Top 100 Domain Name Sales of All Time

Below you'll find a chart ranking the Top 100 Domain Sales of All Time. It is updated in real-time as new sales are reported so check back frequently. The list only includes all-cash sales of domain names, it doesn't include sales of websites, businesses or sales where there was an equity component.

During this period 761,815 sales $100+ were recorded totaling $1,822,142,719.

An additional 1,108,130 sales below $100 were recorded totaling $29,371,570.

What is DNS?

The glue that holds the internet together

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The Domain Name System (or DNS) converts human readable domain names (like: www.google.com) into Internet Protocol (IP) addresses (like: 173.194.39.78).

A Beginner’s Guide to Successful Domaining

Buying and selling of domains are volatile in nature yet it is a huge business in the marketplace. You will only need Google to dig deep into information of ‘domaining’ to view a sea of information on the subject.

So what’s the deal with domaining? Why is it so popular? You have probably heard stories about people selling domain names for thousands of dollars. Some of these stories are true.

Domain Sales

Here are few high profiles recorded domain sales from the past decade –

1. Insurance.com — an insurance quotation site — sold for $35.6 million in 2010
2. PrivateJet.com — a private jet booking service — sold for $30.1 million in 2012
3. Hotels.com — a hotel deals site — sold for $11 million in 2001
4. FB.com — sold (to Facebook) for $8.5 million in 2010
5. Beer.com — (now parked and unused!) sold for $7 million in 2004
6. iCloud.com sold (to Apple) for $6 million in 2011
7. IG.com — a stock trading site — sold for $4.7 million in 2013
8. Whisky.com — an information site — sold for $3.1 million in 2014

Frank Schilling wins cybersquatting dispute

Indian insurance company falls short in UDRP.

Frank Schilling’s Name Administration has successfully defended the domain name CareHealthInsurance.com in a UDRP.
The three-person World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) panel determined that the Complainant, Religare Health Insurance Company Limited in India, did not show that Name Administration registered the domain name in bad faith. The Complainant had a high bar to overcome because care, health, and insurance are terms common

Register Domain Names Before Filing for TM!

In my article about checking for trademarks, Jackie asked, “Why do you prefer trademarkia.com over trademark247.com?” The simple reason is that I had not used the other website before but found Trademarkia.com to be effective enough to continue using it. Essentially, it gave me the information I was seeking and I did not have a need to search around to find something else.

What is a Domain Name?

New computer users often confuse domain names with universal resource locators, or URLs, and Internet Protocol, or IP, addresses. This confusion is understandable. It is worth learning the differences between them because these terms are ubiquitous. It is also helpful to be able to use terms correctly when communicating to technicians or other people within a professional organization.
This naming convention is analogous to a physical address system. People find web pages in a manner similar to the way that they use maps to find physical locations. If the Internet is like a phone book, and a web page is like a physical building, the URL would be the precise street address of that building. The IP address would be like the car that travels to its destination. There are also other useful metaphors for understanding this relationship.

Domain Names and URLs

The universal resource locator, or URL, is an entire set of directions, and it contains extremely detailed information. The domain name is one of the pieces inside of a URL. It is also the most easily recognized part of the entire address.