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Christian.com Finds $600,000 in the Collection Plate, .Mobi Domain Goes for 6 Figures and $2.8 Million ccTLD Sale Comes to Light

The past week has been a very interesting one for the domain aftermarket. Sedo.com and RickLatona.com announced they had worked together to get a $600,000 sale of Christian.com completed. The buyer was Boris Kleiman, the same man who laid out $1.1 million for Call.com last week. Kleiman told Domain Name Wire that he’s going to use the domain name for a Christian social network and Christian encyclopedia. This sale easily tops our new weekly Top 20 Domain Sales chart.

.Mobi also makes a rare appearance near the top of the elite list with an impressive $135,000 sale of Casino.mobi to Infomeda Ltd. that was handled by Moniker.com. Infomeda plans to use the name as an online portal, with location-based information for bricks-and-mortar casino locations, reviews of mobile casinos as well as “fun money” casino-style games and gaming tools. This becomes the highest non com gTLD of the year to date, eclipsing Sedo’s $124,337 sale of Jesus.net last month.

We also learned this week about a huge sale from last year that has just come to light. Dominik Mueller first reported that Unister GmbH paid €1,960,000 ($2,858,945 at today’s exchange rate) to acquire Shopping.de. Unister operates other popular online portals such as News.de, Auto.de, Geld.de (”money” in German) and Kredit.de. We have now added that sale (which was handled by Sedo) to our list of 2008’s Top 100 sales where it ranks at the 3rd biggest sale last year.

By Ron Jackson

Sedo had another outstanding week, having a hand in 8 of the top 10 sales and 16 of 20 overall. Their hit listed included #3 BestPrices.com at $81,000 and #4 WellnessHotels.com at $60,393. Sedo also accounted for all six of the ccTLD sales that earned spots on the all-extension leader board. All six were German .de domains, led by #6 Hotel-Reservierung.de (”hotel reservations” in German) at $34,510.

The only non .com global TLD to make the Big Board, other than Casino.mobi, was #20 Boerse.net (”stock exchange” in German), a name that sold at Sedo for $12,375.

RickLatona.com had multiple chart entries with a trio that included #5 BreastPump.com at $50,000. The AfternicDLS also took a Top 20 bow with #16 (tie) M88.com bringing $15,000.

Here is how all of the leaders stack up for the week ending Sunday, Sept. 6:

The DN Journal Top 20 Reported Domain Sales - Mon. Aug. 31, 2009 - Sun. Sept. 6, 2009 Euro to Dollar Conversion (€ to $) is Based on Rates in Effect Sept. 8, 2009
	Domain	Sold For	Where Sold
1.	Christian.com	$600,000	Sedo/RickLatona.com
2.	Casino.mobi	$135,000	Moniker
3.	BestPrices.com	$81,000	Sedo
4.	WellnessHotels.com	€41,650 = $60,393	Sedo
5.	BreastPump.com	$50,000	RickLatona.com
6.	Hotel-Reservierung.de (”hotel reservations” in German)	€23,800 = $34,510	Sedo
7.	Sued.com	$25,003	Sedo
8.	CharterAuction.com	$25,000	Sedo
9.	Schlafen.de (”sleep” in German)	€17,000 = $24,650	Sedo
10.	DXB.com	$22,500	Sedo
11.	ToasterOvens.com	$20,000	RickLatona.com
12.	Amateure.de (”amateur” in German)	€13,500 = $19,575	Sedo
13.	Kneipen.de (”bars or pubs” in German)	€13,090 = $18,981	Sedo
14.	BFC.com	$18,400	Sedo
15.	Kiss.de	€11,500 = $16,675	Sedo
16. tie	M88.com	$15,000	AfternicDLS
16. tie	Bobbie.com	$15,000	Sedo
18. tie	MHotel.com	€10,000 = $14,500	Sedo
18. tie	DailyFinance.de	€10,000 = $14,500	Sedo
20.	Boerse.net (”stock exchange” in German)	€7,500 = $12,375	Sedo
Keep in mind that these are the highest value sales that have been reported to us in the past week. This column is meant to be an educational tool, not a complete list documenting ALL high value domain sales. Such a list is impossible to produce because many sales are kept private at the insistence of buyers, sellers or both. Our procedure for verifying the accuracy of domain sales reports is available here.
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There were eight more five-figure sales just off the chart. Sedo had six of those; Shirts.nl ($12,180), E-Buy.com ($12,000), GermanFreeTV.com ($11,528), GameCoins.com ($10,500), EnterprisePlus.com ($10,000) and CountryCode.org ($10,000).

The AfternicDLS got a boost from SteamGenerator.com at $11,600 and LuxuryNames.com landed $10,000 for Private Airplane.com.

.Com Supporting Cast

RickLatona.com led the .com supporting cast with BoatClassifieds.com at $9,500 and they also sold DomainForums.com for $6,500.

Sedo’s supplemental list included Sheen.com at $9,300, InternetRegistry.com at $9,000 and Gafasdesol.com at $8,900. BellyRings.com brought $8,899, TopLife.com lounged at $8,000 and Kreditrechner.com returned $6,090.

Neubox.com contained $6,000, MusicBase.com drummed up $5,600, eChinese.com translated into $5,300 and Bewegtbild.com kicked in $5,075. Sedo had 35 more .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $5,000 that you can check out in the table below.

Back at Moniker, 1Y.com went for $8,600, FXQ.com cornered $4,475, SQN.com added $4,075 and MyBNB.com banked $2,500.

At SnapNames.com, Jifen.com fetched $8,259, OpenNetwork.com connected for $3,801 and two others; DanaAir.com and Shushu.com shucked $2,700 each. AuroraCarInsurance.com covered $2,199 and WebPlaza.com posted $2,050.

The AfternicDLS was busy pumping out dozens of solid four figure sales including Birdies.com and CreativeFactory.com at $7,500 apiece and MuscleSupplements.com at $7,000. TSHP.com tacked on $6,400, Transformar.com found $6,000 and DigitalProductions.com produced $5,800.

Papert.com picked up $5,500, FreeQoutes.com (typo) and MovieCamera.com captured $4,500 each while IRASolutions.com came up with $4,088. The AfternicDLS had 55 more .com sales ranging from $2,000 to $4,000. Those are listed in the table below:

The AfternicDLS also registered four sales utilizing other venues as part of their expanded promotion platform. Using Sedo, they moved GamingTech.com and GeneralIndex.com at $2,800 each. Using SnapNames they found buyers for OrganicFashions.com at $2,488 and OrganicGrains.com at $2,400.

LuxuryNames.com logged two other four-figure sales, MicroLenders.com at $4,900 and LuxuryHoliday.com at $3,000.

Country Codes

Germany’s .de ran rampant on the County Code Top 20 chart this week, sweeping the first six positions and taking 10 of 20 places overall. Those first six domains all broke the five-figure mark as did #7 Shirts.nl. We covered all of those in the all-extension section at the top of this report. The highest country code sale you haven’t seen yet is #8 Documents.co.uk, sold at Sedo for $8,250.

Great Britain’s .co.uk and the Netherlands’ .nl each had three chart entries. The other countries represented this week were Belgium (.be) and France (.fr).

Sedo continued to dominate the ccTLD category, sweeping 18 of the 20 chart entries. The two places they missed went to a pair of Australian domains sold by NetFleet.com.au; #12 Selby.com.au at 7,000AUD ($6,020) and Brothels.com.au at 6,520AUD ($5,607).

Here is how all of the country code top sellers stacked up for the week ending Sept 6:

There were several dozen additional four-figure ccTLD sales off the chart with Sedo accounting for all but three of those sales. Their roster included Dresses.de ($3,263), Fermier.fr ($2,900) and CodeStudio.co.uk ($2,846).

AAAJobs.de and Optik24.de each drew $2,828, PlatinMedia.de delivered $2,719 and EventSecurity.co.uk kicked in $2,475. Sedo had 32 more ccTLD sales ranging from $1,015 to $2,233 that are listed in the table below:

Elsewhere Netfleet.com.au sold Domestic.com.au ($1,376) and For.com.au ($1,097) while the AfternicDLS moved FuelEfficiency.co.uk for $1,200.

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.

Global Contenders (Non .com gTLDs: .biz, .info, .mobi, .net, .org & .tel)

No doubt about the top gun in the Global Contenders category this week. In addition to heading our weekly Top 20 chart, Casino.mobi, at $135,000 via Moniker.com, is also the highest non .com gTLD sale thus far this year. Two other sales cracked the five-figure mark and we told you about those in the all-extension section at the top of this report.

The highest GC sale you haven’t seen yet is 15.net at $9,999 through Sedo.com. They also sold 2T.net for $6,600 to take four of the top five positions on the leader board.

.Net had the most chart entries with 11, followed by .org with six. .Info also had multiple entries, scoring with #6 Funds.info ($6,500 via GoDaddyAuctions.com) and #12 Assurances.info through Sedo.

Here’s how all of the Global Contenders stacked up for the week ending Sept. 6:

There were several dozen additional four-figure GC sales off the chart. The AfternicDLS led that group with CurrencyRates.org and Schreiben.net (”write” in German) at $2,500 each. They also sold SaferHome.net ($2,488), SPWeb.net ($2,390) and Progreso.net ($2,388).

The Afternic DLS had 18 more four-figure GC sales ranging from $1,000 to $2,000. You can check those out in the table below:

At Sedo, Abilon.org and LCPS.org deposited $2,430 each, FreePoker.info dealt out $2,200 and Trikots.info contributed $1,898. EBT.org generated $1,700, Aequo.net notched $1,650 and Versicherungvergleich.org drew $1,568.

Sedo also scored with PayOnline.org ($1,491), Juegos-Gratis.info ($1,444) and You.info ($1,350). Huisarts.info added $1,238, Doehring.org dispensed $1,235 and Object.net nailed $1,160.

Elsewhere LuxuryNames.com sold DefenseAttorneys.net for $2,000 and two others; LuxuryCruise.net and LuxuryCruises.net for $1,900 apiece. SnapNames.com sold MobileRealEstate.net for $1,820. The AfternicDLS used Sedo’s platform to pick up $1,516 for ChildRescue.org and GoDaddy Auctions rang up $1,005 for Compulsive.org.

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.

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