Trio of 6-Figure Sales Including the Year's 2nd Largest ccTLD Sale Headline a Big Week for the Domain Market 

The domain aftermarket continues to gain steam as we head into the home stretch for 2013. The past week saw three 6-figure sales reported and more than 50 five-figure sales - an exceptionally large number that would have allowed us to fill two Top 20 Sales Charts and still have nearly a dozen domains left over. 

DomainNameSales.com led the charge with the two biggest sales - DataCenters.com at $190,000 and Waitress.com at $168,000. Both of those rank among the 20 biggest sales reported so far this year.

The third sale at that level was the year's 2nd biggest ccTLD sale - Cruises.com.au at 110,000 Australian dollars - that's $103,400 U.S. at the current exchange rate. dTrade.com brokered the sale of that domain to OzCruising Pty Ltd.  

By Ron Jackson

The seller had already developed Cruises.com.au and, as regular readers know, we do not include developed websites on our charts unless the parties to the sale specifically break out the price paid for the domain name only from the other business assets. That rarely happens but in this case it did. 

To get Australia's category defining domain for their industry, OzCruising paid a total of 165,000 AUD ($155,100) for all assets, including a Facebook page and the existing customer data. The two sides agreed the value of the domain alone was $103,400, a figure that looks reasonable for such a valuable keyword in an important  ccTLD. 

Another solid ccTLD sale took the #4 spot on our latest all extension Top 20 Sales Chart. That was DailyDeals.co.uk at $55,000 via DomainNameSales. They rounded out the first five with YourRights.com at $45,000 and went on to sweep eight of the top ten sales, with a hand in 12 charted transactions overall. One of those was a sale they shared with DomainHoldings - #13 (tie) BusinessGifts.com at $28,000.

NoktaDomains got one of the top ten entries that eluded DNS with #10 Wreckers.com at $30,000. Sedo and Afternic each claimed two spots on the Big Board with #11 CBS.de ($29,940) leading the Sedo roster and #16 (tie) Exoskeleton.com ($25,000) setting the pace for Afternic. Also earning chart honors this week were NameJet for # 13 (tie) TTM.com at $28,000 and Domains90210 for #20 Concert.tv ($21,000).  

The .coms piled up 16 of the 20 chart entries with the remaining four all going to ccTLDs, leaving the non .com gTLDs out in the cold. Here is how all of the sales leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, Oct. 6:

There were 31 more five-figure sales off the chart led by Stem.org, Vavi.com and YXZ.com, a trio of names that sold for $20,000 apiece at Domain Name Sales (Stem.org was the week's highest non .com gTLD sale). DNS added $17,000 each for Dazle.com and SexChair.com and chalked up $15,000 apiece for four others - ACOutlet..com, DumbAndDumber.com, FinallyFit.com and WholesalePets.com.

Also at DomainNameSales, Fruiti.com fetched $14,500, Bridg.com brought $12,000 and four others, CoinRoll.com, EasyHunt.com, HappyLiving.com and TrafficPlan.com plucked $10,000 each. DNS also joined forces with DomainHoldings to sell Ampu.com for $17,000. 

Sedo's hit list continued with DXMall.com ($19,000), Grippe.de ($18,813) and NeoWin.com ($15,000). Cloud.at added $14,960, Bistrot.fr drew $13,600 and BoxNotes.com bagged $10,880. MKI.com commanded $10,744, Aliced.com allowed $10,200 and two others - Borrower.com and Cloud.to took in $10,000 apiece.

Elsewhere NameJet notched $19,100 for Onions.com and $17,400 for CCMS.com while Afternic landed $12,000 for LtdEdition.com and $10,000 each for GlassLampshades.com and WickedSpirits.com.

.Com Supporting Cast

DomainNameSales led the .com supporting cast of four-figure sales with NannyCanada.com ($9,900), Wari.com ($9,800) and TenantWorld.com ($9,000). PhotographyMagazine.com clicked for $8,500 and two others - RedNatura.com and UsedHandicapVans.com - drew $8,000 each. 

DigitalIA.com, RealtyInfo.com and TrainerPro.com produced $7,000 apiece while MuzikMagazine.com drummed up $6,300. ArkansasSingles.com and MissouriSingles.com connected for $6,250 each while BallTech.com tacked on $6,200. 

DomainNameSales had 40 more four-figure .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $6,000 that are listed in the table below:

At Sedo Harmoney.com made $8,500 while three others - CondomKingdom.com, Locality.com and Prosip.com provided $8,000 each. Another trio, IceDrive.com, MilkLife.com and Q0.com captured $7,000 apiece.

HolisticSex.com attracted $6,536, Prokat.com corralled $6,500 and GNK.com kicked in $6,256. Technomak.com tallied $5,372, Lazeo.com landed $5,168 and Assurance-de-Credit.com collected $5,032.

Sedo had 36 more four-figure .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $5,000 that are listed in the table below:

At NameJet GoldPorn.com posted $8,450, GQU.com yielded $7,400 and Letto.com located $7,000. Taojingu.com cornered $6,004, TaxQuestions.com cost $5,999 and JNI.com cleared $5,701. 2038.com dialed up $5,210, 9492.com notched $4,769 and Fanda.com found $4,699.

Yinai.com deposited $4,607, Biolabs.com dispensed $4,550, 6552.com counted out $4,400 and BestBowling.com picked up $4,054. 

NameJet had 50 more four-figure .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $4,000 that are listed in the table below:

At NoktaDomains GramAltin.com grossed $8,000, Hurdaci.com hauled in $6,700 and Hastaliklar.com conjured up $4,922. WaterBowl.com bottled $4,000, TheSunday.com secured $3,099 and RVParkReview.com returned $2,299. BrandMarker.com displayed $2,250 and 4GN.com doled out $2,000. 

Back at Afternic MySage.com managed $7,508 while Maroxx.com and OilTools.com detected $7,000 each. ColumbusCapital.com welcomed $6,500, Clangers.com clocked in at $6,488 and PureGain.com generated $6,000. 

ElectronicDocumentManagement.com and ITStaff.com earned $5,000 apiece while 5MO.com banked $4,999. HealingSchool.com handed out $4,988, K9Club.com levied $4,875 and Scarper.com scraped up $4,835. 

Afternic had 108 more four-figure .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $4,750 that are listed in the table below:

Afternic also helped YummyNames sell BuildCosts.com for $9,477, TheBlackOrchid.com for $4,500 and Chimayo.com for $3,900.

 Country Codes

There were several dozen more four-figure non .com gTLD sales off the chart led by NameJet's $2,540 sale of Scent.org. They also moved Iris.net and Sesqui.net for $2,000 each. 

DomainNameSales sold Torn.net ($2,500), Seekers.org ($2,000), USAGolf.org ($1,500) and BritishHistory.net ($1,000). 

Afternic scored with GeorgiaILP.org at $2,380, CCAV.org at $2,094 and PlayBar.net at $2,088. Afternic had 18 more four-figure non .com gTLD sales ranging from $1,000 to $1,990 that are listed in the table below:

Back at Sedo Amortization.org brought $2,250 while Accessible.net and ScoliosisTreatment.org went for $2,000 apiece. Sophisticated.net sold for $1,740 while ICF.info and Mountain.travel each trekked to a $1,500 payday. Dalkia.org drew $1,360, Alarmes.net nabbed $1,020 and How-to-Draw.net earned $1,000. 

Now that you're up to date on what happened over the past week, check out how the leaders stand year to date in all categories by visiting our Year To Date Charts page.