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Sedo, the leading online domain marketplace and monetization provider, today announced that the domain market saw strong growth in the third quarter of 2009.

The company saw a 5.5 percent increase in the number of sales this quarter compared with Q2 2009. In addition, Sedo represented 75 percent of the top 20 public domains sales in Q3, with $4,903,127 of the industry`s total sales of $6,501,547. Sedo`s top selling domains of the quarter included Call.com for $1.1million, Server.com for $770,000, Christian.com for $600,000, Brazil.com for$500,000, and Jets.com for $375,000.
Despite the introduction of new Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) extensions, the .com gTLD remained the most popular, accounting for more than 45 percent of all sales on the Sedo marketplace and approximately 80 percent of all gTLD sales.
Meanwhile, the .de and .co.uk extensions remained the most popular country code top-level domains (ccTLDs) at Sedo.
While there was little change in the percentages of ccTLD sales compared with Q1 and Q2 2009, there was a slight three percent increase of .co.uk domain sales, along with a four percent decrease in .de domain sales in Q3 2009. However,
despite the decrease in quarter over quarter sales, .de retained its clear lead with 56 percent of ccTLD sales. Other ccTLD extensions such as .fr, .es and .eu have seen significant increases in their average sales prices.

For more details check out www.sedo.com