Country Codes

Sedo traditionally dominates the country code market but this week they really hit it out of the park with the biggest ccTLD sale of the year (by far) and a clean sweep of all 20 positions on our latest weekly Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart. Their headliner of course was Aktien.de ("stocks" in German) at a gargantuan $725,000.

Sedo also rang up five five-figure sales that we showed you in the all extension section earlier. The biggest ccTLD sales you haven't seen yet are #7 HandwerkerForum.de at $8,973 and #8 Advertising.eu at $8,264 

Germany's popular .de extension had the most chart entries with nine, followed by Great Britain's .co.uk with three and the European Union's .eu with two. America's .us extension was among the others earning chart honors. #4 AED.us at $20,000 was the biggest .us sale reported so far this year. 

Here is how the Country Code Top 20 stacked up for the week ending July 24:

There were several dozen additional four-figure ccTLD sales off the chart with Sedo accounting for the vast majority of those including GeoCaching.at ($3,480), Mein-Kind.de ($3,118) and WeSpeak.es ($3,000). 

Sedo had 43 more four-figure ccTLD sales ranging form $1,000 to $2,900 that are listed in the table below:

Elsewhere Diversified.us changed hands for $2,477 in a private transaction, Moniker/SnapNames moved OO.tv ($2,150), CT.tv ($1,613) and Children.us ($1,950) and OwnThisDomain.co.uk sold CDT.org.uk for $1,640. 

If there are country code extensions in our report that you are not familiar with, you can look up the nation each extension goes with here. 

Non .com gTLDs (.biz, .info, .mobi, .net, .org, .asia, .pro & .tel)

The .non com gTLDs had only one five-figure sale this week but they made it count. As I noted in the all extension section earlier, Spain.net went for $40,000 in a deal brokered by UpMarketDNs.com. That ranks #7 on our YTD Top 100 sales chart for this category (third chart on that page).

The #2 spot on our new Non .Com gTLD Top 20 Sales Chart went  to another .net, LawyerCentral.net, sold for $6,950 at WinnerNames.com. .Orgs took the next three spots to round out the first five with Rayo.org ($5,600), APPO.org ($5,000) and FHIT.org ($5,000).

In the race among venues Sedo and the AfternicDLS finished in a dead heat with nine chart entries each. Sedo's list included the lone .info - #10 Herz.info at $3,480. The AfternicDLS roster included #8 BestParking.org at $3,988, one of two domains they placed in the top ten. 

The .nets had the most chart entries with 12, followed by the .orgs with nine. Here's how all of the Non .Com gTLD leaders stacked up for the week ending July 24:

There were several dozen additional four-figure non .com gTLD sales just off the chart led by a trio of domains at the AfternicDLS: WebTalk.net ($2,542), Freebird.org ($2,500) and CurrencyGallery.org ($2,159). 

The AfternicDLS had 22 more four-figure non .com gTLD sales between $1,000 and $2,000 that are listed in the table below:

Elsewhere, Moniker/SnapNames sold Taksim.net ($1,600) and LGB.net ($1,099) while Sedo moved IVA.mobi ($1,451), RestaurantCheck.net ($1,350) and ProblemSolver.org ($1,250). Sedo's list also included Europaletten.info ($1,088) and a pair of names at $1,000 each; N13.net and NovaYork.net.

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