Demand for 3-Letter .Coms Continues to Soar - They Take 14 of 20 Entries on This Week's Top Sales Chart

We've been watching the demand (and prices) for 3-letter .coms steadily rise for several months now and this week the frenzy reached a fever pitch with 14 of the 20 entries on our latest all extension Top 20 Sales Chart coming from that category. While any three-letter combo has good value - when it is a three-letter word - the price expands even further. Such was the case with this week's top sale - Due.com - a domain that Flippa.com sold for $130,000.

The 13 other 3-letter .coms on the leader board were all acronyms with the sales prices ranging from $33,700 for NameJet's sale of #5 NLF.com down to the $15,619 paid for #17 NQJ.com, also at NameJet.

A lot of this week's 3-letter domains included letters like J, K, Q, W, X and Z that were once regarded by many as less letters because fewer English words begin with them than most other letters in the alphabet (thus limiting the number of potential buyers for an acronym containing those letters). However, with China emerging as one of the top (if not the top) market for short .com domains that is changing rapidly as words (and place names) with these letters are widely used and very popular there. 

By Ron Jackson

While 3-letter domains stole the spotlight, three names that were slightly longer landed among the first five on the Big Board, including one that hit six figures. That was Sedo's sale of #2 Mercari.com at $108,000. Sedo also sold #3 SportsMarket.com for $65,000 and moved #4 Lab360.com on behalf of seller DomainProducts.com for $40,000.

Like 3-letter .coms, short  numeric domains have also increased substantially in value - again largely driven by the Chinese market. This week NameJet sold #19 1303.com for $14,545 and #20 8316.com for $13,345.

All of these short .com sales sucked all of the air out of the market for chart contenders from other categories, giving the .coms a clean sweep of all 20 chart positions.

Here is how all of the sales leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, April 5:

There were 11 more five-figure sales off the chart with NameJet accounting for five of those: 7610.com at $12,601, VOJ.com at $11,312, LFY.com and MyBooks.com at $11,100 apiece and 3202.com at $11,000. 

Flippa sold MTZ.com for $12,000, while Sedo picked up $10,800 for Airwave.net, $10,260 for Exklusiv.com and $10,000 for Feedback.me. Afternic.com added $10,000 for JustIndex.com and Nidoma.com notched $10,000 for HomeRestaurant.com.

.Com Supporting Cast

Sedo led the .Com Supporting Cast of four-figure sales with - what else? - another 3-letter .com! This one, VKZ.com, went for $9,999. Adze.com drew $9,900, DollarHelp.com dispended $9,500 and InstaWeb.com went for $8,824. 

Denimocracy.com made $8,500, BetBoy.com bagged $7,800 and Intermotive.com clicked for $6,000. WeScale.com skidded to a $5,750 stop, EroticTV.com tuned in $5,000 and two others -  PrayWall.com and WeLoveFootball.com - fetched $4,212 each. 

Sedo had 46 more four-figure .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $3,869 that are listed in the table below:

Sedo also sold a couple of other names for DomainProducts.com - Loft360.com at $4,500 and 365HT.com and $2,942.

Afternic also sold several names for DomainProducts, including Connected365.com at $9,000, 2Ace.com at $8,500 and Asset360.com at $7,500. WY24.com kicked in $7,388, DiscoverPass.com posted $5,500 and Gun4U.com yielded $4,895.

Also, Message360.com received $4,000, PropertyWalk.com went for $3,500 and two others - GoTrainers.com and Venue123.com - coaxed $3,000 each. Another pair - Marine24.com and Urban360.com - sold for $2,500 apiece with three others - 247CashBack.com, Adventure2.com and Outside360.com - tacking on $2,000 each. 

DomainProducts moved several more domains on their own including Med123.com at $6,000, 24Lottery.com at $4,250 and WC360.com at $3,000. Two others, HG360.com and Websites360.com, commanded $2,500 apiece.

Back at NameJet LuckyGames.com attracted $9,501, GVY.com corralled $9,200 and 6105.com found $9,000. PrepSchools.com produced $8,888, BearClaw.com clutched $8,600 and Hobb.com hauled in $7,777.

6474.com captured $7,701, Transnet.com nabbed $7,499 and Banerjee.com banked $6,901. Shawls.com covered $6,900, Ankles.com added $6,099 and Kyte.com flew $5,303. Alibab.com booked $5,200 and Baocan.com collected $5,137.

NameJet had 58 more four-figure .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $4,944 that are listed in the table below:

At Flippa HashOils.com lit up $4,250, DesignGraphics.com garnered $3,999 and DrinkResponsibly.com downed $3,400. Dubliner.com dusted off $3,250 while two others - WUAH.com and  FootballMagazine.com - tackled $2,500 apiece.

Country Codes

All of those short .coms sales kept the ccTLDS off the all extension leader board above but they did have a nice five-figure sale with Feedback.me going for $10,000 at Sedo to lead our latest weekly Country Code Top 20 Sales Chart. Flippa filled the #2 spot with SMS.io at $7,500. 

Rounding out the first five are a pair of names tied for 3rd at $5,400 each - Comparacion.es via Nidoma.com and VOIP.es through Sedo, followed by #5 Arbiter.it at $5,073 via Nidoma.

Italy's .it won the extension race with six chart entries, all made through Nidoma.com. Spain's .es was next with three.  Here is how the country code leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, April 5:

Country Code Top 20 Chart Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. March 30, 2015 - Sun. April 5,, 2015 (Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect April 8, 2015)
	Domain	Sold For	Where Sold
1.	Feedback.me	$10,000	Sedo
2.	SMS.io	$7,500	Flippa
3. tie	Comparacion.es	€5,000 = $5,400	Nidoma
3. tie	VOIP.es	€5,000 = $5,400	Sedo
5.	Arbiter.it	€4,697 = $5,073	Nidoma
6.	Addominali.it	€3,538 = $3,821	Nidoma
7.	VisitDubai.co.uk	£2,000 = $2,980	Sedo
8.	Zabel.co.uk	£1,999 = $2,979	Sedo
9.	Abitiamo.it	€2,745 = $2,965	Nidoma
10.	Fax.to	$2,750	Flippa
11.	Balestra.it	€2,500 = $2,700	Nidoma
12.	Mercari.eu	€2,499 = $2,699	Golem.eu
13.	Bambu.it	€2,440 = $2,635	Nidoma
14.	Meerkat.co	£1,600 = $2,384	Sedo
15.	Doc24.it	€2,013 = $2,174	Nidoma
16. tie	East.us	€2,000 = $2,160	Sedo
16. tie	Kreuzfahrtsuche.de	€2,000 = $2,160	Sedo
18.	Students.es	€1,900 = $2,052	Nidoma
19.	Intranet.io	$2,000	Flippa
20.	Gnosis.eu	€1,798 = $1,942	Golem.eu
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There were more four-figure sales off the chart led by Nidoma's sales of Civit.it at $1,890 and  Registroelettronico.it at $1,814. Tramonto.it added $1,452, Dress.es drew $1,285 and Pasante.es provided $1,080.

Sedo secured $1,782 for Sparpilot.de and $1,620 each for Milanometeo.tv and Smartphone-Service.de. Driven.tv and Kerosene.ca contributed $1,500 apiece while E.vg generated $1,450. Traumhandy.de delivered $1,350, TurboMarketing.de tallied $1,296 and Gaymarkt.de drew $1,188.

Also at Sedo, JazzGalerie.de drummed up $1,080 while Herrenrunde.de and Juguetes.tv deposited $1,026 each. CSSA.de chipped in another $1,000. 

Back at Flippa, Comic.tv cornered $1,550, Lob.io located $1,500 and LiveMediums.co.uk made $1,000.

Golem.eu also got into the act with Europejski .eu at $1,079.

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 (.net, .org, .biz, .info & others, including new gTLDs)

The Non .Com gTLD Top Sales Chart was led by the category's lone five-figure sale - Airwave.net at $10,800 via Sedo. They had the next two highest sales as well with new gTLD SMS.world at $6,480 and MHealth.org at $6,000.

Rounding out the first five are Flippa's $5,700 sale of #4 Grammar.org and NameJet's $5,450 sale of #5 USD.org.

The .nets easily won the extension race with 11 chart entries followed by .Org with seven. .Info and .world had one spot each. Here's how all of the Non .Com gTLD leaders stacked up for the week ending Sunday, April 5:

Non .Com gTLDs Top 20 Chart Highest Reported Domain Sales - Mon. March 30, 2015 - Sun. April 5, 2015 (Foreign currency to U.S. Dollar Conversions Based on Rates in Effect April 8, 2015)
	Domain	Sold For	Where Sold
1.	Airwave.net	$10,800	Sedo
2.	SMS.world	€6,000 = $6,480	Sedo
3.	MHealth.org	$6,000	Sedo
4.	Grammar.org	$5,700	Flippa
5.	USD.org	$5,450	NameJet
6.	Laohu.net	$5,020	NameJet
7.	CloudServices.net	$4,900	Sedo
8.	Fornitorie.net	€4,500 = $4,860	Nidoma
9. tie	PHY.net	$4,800	Sedo
9. tie	RLP.net	$4,800	Sedo
11.	Mindworks.org	$4,000	Sedo
12.	Giocattoli.net	$3,800