Sedo just released its Q1 2012 Domain Market Study .In Q1 2012,Sedo powered 10,133 domain name transactions accounting for $19.6 miilion in sales. Liesbeth Mack-de Boer, CSO of Sedo said about the results :

"The results of this quarter's domain market study are extremely promising. With the highest sales numbers we've seen since early 2011, this year may have the potential to become the strongest for the domain market in quite some time.Sedo is continuing to invest heavily in extending the global reach of our marketplace, and looking forward to the availability of new gTLDs in 2013. We are confident that we will continue to connect even more domain buyers and sellers in the coming year."

Highlights of Sedo’s Q1 2012 study include:

• Q1 2012 had the highest sales volume since Q2 2011, with 10,133 transactions taking place on Sedo's domain marketplace.
• Sales value also increased during Q1, accounting for the highest sales value since Q2 2011: a total of $19,641,153.
• .com remained the most frequently sold TLD, with 45% of the market, while .de ranked a distant second place, with 16% of all sales.
• For the first time ever, Buy Now sales accounted for 39% of all transactions, more than the traditionally higher offer-counter offer sales, which now account for 34%.
• Top sales for the quarter included kboing.com at $150,000, and sol.com at EUR98,000.
• IDNX shows an increase of +4.2%, which exceeds the more modest upswing for share prices in the IT and technology sectors. In spite of this, the growth correlates to other economic indices, proving that domain prices are at an all-time high without being inflated.

Source from http://www.domainnews.com

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