We could have called this compilation as “Five Most Expensive deals ever in Domain resale industry“ but we have to admit…

They are STUPID….completely stupid deals in the history of domain resale industry…

Have a look at them…

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Sex.com

Resale price : $14 Mn

Year of resale : 2005

When “Sex” is searched on Google : Sex.com isn’t listed in Top 10 results

—2—

Fund.com

Resale price : $10 Mn

Year of resale : 2008

When “Fund” is searched on Google : Fund.com isn’t listed in Top 10 results

—3—

Business.com

Resale price : $7.5 Mn

Year of resale : 1999

When “Business” is searched on Google : 3rd position of Business.com

—4—

Casino.com

Resale price : $5.5 Mn

Year of resale : 2003

When “Casino” is searched on Google : Casino.com isn’t listed in Top 10 results

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Vodka.com

Resale price : $3 Mn

Year of resale : 2006

When “Vodka” is searched on Google : Vodka.com isn’t listed in Top 10 results

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These five most expensive domain resale deals sum up to a whopping $40 Mn

Atleast 40 startups(if not more than that) could be seed-funded with this much amount.

If domain names would have mattered so much then

Google.com would have been Search.com

Wikipedia.org would have been Resource.com

Paypal.com would have been transaction.com

but they’re not and they don’t need to…because what matters is ’services’,not the ‘name’

Actually a brilliant ’service’ transforms a name into a ‘Brand’

If the current owners of these domain names would be asked about the ROI of their investment on these domain names then the answer wouldn’t be encouraging for any future tycoon planning to go for a such a deal in the future.

According to us,what these domains and their high priced resale values fetch is just a short term “Media publicity” which vanishes after a day or two.