Most Expensive Domain Name
Written by: tom Filed Under: Collectibles, Real Estate on January 19th, 2006Business.com which was resold in 1999 for $7.5 million, according to Guinness World Records, appears to have been surpassed as the most expensive domain name, and not by theRecordBreakingDomain.com which was attempting to become the most expensive domain name in a media-move by selling for $7,500,001.
On January 19, 2006, it was reported that the domain Sex.com sold for $14 million US dollars to Boston-based Escom LLC, making it the most expensive domain sold. Former Sex.com owner Gary Kremen, reportedly wants to get out of the adult entertainment business. Other sources are quoted as saying the price Sex.com sold for was $11.4-12 million US dollars according to Reuters and AZOnline.
While the current market for internet domains is nowhere as solid as it was during the dot-com peak, the market remains strong and is experiencing solid growth. Each year tens of millions of dollars are exchanged during the resale of domains. In September of 2005, the gambling company Leisure & Gaming has paid $1.4 million for the vip.com domain. This is the most expensive domain name sale publicly reported during 2005.
The most expensive domain sale in 2004 was for creditcards.com.
A small Austin marketing firm has paid $2.75 million for CreditCards.com. Despite the rocky history of high-priced domain sales, participants say it was a fair price, and the sale may signal a new gold rush for Internet address speculators.
“It’s like prime real estate, there’s only so much of this real estate to go around. I feel like we bought a slice of Park Avenue,” said ClickSuccess CEO Dan Smith. The sale was actually completed in March [2004]. src
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Sex.com actually sold for $12 million, according to Reuters. I wonder what the owner of http://www.TheRecordBreakingDomain.com is going to since he was trying to break the business.com record himself.
Hi
I think this record can be broken !
http://www.themostexpensivedomainnameintheworld.com/
bahah thats such as a waste of time, I hope no one buys it
never says never. 7.5 million is not a big amount for a big enterprise.
I think that a pricey domain name is not allways necessary - let’s look at domains like amazon.com, google.com, yahoo.com - they are more succesful than ie books.com or search.com
What about wallstreet.com?
I wonder what this 2 digit domain can sell for?
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This is wrong, the domain name http://www.italia.it was recently bought for 45 million dollars by the italian government. Yet though the website was closed after a couple of months due to a lack of popularity
MostExpensiveDomainSold.com has announced a
domain charity raffle to compliment the grand opening of its charity drive.
Raffle participation is free and allows participants to contribute to a worthy
cause.
This one can go down in history as the
most expensive domain sold
for charity.
These are all copycats from my idea. I register worldshighestprice.com and mostexpensivedomain.com back in june of 2005 and put them on ebay to sell to set the record. Check the day these two where register. Then therecordbreakingdoain.com was register four monthe later. I own several including worldsmostexpensivedomain.com and also worldshighestpricedomain.com So I am the orginal and I do own the worldsmostexpensivedomain and the others. So if the record was to be broken Surely they would want mine wouldn’t you think? God Bless!
wow… 45 millions dollar for nothing?
i guess that was a big loss for italian government