“I Want To Be A Billionaire” Sedo.com Sells Billionaire.com For $215k

2011 June 20
by Michael H. Berkens

What’s better than a million dollars, a billion dollars; so the line from the move goes, or it you prefer line from A song “I want to be a billionaire”

Well Sedo just brokered the domain name Billionaire.com for a lot less than that $215,000 to be exact.

The broker on behalf of Sedo was Frank Alello.

The Buyer is under privacy and so is the Seller.

The domain seems to have switched hands twice recently once back in early 2010 and once in late 2010.

Its a highly brandable domain I think for either luxury goods, social networking or for say a company that wants to service that group of people.

According to the Forbes 2011 list there are 1,210 billionaires in the world.

I am not one.

Congrats to the Buyer, Seller and Broker on a nice sale

17 Responses leave one →
  1. 2011 June 20
    emma permalink

    there will be a .billionaire domain extension soon. Why waste money? he could have applied for .billionaire extension with that money.

  2. 2011 June 20
    Josh permalink

    The rest of that song goes…” so frickin bad ” … someone wanted hthat name frickein bad. Which makes me think it is a possible brand coming, servicing billionaires, no.

  3. 2011 June 20
    MHB permalink

    Emma

    Maybe the buyer will.

  4. 2011 June 20

    “I Want To Be A Billionaire”

    me too :)

  5. 2011 June 20

    the price seems too low … probably billionaireS.com has a much higher value

  6. 2011 June 20
    Nic permalink

    “I am not one.”

    Very cute.

  7. 2011 June 20

    both Billionai.re and Billionair.es are already registered

  8. 2011 June 20
    Gazzip permalink

    Nice nice domain, it might be these guys that bought it ?

    millionaire.com/billionaire_mag.htm

    I’m still waiting for Roman Abramovich to make a decent offer on GigaYachts.com ;) …snzzzz

  9. 2011 June 20
    Snoopy permalink

    “or for say a company that wants to service that group of people.”

    ///////////////

    No billionaire is going to want to be serviced by a company called “billionaire.com”. In my view this name is ideally suited a “how to make money” type site, or perhaps some kind of brand like fashion, bling necklaces etc. The market is people who have fantasies about being rich in my view.

  10. 2011 June 20
    James Barre permalink

    How far away are you from half a billion?

  11. 2011 June 21

    You guys are all obviously out of the loop. These guys are the ones that bought it:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc2D19MxPPw

    I can tell you all spend too much time in your mom’s basement in your underwear. You all need to start getting out more and start ‘poppin’ more champagne like the big dog domainers do….

  12. 2011 June 21
    Gazzip permalink

    @c’mon

    Looks like a Bankers Bonus Party ;)

  13. 2011 June 21
    Josh permalink

    That video is great lol

    I remember growing up if you had a $100 bill put yo hand up!

  14. 2011 June 21
    Alex A permalink

    emma wrote:

    > there will be a .billionaire domain extension soon. Why waste money?
    > he could have applied for .billionaire extension with that money.

    It will cost $185,000 to apply for a new extension, with an annual $25,000 fee per year after that to keep it going. The process to approve a new extension can take up to 8 months.

    Besides the fact that .COM is heavily entrenched as the #1 extension for domain names, buying this for $215,000 plus annual renewal fees of around $15 is a much better deal.

  15. 2011 June 21

    “I can buy Billionaire.com because I am a billionaire.” Maybe it’s really one of the billionaires that bought it. Maybe a few of them played a game and the winner (or loser) had to buy the domain :-) Let’s see how the development goes.

  16. 2011 June 22

    If dollar keeps going down, everybody will be billionaire

    If dollar dies, the new rich will be millionaires (in gold or other)

    So domain has short life span.

    Congrats to seller and to Frank

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