The 10 most expensive domain names ever sold online
Today: A sponsored directory with advertisements for porn sites.
2. Business.com – $7,500,000 – Purchased by eCompanies in 1999
Today: A business directory organized by category.
3. Diamond.com – $7,500,000 – Private sale to Ice.com on May 19, 2006
Today: Online jewelry store.
4. Beer.com – $7,000,000 – Bought buy a commercial beer company in 2004
Today: A portal for the beer drinker’s lifestyle.
5. Casino.com – $5,500,000 – Sold to a private interest in 2003
Today: Domain squat with sponsored links to gambling websites.
6. Korea.com – $5,000,000 – Purchased by True Net, Korea’s largest internet service provider, in January 2000
Today: News and travel information for South Korea.
7. AsSeenOnTV.com – $5,000,000 – Bought by a marketing company in January 2000
Today: Original website that sells items featured on TV.
8. Shop.com – $3,500,000 – Sold to Altura Int., an internet real estate group
Today: Online retail store that includes products from multiple vendors.
9. AltaVista.com – $3,300,000 – Bought by Compaq for their new search engine in 1999
Today: A search portal powered by Yahoo!
10. Vodka.com – $3,000,000 Purchased by Russian Starndard in December 2006
Today: Redirects to Russian Standard Vodka’s website.
Domain names that almost made the list:
Loans.com ($3,000,000), Wine.com ($2,900,000), CreditCards.com ($2,750,000), Tom.com ($2,500,000), Autos.com ($2,200,000).
The ironic part is that most of these domain names never took off. What would you pay for a name? How much do you think Google.com – or Yahoo.com – would go for today?
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03/04/2008 at 12:52 pm Permalink
Wonder what Google.com will sell for? How about wine.com coming in at 2.9 mil?
According to this site, http://www.mostexpensivedomainsold.com/ as seen on TV went for 5.1 mil which is not listed on your list.
Vivian.
20/09/2008 at 9:23 am Permalink
Vivian i don’t think Google.com will be sold. if it happens, google.com will get the highest ranking in the 10 most expensive domain names ever sold online. I hope none can pay for google.com.
Lalit Sharma
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10/12/2008 at 3:46 pm Permalink
I sold my Dignity. I sold/leased Dignity.com in a pvt deal to a medical device company for more than $100,000,000.00 USD yes thats right one-hundred-million-dollars plus 10% of the company stock and 10% of its income forever! Sold/leased it in Jan 2005 and if I do not get my payments I get my Dignity back, Dignity.com that is.
16/03/2009 at 2:42 pm Permalink
Do you guys have a recommendation section, i’d like to suggest some stuff
07/02/2010 at 9:47 am Permalink
http://www.DMND.com is a women’s best friend and will last forever.
14/02/2010 at 5:19 pm Permalink
“And so you had to go through that too!”
elavil