When i was searching for a domain name for our website, everything that made sense and used the word Tech were taken by someone and parked. I was wondering what benefits they get from booking all logical domain names but now that i came across this news that domain name “server.com” has been sold for a huge sum of $770,000 by Sedo to an un disclosed buyer, i have understood the business model of buying domains and parking them to be sold later on at a much higher prices.
The DomainNameWire has issued a complete list of the websites that were auctioned yesterday and all grabbed a good sum of money for the companies owning them. According to TechCrunch,
“You’d think in the midst of a recession domain name sales would become less common and be negotiated for far less than the high-priced .com acquisitions we remember from the late nineties and during the dotcom boom.
The reality, however, is that we’ve been seen a remarkable amount of high-profile, generic domain names go at fairly high prices for the past 8 months or so (e.g. Toys.com, Candy.com, YP.com, Vibrators.com, etc.).
Maybe professional domainers and regular companies with an attractive portfolio are more willing to sell now that cash is in shorter supply than it was before the economy collapsed, or maybe these are all calculated bets made by companies that have the capital required to purchase / invest in quality domain names. Most likely, it’s a combination of both.”
The complete list of sites and the prices are give by DomainNameWire and listed below for the easy reference of our readers.
.COM
omg.com 80,000 USD
enlargement.com 56,000 USD
4a.com 24,000 USD
aileron.com 21,000 USD
flirten.com 20,620 EUR Flirt in German
weighttraining.com 18,751 USD
officeshoes.com 17,000 USD
libel.com 9,999 USD
118000.com 9,900 GBP
scco.com 7,500 USD
binu.com 7,000 EUR
myprotein.com 7,000 USD
teachwave.com 6,000 USD
beyondnature.com 5,900 USD
wikibaby.com 5,500 USD
iverified.com 5,500 USD
indiretta.com 5,316 USD
generalpants.com 5,000 USD
ccTLDs
loterie.fr 35,000 EUR Lottery in French
nextonline.de 12,000 EUR
yourmoney.ca 8,000 USD
tatry.eu 7,900 EUR
aud.io 6,750 USD
pokerregeln.de 5,600 EUR Poker rules in German
casinoonline.co.za 5,555 GBP
auditors.co.uk 5,261 GBP
Other
loteria.org 15,000 EUR Lottery in Spanish
create.net 10,000 USD
09.net 5,000 USD
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