The 10 Most Expensive Domains Ever
Tue, Apr 15, 2008
#10 VIP.com
Sold for: $1.4 million in September 2005
Bought by: Leisure and Gaming
Sadly this isn’t a website dedicated to that awful Pamela Anderson show of the same name, it’s a gambling website. For just $1.4 million it wasn’t much of a gamble either.
#9 CreditCards.com
Sold for: $2.75 million in July 2004
Bought by: Austin
Considering natural SEO and a strong link campaign can get a site listed for ‘credit cards’ $2.75 million might seem a bit steep, but as the revenue generated from the loans industry is so huge the high outlay on the domain has more than likely paid for itself.
#8 Wine.com
Sold for: $2.9 million in September 1999
For this sort of money you’d think they’d actually be trading globally, alas you’d be wrong. Wine.com sells only to the US market. Something of a missed opportunity there as I do believe some European countries are quite partial to a drop of wine.
#7 Shop.com
Sold for: $3.5 million
Sounds like a great domain name, but be honest, who’s ever bought from here? When you shop online you use sites like Amazon, eBay or Play. The domain names aren’t important when compared to the branding, link building and SEO.
#6 AsSeenOnTv.com
Sold for: $5.1 million in January 2000
At over $5 million I question the wisdom of this one. Bought at the height of the .com boom this was a lot of money for a very long domain name that is nothing more than a marketing slogan. If this comes up for sale again expect the owner to lose a considerable amount of his money.
#5 Beer.com
Sold for $7 million
Again this is a lot of money for a domain that won’t generate that much type in traffic. Primarily a lads’ site, beer.com is aimed at the Internet’s biggest user base.
#4 Diamonds.com
Sold for: $7.5 million
Guess what they sell? Not to be confused with a motor insurance company for women. Considering the high ticket price on their stock this is potentially a good price for such a prestigious domain name.
#3 Business.com
Sold For: $7.5 million in 1999
The former Guinness World Record holder for the most expensive domain name ever; business.com, sold back in the .com boom era of the late 90’s. After the crash in 2001 it was expected that no domain would sell for a greater amount. The predictions proved inaccurate.
#2 Porn.com
Sold for $9.5 million in 2007
Personally I’d have thought this one would have gone for more in a time of renewed Internet speculation. I don’t know what’s on this site, I’ve never looked 
Finally, the most expensive domain ever is…
#1 Sex.com
Sold for: $11 - $14 million (disputed reports) in January 19th 2006
Bought by: Escom LLC
It had to be didn’t it? The most expensive domain name ever changed hands in January 2006 for an estimated $11 million, although some reports put that figure as high as $14 million. The type in traffic alone makes this domain worth the cash.
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April 16th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
That is a lot of money,I am trying to sell my domain for just
1 million $ I will see if I make it??
http://www.kaleta.hr
April 16th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
$33M for consumersearch.com: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/07/technology/07about.html
April 16th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
I think by most expensive domain names the author was talking about the purchase of the name itself and only the name.
Consumersearch.com was a set up website…
If that was the case I’m pretty sure the $1.7B for youtube would be in one of the top spots
April 16th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
Vodka.com sold for around 2.6 million. It should be on the list. Also pizza.com sold a couple days ago for over 2 million.
April 17th, 2008 at 8:47 am
Some expensive domains there!
April 17th, 2008 at 9:50 am
I believe the value is for the Domain name only and it also depends on how old the domain is.
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April 17th, 2008 at 10:43 am
Great collection, wish I had owned one of them!
April 17th, 2008 at 11:58 am
I heard from a Yellow Pages (SWB version) that his company had just bought yellowpages.com for a huge sum. The numbers he mentioned was over $100,000,000. I have no independent confirmation of that, but it would make sense. $100 million is almost chump change to South Western Bell and that name they did not own. I know that. So maybe it makes sense. What about some of the other Big names?
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April 18th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
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April 19th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
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if they have sold this kind of name for million$ then I should sell my multipurpose VeryEasyEuro.com for 3, 5, 10 times more… or find thousands supporters per day to my (unique in the world) NewSpaceAgency.com idea… unfortunately, that’s not happened, so far, maybe, since great part of the news’ websites like only those that already are BIG…
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April 20th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
#6 is not the premier name but still so much expensive…
April 29th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
nice collection……….Really reading these makes me think of stopping blogging and entering this kind of business. But I cant do that coz i just love blogging rather than anything.
April 30th, 2008 at 4:24 am
I believe that U.S. companies are not allowed to sell wine overseas for legal reasons. I don’t think anyone is stupid enough to self-limit only to the U.S. for sales.
May 8th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Wow, after reading this I have renewed hope that I can get at least 2-3 million for my prime domain, phentermine-viagra-creditcard-cialis-seo-lolita69.cn !
May 9th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
that is completely unbelievable. that much for a domain name, which is otherwise rather cheap.