Website.com Sells For $750k
 

http://www.sedo.co.uk/links/showhtml...102&language=e

Happened today. Apparently this is the largest recorded sale so far in 2005.

Cheap if you ask me :upsidedow

a hot name
endless options
a steal if you ask me

Yeah bound to be like millions of newbies that go to google and type in "website" thinking theres only like five websites on the entire internet.

Google's #1 result for keyword: website
http://www.benedict.com/

Yahoo's #1 result for keyword: website
http://www.statcounter.com

Alta Vista's #1 result for keyword: webiste
http://www.statcounter.com

Hmmmm... :1orglaugh

That domain is worth more than that.

what kind of website would you find at website.com?

I'm guessing a home page with an animated gif as the background and family vacation galleries.

Thats why im not so sure its worth that much.... you dont immediately know what the product is.

nice domain :)

Searches done in May 2005
Count Search Term
489443 web site

I am mesmerized by that Sig :upsidedow

I thought Partypoker didn't condone advertising to adult affiliates?
I love the sig though

Do most of the domain gurus here think that was a good price to sell at?

I think the domain itself is worth way more than that. :2 cents:

stop...you're killing me dude.

:1orglaugh

For domain only, $750K USD is an excellent price.

However, if website.com is currently earning decent revenue, the price was likely way too low.

I've had serious offers upwards of $500K USD for CANNABIS.COM domain name package - a site most folks have never heard of with an occurance rate somewhat lower in google than website.com :

# of results in google:

website.com: 293,000
cannabis.com: 171,000

Overture Score:

website.com (with extension): 1006
cannabis.com (with extension): 106 (but has been as high as 1200 or so; Overture is not ranking cannabis.com correctly lately for some unknown reason)

Alexa:

website.com: not ranked - very suprising!
cannabis.com: 62,567

(not that accurate, but most any site with decent traffic will at least have a ranking)

Ron

With development, sure. As a single domain I think thats a fair price. I'm no domain guru, but I think if it could go for more it would have been sold at a much higher price.

As a webhosting domain this domain is invaluable

that should have been a few million

Easily worth 750k, good buy

I thought that sounded a bit low myself...

exactly. if someone's got the funds to do offline advertising, this is a killer. where would you host your website? website dot com, of course! you dont forget that, no matter how high you are. gold mine, absolute gold mine. i am absolutely *pissed* i didnt know about this sale.

easily worth the money

You could probably develop a great newbie "get your own website" business going on ... with a great CMS and a bit of imagination ;)