This Week's Top Domain Name Sales: Malta.com at $250K and a record .INFO sale

[mandy]

This week's top domain name sales included Malta.com at $250,000 and Casino.info at €28,000, a new record for a .info name.  The top 17 sales included 17 .com names, 1 .info, 1 .net, and 1 .co.uk.

This week's top 5 sales:

1.  Malta.com  $250,000  at Sedo
2. FireplaceMantels.com $76,000 at Moniker/DomainSystems
3. PasadenaRealEstate.com $44,187 at Moniker/DomainSystems
4. Casino.info €28,000 = $35,127 at Sedo
5.tie Tie.com $30,000 at Sedo
5.tie GDIT.com $30,000 at Afternic

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

[mandy]

A related article:

Almost a year after the domain malta.com was sold by a Maltese emigrant in the United States to an English businessman residing in Malta, now it's the turn of malta.net to be put up for sale.

Carl Fsadni, former owner of malta.com confirmed to i-Tech that "Only serious offers for malta.net will be considered. We will start with the best offer, which will be at least what malta.com netted. There is a very select few that actually know the value and can afford this domain name. They are the ones that will benefit from their investment as did the new owners of malta.com."...

Last year malta.com was sold for a record US$ 250,000 (Lm75, 000- €32,175)) and the new owner, Robert Morrison, an English businessman who has set-up family in Malta, has since then turned the domain into a portal with general information about the Maltese Islands...

full article: http://technology.timesofmalta.com/article.php?id=2805