This Week's Top Domain Sales: Diamond.com sells for $7.5 million

[mandy]

Diamond.com sold for $7.5 million this week in the highest sale price of the year, and one of the highest ever.  The $454K sale of Sex.net set a new record for a .net TLD.  The top 20 sales included 17 .com, 2 .net, and 1 .md name.

This week's top sales included:

1.  Diamond.com  $7,500,000  in a Pvt Sale
2. Sex.net $454,500 at Moniker/Traffic
3. Base.com $110,012 in a Pvt Sale
4. PlaceBets.com $60,000 at Moniker/DomainSystems
5. PsychicReading.com $56,749 at SnapNames

full list of this week's top sales: http://www.dnjournal.com/domainsales.htm

[iron_chick]

1.    Diamond.com    $7,500,000    in a Pvt Sale

:o

[bargainbloodhound]

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1.     Diamond.com     $7,500,000     in a Pvt Sale

:o

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That one is tied for second place with the sale of the Business.com domain name in 1999.  The record is $14 million for Sex.com last year.

The owners of Diamond.com "only" made $1.5 million on the sale because they purchased the name for $6 million in 2000.

There's a listing of the all-time high sales (over $100,000) here: http://www.multireg.com/article494.html

Beer.com ($7M), Casino.com ($5.5M), Korea.com ($5M) and AsSeenOnTV.com ($5M) all sold for at least $5 million.

[iron_chick]

So what the heck was I doing when folks were buying up all these good names??? 

[dnc_ont]

'Dot-ca' speculators get $2.5M payday
Internet address owners get payday
`Dot-ca brand' finally in demand
May 17, 2006. 11:36 AM
TYLER HAMILTON
BUSINESS REPORTER

In a little-noticed market where Internet addresses are routinely bought and sold, Peter Maxymych has been dubbed The Registration Machine.

Maxymych and business partner Harold Simpkins have spent the past decade registering more than 1,000 Canadian or "dot-ca" Web addresses in hopes that the properties — mostly generic addresses such as taxis.ca, doctors.ca and drugs-.ca — would pay off down the line.

Last week, after more than six years of persistence, the two online speculators finally got their payday.

Phone directory giant Yellow Pages Group surprised the Canadian Internet industry by announcing it had spent $2.5 million for 389 "domain names" owned by Maxymych's Montreal-based firm, Emall.ca. The prize list includes maps.ca, autos.ca and attorneys.ca, all specific categories that Yellow Pages will use to expand the reach of its online directory business.

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1147816220355

[dnc_ont]

(and yes, I am STILL kicking myself for not registering DICK.CA when I was messing around one day looking for .ca domains)