Vodka.com sold for $ 3 million

[gazzip]

Russian vodka maker buys Vodka.com domain for $3 mln

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The billionaire Russian entrepreneur behind Russia's biggest vodka maker has paid $3 million (1.53 million pounds) to acquire the vodka.com domain, part of a bid to expand into the U.S. market, a broker said on Thursday.

Sedo.com, the Web domain brokering unit that is part of Germany's United Internet AG, said it had acted as the sales agent in the deal

Nice Sedo

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/art...4393671_RTRIDST_0_OUKIN-UK-INTERNET-VODKA.XML

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[Charley]

Impressive Sale.

Who was the owner of vodka.com ?

 

[QualityNames.com]

Nice sale!

Was this deal just for the domain name?

 

[nmr86]

a lifechanging sale

 

[thebutler]

hand reg'd?

Wonder if the owner had hand reg'd the domain or if it was some big domain company. Since it was on Sedo it might have been a smaller domain owner.

Likely a nice return.

 

[gazzip]

I think it "may" have been sold by Roy Messer

I found this on DnJournal from 2004

"Then there is Florida's Roy Messer who does some of each with developed sites like Vodka.com combined with PPC landing pages on other domains. Both strategies contribute to his bottom line. Hearing experienced and articulate domainers like this offer minute details on how they implement their strategies and answering any questions the audience posed got things off to a great start"

Looks like he may also own Camping.com and Rings.com - there is also some references to him being one of the domain pioneers.


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