Rising ccTLD Values or Just Another ccTLD "One Off"?

German gaming domain name sells for 400K Euros

[Balle]

According to Ron Jackson/DNjournal.com (latest domain sales report) the german domain name Casino.de has recently been sold for €400,000 making it the second most expencive german domain name ever - apparently Poker.de sold for €695,000 back in 2007.

Have you started picking up international domain names?

I find it very informative to look at the top 100 charts - not only for information about a price level, but also for inspiration for locating interesting niches.

[edited by: Webwork at 4:46 pm (utc) on Mar. 19, 2008]
[edit reason] Tidying up per sticky [/edit]

[Webwork]

It's appears to me, from reading Ron's weekly reports of domain sales, that there has been considerable appreciation of ccTLD values in the past 2-3 years, giving .Com some competition each week for "top sales".

Does anyone know the highest value sales in other ccTLDs? (No hotlinks, please, but we can delve a bit into specifics.) Is there a trend across ccTLDs? Highest sales in casino, sex, medication, real estate . . or does each ccTLD have its "special interest"? (I somewhat doubt it. Sex appears to be a universal constant . . unless outlawed . . and I'm not sure how well that works. :-P )

What say ye .co.uk? .it? .es? co.in? .cn?

Does it "make sense" that English language words in non-English ccTLD nations should be rising in value?

Are native language keyword domains rising equally in value?

Has domainer fever now fully infected the ccTLD market?

Moderator's Note: I'd rather we not linger on specific domains too much in this thread, particularly online gaming domain names, but we certainly can open things up a bit to discuss how other ccTLDs are starting to show higher sales and what other industries - captured in "domain words" - are showing the greatest promise across various nations.

[edited by: Webwork at 5:37 pm (utc) on Mar. 19, 2008]