also at Sedo). That tied MortgageLoan.biz for the 9th position. Tariq Ghafoor sold both of those #9 domains.

VQ.net nailed down the #2 position after pulling $6,750 at Afternic. It was an unusually slow week for the .nets though as only five of them made it to the leader board. .Org was the big winner in overall numbers this time out, piling up a dozen chart entries including #3 Osteoarthritis.org, a domain sold for $6,088 for SnapNames. #4 AARS.org added another $5,688 at Afternic.

The enduring popularity of 3-letter domains was demonstrated yet again with six of them landing on the new list. Five of those were .orgs. Here's a complete look at the complete Global Contenders chart for the week ending July 30:

There were five more four-figure sales just off the chart, with SnapNames accounting for three of those (all .orgs). Samuel.org sewed up $1,200, PFTWeb.org went for $1,052 and ChristCollege.org generated $1,050. 

At Sedo, Christopher.biz and Musica.pro provided $1,000 each.

Country Codes

Great Britain's .co.uk turned in a dominating performance this week sweeping the first six positions on our new Country Code leader board. Those six were so strong they all made it onto the mainstream leader board you already saw above, as did #7 TV.ae (United Arab Emirates extension). It's the first time we've seen so many ccTLD's on the all extension Top 20.

The highest ranked domain you haven't seen yet is #8 VS.tv, sold for $6,300 at Sedo. Italy (.it), Canada (.ca), the United States (.us) and Germany (.de) also have places on the chart. The American domain, #14 Watercooling.us, was sold by Tariq Ghafoor at Sedo, giving him a nice sales week as he also had the .info and .biz sales we noted on the Global Contenders list. 

.Co.uk added three more entries on the second half of the chart and wound up taking 9 of the 15 positions overall in a very impressive outing. Here's a look at the complete Country Code leader board for the week ending July 30:

In a couple of other sales at Pool.com, Cured.ca brought $892 and Arrange.ca attracted $825.

We were also just notified about the sale of IntelligentFinance.co.uk for $7,000 at NameDrive several weeks ago. Since it occurred more than 30 days ago it is not eligible for our weekly charts.  

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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