27 of the most expensive domain names ever purchased
Nathan Johnson
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05/05/2016
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MM.com – $1,200,000 Date Sold: July 2014 Despite selling for over a million dollars, the domain now redirects to a random assortment of numbers and letters. -
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Power.com – $1,261,000 Date Sold: November 2014 In an attempt to upgrade their then-current domain name, PowerInt.com, Power Integrations purchased Power.com. -
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eBet.com – $1,350,000 Date Sold: October 2013 After purchasing the domain name for $100, Rick Schwartz held on the name for 20 years until he made a juicy profit. Schwartz has actually made a number of high-profile domain sales, and earned the name “Domain King.” -
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Cameras.com – $1,500,000 Date Sold: 2006 Sig Solares (the CEO of Parked.com) wasted no time ponying up the $1,500,000 when he won Cameras.com in an auction in 2006, DN Journal reported at the time. Solares estimated at the time that he could make up the $1.5 million in eight years, meaning if all went according to plan, he should have recouped his costs by now. -
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Russia.com – $1,500,000 Date Sold: 2009 Paley Media sold the domain name to a ‘mystery buyer’ back in 2009. As of today, if you visit the site you’ll be redirected to GoDaddy.com. -
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Tandberg.com – $1,500,000 Date Sold: 2007 -
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Ticket.com – $1,525,000 Date Sold: 2009 For a short while after the sale was completed, the domain name Ticket.com began directing to StubHub.com. As of today, it redirects to a Swedish reservation site. -
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DataRecovery.com – $1,659,000 Date Sold: 2008 Minnesota’s Associated Computers Inc. sold the domain to ESS Data Recovery on February 1, 2008. ESS had been trying to buy the domain for a long time. -
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Auction.com – $1,700,000 Date Sold: 2009 Initially the site was rumored to have sold for $2.5 million, but ended up selling for just $1.7 million. -
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Dating.com – $1,750,000 Date Sold: 2010 Dating.com was acquired at the DOMAINFest auction in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in May 2012. The next-highest domain name to go at that auction was Boardgames.com, for $450,000. -
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Seniors.com – $1,800,000 Date Sold: 2007 The gentleman who sold this domain had himself a good year, selling Seniors.com for almost $2 million and Guy.com for just over $1 million. Seniors.com now redirects to SeniorFriendFinder.com. -
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37.com – $1,960,800 Date Sold: March 2014 37.com was sold for $1.9 million during a private sale in March. The domain was purchased by Chinese gamemaker 37Wan. -
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Fly.com – $1,760,000 Date Sold: 2009 Back in January of 2009, TravelZoo forked over a boatload of cash for the domain name Fly.com. The site now operates similarly to the flight-finding service Kayak. -
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Computer.com – $2,100,000 Date Sold: 2007 -
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114.com – $2,100,000 Date Sold: July 2013 This domain named was purchased by a Chinese company, as the numbers 114 in China signifies ‘information.’ -
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KK.com – $2,400,000 Date Sold: November 2013 A lot of money to pay for a domain name that redirects to a “Domain Not Active” message. -
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Youxi.com – $2,430,000 Date Sold: 2014 ‘Youxi’ translates to ‘games’ in Chinese, which is why it was purchased by a company named GameWave Group Limited. -
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Investing.com – $2,450,000 Date Sold: 2012 Forexpros.com bought Investing.com in late 2012 for $2.45 million. It was the largest domain sale of the year. -
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Social.com – $2,600,000 Date Sold: July 2011 You shouldn’t expect any sort of interesting chatter on this site: Salesforce bought the URL and it now directs to one of the company’s advertising pages. -
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CreditCards.com – $2,750,000 Date Sold: 2004 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. -
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Vodka.com – $3,000,000 Date Sold: 2006 A billionaire in Russia (because, or coursE) who owns the country’s largest vodka maker, Russian Standard Co., purchased Vodka.com for $3 million in December 2006. -
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Z.com – $6,784,000 Date Sold: November 2014 The Japanese internet service provider GMO Internet bought Z.com from Nissan Motors for 800 million yen, or about $6,784,000. Z.com is one of only three single-character domain names currently existing in the “.com” space. -
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Porno.com – $8,888,888 Date Sold: February 2015 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. Schwartz told The Domains that since then the site earned “well in excess of over $10 million via parking and redirects without every providing actual adult content.” Meaning that he likely reeled in more than $20 million total from the scandalous domain. -
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Porn.com – $9,500,000 Date Sold: 2007 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 $12 million exit. Moniker helped sell the domain to MXN Limited. -
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Fund.com – $9,999,950 Date Sold: 2008 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. If you go to the site now, it won’t load. -
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Sex.com – $13,000,000 Date Sold: 2010 At the time of the sale, Sex.com set a Guinness Record for the highest domain-only sale in history. -
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Nsurance.com – $36,000,000 Date Sold: 2010 Sold for a mind-boggling amount of $36 mil, Nsurance.com isn’t even a working website today.
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