BusinessInsider.com just covered the top 20 domain name sales of 2011, based off of information provided by DnJournal.com
We are excited to make the list at #11 with the sale of Meet.me for $450,000.
Of course inside the industry we all check out DnJournal.com each week to see the sales but its certainly nice to get mainstream press coverage.
You problem know this already but Social.com at $2.6 Million led the charts for 2011 (well so far)
Link is bad. Too bad 4.cn isn’t reported. They have had some great sales and a few more $100,000 sales coming up this week.
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Hello Michael,
Top # 20 BINGO ! Domains are International Properties, just as Corporations are International entities. Homoginization of most market places is
an International Phenomonon. You obviously grasp the concept, CONGRATULATIONS. Seasons Greetings.
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)
Mike, why does Meet.me forward to a marketplacepro.moniker.com link while the domain is registered under privacy? Did MeetMe.com really buy it?
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David
Yes the company that owns meetme.com bought meet.me
Thanks Mike. Just wondering.
Social.com is perfect for MS so.cl
Its nice to see domain news in the business media that’s not bad news 😉
Congrats for hitting no 11)
Is meet.me the most expensive .me domain?
450,000$ on domains that used to be free, man, should`ve joined the rush back then.
Just more scam to adverting the .me ext, do have you any moral conscience ? money is your Pontius Pilates moment, shame on you, Mea culpa, Mea culpa Mea culpa maxima culpa.
why i don’t see property.com in that list ?
Property.com and Properties.com sold for $4 million USD.
Theo
Guess you will have to ask Ron Jackson
@Jonathan
a bit harsh to surmise the sale as just a a scam to advertise the .me extension, it may have been a legitimate sale?
I do agree that this is a tactic that is being used by promoters and those marketing the new extensions. It was used by .co and .xxx to great effect – a major publicized sale of a domain in said extension just prior to making the extension available is a great marketing ploy. It get’s a lot of “play” in the media and blogs and whips the speculators into a frenzy digging deep into their pockets panning for gold. Weather it was a legitimate sale or not, we will never know?
There’s a lot more big 6 and 7 figure sales this year that would change that entire list if the buyers / sellers would have allowed publicity on their private transactions.
2012 should be a banner year for high-end domain sales
the new TLDs will increase the prices of the best .com
I can’t understand the value of short domain names that doesn’t make sense. If you want to take a name for your company you can just choose brandable name that has 5-7 letters and you will be fine.
The different story is EMD domains as they will rank better in Google for its keywords. For domain names that has more that 100k exact monthly searches is worth to pay premium price but those few letter domain names doesn’t make sense for me.