Country Codes

One of the year's ten biggest ccTLD sales - Interest.me at $80,000 via Sedo - set the pace for the country codes this week. That blockbuster and three other five-figure sales we showed you in the all extension section above fill the first four spots on our latest weekly Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart.

The biggest sale in this category that you haven't seen yet is #5 DentalVeneers.co.uk at $8,900 through Sedo. They went on to sweep 18 of the 20 chart entries. The only exceptions were the DomainAdvisors sale of #8 Burrard.ca for $8,000 on the DomainNameSales platform and the NetFleet.com.au sale of #11 The.com.au at $4,334. 

Germany's .de won the extension race with five chart entries. Great Britain's .uk and Colombia's .co were next with three each. The remaining nine positions were split between nine different countries in a remarkably diverse week for the ccTLDs. One of those was #7 GG.gg at $8,164 - unusual for two reasons; 1) the name and extension are all the same letter and 2) this is the only .gg (Guernsey country code) sale I recall ever seeing charted.

Here is how the ccTLD leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, May 20:

There were dozens of additional four-figure ccTLD sales off the chart with Sedo accounting for all but four of those with a roster that included Park.it at $2,200 and Gesundheitsreise.de at $2,142. Popo.co added $2,050 and Adventure-Golf.de gripped $2,016. 

Sedo had 35 more four-figure ccTLD sales ranging from $1,000 to $3,000 that are listed in the table below:

NetFleet.com.au posted four more sales at this level with Subdivision.com.au ($2,084), PharmacyDiscounts.com.au ($1,822), 1800Hampers .com.au ($1,294) and Solar-Power.com.au ($1,136).  

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 three five-figure sales we noted in the all extension section above, led by Amara.org at $25,000, headline the non .com gTLD  this week. The biggest sale in this category that you haven't seen yet is ElGordo.net, #4 on our new Non .Com gTLD Top 20 Chart after an $8,000 sale at DomainNameSales.com. Sedo's $7,938 sale of Bildung.net rounded out the first five followed by their sale of #6 Force.biz at $6,500. 

The AfternicDLS piled up the most chart entries, sweeping 13 of 20 places including all ten spots on the second half of the leader board. In addition to #2 Instantly.net at $16,995, their three top ten entries included #8 MicroAge.net at $3,280 and #9 Snore.net at $3,188. 

The .nets turned in a dominating performance piling up 16 of the 20 chart entries. The .orgs claimed three and .biz one. Here's how all of the Non .Com gTLD leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, May 20:

There were several more four-figure non .com gTLD sales just off the chart led by Sedo's $1,575 sale of ADM.info. They also moved Anji.net ($1,500), Wildland.org ($1,450) and V6.org ($1,388). FreeBroadbandNow.org added $1,250 and Sechelinge.net nabbed $1,008. 

Back at the AfternicDLS Damien.net drew $1,500 while A2U.net and GADC.net notched $1,500 each. 4Books.net and Spidercom.net spawned $1,488 apiece with Corpac.net and LivePainFree.org adding $1,388 each. 

Focused.net and HearingAidBatteries.org bagged $1,200 apiece while EcoBrain.net brought $1,188 and two others; DataCollect.net and HighYield.net hauled in $1,088 each. Veatch.net nipped $1,050, WingsToFly.net went for $1,010 and SocialLife.net located $1,000. 

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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.

Every Wednesday we publish the highest reported domain name sales for the previous week. On Mondays and Tuesdays our contributors send us their sales data for the previous 7 days. We then compile that information and write this article to give you the most comprehensive sales report in the industry. 

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