Country Codes

As I noted at the top of this report, the country codes had a bang up week, placing eight domains on the all extension Top 20. Those eight, of course, also fill the first eight slots on our new Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart. The top ten on the ccTLD leader board is rounded out by two other Sedo sales that just missed the five-figure mark; #9 Nieuwsbrief.nl ("newsletter" in Dutch) at $9,432 and #10 HandyShop24.de at $9,170.  

Sedo went on to sweep 21 of the 24 chart entries (the extra positions resulted from a five-way tie for the final spot). A pair of private sales and the DomainLore.co.uk sale of #17 DiningRoomFurniture.co.uk at $4,710 were the only charted domains to elude Sedo's grasp. In the private tansactions, Nigel Ankin sold #14 PPIClaims.co for $5,500 and Jeff Overman moved OS.tv for $5,400. 

Germany's .de led the extension race with eight chart entries, followed by The Netherlands' .nl with five. The only other TLDs with multiple chart entries were .be (Belgium) and .eu (European Union) with two each. 

Here is how the ccTLD leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, Feb. 12:

There were several dozen additional four-figure ccTLD sales off the chart with Sedo accounting for all but three of those. Their roster included HotSeat.co.uk at $3,140, Service-Mit-Stern.de at $2,993 and Rechtsanwalt-Bremen.de at $2,924. 

Sedo had 49 more four-figure ccTLD sales ranging from $1,000 to $2,700 that are listed in the table below:

Elsewhere, DomainLore.co.uk sold Agriculture.co.uk ($2,551) and LondonWebsiteDesign.co.uk ($1,650) while NetFleet.com.au moved StartingASmallBusiness.com.au for $1,773. 

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 were led by a trio of five-figure sales, including one that ranks as the year's 2nd highest to date in this category - Lotto.net at $42,575 via Sedo. The highest sale from this group that you haven't seen yet is #4 on our new Non .com gTLD Top 20 Chart - Wetterzentrale.net ("weather central" in German) at $8,730 through Sedo. They also rounded out the first five with the $5,895 sale of Cercolavoro.net. 

Sedo went on to claim 12 of the 20 chart entries, including the first eight in a row. The AfternicDLS bagged the rest of the bounty with eight charted domains including the two that completed the top ten; #9 HealthNow.net at $3,488 and #10 Voke.net at $3,388.  

The .nets easily won the extension race with ten charted domains. .Org was next with six while .mobi, .biz, .info and .pro had one apiece. 

Here's how all of the Non .Com gTLD leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, Feb. 12:

There were more than two dozen additional four-figure non .com gTLD sales just off the chart led by the AfternicDLS sale of Mosaik.net at $2,010. They added $1,988 for DropCloth.net. 

The AfternicDLS had 16 more four-figure sales in this category ranging from $1,000 to $1,788. Those are listed in the table below: 

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