We all know that domain name selling is one of the coolest business where you can make good money just by trading for domain name.
Expensive domain name
Though the surprising factor is did you ever thought how much money domain selling can make.
I’m sure you will be surprised to see the list of top 10 domain name here and the price.
Sex is the keyword everywhere and this is true in the case of this list. Porn websites are the biggest seller.
Sex.com :
$14 millions the most expensive domain sale of all the time. though when you will open this website you will be redirected to another website.
Fund.com :
Sold in 2008 with a price tag of $9,999,950
Porn.com :
I was highly expecting to see names like these in the list and these are also the highest selling keywords. Porn.com was sold at a price tag of $9,500,000 in 2007.
Business.com :
Website which is being use as business related search engine and for advertisement program. It’s been sold at a price of $7,500,000 almost 10 years back in 1999.
Diamonds.com :
Diamond the girl best friend. Though the price at which it was sold is right. It was sold at $7,500,000.
Beer.com :
Some more interesting names are yet to come including this. Though I’m not sure if you expected this but I also expected to see alcohol.com but the good news is domain name like wine.com, vodka.com and similar name are among the top seller. Beer.com was sold at a price tag of $7,000,000.
AsSeenOnTV.com :
Sold almost 9 year back in 2000 with a price tag of $5,100,000.
Korea.com :
The only domain name with a country name in the list which was sold for $5,000,000.
Casino.com :
It’s actually sad to see casino.com almost at the end of top 10 list anyways for the info it was sold at a price tag of$5,500,000
SEO.com :
SEO is one of the most popular search terms in search engine and as name suggest it’s a SEO related website which was sold at a price tag of $5,000,000
These domain names are followed by names like :
Freeporn.com, AltaVista.com, software.com, pizza.com, England.com and more.
The list is endless and domain parking and reselling is still going on. Now Google adsense has introduced adsense for parked domain that will again help to grow the domain parking business.
There is an interesting fact I would like to add in here.
Airtel and Vodafone are two biggest telecommunication services in Asia pacific and website name Airtel.com is acquired and registered by vodafone. So whenever you will open www.airtel.com It will be redirected to the vodafone website. 
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Hockey.com sold for well over a million dollars a few years ago to Geosign Corp. Geosign, unfortunately sunk like a rock and ended up selling the domain off after a failed attempt to create a site around the domain.
Wouldn’t it be nice to be sitting on a domain like one of those, sell it, and retire early…
Very true…
but getting anyone of these domain names is nt that easy
But if you are innovative enough, you can still think of some names which are still unreserved and can be very popular in future.
Wasn’t ask.com sold for an astronomical price as well?
youtube.com got sold for 1.65 billion…i think that should be way 1st
Very interesting. I think I am going to reserve some domain names right now!
@ Pradyto
It’s one of the best business to earn money online.
toys.com sold yesterday for 5.1 million USD
who just randomly types in “porn.com” into their browser? that 9.5 million was ill-spent, I bet the revenue up to this date has not been nearly as much.
Oh, only me then? (just kidding).
Well, I would imagine a lot of people would type porn.com in, and, well, to be honest, it’s pretty brandable so by just putting a site up there I’m sure you’d earn a LOT.
Ver true Simon, That’s how keyword based domain names come into the picture and are very helpful.
I can’t believe $14 million for a domain, that’s just WOW. I guess if you have the money and you really want it then why not. I can surely think of better ways to use $14 million like go around the world, buy a few places here and there.
George adding my 2 cents to it,
Now what people are doing, they create a blog , drive traffic , Improve page rank and alexa rank and sell it for good price more then 2k$.
It’s becoming a great business for few people.
I think me too sud focus on thi sbusiness..anyways its nice business
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Great Info mate!! I wonder people buy domains spending that much..
sounds cool!!
Vamsi that’s where Keyword based domain name come into picture. This post is a clear example of the importance of keyword rich domain names.
All the good one word domain names are registered. Its even hard to find good 2 word domains.
If you know the names of any celebs who dont have a domain name yet, you should buy that instead. This will also work for new offline start up businesses. If you think they might make it big buy their domain name before they do then sell it to them. I know its cheeky, but it will work.
insure.com sold for 16 million USD.. this one should top the list now..
Thanks for the update Rajesh..
An interesting list of expensive domain names. Now, funnily enough, if one gets just a little creative, slight variations of popular domain names (or results of popular domain names in search engines) can also come up for sites you buy that are not that expensive, and then you can resell them.
eg beerandbeers.com is still available
as well as
diamondsforwomen.com
Might not get as good as a price as the sites in your list, but, with a bit of effort and creativity, yes, domain buying and selling could prove rather lucrative.
hey harsh… ur list is great… I didnt know sex.com was 14 million worth.. I dont know hw much is my sites worth. ??
Most of the sold domain names are dot com. But there is few “not .com” domain names which break the record, for example bank.ht was sold for USD 1.4 million, inn.im for USD 1.8 million and motorcycle.se for USD 1.1 million
Thanks for more input Jake. .Com domain is always the hot sale.
OMG, Who bought these domains?
I found one more thing that .na domain costs around $1500 for a new one. no matter what is the keyword. I think It is a Namibian domain name
I there, perhaps you could advise me about Domain names
can I simply create a Domain name, register it then sell it on to an interested party? without the need to build a site around it?
thanks Andy g
Hey Andy
You ca very much do it. All you need to do is buy domain name from some popular Domain registrar like Namecheap or Godaddy.
Make sure your domain name must be keyword rich and unique that people would actually like to pay extra to get it..
cheers for that harsh agrawal, I do have a few Ideas of my own
sometimes have these thoughts and brief moments of genious, though also sometimes far and few between but ya never know!
thanks again
Andy g
but i have heard that porn,sex domain names can’t be purchasable……
is it true ………………..?
Never imagined that a domain can cost to that limit, the highest one I heard was business.com, few years earlier.
yellowpages com sold for few millions.
Oh God! That’s a dream list…! Why didn’t I think about registering a domain like those a dozen years ago? I would be cruisin’ all around the world now!
OMG!!! cant believe all that prices
seo.com is not in the 1st page for the keyword ‘search engine optimization’
Beer.com was turned into a big website but its now offline.
staggering prices
no wonder when i type seo, seo.com its the first result after wikipedia 
indeed domain name is a big factor 
This is eye opening. I didn’t know such staggering amount are being expended on domain names. But why can’t Airtel sue Fodavone for taking their name. I think it is illegal for you to buy a name to deceive people when in actual fact there is a company or person with the name, this should be a legal case
Airtel.com is owned by Airtel itself and it does not redirect to Vodafone Website.
I wish i have reserved any of those domain before this happened…
Domain sale is a business now rite harsh??
@ Sreerag Nampoothiri K
Absolutely rite, I heard about this type of business long before but never implemented my thinking.Even you can start this by preserving domain names based on upcoming events, for example- worldcup2011.com before starting word cup that year or so.
As it’s just an example, you can find thousands of events occasionally to do business with.
Harsh Thanks for sharing the article.
Their could be one update: Airtel.com is now owned by Airtel.