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The
20 Biggest All-Cash Domain Sales Ever Reported by
DNJournal.com
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Last
week when the news
broke
that
Sex.com would be sold for $13 million
in a bankruptcy court auction (payment and
transfer of the domain have not yet been
completed) a number
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of
mainstream media outlets, including ABC
News, AOL's DailyFinance.com
and The Economist, contacted me to
ask where that sale would rank among the biggest
domain sales ever reported.
I
have never published an all-time biggest
sales list, because I won't vouch for sales
reported before we started tracking and
verifying aftermarket sales in late 2003. Many
of the sales reported prior to that were not
cash deals (payment was often made, at least
partially, with stock that declined dramatically
in value) and some of the reports were simply
bogus (Beauty.cc at a
"reported" $1 million being one
of the most infamous examples).
None
the less, when a big sale like the impending
deal for Sex.com is in the news,
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mainstream outlets
always want to know where that sale ranks among
the biggest deals ever, so I tell them the ones
we we will stand by as all cash sales of a
domain name only. Others often mix sales of
online businesses, like Insure.com
at $16 million, into their lists of top
sales even though comparing the sale of domain
names to developed businesses is like comparing apples
to oranges - they are not the same thing and
shouldn't be ranked as if they were. Still other
lists repeat erroneous information from
other sources and list transactions that
never happened (Israel.com at a
reported $5.88 million for example, never
happened).
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The
Economist decided to follow our methodology
and printed the 15 biggest all cash sales ever
reported by DN Journal in their
report about the Sex.com sale. By the
way, their list is accurate - some other
sites that quoted sales reported in DN Journal are
not because they had typos that turned
singular domains into plural ones (for example,
some listed Diamonds.com and Computers.com when
the names we reported sold were the singular
versions; Diamond.com and Computer.com).
Some of you may have
missed the list we provided for The Economist
so, for all who are interested, below is an
expanded list of the 20 biggest sales reported
by DN Journal since we started tracking the
domain aftermarket in the fall of 2003 (this list
is current as of November 5, 2010. If the
Sex.com sale successfully concludes at $13 million
it will move to the top of this list):
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The
20 biggest cash domain sales ever reported
by DNJournal.com |
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1.
Fund.com |
$9,999,950 |
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11.
Computer.com |
$2,100,000 |
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2.
Porn.com |
$9,500,000 |
12.
Seniors.com |
$1,800,000 |
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3.
Diamond.com |
$7,500,000 |
13.
Fly.com |
$1,760,000 |
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4.
Slots.com |
$5,500,000 |
14.
Dating.com |
$1,750,000 |
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5.
Toys.com |
$5,100,000 |
15.
Auction.com |
$1,700,000 |
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6.
Clothes.com |
$4,900,000 |
16.
DataRecovery.com |
$1,659,000 |
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7.
(tie) Vodka.com |
$3,000,000 |
17.
Ticket.com |
$1,525,000 |
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7
(tie). Candy.com |
$3,000,000 |
18.
(tie) Russia.com |
$1,500,000 |
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9.
Shopping.de |
$2,858,945* |
18.
(tie) Tandberg.com |
$1,500,000 |
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10.
CreditCards.com |
$2,750,000 |
18.
(tie) Cameras.com |
$1,500,000 |
| *Shopping.de
sold for €1,960,000 in 2008. The dollar
equivalent at that time was $2,858,945. |
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(Posted
November 5,
2010)
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