Top 10 Most Expensive Domain Names Sold
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How much a domain name worth? Domain name defines your identity or your company’s business online. If your planning to buy a domain name and have plans to sell it in the near future , try to take a look at this domain names sold for more than their original cost. Domain name can be sold for huge amount of money, if you have the right domain name and at the right time.
Domain who almost made the list:
Altavista.com(sold for $3.25-3.3 million in 1999), Loans.com (sold for $3 million in 2000), Vodka.com (sold for $3 million in 2006), Wine.com (sold for $2.9 million in September 1999), Creditcards.com (soldfor $2.75 million in July 2004).
And zhanzuo.com is on negotation with Facebook for $85 million this year.
10. Shop.com
Sold for $3.5 million
- Looks like a nice domain name. Didn’t performed a good branding job compared to Amazon, eBay or Play.com .
9. Korea.com
Sold for $5 million in January 2000
- Brought by True Net, Korea’s largest ISP.
8. SEO.com
Sold for $5 million in June 2007
- Imagine how SEO is now important and how much impact it makes when this domain was been sold to WashingtonVC.
7. AsSeenOnTv.com
Sold for $5.1 million in January 2000
- Brought during the height of the .com boom. It’s exception among the others because of its very long domain name.
6. Casino.com
Sold for $5.5 million in 2003
- Gambling Sites.
5. Beer.com
Sold for $7 million in 2004
- Actually this domain was sold in 1999 to generic domain name developer for $80,000 in a deal that left Fisher with a 20% stake in the domain name. Within months, the domain name was flipped to one of the world’s largest beer companies for a cool $7,000,000, one of the highest prices ever paid for a domain name.
4. Diamonds.com
Sold for $7.5 million in 2006
- This was formerly own by Odimo an online retailer based in Sunrise, FL. Then sold its diamond and jewelry busines, including the domain name to Ice.com, an online diamonds and jewelry retailer.
3. Porn.com
Sold for $9.5 million in 2007
- This is the second largest adult domain transaction behind sex.com . Porn.com is one of the top type-in traffic adult entertainment destination. Personally, I don’t know what’s on this site 
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2. Sex.com
Sold for $11-14 million in January 2006
- The most expensive domain ever changed hands in 2006. Previously owned by Gary Kremen, registered in 1994. The domain hit the news in 1995 when it was stolen. After long battle in court, Kremen restored his ownership. No idea what’s on this site again .
Finally the most expensive among them is….
1. Business.com
Sold for $350 million in 2007
- Purchased by R.H. Donnelley who beat out Dow Jones and the New York Times during the bidding. The sale was about 47 times the $7.5 million 1999 purchase price. Business.com currently brings about $15 million dollars a year in revenue. So the sale was 24 times earnings.
This data was sort according to the results of this sites, thanks to them: mrx, oylinki, justsearching, ontora.
So what do yo think? If anyone wants to buy rhyan.net, for let say $1 million, contact me as I think its a good deal ( just joking 
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November 26th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
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November 28th, 2007 at 12:37 am
It’s quite amazing what a little domain name can go for these days.
rhyan: your absolutely right ….
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