Sedo has issued a press release. I won't be publishing this on my site as it's off-topic, but thought the short extract may be of interest to NamePros members
COLOGNE, Germany, February 3
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.
The release goes on to mention that Kredit.de (German word for credit), which sold for more than 1 million USD,was the top seller. The .de country code proved to be the strongest selling ccTLD of 2008 with 6,159 sales.
The press release can be seen here: http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/newsindex.shtml?/cgi/news/release?id=247795 or the full report here http://www.sedo.com/press/domainmarketstudy2008-us.pdf
COLOGNE, Germany, February 3
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.
The release goes on to mention that Kredit.de (German word for credit), which sold for more than 1 million USD,was the top seller. The .de country code proved to be the strongest selling ccTLD of 2008 with 6,159 sales.
The press release can be seen here: http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/newsindex.shtml?/cgi/news/release?id=247795 or the full report here http://www.sedo.com/press/domainmarketstudy2008-us.pdf
