Domain Sales Show A Banner Year In 2006

The domain aftermarket saw a record year in 2006 with sales running far ahead of 2005. By the way, 2005 was also way ahead of 2004. (Notice a trend?) The market seems to get stronger almost month by month.

The premium domain name Vodka.com was just sold for $3,000,000!

When the Roy Messer, the owner of Vodka.com, decided to sell the name, he turned down an initial offer of $1,000,000 because he knew how strong the domain market is now (and growing). Obviously, he was right because he’s just cashed in big for 3 million bucks.

That makes it the 2nd highest reported sale this year behind Diamonds.com which sold for a cool $7.5 million. Yes, I wish I’d bought that one back in the day for $35. Sigh.

But these are the good old days that we’ll look back on longingly a few years from now. We’ll be saying I remember when…

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