Top 10 Most Expensive Domain Names Ever Sold:

Top 10 Most Expensive Domain Names Ever Sold:

Today we are going to tell you a whole new stuff you should know. Well we think you all should be familiar with the name "Domain". Well if you are not familiar with that so the domain names are the URLs, one use as the address of his website.

Top 10 Most Expensive Domain Names Ever Sold

As you know that you can easily buy a domain in merely $5-$10. Its not a big deal anyone can afford it but today we are going to tell you about Top 10 Most Expensive Domain Names Ever Sold so pay close attention to the post. Here we go:

1:     insure.com - $16 Million:

insure.com was purchased by QuinStreer, an online marketing services and technology company. It is the single most expensive domain name ever sold. The one who acquried it originally was Insure.com for $16 Million in December 2001. Now they provides insurance of life, car and health.

2:     fund.com - $14.9 Million:

fund.com is owned by Gentile, Philip. This domain was purchased in March 2008 for £9.9 or $14.9 Million. However, this domain is not yet live.

3:     fb.com - $8.5 Million:

This domain name was purchased by Facebook. They purchased it in September 2010 for $8.5 million. Now this domain has been redirected to Facebook.com. This domain name was purchased from American Farm Bureau Federation.

4:     business.com - $7.5 Million:

It is a business search engine and web directory. It was founded by Jake Winebaum in 1999. Jake Winebaum was former chairman of the Walt Disney Internet Group. But in 2007, business.com was sold out to the yellow pages publisher RH Donnelly for $345 milliom.

5:     diamond.com - $7.5:

As you can see that the price is same as the business.com. But this domain was purchased in 2006, more than 7 years later, So making it a slightly lower value, purchase, due to the depreciation of the dollar over time. It is an online diamond jewelry store from where you can buy jewelry online. and it was bought by online jewelry retailer ice.com.

6:     beer.com - $7 Million:

Beer.com was purchased by Thought Convergence, LLC in Jan 2004 for $7 Million. However this domain is not working currently.

7:     Israel.com - $5.88 Million:

This web site was build as "Your first and best source to gain information about Israel". It was bought by Joel Noel Friedman, a 46-year-old Jewish American, for $5.88 Million in 1994. He did not seek money from this website but he bought it in fear that it will be misuse by someone.

8:     casino.com - $5.5 Million:

casino.com was bought by Mansion Limited of Gibraltar in November 2003 fr $5.5 Million. You can guess the purpose by reading the name, so as you thought that this site hosts most of online gambling games.

9:     slots.com - 5.5 Million:

As you can see the price is same as casino.com. But slots.com was purchased in June 2010 for $5.5 by Bodog Media. And as the casino.com this website also host several online gambling games.

10:     toys.com- $5.1 Million:

This site was purchased in March 2009 for $5.1 Million by ToysRUs, which is a leading toy and video game company. But you know? that the price of this domain is nothing as compared to the revenue that is being generated from it.

Top 10 Most Expensive Domain Names Ever Sold:

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