DomainRegistration.com Closes at More Than $376,000 In One of the Year's Top Dozen Domain Sales

A trio of nice six-figure sales highlighted the past week in the domain aftermarket. The leader of that pack, DomainRegistration.com booked a bountiful $376,480 to complete a sale process that began with a winning bid in Moniker's live auction at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East conference in May. That was one of a half dozen sales from that event that earned spots on our weekly leader board. To make room for them without overshadowing the everyday venues we are expanding our usual Top 20 chart again this week, bumping it up to 30 positions.

The #2 sale this week was also a beauty, a rare two-letter .com that went for $192,000. That was just enough money to get Bryan Gray to part company with WT.com in a private sale. The third domain to hit the six-figure mark was Aftermarket.com, a name purchased by TrafficZ.com for $125,000 in Moniker's live auction at the Domainer Meeting conference in Paris last month. 

By Ron Jackson

TrafficZ's parent corporation, Thought Convergence, is expected to put Aftermarket.com to work in short order. That is likely to be the brand name for their new live domain auction that will debut at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference in New York City Sept. 23-26. T.R.A.F.F.I.C. organizers plan to open the show up to as many as five different live auction houses, though Moniker, who has been designated the shows "premiere" provider, will still produce the main auction event.

In a big country code sale this week, Sedo.com sold Apotheke.eu ("pharmacy" in German) for €51,000 ($81,070) in a deal that ranks among the ten biggest ccTLD sales of 2008. Sedo had a hand in eight charted sales, more than any other daily sales venue. The AfternicDLS also had a big week, charting seven domains led by 5B.com at $25,000. 

Moniker sold three leader board names from their web platform, a pair at the Domainer Meeting live auction and the six from T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East, thus placing their brand on a total of 11 names on this week's elite list. NameJet.com and DotMarket.com each placed two names on the board and RickLatona.com took a spot with #19 Lodo.com, a name he sold to Name.com for $17,000.

.Com dominated the chart with 27 entries. Country codes claimed four spots, including #10 with the counter-intuitive LasVegas.asia attracting a surprising $30,000 at Sedo. The final two openings went to .net (the extra positions stemmed from a five-way tie for the final spot). Here is how all of the top sellers stacked up for the week ending Sunday, July 13:

.Com Supporting Cast

The Afternic DLS was the volume leader in the .com supporting cast drawing $9,700 for XDev.com, $8,250 for Uninstaller.com and $8,000 each for Vaeret.com and Succeeded.com. DNPP.com pulled $5,632 and JOTL.com coralled $5,500.

Arkin.com added $5,200 while Cyberhack.com and A-M-E.com clicked for $5,000 each. ViperMarketing.com posted $4,988, MightyMachines.com cranked out $4,950 and XSquad.com collared $4,888. RailExpress.com pulled into the station with $4,688 on board, BMTLLC.com secured $4,665 and NetXtra.com bagged a $4,500 bonus.

The AfternicDLS had 71 more .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $4,000 that you can check out in the table below.

Sedo's supplemental roster included Kidnap.com ($9,200), XEI.com ($9,100) and a pair at $7,500 each; TheMuffia.com and OnePolicy.com. BIY.com billed $7,400, GeekIt.com grossed $7,000, Cinegratis.com greeted $5,009 and EvalWeb.com went for $3,975. 

RockStores.com stacked up $3,500, FreeGold.com took a shine to $3,400 and CAVY.com wound up at $3,179. StartUpExchange.com distributed $3,100, Ymial .com yielded $3,051 and three others; VacationsWorldwide.com, Moranbah.com and MAFA.com fetched $3,000 apiece. Sedo also sold Karnaf.com ($2,600), WebFonts.com ($2,500), HipResurface.com ($2,400) and ThaiKiss.com ($2,050).

Back at NameJet, MPU.com provided $8,802, Dadou.com downed $7,319 and MilitaryZone.com marched off with $4,900. Blok.com banked $4,236, CreateVideo.com delivered $3,433 and WirelessHeadphones.com connected for $3,199. MedRecords.com revealed $3,102, Yuzu.com zipped up $3,100 and NextDirectory.com notched $2,700. Nasda.com captured $2,556, TangledWeb.com snagged $2,200 and LuckyVoice.com landed $2,000. 

TDNAM.com had the top name in the .com supporting cast with Entropy.com at $9,815. They also reaped $3,770 from RecipeAtlas.com and $2,701 from NuclearMoose.com. 18Jav.com and A7Babna.com brought $2,500 each while Jiemeng.com made $2,016.

SnapNames.com took in $6,250 for SkyTube.com, $4,699 for Upser.com and $3,100 for SuperGalleries.com. HolaHoy.com hauled in $2,513 and MembershipSiteIncome.com served up $2,005.

In additional closed sales from the Moniker/T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East auction, MetricConversion.com contributed $8,250, the matching set of Thea.com and Thea.net added $6,000, AnimationShop.com sketched out $5,590 and GreekSculptures.com was graced with $2,000. In another Domainer Meeting sale, CareerAdvisors.com called in $3,500 and in a pair of sales on the Moniker web platform, BillboardCharts.com drummed up $3,125 and BlueMelon.com squeezed out $2,563.

Elsewhere XAS.com changed hands for $9,500 in a private sale, SeeInside.com spotted $5,000 in another private deal, DotMarket sold Methodism.com for $5,000 and HuntingMoon.com unloaded Milf247.com for $2,000. 

Global Contenders (.biz, .info, .mobi, .net & .org)

The .nets were in charge of the Global Contenders Top 20 chart again this week, taking the top two spots with a pair of names that also made the all extension leader board you saw earlier. .Net went on to rack up 14 of the 21 GC chart entries (the extra spot resulting from a tie for the 20th position). 

.Info and .mobi had three charted domains each and all three of the .info domains made the top ten, led by #3 Physicians.info, sold in the Moniker/T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East auction for $8,200. .Mobi's flag bearer was #9 Students.mobi, sold at Sedo for $4,253.

It was an unusually slow week for .org with that extension charting just one domain, #14 (tie) USTravel.org at $3,018 via the AfternicDLS. Here's how all of the Global Contenders stacked up for the week ending July 13:

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