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  • The Top 5 Most Expensive Domain Names Sold For Over $30 Million – Here They Are

    23 Jul 2014 by Jasmine Stone in Culture, Tech/Sci, World
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    It is unbelievably how much pure profit you can make off a domain name – JUST a domain name. No attached company or service, simply an address in the world wide web.
    Business Insider have recently compiled a list of the top 10 most expensive domain names. They emphasise, as will we, that these are sales of domains only.
    We scoured domain name resource DN Journal and put together a list of documented million-dollar, domain-only sales.
    These are the top five, starting at number five. As you would expect, sex and gambling cleaned up pretty well and you will notice most of these domain names have one thing in common: their simplicity.

    Slots.com — $5,500,000

    Year sold: 2010

    As TechCrunch pointed out at the time of the sale, that is more than $1 million per character.

    Diamond.com – $7,500,000

    Year sold: 2006

    Odimo.com handed over the domain to an online jewelry retailer, Ice.com, in a private sale for one of the priciest domain name swaps of all time.

    Porn.com — $9,500,000

    Year sold: 2007

    At the time of its sale, Porn.com was the biggest all-cash transaction for a domain name and the second-largest domain sale behind Sex.com’s million exit. Moniker helped sell the domain to MXN Limited.

    Fund.com — $9,999,950

    Year sold: 2008

    Clek Media brokered a deal that few people believed was real: Fund.com was purchased in an all-cash deal in 2008.

    Sex.com — $13 million

    Year sold: 2010

    Sex.com entered the Guinness Book of World Records for the highest domain-only sale in history. Escom LLC sold it to Clover Holdings Ltd.

    Check out the Business Insider’s full list here. Moral of the story? Keep is simple stupid and don’t settle when selling your precious domain – you could make literally millions from the simplest of names.

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