.Net continues to call the shots on our Global Contenders chart, racking up five of the top six sales this week, You already saw the first two, Deutsch.net and LPG.net on our all-extension leader board. Experts.net was next in line, tying Austin.info (an excellent geo domain buy) for the #3 slot at $5,000 each. Experts.net changed hands at Afternic while Moniker/DomainSystems handled the Austin.info sale.

.Net took eight positions overall, followed by .org with five and the new .mobi extension (making its first appearance) with four. The top .org was #7 FON.org, sold for $3,113 at SnapNames. .Mobi then debuted at #8 with the $3,100 sale of English.mobi in a land rush auction completed at Pool.com, a venue that accounted for all of the charted .mobi domains. 

Many other .mobi auctions at Pool have ended at even higher prices, but transfers on those were not yet complete. You'll be seeing many more of those sales reported here over the next few weeks. In the meantime, you will find seven more uncharted four-figure .mobi sales after the Top 20 GC chart below.

.Biz also got on the board this week after Answer.biz attracted €2,000 ($2,507) at Sedo to land at #11. Here's a look at the complete Global Contenders list for the week ending October 8:

There were 39 more four-figure sales just off the chart. Afternic has the highest of those, selling PayItForward.net for $1,800. They also posted a $1,600 sale with MoviePosters.net.

Sedo sewed up $1,755 with GlobalStrategy.net and added $1,750 for You.info. They also sold EuroChannel.net ($1,379) and SingleDating.net ($1,254).

SnapNames sold BatteryPark.net ($1,750), BeachAccess.net ($1,250) and NMF.net ($1,050). On the .org side of the ledger, they scored with SaveOvertimePay.org ($1,525), Insect.org ($1,200) and CVEEC.org ($1,150). PlanoPRC.org brought another $1,051 while PhotoAlbums.org and CompetitiveBroadband.org each attracted $1,050. 

BuyDomains piled up a whopping 17 additional four-figure sales in this category. Those are listed in the chart below:

In addition to the four .mobi domains Pool put on the Top 20 chart, they completed seven other four-figure .mobi sales from land rush auctions. Those included Putas.mobi ($1,505), AtlanticCity.mobi ($1,450), Tones.mobi ($1,320) and MusicVideos.mobi ($1,211). The others were Tampa.mobi ($1,150), Brighton.mobi ($1,150) and ConferenceCalls.mobi ($1,050). If .mobi catches on, all of those could prove to be exceptionally good buys.

Country Codes

For the second week in a row, Great Britain's .co.uk reigned supreme on our Country Code Top Sellers chart with four entries, including three of the top five. The leader of course was FreeMail.co.uk , sold for €20,000 ($25,074) at Sedo, a number that, as you saw earlier, was also good enough to make the first five on our all extension leader board.

The two Chinese domains you saw on the all extension Top 20, one a .com.cn and the other a .cn, occupy the next two spots on the GC list, then .co.uk returns with #4 WebBuilder.co.uk at £4,700 ($8,714) and #5 HelpLine.co.uk at £3,000 ($5,562).

A domain from Chile also appears on our chart for the first time this week. #6 ChilePorno.cl went for $3,819 at Sedo, a venue that accounted for 11 of the 14 chart entries. There is a lot of variety on this week's list with six other countries represented, including Spain (.es), France (.fr), Argentina (.com.ar), the Cocos (Keeling) Islands (.cc), the United States (.us) and, with two charted domains, the Netherlands (.nl).

 Here's a look at the complete Country Code chart for the week ending October 8:

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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