A Half Dozen 6-Figure Sales (Five of Them Chinese ccTLDs) Lead Another Big Week for the Domain Market

You have to love the fast start the domain market has gotten off to in 2014. In yet another big week, a half dozen six-figure sales were reported with five of those coming from deals that continue to close from the recent .CN Registry auction staged by eName.com. Our friend George Hong from Guta.com has helped us track those auction sales to make sure each one we report has successfully closed.

George tells us there has been a major run on ultra-short two and three-letter domains among Chinese businesses that want shorter forms of their current web address. This week's leader of the pack -  LB.cn at 1,100,000 CNY ($176,000) - is a perfect example of that.  The name was bought by the Jinshan Network who created the LieBao (cheetah) web browser. That is a fairly short domain as it is but LB.cn gives them an even more compact address (another prominent example is JingDong.com, a top 25 site in China who recently rebranded themselves as JD.com).

By Ron Jackson

Two of the other four big CCNIC/eName auctions sales completed this week were also two-letter domains - ME.cn at $147,200 and AI.cn at $130,560. The remaining pair went for even more  with #2 One.cn selling for $160,640 and #3 Shop.cn bagging $160,320. Sandwiched in between all of those Chinese ccTLD sales was a big sale at NameJet where #4 LIU.com changed hands for $155,688.

Continuing the short acronym trend were two other three-letter.coms - #7 BAK.com at $50,100 via NameJet and #14 BTB.com at $38,350 through Sedo. Three other .coms on the leader board have just four letters. The .coms went on to sweep 14 of the 20 entries overall. The other six spots all went to ccTLDs with #19 Sandwich.co ($18,000 at Sedo) joining the five Chinese ccTLDs on the elite list. That left the non .com gTLDs out in the cold.

Two other venues joined eName, NameJet and Sedo on the Big Board. Go Daddy/Afternic hit the Daily Double with #13 Spokes.com at $40,000 and #18 RateWorld.com at $20,000. Michael Berkens's  MostWantedDomains.com also scored with #16 LoveYourJob.com at $22,500.

Here is how all of the sales leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, Feb. 2:

There were 17 more five-figure sales off the chart led by Sedo's sales of Pling.us for $16,300 and Bau24.de for $16,200. They also sold WebcamBusiness.com ($14,250), Singular.net ($13,400), CustomsBroker.com ($10,500) and Terminus.com ($10,099).

ExcellentDomains.ca got $15,764 for Amazing.ca on behalf of seller Fernand Camire and added another $10,355 for IXL.ca, a domain from ExcellentDomains.ca owner Ilze Kaulins's own portfolio.

Go Daddy/Afternic picked up $15,000 apiece for TradeBlock.com and TradeCoin.com, plus $10,000 each for LockIn.com and Redde.com.

NameJet booked another $14,257 for WoodShop.com, $13,900 for Paye.com and $13,000 for FireSafety.com. Also, MyAuction.com kicked in $11,000 and CreditCheckOnline.com ladled out $10,000. 

.Com Supporting Cast

NameJet led the .com supporting cast of four-figure sales with GSV.com at $9,700. 1939.com notched $8,703 and DiscountHosting.com clicked for $8,200. Ching.com chalked up $8,112, SXU.com yielded $8,000 and GoingOn.com went for $7,800. 

SimpleDress.com drew $7,500, FashionForLess.com landed $7,211 and SmartPoint.com posted $6,804. Tianrong.com returned $6,766, SEOService.com secured $6,100 and JohnSmith.com commanded $5,634. 

NameJet had 49 more four-figure .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $5,600 that are listed in the table below:

Back at Go Daddy/Afternic VinylBanner.com brought $9,000, FinestResorts.com attracted $8,500 and three others - BannerSigns.com, NationalLotteries.com and Virtex.com - closed at $8,000 each. 

TritonWater.com soaked up $7,000, LoveBud.com located $6,700 and Periloux.com provided $6,250. BasketKase.com corralled $6,000, SafetyWise.com locked in $5,988 and four others - AppGenius.com, Jovia.com, JZN.com and TheLifeYouWant.com - captured $5,000 apiece. 

Go Daddy/Afternic had 108 more four-figure .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $4,999 that are listed in the table below:

At Sedo 9Air.com inhaled $8,775, SkyTerminal.com deplaned $8,000 and PornoStar.com uncovered $7,547. SnapSale.com deposited $6,410 while NurtureMe.com and OnboardCourier.com delivered $6,075 each. 

Three others - Mastered.com, PropertyClaims.com and Trafficash.com - added $6,000 apiece. Bimby.com booked $5,500 and four others - JavaDocs.com, MTSGlobe.com, NaturalEssentials.com and PrepaidMobile.com - produced $5,000 each.

Sedo had 39 more four-figure .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $4,725 that are listed in the table below:

Elsewhere, DNRock.com sold INZ.com for $7,200.

Country Codes

There were several additional four-figure sales off the chart led by NameJet's $2,400 sale of Sustenergy.org. They also moved 8F.net ($2,223), WATechCenter.org ($2,110), 657.net ($2,099) and NOC.org ($2,060).

Back at Go Daddy/Afternic, DrLuke.net dispensed $2,300, FootAndAnkle.net kicked in $2,188 and two others - BeautyStore.net and InLA.org - added $2,000 each. Pakket.net and TheService.net drew $1,888 apiece and Ghape.org grossed $1,725.

BancoEstadous.net deposited $1,626, Cinfotech.net tacked on $1,584 and PixelTown.net posted $1,488. MindSpa.org spawned $1,477, Scott.biz scared up $1,475 and LCMD.net dusted off $1,316. ThePublic.org generated $1,188 and two others - Cobie.org and Quatro-Project.org - provided $1,000 each. 

Sedo's hit list included Colorama.net ($1,500), AlHadath.net ($1,400) and Edelstenen.net ($1,350). FlightStatus.net added $1,250, Abierto.net drew $1,148 and Foret.info found $1,080. 

Elsewhere, Flippa.com sold Wonderful.net for $1,552. 

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.