1st domain to top 9 figures

[robaireg]

good morning everyone.

just thought it would be fun to speculate on what kind of name will be the first to crack the 100 MM sale price.

so far the list is topped by insurance dot com which just pips out vacationrentals at 35 million.

what time frame will this 100MM figure be reached? and what kind of name will it be?


edit: according to '' mostexpensivedomain [dot] name '' CarInsurance dot com hit 49 million.
(however it was a working website with content)

 

[discobull]

My guess: Dragonsdance.com .

 

[robaireg]

chinese prefer numbers

why not - long88.com

[long is dragon]

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''wouldn't you know it department'', entry #1 .....

there happens to be a name
long-88.com

(I think they're asking just south of 100MM)

and it's available on march 5
(2 month lock release)

 

[discobull]

chinese prefer numbers

It was a joke referring to another thread. Never mind...

 

[robaireg]

i know. i felt sorry for that thread.

 

[Nitindomains]

My guess: Dragonsdance.com .

I second the opinion.
Dragons must Dance.

 

[robaireg]

my own guess :

1) 2 numbers

2) chinese market

 

[The New Guy]

My guess: Dragonsdance.com .

That would be the first Billion dollar domain.

 

[DomainGist]

The example given above, CarInsurance.com was NOT a domain only acquisition. That was a purchase of a business called Carinsurance.com, which was already seeing 200,000 unique visitors a month.

So how do you differentiate between a web business acquisition and a domain acquisition?

I'm not sure that Carinsurance.com qualifies as the biggest domain sale. It was already a developed site which was acquiring traffic, and it is impossible to determine how much value the buyer put on the organic search traffic and how much they put on the domain itself.

 

[robaireg]

good point.

the domain is the brand
but the entire bz structure is much much more.

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on that note it is also interesting to speculate how much the law ''weighs'' the ownership of domain names as a de facto trademark ownership .. ...

vs the traditional and very slow trademark registration via govt which often takes months and is ultra-expensive. and also needs to be repeated for every gov , maybe all 150 of them.

the law tends to evolve so it will be interesting to find out WHEN they officially place domain name ownership as the primary measure of trade-name ownership.

my guess is the law will soon recognize domain names as primary trademarking. and also do away with the trademark office altogether. it would make sense.

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otherwise we could see something like the trademark offices for all major countries all going online (and offering much faster reg services, maybe even one day trademarking service) and also linking up with Icann.

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[GravityEleven]

we won't be seeing any 9 figure domain only sale ever..
why? because domains as we know will be replaced by a different navigation system/concept already by the time they could theoretically hit 9 figure values based on the worldwide internet traffic (china, india, brazil etc..) by then..

still only my opinion though

 

[FusionSpy]

For domain only without any business already behind I doubt we'll see that maybe in 100 years when collectors will be paying that kind of money for those rare domain artefacts as I reminder of our days , but we can say that some businesses that heavily relied on their domain name / brand, already hit those numbers, but only through whole company / business acquisitions which also included domain as a deal.

 

[johname]

For a domain to sell at 100 million, someone has to turn down many first 10- 80 million offers. Hard to do at the moment.

I think we will have to confirm the 'Can only do business on a dot com' over probably the time frame of a generation. Then top dot coms will get a second spike in value.

And there is the how much 100 million in google advertising gets you vs buying the domain.

There always inflation and companies like apple with money to burn to hurry things up.

 

[JudgeMind]

Would have to say one of the following will ( all .com of course)

ADWU
SpokaneCasino
DanburyCasino
GreenBayFinance

 

[KDN]

My guess: Dragonsdance.com .

This is gold. LMAO

 

[NameOmnia]

The following :

- one in my portfolio
- dragon dance
- 7855555griuyters ( brandable )
- sendyourenemiesfunnelwebspiders ( which I don't own but I am tempted to register... )

 

[ulterios]

My guess: Dragonsdance.com .

I second the opinion.
Dragons must Dance.

I third it !!!

The reason being is that everyone will soon find out that dragons CAN dance! They have a modern training method thanks to modern technology:

 

[NameOmnia]

I third it !!!

The reason being is that everyone will soon find out that dragons CAN dance! The have a modern training method thanks to modern technology:

NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWW ULTY!!!!
THAT'S AMAZING!!!!

 

[Sirkarl]

I would have to say it would be only in the case if the world went to a global currency and there was an exchange set up. In that case I could foresee it happening especial if that service charged a minimal exchange fee. But what the heck do I know.

 

[JanuaryBabe]

All the big names easily sell more than that. Facebook.com, Google.com, Amazon.com, NamePro.com