Country Codes

Sedo scored a clean sweep in the ccTLD category this week taking every position on our new Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart. They have always dominated this category and it's not the first time they have run the table, but it is always an impressive feat. A quintet of five-figure sales, of all which you saw in the all extension section earlier, filled the first five spots on our the ccTLD leader board. The biggest country code sale you haven't seen yet is #6 Stedentrips.de at $6,950. 

As they so often do, the .de domains (Germany's popular country code) took the most chart entries with seven, including half of the top eight sales, the last of those being #8 Trucks4U.de at $5,213. Great Britain's .co.uk was next with four, followed by France's .fr with three.

.TV was the only other extensions with multiple chart entries, scoring twice with #9 (tie) CommercialBreak.tv ($5,000) and #11 Mob.tv at $4,250. 

 Here is how the ccTLD leaders stacked up for the week ending October 16:

Sedo had dozens of additional four-figure ccTLD sales off the chart including Iron.TV and Pokerist.co at $2,780 each. Forum-Thailand.de and Lintec.de added $2,641 apiece and WebWeek.de went for $2,502. 

Sedo had 43 more four-figure ccTLD sales ranging form $1,000 to $2,500 that are listed in the table below:

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)

While the Sedo blitzkrieg swept through the country code category the AfternicDLS was busy making hay with the non .com gTLDs. They grabbed the top spot on this group's chart, took six of the first ten places and wound up with eight spots overall. 

Sedo also hung tough taking eight places of their own including the highest sale you haven't yet seen in this category, #4 ENT.net at $9,999. They also occupied the #5 position wth Acquire.net at $4,000. The AfternicDLS answered by taking the next five in a row, led by #6 KeynoteSpeakers.org at $3,771. 

The .nets had a dominating performance, sweeping 14 of the 20 chart positions, leaving just four places for .org and two for .info. Here's how all of the Non .Com gTLD leaders stacked up for the week ending October 16:

There were several dozen additional four-figure non .com gTLD sales just off the chart led by the AfternicDLS sale of AllHealth.net for $2,088. Animate.biz and JCAR.org added $2,000 each. 

The AfternicDLS had 19 more four-figure sales in this category ranging from $1,000 to $1,988. Those are listed in the table below.

Sedo's supplemental list was led by Rongorongo.org at $2,085 and CasinoEnvivo.net at $2,000. Bubbleshooter.asia blew $1,590, 3DCasino.net raked in $1,500 and Baden-Baden.org bagged $1,390. iCheck.org chipped in $1,250, Glitnir.net glommed onto $1,235 and CXK.org kicked in $1,000.

Elsewhere, YummyNames teamed up with the AfternicDLS to sell Refer.biz for $1,277 and Moniker/SnapNames moved Pompeii.net for $1,050. 

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