The secondary market for web domain sales rose by 6.5 percent in the first quarter compared to the previous three months, to a total 9,326 names sold, according to a report by domain name marketplace Sedo.
The average selling price was EUR 1,935 per domain, up 14 percent from a year ago. Worldwide, the .com extension accounted for over 75 percent of the top-level domain sales, followed by .net with 9 percent and .info and .org with 7 percent each. The German .de domains led first-quarter sales of geographic designations, with 1,663 sold domains, followed by the UK's extension .co.uk with 360 and .eu with 246 domains sold in the period. Spain accounted for 7 percent of the market, with 190 .es names sold. The name Fly.com attracted the highest price among Sedo's sales in Q1, at USD 1.6 million. Â
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