Top 10 most expensive domain names

This March saw the 25^th anniversary of dotcom domain name. Since its launch millions of domain names and website have come and gone. The price of registering domains too has dropped from £100’s to under a few pounds.

We thought it might be interesting to look at the 10 most expensive domains and consider whether a domain name could still make you a few pounds!

Surprisingly, it took a little while before people started to think about domain names as something that could bring you real money. In fact, it was as late as 1999 that business.com exchanged hands for $7.5m. And a further 7 years later (2006) that Gary Kremen sold sex.com for around $14m.

And that was surpassed very recently (2009) by insure.com, selling for a staggering $16m. So without further suspense, here are the top 10 most expensive domain names:

1. Insure.com, $16m (2009)
2. Sex.com, $14m (2006)
3. Fund.com, $9.99m (2008)
4. Porn.com, $9.5m (2007)
5. Business.com, $7.5m (1999)
6. Diamond.com, $7.5m (2006)
7. Beer.com, $7m (2004)
8. Israel.com, $5.88m (2004)
9. Casino.com, $5.5m (2003)
10. Toys.com, $5.1m (2009)

Clearly, there is money to be made in domain names. And now with many UK web hosting companies offering domains names from as little as £2.99 (as well as free domain names with web hosting packages) you could try your luck on the cheap.

Back to the top 10 – no.8 seems most interesting. Can you buy country names? Hmmm…please look away now…

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