Highest domain sales of all time

[aww]

highest (published) domain sales of all time

Can anyone add to this list? $100,000 or above only:

Highest (published) Domain Sales of all time

(I'll add date-of-sale over time)

 

[aww]

(content theft issue, will take it up with person directly)

 

[aww]

added:

VisitFlorida.com (last week)
Arab.com (this week)

 

[Ber|Art]

Amazon.com buys Joyo.com for $72 million

 

[aww]

Amazon.com buys Joyo.com for $72 million

As I mentioned when I posted the Joyo news, since that purchase includes all the assests of Joyo (which are considerable) it's not a pure domain sale and doesn't go on the list...

 

[edkerry]

There wer no big purchases this summer

 

[Grrilla]

Quite a dirth for the 3 yrs between mid/late 2000 and mid/late 2003, no?

 

[aww]

Yes, that's why they call it the "rebirth" of the domain name industry. There were probably some private sales then but I cannot find public records with decent numbers during that time period.

 

[Grrilla]

That was my point. Time to belly up to the DN bar, get on the dance floor and rock 'n roll! (Just waitin for the drummer to arrive.)
Very nice domain info portal you have going there, aww, and "DomainFood" is a great name. I have you bookmarked and will submit any odd tidbit's that I may run across, from time to time. Keep up the good work. :tu:

 

[edkerry]

Who can give me $72,000,000?

 

[Mr. Deleted]

Company says extortion try exposes thousands of card numbers

I see a login on the old site, indicating membership which is not on the existing site, so old members were cut off after the sale. I also see different partnerships with different credit card companies.

It is entirely possible you are correct as almost $3 million just for traffic sounds a little suspect. I just need to find in print somewhere that the sale carried over part of the business itself and not just the domain/traffic.

Company says extortion try exposes thousands of card numbers
Published: December 12, 2000, 12:25 PM PST
http://news.com.com/2100-1017-249772.html?legacy=cnet

Creditcards.com was the victim of an extortion attempt by a man accused of hacking into its site and exposing more than 55,000 credit card numbers, the company said Tuesday. ...

...Privately held Creditcards.com is a business-to-business site that works with Web merchants so they can accept credit card payments. According to the company's Web site, its customers include software maker iKnowledge and health site Premier Solutions.

Hope you like that "old news"

I find it interesting to note that the Dec 09, 2000 date on http://web.archive.org/web/*/Creditcards.com has no mention of iPayment, but the next update on Jan 19, 2001 says "creditcards.com is now iPayment Technologies, Inc.". The "Published: December 12, 2000" date is right between those two updates...

Chris Rouland, head of Internet Security Systems' security group, said the breach is inconvenient for consumers, expensive for credit card companies and potentially terminal for Creditcards.com.

"Their credibility is gone," Rouland said. "Their whole business had to be around providing a secure service, which they weren't able to do. For this to occur during the holiday shopping season, it will certainly be an issue."

and I'm trying to find the news that peice that I read a while ago that said that the seller, DealJam, http://www.dealjam.com was saying they were making "30-40,000" per month and that the 2.75 Mil was like a price that he thought the buyer could make in say 3 years or so.

 

[Mr. Deleted]

However, for example, Lindows.com selling for $20 million to Microsoft is not just a domain sale. It's a buyout of the rights to the "Lindows" name/trademark (basically a settlement done in a legally manipulative way). So it will never be on this list.

Lindow.com was not sold, or given up... All there other names were however. The Lindows.com name will still forword to the new site. (Lindow.org, and a few others that the company had will not.)

Links to Lindows.com will continue to work, but it would be helpful if everyone would switch them over. Ideally, in the near future, Linspire will beat Lindows in a googlefight.

(From Linspire.com)

http://www.linspire.com/lindows_michaelsminutes_archives.php?id=125

 

[yesonline]

I suggest 2 domains: zj.com and qq.com which were sold to 2 very big Chinese companies, sorry I can not verify what the exactly prices were but am sure they should be over 100k.(zj.com claimed they spent more than 1 mil to purchase that I don't think so) both domains were pure domain deal without any contents included.

just a suggestion :]