Friday, 29 April 2016

THE MOST EXPENSIVE DOMAIN NAMES OF ALL TIMES

What's in a web address?
Quite a lot of cash.
danica patrick godaddyWe scoured domain name resource DN Journal and put together a list of documented million-dollar, domain-only ".com" sales. Some have been squatted on for 20 years and have only recently traded hands.
Unsurprisingly, sex- and gambling-related domains are some of the biggest money makers.
MM.com — $1,200,000NOTE: Web businesses have other assets and are not domain-only sales, so they were not eligible for this list. For example, Insure.com was bought for $16 million as a fully-operating, profitable company. DN Journal reports only the domain names sold after 2003 because prior sales are not verified by credible sources








. mm.com
Date sold: July 2014
MM.com was sold for $1.2 million through Sedo in July 2014. It was purchased by Hangzhou Duomai E-Commerce Co. Ltd, a company behind other domain names Game.com, JZ.com and 4.cn.
The domain now redirects to a blank page with a random string of letters and numbers.Power.com — $1,261,000
Date sold: November 2014
Silicon Valley electronics supplier Power Integrations bought Power.com to replace their old, less simple domain, PowerInt.com.

eBet.com — $1,350,000

eBet.com — $1,350,000
ebet.com
Date sold: October 2013
A man named Rick Schwartz registered eBet.com in 1996 for $100. He held onto it for nearly 20 years — making a juicy profit off of it when the domain company Network Solutions bought it for $1.35 million.
Because Schwartz has made a number of high-profile sales (you'll run into another much later in this list), he's earned the nickname "Domain King."
"When do I sell? When the domain name is ripe," he writes on his blog. "When is it ripe? When the right buyer comes along."

Cameras.com — $1,500,000

Cameras.com — $1,500,000
Cameras.com
Year sold: 2006
Sig Solares (the CEO of Parked.com) "wasted no time pony up the $1,500,000" when he won Cameras.com in an auction in 2006, DN Journal reported at the time.
Solares estimated at the time that he could make up the $1.5 million in 8 years, meaning if all went according to plan, he should have recouped his costs by now.

Russia.com — $1,500,000

Russia.com — $1,500,000
Flickr/Syuqor Aizzat
Year sold: 2009
Back in 2009, Paley Media, a consulting firm that owns a bunch of different country-specific domains,  sold the URL to a "mystery buyer." Today, the URL just redirects to GoDaddy.com.

Tandberg.com — $1,500,000

Tandberg.com — $1,500,000
Year sold: 2007
"Tandberg Data, a leading global supplier and manufacturer of backup and archiving solutions, decided to take the cash offer for Tandberg.com from Tandberg, a leading global provider of visual communication products and services with dual headquarters in New York and Norway," The DN Journal wrote at the time of the sale.
The deal was actually completed in December 2006 but wasn't made public until early 2007.
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on Apr 29, 7:52 PM said:
That's a big reason too why so many start-ups, even deep-pocketed fintech ones, have such weird names: http://bit.do/Coinbase, http://bit.do/Uphold, the list goes on.
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