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These are most expensive domain names of all time
MILLION-DOLLAR URLS: The most expensive domain names of all time
What's in a web address?
Quite a lot of cash.
We scoured domain name resource DN Journal and put together a list of documented million-dollar, domain-only ".com" sales. Some have been squatted on for 20 years and have only recently traded hands.
Unsurprisingly, sex- and gambling-related domains are some of the biggest money makers.
NOTE: Web businesses have other assets and are not domain-only sales, so they were not eligible for this list. For example, Insure.com was bought for $16 million as a fully-operating, profitable company. DN Journal reports only the domain names sold after 2003 because prior sales are not verified by credible sources.
MM.com — $1,200,000
Date sold: July 2014
MM.com was sold for $1.2 million through Sedo in July 2014. It was purchased by Hangzhou Duomai E-Commerce Co. Ltd, a company behind other domain names Game.com, JZ.com and 4.cn.
The domain now redirects to a blank page with a random string of letters and numbers.
Power.com $1,261,000
Date sold: November 2014
Silicon Valley electronics supplier Power Integrations bought Power.com to replace their old, less simple domain, PowerInt.com.
eBet.com $1,350,000
Date sold: October 2013
A man named Rick Schwartz registered eBet.com in 1996 for $100. He held onto it for nearly 20 years — making a juicy profit off of it when the domain company Network Solutions bought it for $1.35 million.
Because Schwartz has made a number of high-profile sales (you'll run into another much later in this list), he's earned the nickname "Domain King."
"When do I sell? When the domain name is ripe," he writes on his blog. "When is it ripe? When the right buyer comes along."
Cameras.com — $1,500,000
Year sold: 2006
Sig Solares (the CEO of Parked.com) "wasted no time pony 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 8 years, meaning if all went according to plan, he should have recouped his costs by now.
Russia.com $1,500,000
Year sold: 2009
Back in 2009, Paley Media, a consulting firm that owns a bunch of different country-specific domains, sold the URL to a "mystery buyer." Today, the URL just redirects to GoDaddy.com.
Source: techgig.com
