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Yet another $3 million dollar domain sold

Webmaster — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 15:08:31 +0000

It’s not something really new, it already happened in November 2008 but yet a (old) news worth to be blogged about. After the first failed attempt of selling the domain name YP.com through SEDO the seller got lucky on November 2008 by selling the domain name for $3,850,000 (USD).

The domain was sold to YellowPages.com surprisingly since the rumors are that the yellow pages lately are doing really bad, and such an huge investment in domain name it just really was unbelievable.

The full story can be read on Yahoo Biz news.

Candle.com sells for $390.000 on Afternic

Webmaster — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 01:58:05 +0000

Candle.com sold for that amount today on Afternic. It’s a strong generic in a good-sized market (surely an end-user sale.) The whois shows IBM, who purchased Candle, a software company, in February of 2005, so they are likely the seller.

Note: The sale showed up this morning on Afternic, but has since been taken down (perhaps at the request of the buyer…)

Vodka.com sells for cool 3 million USD

Webmaster — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 00:51:04 +0000

Russian firm, which sells the Imperia brand, purchases Web site, making it one of the highest prices ever paid for generic domain.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) — The billionaire Russian entrepreneur behind ’s biggest vodka maker has paid $3 million to acquire the vodka.com domain, part of a bid to expand into the market, a broker said Thursday.

Sedo.com, the Web domain brokering unit that is part of ’s United Internet AG, said it had acted as the sales agent in the deal.

Conglomerate Russian Standard Co., controlled by Roustam Tariko, paid $3 million to an undisclosed seller in a deal completed Dec. 4, according to a Sedo.com spokesman. A New York-based spokeswoman for Russian Standard confirmed the $3 million price tag.

Russian Standard entered the U.S. market in September 2005 with its Imperia brand. The recipe for Imperia is said to have been discovered by 19th century Russian scientist Dimitri Mendeleev, inventor of chemistry’s periodic table of elements.

Russian Standard Co. controls not only two-thirds of the sales of premium vodka in , but also owns Russian Standard Bank, the
country’s largest private bank.

Vodka.com’s price tag is among the highest ever revealed for a generic Web domain. In May, diamond.com reportedly sold for $7.5 million to jewelry retailer Ice.com. Business.com sold for $7.5 million in 1999.

Earlier this year, a source told Reuters that Sex.com had sold for around $12 million to a Boston-based company called Escom LLC, although the exact figure has never been disclosed.