One of the top Spanish .com in the world just changed hands yesterday.
The domain name Viajes.com which is Spanish for Travel has been transferred by Domain investor Christian Chena to World Internet Projects, of Barcelona Spain.
Chris is a very successful domain investor especially in Spanish domain names.
We don’t have any details of the deal but we congratulate everyone involved.
Michael, viajes is actually travels. Viajes is plural. Viaje is singular. Chris Chena sold Juegos.com a few years ago. Amount has never been confirmed by him, but I’ve heard rumors that he sold it for 10 Million. Thank you for the info. As usual your blog continues to be a top blog and must read for all domainers. Wish you continued success!
Homero
Thanks for the clarification.
Just so you know Google translate translated it as travel as well
Chris Chena is not only a great guy but has pulled it off again this time. Doesn’t surprise me. Chris bought Mundo.com (‘world’ in Spanish) off me and has transformed it into a top news portal – growing all the time according to Alexa.com. Congrats to him, well deserved!
Viajes means trips. Not the same as saying travels. A domain name like travels.com comparing to trips.com…..what would you choose? I would choose trips.com. Trips, in my opinion, would be better, but in spanish it is different than english. No acid trips or in that kind. Just that viajes.com is a killer domain explaining what the whole travel industry is about.
Mundo means wo
….sorry…I was saying that Mundo of course means world. But better would be the term “the world”. “El Mundo”, which is by the way a huge news site. So no wonder mundo dot com can grow, because otherwise it is not that great of a name. Means just “world”…..so….very brandable…..but then what…..ok…it has built on spill over traffic…..so in the end it is all good I guess.
I don’t know…just my opinon on the matter. I like more category killer names or nich names. Like juegos.com which Chena sold……much better name. In one post he was explaning the difference between buying Juegos.com and Ajedrez.com…..which are two different things.
Viajes equates to Travel here and in China…
You can’t translate this domain in such a rigid and literal manner .
Schilling owns the singular.
Congrats to the parties, the domain it’s in the perfect hands… a spanish pro-developer.
Domo Sapiens
Huge name! And yes, Chris is a great investor, he holds some of the finest Spanish keywords around.
Who cares – Spanish is a third-world language. I’ll be surprised if he got more than $20,000 for it.
Good to see European keyword TLD’s catching up as online moves from fledging to flight Can only imagine how Siri / natural language interfaces will “in time” effect the worlds IDN’ keyword values. China with so many dialects other than Mandarin. India where 800.000,000 speak Hindi as the first language will be a leap forward in accessing education and ultimately commerce in India (English is too elitist) The natural language interfaces will offer soooo much to sooooo many.
Keywords or Very Deep Pockets
http://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2012/01/23/google-revenues
did your parents have any children that lived?
Travel to South America and you’ll find out who’s third world! From my perspective,
we in North America had better get on the ball. These folks seem to have little interest
in speaking English, even airport announcements are Spanish, but you will not be
left behind, as soon as they see you showing concern, they step forward to help.
Loved the place, but came home feeling we might be losing ground! Just say’n………
I have havanahotel and hotels (.com) in Spanish. hmm!