We scoured domain name resource DN Journal and put together a list of documented million-dollar, domain-only sales.
Slots.com — $5,500,000
Year sold: 2010As TechCrunch pointed out at the time of the sale, that is more than $1 million per character.
Diamond.com – $7,500,000
Year sold: 2006Odimo.com handed over the domain to an online jewelry retailer, Ice.com, in a private sale for one of the priciest domain name swaps of all time.
Porn.com — $9,500,000
Year sold: 2007At the time of its sale, Porn.com was the biggest all-cash transaction for a domain name and the second-largest domain sale behind Sex.com’s million exit. Moniker helped sell the domain to MXN Limited.
Fund.com — $9,999,950
Year sold: 2008Clek Media brokered a deal that few people believed was real: Fund.com was purchased in an all-cash deal in 2008.
Sex.com — $13 million
Year sold: 2010Sex.com entered the Guinness Book of World Records for the highest domain-only sale in history. Escom LLC sold it to Clover Holdings Ltd.
Check out the Business Insider’s full list here. Moral of the story? Keep is simple stupid and don’t settle when selling your precious domain – you could make literally millions from the simplest of names.
