Country Codes

Russian domain Wiggle.ru wound up on the apex of this week's Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart at $15,600. You saw that sale and the second biggest ccTLD deal (AfricaSafari.co.uk at $7,000) on the all extension chart earlier. So the biggest sale you haven't yet seen in this category is #3 PQTuning.de at $6,825 via Sedo.  

Sedo went on to sweep 19 of the 20 chart entries. Only DomainLore.co.uk prevented them from running the board by taking #9 with Optimising.co.uk at $4,212. Sedo rounded out the top five with a pair of Spanish ccTLDs - #4 Regalo.es at $6,500 and #5 Cosmeticos.es at $5,850. 

In the race among extensions, Germany's .de and Great Britain's .co.uk tied with four chart entries each. France's .fr was next with three while three other TLDs; Spain's .es, The European Union's .eu and the Netherlands' .nl, had two charted domains apiece. Russia (.ru), China (.cn) and the United States (.us) had one each. That .us sale (#8 GoldPrice.us at $4,750) was of interest to me as I happen to have the plural version of that domain - GoldPrices.us. 

Here is how the ccTLD leaders stacked up for the week ending January 22:

There were several dozen additional four-figure ccTLD sales off the chart with Sedo, as usual, ringing up the vast majority of those including Face.nl and Friteuse.be at $2,600 each.  Entschleunigung.de added $2,470. 

Sedo had 47 more four-figure ccTLD sales ranging from $1,000 to $2,450 that are listed in the table below:

Elsewhere, the AfternicDLS sold Transcend.us for $2,000, NetFleet.com.au moved DefenceJobs.com.au ($1,235) and ArtificialLawn.com.au ($1,013), DomainLore.co.uk sold InternetServices.co.uk for $1,186 and AbdulBasit Makrani got $1,000 for ManualLinkBuilding.co in a private transaction.

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 a good week with a pair of five-figure sales and two above $9,000 that just missed. All told, as you saw earlier, six domains from this category, four .nets and two .infos, earned places on our all extension Top 20 Chart. Those six domains, of course, fill the fist six slots on our new non .com gTLD Top 20 Chart. The biggest sale in this group that you haven't seen yet is #7 Terrenal.net at $5,850 via Sedo (and yes, as you may have noticed earlier, that is the same price Terrenal.com sold for).

The top ten is rounded out with #8 Sterbegeldversicherung.net ($3,250 at Sedo), #9 Calendar.org ($3,000 at URLs.net) and #10 VIPStore.net ($2,988 at the AfternicDLS). The AfternicDLS ruled this category this week, piling up 13 of the 21 chart entries (the extra spot resulted from a two-way tie for the final position).

The .nets easily won the race among extensions, piling up 14 of the 21 chart entries. The .orgs were next with four places while .info had two and .biz one. Here's how all of the Non .Com gTLD leaders stacked up for the week ending January 22:

There were over two dozen more four-figure non .com gTLD sales just off the chart with Sedo's sales of Ehevertrag.net and Rosenblum.org being the highest of those at $1,625 each. Their list also included MSDE.net ($1,500) and two others; ComparePetInsurance.net and Femtocell.org at $1,495 apiece.

OnlineCollegeSearch.net found $1,400, eMoney.mobi added $1,300 and InsuranceCalculator.net notched $1,144. Maharashtra.info fetched $1,138, Kfzteile.org drew $1,105, Pelle.org pulled $1,100 and Macaron.net made $1,000. 

Back at the AfternicDLS, MarketIntelligence.org and TotalMed.net tallied $1,500 apiece. The AfternicDLS had 15 more four-figure sales in this category ranging from $1,000 to $1,388. Those are listed in the table below: 

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