Summer is supposed to be the slow time of the year, but this week someone apparently forgot to tell domain buyers about that. We saw a solid group six-figure sales including one that ranks as the 6th biggest transaction reported so far in 2009. Another is the biggest non .com global TLD sale of the year to date.Leading the pack is Server.com, a name that commanded a eye-popping $770,000 at Sedo.com. Only a quintet of seven-figure sales rank higher at this point in the 2009 sales season. Sedo also sold #2 Jesus.net for $124,337 in the year’s biggest non .com gTLD sale, easily topping the previous leader Usenet.org, a name that changed hands for $100,000 in May.Sedo’s brokerage department sold Jesus.net for Marc Brittan who for the past 12 years has been using the names as a redirect to his main site at Christ.com. Marc told me that Reinvent Technology’s Don Ham also played a key role by helping break a negotiation stalemate and fulfill Brittan’s wishes to send the domain to a Christian buyer with good intentions for a domain that Brittan said he bought in 1997 for registration fee. "Overall, the negotiations went on for months, and would not have taken place without the helpful comments from Don Ham," Brittan said. By Ron JacksonSedo sold still another six-figure domain this week for $100,000, but due to the explicit nature of that adult domain it is not one we can list on our mainstream charts. There is another $100,000 sale on the all extension Top 20 Chart though, #3 iGuide.com, with that sale handled by the AfternicDLS. Sedo swept the next three positions with a trio of names that included the week’s highest country code sale, Loterie.fr (French ccTLD meaning "lottery" in French) at €35,000 ($50,400). Sedo also accounted for the other two country code domains on the elite list as they piled up a remarkable 15 of the 20 chart entries, including 8 of the top 10.
Moniker.com had a trio of charted domains including one of the two .orgs on the Big Board, #16 (tie) OnlineEducation.org at $18,228 (the other was Sedo’s $34,000 sale of #8 MotorcycleInsurance.org – a deal that ranks among the year’s top ten non .com gTLD sales).
