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Here's some domains that moved for over 7 and 8 figures... If you're hanging on to any spicy domains, advertise them around to some brokers and domainer forums and see if you get any bites. You never know! Some of the best sellers were two words.
I'm adding screenshots to the ones with interesting results that aren't just Brand redirects so you can see what's being done with them now. I can't even get some of these to load...
LA.com - $1,200,000
Tribune Publishing Company, which owns the L.A. Times, bought LA.com earlier this year. A “coming soon” page says that people will be able to get @la.com email addresses when the site launches.
Jade.com - $1,250,000
CDN Jade Mine Resources, a Canadian jade miner, paid big bucks for this domain name. It currently forwards it to its main website, JadeMineResources.com.
Whisky.com - $3,100,000
The whisky seller that owns Whisky.de (a German domain name) bought this domain name. It hosts an informational site about whisky.
Candy.com - $3,000,000
Rich Schwartz, a famous domain name investor, sold this domain name to a group looking to launch a new online candy store. In addition to $3 million in cash, the company paid royalties as part of the deal.
Auction.com - $1,700,000
Home auctioneer Real Estate Disposition Corporation upgraded its domain name from USHomeAuction.com to Auction.com after buying the domain name in 2009. It is now part of a company called Ten-X.
Branson.com - $1,600,000
Branson is a small town in Missouri, but it’s a big destination for entertainment.
Slots.com - $5,500,000
As TechCrunch pointed out at the time of the sale, that is more than $1 million per character.
Porno.com - $8,888,888
The story of how "Domain King" Rick Schwartz flipped Porno.com is pretty incredible. He bought it from a college kid way back in 1997, paying $42,000 even though the kid had snagged it for only $5,000 the week before.
CreditCards.com - $2,750,000
ClickSuccess L.P., a firm that sells financial tools and products online, purchased CreditCards.com in 2004. It was the biggest domain-only sale in years.
Dating.com - $1,750,000
Dating.com was acquired at the DOMAINFest auction in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, in May 2012. The next-highest domain name to go at that auction was Boardgames.com, for $450,000.
Fly.com - $1,760,000
Travelzoo spent big bucks on Fly.com in January 2009. The site now operates similarly to the flight-finding service Kayak.
Seniors.com - $1,800,000
It was a big 2007 for a man named Page Howe. He sold two domains that year, each for seven figures. Besides Seniors.com ($1.8 million), he sold Guy.com for $1 million.
37.com - $1,960,800
37.com was sold for $1.9 million during a private sale in March. The domain was purchased by Chinese gamemaker 37Wan.
Computer.com - $2,100,000
In October 2007, Computer.com cleaned up at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. / Moniker domain name auction. WallStreet.com was almost sold for $3 million there, but it didn't "meet the set reserve prices," according to DomainRich.
KK.com - $2,400,000
KK.com was sold through the Moniker/SnapNames brokerage firm for $2.4 million in late 2013.
Investing.com - $2,450,000
Forexpros.com bought Investing.com in late 2012 for $2.45 million. It was the largest domain sale of the year.
IG.com - $4,700,000
IG Group specializes in spread betting. It placed a big bet on this short domain name, paying $4.7 million to acquire it in 2013.
Toys.com - $5,100,000
Toys ‘R’ Us bought this domain name in a bankruptcy auction for eToys in 2009. Right now the domain name just forwards to ToysRUs.com, which seems like a big waste for a great domain name like this.
Z.com - $6,800,000
Remember the Nissan Z? After Nissan decided to stop producing the car, it sold the domain name Z.com to a Japanese internet firm.
Cameras.com - $1,500,000
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.
Vodka.com - $3,000,000
Domain name investor Roy Messer sold Vodka.com to Russian vodka company Russian Standard in 2006.
MM.com - $1,200,000
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.
Medicare.com - $4,800,000
eHeathInsurance.com paid $4.8 million for Medicare.com last spring. It paid $4.3 million in cash and $300,000 in debt, according to Domain Name Sales Report.
Clothes.com - $4,900,000
Shoe company Zappos coughed up almost $5 million for the domain Clothes.com. Now both are owned by Amazon, but Clothes.com still redirects to Zappos's apparel selection, not Amazon's main site.
Ticket.com - $1,525,000
The domain site Afternic.com sold Ticket.com on behalf of another domain site, BuyDomains.com , for a hefty $1.5 million. After the sale, the site redirected to StubHub.com, but now redirects to a Swedish reservation site.
Russia.com - $1,500,000
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.
Diamond.com - $7,500,000
Odimo.com handed over the domain to an online jewelry retailer, Ice.com, in a private sale for one of the priciest domain name swaps of all time.
Power.com - $1,261,000
Silicon Valley electronics supplier Power Integrations bought Power.com to replace their old, less simple domain, PowerInt.com.
Porn.com - $9,500,000
At the time of its sale, Porn.com was the biggest all-cash transaction for a domain name and the second-largest domain sale behind Sex.com's million exit. Moniker helped sell the domain to MXN Limited.
Fund.com - $9,999,950
The URL was purchased by a company called Fund.com in an all-cash deal in 2008. After the flashy sale, Fund.com ran into a lot of trouble. It had to declare most of its financials unreliable in 2009 and continuously failed to file reports.
Sex.com - $13,000,000
Sex.com entered the Guinness Book of World Records for the highest domain-only sale in history. Escom LLC, which had gone bankrupt, sold it to Clover Holdings Ltd
Honorable Mentions:
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I'm adding screenshots to the ones with interesting results that aren't just Brand redirects so you can see what's being done with them now. I can't even get some of these to load...
LA.com - $1,200,000
Tribune Publishing Company, which owns the L.A. Times, bought LA.com earlier this year. A “coming soon” page says that people will be able to get @la.com email addresses when the site launches.
Jade.com - $1,250,000
CDN Jade Mine Resources, a Canadian jade miner, paid big bucks for this domain name. It currently forwards it to its main website, JadeMineResources.com.
Whisky.com - $3,100,000
The whisky seller that owns Whisky.de (a German domain name) bought this domain name. It hosts an informational site about whisky.
Candy.com - $3,000,000
Rich Schwartz, a famous domain name investor, sold this domain name to a group looking to launch a new online candy store. In addition to $3 million in cash, the company paid royalties as part of the deal.
Auction.com - $1,700,000
Home auctioneer Real Estate Disposition Corporation upgraded its domain name from USHomeAuction.com to Auction.com after buying the domain name in 2009. It is now part of a company called Ten-X.
Branson.com - $1,600,000
Branson is a small town in Missouri, but it’s a big destination for entertainment.
Slots.com - $5,500,000
As TechCrunch pointed out at the time of the sale, that is more than $1 million per character.
Porno.com - $8,888,888
The story of how "Domain King" Rick Schwartz flipped Porno.com is pretty incredible. He bought it from a college kid way back in 1997, paying $42,000 even though the kid had snagged it for only $5,000 the week before.
CreditCards.com - $2,750,000
ClickSuccess L.P., a firm that sells financial tools and products online, purchased CreditCards.com in 2004. It was the biggest domain-only sale in years.
Dating.com - $1,750,000
Dating.com was acquired at the DOMAINFest auction in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, in May 2012. The next-highest domain name to go at that auction was Boardgames.com, for $450,000.
Fly.com - $1,760,000
Travelzoo spent big bucks on Fly.com in January 2009. The site now operates similarly to the flight-finding service Kayak.
Seniors.com - $1,800,000
It was a big 2007 for a man named Page Howe. He sold two domains that year, each for seven figures. Besides Seniors.com ($1.8 million), he sold Guy.com for $1 million.
37.com - $1,960,800
37.com was sold for $1.9 million during a private sale in March. The domain was purchased by Chinese gamemaker 37Wan.
Computer.com - $2,100,000
In October 2007, Computer.com cleaned up at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. / Moniker domain name auction. WallStreet.com was almost sold for $3 million there, but it didn't "meet the set reserve prices," according to DomainRich.
KK.com - $2,400,000
KK.com was sold through the Moniker/SnapNames brokerage firm for $2.4 million in late 2013.
Investing.com - $2,450,000
Forexpros.com bought Investing.com in late 2012 for $2.45 million. It was the largest domain sale of the year.
IG.com - $4,700,000
IG Group specializes in spread betting. It placed a big bet on this short domain name, paying $4.7 million to acquire it in 2013.
Toys.com - $5,100,000
Toys ‘R’ Us bought this domain name in a bankruptcy auction for eToys in 2009. Right now the domain name just forwards to ToysRUs.com, which seems like a big waste for a great domain name like this.
Z.com - $6,800,000
Remember the Nissan Z? After Nissan decided to stop producing the car, it sold the domain name Z.com to a Japanese internet firm.
Cameras.com - $1,500,000
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.
Vodka.com - $3,000,000
Domain name investor Roy Messer sold Vodka.com to Russian vodka company Russian Standard in 2006.
MM.com - $1,200,000
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.
Medicare.com - $4,800,000
eHeathInsurance.com paid $4.8 million for Medicare.com last spring. It paid $4.3 million in cash and $300,000 in debt, according to Domain Name Sales Report.
Clothes.com - $4,900,000
Shoe company Zappos coughed up almost $5 million for the domain Clothes.com. Now both are owned by Amazon, but Clothes.com still redirects to Zappos's apparel selection, not Amazon's main site.
Ticket.com - $1,525,000
The domain site Afternic.com sold Ticket.com on behalf of another domain site, BuyDomains.com , for a hefty $1.5 million. After the sale, the site redirected to StubHub.com, but now redirects to a Swedish reservation site.
Russia.com - $1,500,000
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.
Diamond.com - $7,500,000
Odimo.com handed over the domain to an online jewelry retailer, Ice.com, in a private sale for one of the priciest domain name swaps of all time.
Power.com - $1,261,000
Silicon Valley electronics supplier Power Integrations bought Power.com to replace their old, less simple domain, PowerInt.com.
Porn.com - $9,500,000
At the time of its sale, Porn.com was the biggest all-cash transaction for a domain name and the second-largest domain sale behind Sex.com's million exit. Moniker helped sell the domain to MXN Limited.
Fund.com - $9,999,950
The URL was purchased by a company called Fund.com in an all-cash deal in 2008. After the flashy sale, Fund.com ran into a lot of trouble. It had to declare most of its financials unreliable in 2009 and continuously failed to file reports.
Sex.com - $13,000,000
Sex.com entered the Guinness Book of World Records for the highest domain-only sale in history. Escom LLC, which had gone bankrupt, sold it to Clover Holdings Ltd
Honorable Mentions:
- Insurance.com - $35,600,000 in 2010
- VacationRentals.com - $35,000,000 in 2007
- PrivateJet.com - $30,100,000 in 2012
- Internet.com - $18,000,000 in 2009
- Wine.com - $3,000,000 in 1999
- Pizza.com - $2,605,000 in 1999