Country Codes

As you saw in the all extension section above, Sedo rang up an impressive $20,000 sale with Scan.me this week and that domain leads our new Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart, with another name that also made the all extension leader board, YSL.co.uk, taking the #2 spot on the ccTLD ladder.

The biggest country code sales you haven't seen yet are a pair of French domains; #3 Chien.fr at $8,085 and #4 Bash.fr at $7,350. Sedo handled both of those sales and went on to sweep 19 of the 20 chart entries. The sole exception was DomainLore.co.uk's sale of #17 C.org.uk at $3,071.

Progesteron.de rounded out the top five at $6,984 and helped Germany's popular ccTLD ring up the most chart entries with six. Here is how the Country Code Top 20 stacked up for the week ending August 14:

There were several dozen additional four-figure ccTLD sales off the chart with Sedo accounting for all but three of those. Their list included POF.in at $2,500 and iBike.co.uk at $2,490. GForce.co.uk kicked in $2,482 and two others; BubbleHub.co.uk and Bubble-Hub.co.uk hauled in $2,389 each.

Sedo had 43 more four-figure ccTLD sales ranging form $1,000 to $2,826 that are listed in the table below:

Elsewhere DomainLore.co.uk sold Westone.co.uk ($2,523) and Tristar.co.uk ($1,796) while the AfternicDLS added $1,200 for AuroraLighting.co.uk.

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)

A pair of $30,000 sales that rank among the year's 15 biggest sales in the .non com gTLD category set the pace on our new Non .Com gTLDs Top 20 Chart this week. As you saw in the all extension section earlier, Sedo moved those two domains; G.biz and Rome.net. 

The highest sales you haven't yet seen in this category are #3 Weld.net, sold by the AfternicDLS for $8,640 and #4 Treppenlift.info, a name that changed hands at Sedo for $7,791. Shoot.net rounded out the top five after Sedo sold that domain for $6,200 on behalf of Acroplex LLC. 

The .orgs claimed the most chart positions, taking 10 of the 21 entries (the extra spot came from a tie for the final opening). The .nets were next with eight, leaving two places for .info and one for .biz.  

Here's how all of the Non .Com gTLD leaders stacked up for the week ending August 14:

There were several additional four-figure non .com gTLD sales just off the chart led by a trio of sales at the AfternicDLS; iRecommend.net ($1,888), FreedomNow.org ($1,750) and MesotheliomaTreatments.net ($1,700). Correll.net nabbed $1,588, Lumos.net landed $1,550 and two others; Steinbach.net and Tacky.net delivered $1,500 apiece. 

ChildrenUnited.org yielded $1,488 while GulfToday.net and Logicad.net nailed down $1,388 each. GroupShare.net garnered $1,288 and Katharine.org contributed $1,088.

Back at Sedo the winners included PKV-Vergleichen.net ($1,616), EconomicNews.org ($1,470) and two names at $1,469 apiece; Nahrungsergänzungsmittel.info and Papain.org. Bootsverleih.net brought $1,323 and Fongecif.org added $1,103. 

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We truly appreciate the industry leading companies who share their sales information with us to help everyone in the business get a handle on current domain values. Richard Meyer of Domain Sales Center also provides invaluable help in collecting data for these sales reports each week.

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