Toys.com sells for $5.1 million in heated domain auction
Toys ‘R’ Us is the lucky winner of Toys.com. The domain was bought by the toy store chain in a heated phone auction that took place earlier today at the final bid of $5.1 million. DirectNavigation blogged live from the auction here.
According to Domain Name Wire, the following bidders participated in the auction:
1-800-Diapers
Toys ‘R’ [...]
Fly.com sells for $1.76 million
DNJournal's latest Top 20 chart of domain sales prices is shown below.
Fly.com leads the list with an amazing $1,760,000 sale. The domain was brokered by Sedo and bought by TravelZoo, a publicly listed company. TravelZoo plans to use the domain to launch a travel search engine later this month.
Brian Clark, senior vice president and [...]
In 2008, Premium Domain Values Dropped By 11% While End User Sales & Development Increased By 76.42%
Premium domain names continue to be an outstanding investment. This is nothing new to domain investors, and despite a recent slowdown in the reseller market, the actual numbers confirm that the end user market remains strong.
Looking at DNJournal's List of Top 100 Reported Sales of 2006, 2007 and 2008, the top 100 median sales [...]
2008: A Year That All Domainers Will Remember
2008 was a very unique year in the domaining industry. The popularity of domaining continued to rise even as prices dropped. Increasing numbers of end users noticed the value of domains as well and there were quite a few astonishing sales reported throughout the year. At the same time, domain parking came to a virtual [...]
Kredit.de sells for $1.17 million
DNJournal's latest Top 20 chart of domain sales prices is shown below.
Kredit.de (German for "credit" or "loan") leads the list with an amazing $1,169,175 sale. The domain was bought by Unister GmbH of Leipzig, Germany, a company which also owns Geld.de ("money") and Auto.de.
Other noteworthy sales include:
LOTO.com for $91,331 (LOTO is both a typo of, [...]
LowFare.com Leads Domain Sales Charts
DNJournal's latest Top 20 chart of domain sales prices is shown below.
LowFare.com leads the list with an amazing $365,000 sale, closely followed by Banners.com, which sold for $360,000. Both domains sold on Sedo. Alice.com was acquired by Brian Wiegand and Mark McGuire in a private transaction. They will use the domain for their coming online [...]
Domaining Like It's 2001
"It's too late to make big money in domaining… I wish I had been around in 1995, 2001 or 2005".
That's a very common complaint heard among today's domainers. Who wouldn't want to reach back through time and join the forefathers of domaining when they were just laying the foundation for their future domain empires?
In 1995, [...]