It may well mean what you say
@JB Lions, although what they say is a "
history of high-value sales" and "
such as" which is not necessarily exclusive to the three they mentioned. Do they really mean they would not accept a superb word in the .io or the .co extension? I don't know (are Sedo on NPs to elaborate?)
Anyway, their wording (and my legalistic and statistical nature
) caused me to look at what the average price on the Sedo platform only were in different extensions (at least those on NameBio). What I found is that while .com is obviously strong, the average selling price is more consistent across extensions than you might think. The data suggests to me that one could argue that "high value" is in many extensions (and actually in all cases within the standard deviation of each other). The total volume of sales is dominated by com, but the average price much less so. To me "high-value sales" means the latter.
Anyway here are the average sales price results up to today using all time, and only Sedo platform.
- com $4776
- co $4426
- io $3889
- tv $3516
- de $3449
- org $3305
- all ngTLDs $3106
- net $3086
- info $2243
- biz $2096
To emphasize,these are Sedo only sales average prices. If one includes other venues so registry sales and lower value show up, the ngTLD are higher than com in average price.
If I had to justify on statistical basis that a .de domain name was accepted but a .co was not, it would be a difficult task!