Website flipping is nothing new and we all know people create website and sell them to make money and you will be surprised to know that people also make money by domain flipping. Like Website flipping, domain flipping is different. In this case, you buy exclusive domain names like (Porn.com, Education.com, World.com) and sell them at highly price using services like Flippa or private sell.
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. The suprising factor here is, the amount at which domain names have been sold. Here I’m compiling a list of most expensive domain names ever sold. This list has been updated in 2012, and in case if you find some other domain name has replaced the current list, feel free to let me know.
One thing which is common in this list of expensive domain names is the One word. Most of names are one word and are highly searched words with high CPC. Another thing to be noticed here is all are .com domains and we don’t see any single .org, .info listing, which again shows the importance of .com names.
I’m sure you will be surprised to see the list of top most expensive 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.
Top Most expensive domain names:
Update: InSure.com
Insure.com topped the list as it was sold for a mind blowing price of $16 million. Rest of the list remains unchanged.
Sex.com :
$13 millions the most expensive domain sale of all the time. Earlier Sex.com was redirected to other site but recently this site is turned into full-fledged porn site using a Pinterest like template. Now, wonder Sex is one word which is highly searched anywhere and how much traffic this site must be getting? Is this domain worth that price..Oh yes!
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.
Fb.com:
Facebook the worlds most popular social networking site invested $8.5 million in November 2010 to grab fb.com. This will be worth, only if Facebook will do something meaningful out of Fb.com.
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.
Now, if you ever think of making money via domain flipping and found an amazing domain name which is available, grab that name right away. You can later on sell those domains for higher price.
At this time I have following two domain names which are available for sell:
- Diamondsforwomen.com ( Price : $499) For selling Diamonds
- Wpdraft.com ($199) For WordPress niche site
If you wish to buy above two domain names, you can drop me an Email at admin[at[shoutmeloud.com.
Here are few articles from our Archive, which will help you to dive more into domain business:
- 5 Things to consider before buying used domain names
- How to select great domain name for your business
- 5 Domain name suggestion tool
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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
youtube.com was not just a domain, it was the most watched video site of that time.
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.
the most costliest domain name is privatejet.com
it was sold for $ 30 million