Sedo Witnesses Continued Growth in Secondary Domain Market in 2008
COLOGNE, /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --
- Annual Report Shows More Than 77 Million USD in Domain Name Sales
Sedo, the leading online marketplace for buying and selling domain names, today
announced the findings of its annual Secondary Domain Market Study, which revealed
continued growth in demand for premium domains in 2008. Valuable online real estate
yielded 77 million USD in revenue, and resulted in an overall eight percent sales increase
over the 2007 total of 72 million USD.
Sedo's complete report can be found online at:
For the first time, a country code top-level domain (ccTLD), Kredit.de (German word for
credit), which sold for more than 1 million USD, ranked the highest on Sedo's top 10 domain
sales list of the year. In fact, the German de country code proved to be the strongest selling
ccTLD of 2008 with 6,159 sales. The .co.uk was the second most popular with 1,305 domains
and a sales volume of more than 4 million USD. Meanwhile, Sedo oversaw its very first sale
of the Australian .com.au ccTLD. Freestuff.com.au was sold in July 2008 for 18,000 USD - an
impressive figure for a ccTLD that is new to the secondary domain market.
Sedo's complete list of highest selling domains of 2008, include:
Kredit.de: 1,176,672 USD
Invest.com: 1,015,000 USD
Printer.com: 650,000 USD
Villas.com: 478,149 USD
Tell.com: 400,000 USD
Lowfare.com: 365,000 USD
Banners.com: 360,000 USD
770.com: 350,000 USD
SC.com: 300,000 USD
Triplecreditreport.com: 260,000 USD
"Our annual results validate the continued investment momentum in the secondary domain
market, despite the slow economy," said Tim Schumacher, Chief Executive Officer for Sedo.
"We expect that high quality domain marketplaces such as Sedo, will sustain industry growth
this year and beyond as companies, developers and entrepreneurs continue to leverage the
web as an effective marketing tool to boost revenue."
.com Remains King of the TLDs
Beyond the numbers above, Sedo's study showed that .com remained the most wanted
extension. As the best selling global TLD at Sedo, .com drew 76 percent of all sales. Coming
in at number two was .net at nine percent, and info secured third place with seven percent of
sales. These results remained consistent with the generic top-level domain (gTLD) shares in
2007. Overall, every global TLD except .biz saw an increase in the number of domains sold in
2008.
About Sedo
Sedo, an acronym for "Search Engine for Domain Offers," is the leading online
marketplace for buying and selling domain names and websites. Headquartered in Cologne,
Germany, with offices in Boston USA and London UK, Sedo has assembled the world's
largest database of domain names for sale, with more than 14 million listings. The success of
Sedo's model has attracted a global membership base of more than 800,000 domain
For more information, please contact:
David Thorpe
Sedo.com
+49-221-340-30242
david.thorpe@sedo.com
SOURCE: Sedo GmbH
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