Buy Of The Year? 3-D.com Sells For $5K On Sedo; 3d.com sold For $500K

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Just crossing the Sedo.com wire, might just be one of the best domain name buys of 2013;

3-D.com just sold for $5,000

There are 293,000,000 search results in Google for the term “3-d” with the hyphen.

While we typically don’t love hyphenated domain names, in this case, the term 3d is often used and referred to in commerce as 3-d.

Without the hyphen the term “3d” returns 691,000,000 results in Google.

So 3-d has about 40% of the references of that 3d does in Google and 3d.com sold for $500,000.

At $5,000, 3-d.com sold for just 1% of the what 3d.com recently sold for.

Of course readers to TheDomains.com know that I’m not stranger to the whole 3d or 3-d thing.

The domain which seemed to be listed on a Buy It Now basis for $5K, was purchased by Philip Kurzenberger of Domain-Inhaber of Munich whose site is 3d-brillen.de which sells products like 3-d glasses projectors and other 3-d related iteams.

For a company already in the business to spend $5K for this domain, has to be one of the better buyers of 2013

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

Comments

  3. Tony Lam says

    Not sure what you’re looking at but 3-d has 2400 Exact monthly searches according to Google.

    Nonetheless, it’s a great buy. A definite top 5 domain in a HUGE category.

  6. Acro says

    Not too long ago, the proper form of email was “e-mail”. While not as fashionable as the hyphen-less variant, 3-d.com still has value per the sale and its buyers.

  7. robsequin says

    That’s about right.

    Dashed version sells for 1% to 5% of non dash version although Europeans seem to be okay with dash version.

    Adding a dash is similar to adding an “i” or “e” prefix and FAILS the phone/cocktail party test.

    “Go to 3 dash d dot com” Yeah right. Sounds like crap.

    $5k is plenty for that domain.

  8. johnuk says

    I did a search on Google.co.uk and the 3-d shows as 7,670,000,000 results ,whereas the one without the hyphen , 3d, shows as 737,000,000 The one with hyphen wins hands down.

    By the way, the buy of the year for me was ferrochrome.com for $316 simply for the name itself not number of results.

  9. Jason Allen Goodlin says

    Good buy. I still think a former domain of my for 10% of this price was the best buy of 2012 using buy-it-now at Sedo. BoxOfficeTicketSales.com. That small money sale really hurt. Talking about handing over an entire business for peanuts.

  11. Tony Lam says

    The number of google search results is mainly an indicator of how difficult it would be to rank high on google for a certain keyword. That is, if there is a billion search results for “3-d”, then you would have to outrank a billion pages to rank #1 on google.