What was the biggest domain sale?

[NuPagady]

Just curious.. What was the biggest amount of money paid for a single domain name?

I know domain name business.com was sold for 7.5 mln $, but it was long time ago. Any new records?

 

[gazzip]

You could check this list that goes to july 2005 - not sure how acurate it is.

http://domaintimes.net/deardomains.php

 

[Robson]

I belive sex.com was sold for like 30mil.

 

[FusunMedia]

Biggest confirmed sale I've heard of was Business.com for $10 million (I might be off).

 

[Keynes]

I belive sex.com was sold for like 30mil.

The domain was stolen and had a settlement in that range, but I don't believe it has ever been sold (despite rumors.)

 

[DJ-Sound]

hard to tell, most high number sales are actually because of the company, not the domain.

 

[BurninDragon08]

I guess that sex.com was sold for 65 million. Due to a lawsuit the plaintiff got the money.

 

[monRa]

I thought sex.com was sold for les than 20M? I cannot find the sex.com in the url ;(

 

[NuPagady]

wow, seems like it was a hard question, nobody knows the answer. Does it mean that some of the biggest sales were kept in secret?

 

[loscocco]

Didnt Broadcast.com sell for the high millions or maybe around a billion? but that also included the company.
I know Art.com recently Sold also but i am not sure how much

 

[Keynes]

Didnt Broadcast.com sell for the high millions or maybe around a billion?

Yes, but I think we have to seperate the company from the domain. Otherwise, MySpace is worth 600 mil +...as more and more premium domains get developed, it's harder to evaluate the "pure" value of the domain relative to the business surrounding it.

 

[spikedo]

Check out domain sales stats at Duke's site.

http://www.dnjournal.com/domainsales.htm

 

[Ron Jackson]

Check out domain sales stats at Duke's site.

http://www.dnjournal.com/domainsales.htm

Check our new cover story just posted today:
http://www.dnjournal.com/

It's all about sales at the high end of the market and prices for some were just revealed for the first time in this article, like Beer.com at $7 million which is the highest cash deal for a domain only that has been publicly reported to date. It was later learned that the $7.5 million Business.com sale involved a lot of stock (that became close to worthless when the bubble burst in 2000) rather than cash.

 

[Kenny]

Always a pleasure, Mr. Jackson.

.TV's and other sargents (non-coms) doing
well as of late, any thoughts on that, sir?

Peace, kid5150

 

[equity78]

Great Story DUKE

Kenny I think .tv doing well Elequa just bought travel.tv for $65,000 Mail.tv For $35,000 VICE.tv just sold for $3500 Umwelt.tv ENVIRONMENT IN GERMAN $1800

 

[ThreeD]

wow, seems like it was a hard question, nobody knows the answer. Does it mean that some of the biggest sales were kept in secret?

I think that's a very good assumption A lot of the "big players" like to keep things nice and quiet..

 

[tipsfromthetop]

Big sales are kept quiet i believe makes the public guess and potentially hype a domain to a higher value.

 

[DJ-Sound]

Big sales are kept quiet i believe makes the public guess and potentially hype a domain to a higher value.

Agreed!

 

[worldstar]

You could check this list that goes to july 2005 - not sure how acurate it is.

http://domaintimes.net/deardomains.php

I could find that all good sales are for dot com!

 

[moua]

IMHO AsSeenOnTv.com for $5.1 million is the best sale, because it's an expression, not a dictionary word.
But it was in the '2000 internet boom...

BTW, when you see how ugly is http://www.asseenontv.com i think they did't have any more money to have a designer