Top 10 most expensive domain names ever sold

by Harsh Agrawal on January 18, 2009

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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.

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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.

1# 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.

2# Fund.com : Sold in 2008 with a price tag of $9,999,950

3# 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.

4# Business.com : Website which is currently 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.

5# Diamonds.com : Diamond the girl best friend. Though the price at which it was sold is right. It was sold at $7,500,000.

6# 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.

7# AsSeenOnTV.com : Sold almost 9 year back in 2000 with a price tag of $5,100,000.

8# Korea.com : The only domain name with a country name in the list which was sold for $5,000,000.

9# Casino.com : Its 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

10# SEO.com : SEO is one of the most popular search terms in search engine and as name suggest its 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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1 anonymous February 10, 2009 at 21:35

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.

2 Friedbeef February 10, 2009 at 23:17

AH… those dot com days

3 Harsh Agrawal May 27, 2009 at 00:08: It is still in

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4 drivelocity February 11, 2009 at 00:38

Wouldn’t it be nice to be sitting on a domain like one of those, sell it, and retire early…

5 P@r@noid February 11, 2009 at 00:43: Very true…
but getting anyone of these domain names is nt that easy

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6 anonymous February 11, 2009 at 02:57

Wasn’t ask.com sold for an astronomical price as well?

7 anonymous February 11, 2009 at 03:07

youtube.com got sold for 1.65 billion…i think that should be way 1st

8 re: anonymous February 11, 2009 at 04:00

YouTube was sold as a site, not just a domain name – that’s the difference.

9 P@r@noid February 11, 2009 at 04:19: Thanks for the Input…
Even I was wondering how come I missed it

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10 Pradyto February 13, 2009 at 19:11

Very interesting. I think I am going to reserve some domain names right now!

11 P@r@noid February 14, 2009 at 05:59: @ Pradyto
It’s one of the best business to earn money online.

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12 Ross Beckham February 28, 2009 at 12:56

toys.com sold yesterday for 5.1 million USD

13 Phaoloo February 28, 2009 at 13:01

Awesome list, one day shoutmeloud.com will probably be in this list

14 gay guy April 3, 2009 at 11:05

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.

15 Simon | Teenius April 25, 2009 at 01:18

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.

16 Harsh Agrawal April 25, 2009 at 01:46: Ver true Simon, That’s how keyword based domain names come into the picture and are very helpful.

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17 Nihar April 24, 2009 at 12:04

Great stats.. Didn’t know that the a domain can be this much costly.

18 George Serradinho April 25, 2009 at 20:40

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.

19 Harsh Agrawal April 26, 2009 at 19:13

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.

20 Atul August 23, 2009 at 19:35: I think me too sud focus on thi sbusiness..anyways its nice business
.-= Atul ´s last blog ..Earn Money through AVG Affiliate Program =-.

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21 Pro-Vamsi May 5, 2009 at 18:00

Great Info mate!! I wonder people buy domains spending that much..
sounds cool!!

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22 Harsh Agrawal May 6, 2009 at 01:56: 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.

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23 d3monoid May 25, 2009 at 14:00

LOL really good to hear this
How can they afford to spend on such domains

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24 Atul May 27, 2009 at 12:09

good list

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25 S.Pradeep Kumar May 30, 2009 at 10:06

Nice List !

I like the “Business” domain very much !

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26 cam June 23, 2009 at 00:27

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.

27 kenwooi July 7, 2009 at 18:54