Millions in Domains Sold

Sunday, May. 7 2006 | Author: Dave

My friend recently attended TRAFFIC 2006, an industry conference for domain names, which attracts a plethora of domains, PPC companies, lawyers, and others (including Google and Yahoo). But this is not a discussion about their business or any of that.

No, this is about the live auction during the show. Clicking on that domain shows some very very nice domains.

A list of the domains sold and for the price they went:

Domain Name	Price Paid
SEX.net	$450,000.00
CD.com	$275,000.00
POS.com	$250,000.00
HUGE.com	$105,000.00
WaterfrontProperty.com	$80,000.00
Promote.com	$70,000.00
Programmer.com	$65,000.00
Claim.com	$62,000.00
Improve.com	$60,000.00
Bubbles.com	$55,000.00
FixedRate.com	$50,000.00
Tablets.com	$50,000.00
Buy.net	$45,000.00
ReverseSearch.com	$40,000.00
CarWax.com	$40,000.00
DebtRecovery.com	$33,000.00
OLN.com	$30,000.00
OffRoadTires.com	$29,000.00
Gamedesigner.com	$29,000.00
Brackets.com	$25,000.00
Record.net	$25,000.00
LastMinuteTravels.com	$21,000.00
HairLossTreatment.com	$18,000.00
Congratulate.com	$14,500.00
CreditTips.com	$12,000.00
hoetls.com, hoyels.com,	$11,000.00
DiscountShows.com	$9,000.00
VegasTravelDeals.com	$6,000.00
WineSupplies.com	$6,000.00
CopyServices.com	$6,000.00
FreeOnlineQuote.com	$5,400.00
NonFictionBooks.com	$5,200.00
FutureHealth.com	$5,000.00
CASHNOTES.COM	$4,600.00
CommercialBankers.com	$4,600.00
FaxService.com	$4,200.00
USImmigration.us	$4,000.00
ONLINEGAMERENTAL.COM	$3,600.00
SAVEACHILD.COM	$3,200.00
CREDITREPAIRFIRMS.COM	$3,200.00
WaterPicks.com	$3,200.00
AmericanCreditCard.com	$3,000.00
VEHICLES.US	$3,000.00
DESK.US	$3,000.00
DESKS.US	$3,000.00
Glockenspiel.com	$2,900.00
ChristmasRingTones.com	$2,600.00
CHILDRENBOOKCLUB.COM	$2,200.00
VegasVacationRental.com	$2,200.00
CREDITCARDLOWRATE.COM	$2,000.00
TEACHINGREADING.COM	$2,000.00
BUSINESSRULES.COM	$2,000.00
BARGUIDES.COM	$2,000.00
HAWAIIANSOUVENIRS.COM	$2,000.00
LiveEntertainers.com	$2,000.00
10Year.com	$500.00
CofeeMakers.com	$400.00

Thats right – over $2 million worth sold, and the most expensive domain was sex.net at $450,000. Over six years revenue before the domain name breaks even. And yes, those are typos of hotels.com that went for $11,000. Interestingly enough, IAC (head company of hotels.com) had a representative at TRAFFIC, but no comment from them regarding those domains.

Really though, its the .US domains going for $3000 each that boggles my mind. And please keep comments on the auction/sales themselves instead of how you feel about domainers in general.