Many of you are aware of the growing popularity of the internet, specifically in ecommerce for normal consumers. With that said, investors have made big steps in securing the future of the internet by acquiring, trading, and registering high-end domain names.In 2007 alone, domain name values have increased signifcantly. Here are a list of notable purchases:
Porn.com was purchased for $9,500,000 at Moniker (5-29-07) SEO.com was purchased for $5,000,000 from Web Targeted. Seniors.com was purchased for $1,800,000 at Moniker/T.R.A.F.F.I.C. (7-3-07) Tandberg.com was purchased for $1,500,00 via Private Sale (2-13-07) To see more of the top 50 domain purchases of the year, visit DNJournal.
The most expensive purchase ever was Business.com, which was bought for $7.5 Million. It recently was sold for $345 million to RH Donnellely, with estimated profits of $50 Million/year. Not a bad turn around huh?
Single word domains (also known as Dictionary Domains) are going for hundreds to ten’s of thousands of dollars everyday. Another hot commodity these days is 2 Letter and 3 Letter domains (example: sja.com and bd.com) which can sell for 5 to 6 figures.
With this increase in revenue for webmasters, many off line investment companies have not only tuned into these sales and are gunning for these premium domains.
It makes you wonder, what were you doing 5-10 years ago when domains like these were available for registration.
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