25 million domains were sold in the third quarter.

The total value of domains sold in the third quarter reached $25.5 million, which is 8.5% more than in the same quarter a year earlier.

DNJournal has released its domain sales figures for the third quarter of 2011. This year, the total dollar value of all domain name sales in the third quarter was $25.5 million, up 8.5% from the same quarter last year. This quarter also saw a seven-figure sale – the Social.com domain sold for $2.6 million, compared to no seven-figure sales reported in the third quarter of 2010.

For ccTLDs:

In the sales segment of geographic domain names (ccTLDs), there has been a drop of $2 million in absolute terms (from $7 million in III-2010 to $5 million currently).

Compared to the previous quarter of this year, ccTLD sales continued to grow and added 4.6%.

Outside the .COM zone

Total non-.COM domain sales fell from $3 million in Q3 2010 to $2.54 million in Q3 2011.

In the .COM zone

Overall sales growth compared to the same period last year was 33% - from $13.5 million (in the third quarter of 2010) to $18 million (in the third quarter of 2011).

In this category, the average domain price fell from $3,700 to $3,000 year-on-year.