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.
AH… those dot com days
It is still in
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
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 was sold as a site, not just a domain name – that’s the difference.
Thanks for the Input…
Even I was wondering how come I missed it
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
Awesome list, one day shoutmeloud.com will probably be in this list
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.
uhm yeah I beg to differ.
I actually used to work for the company that owns porn.com and they’ve MORE than made it back. The number of sites they were able to buy/create with the money made from porn.com would surprise you.
if you have ever watched anything in the media recently you would know it is a very lucrative business and the revenue that industry generates would astound you.
Great stats.. Didn’t know that the a domain can be this much costly.
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!!
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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.
LOL
really good to hear this 
How can they afford to spend on such domains
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Nice List !
I like the “Business” domain very much !
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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.
nice list! so expensive! =D
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Wow I wished I owned some of those domains. I did not know how valuable a domain could be.
Cool list man…
Though I got my gaut.am for 50$
I got inspired from ma.tt to buy that domain =)
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Very interesting list!
airtel to vodafone redirection is a cool find
Great stuffs in your site. This one surprised me
insure.com sold for 16 million USD.. this one should top the list now..
Thanks for the update Rajesh..
Wow, it seems domain name is more expensive than gold now, thanks for the time to put this list together, shocked to see.
nice information i have choosen right place. thanks for sharing
wow,impressive,
Finally I got a really nice or we can say useful post. Thanks for sharing a lovely post.
Woo this is great info.
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 what about Ad.com i like that domain very much but bad luck some one got it
Hey, airtel.com is being redirected to a parked domain.
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.
good list i was not knowing this
thanks
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
well you forgot to add insurance.com was sold for 16 million USD in 2007,highest for any domain till now.
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.