Three of the Year’s Four Biggest ccTLD domain Sales
This Week Domain Sales News
Leading the charge is a new 2009 country code king of the hill, Spel.se (”games” in Swedish), a name that changed hands for a whopping €190,000 ($266,000) at Sedo.com. This is probably the biggest sale ever publicly reported for a .se domain (Sweden’s country code).
If Sweden had not claimed the top spot, Great Britain’s .co.uk would have and that extension would have done it in duplicate. OnlineCasino.co.uk and HorseRacing.co.uk attracted £100,000 ($165,000) each (again via Sedo) to tie for the #2 spot on the Big Board. In another banner week, the ccTLDs took 8 of the 20 chart entries. Sedo accounted for six of those country code sales and wound up charting 13 domains overall to easily win the high end race among venues. The two charted ccTLDs Sedo did not sell were #12 SexToys.com.au (Australian ccTLD sold for $20,655 by Netfleet.com.au) and #15 Dongles.co.uk (sold by Registrars.co.uk for $18,150).
.Com made its first appearance at #4 thanks to RickLatona.com’s $150,000 sale of French.com. Latona also claimed the #5 spot, ringing up $35,000 with PinballMachines.com. RickLatona.com was the only venue besides Sedo to score multiple chart entries (Latona had three overall).
One of Sedo’s sales, #14 RailEasy.com at $20,000, gave its seller a tremendous return on investment. The name has originally been purchased for just $1,688 in October 2006 at BuyDomains.com.
Only one non .com gTLD made the elite list this week - #8 (tie) Snowboards.net, a name that Sedo sold for $30,000.
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