The Most Expensive Domain Names Ever Purchased


BANGALORE: What strikes you the most when you are surfing a website. It’s the domain name what bets you to stop and visit the site, right? A domain is a unique name that identifies an internet resource such as a website. A lot of cash is been poured in buying specific and unique domain names.

Certainly the catch is to pick a best and tricky domain name for your web address, but do you know how much these website owners have to pay for these unique domain names? Expensive? Unbelievably, it counts in millions. Find it yourself.

 Sex.com

The sale of Sex.com entered into Guinness book of world records. The domain name was sold for $13 million by Escom LLC to Clover Holdings on 17 November 2010, unsurprisingly the most expensive domain name purchase of all times.

The domain name of the company was the focus of one of the most publicized legal actions about ownership of domain names. Kieren McCarthy, a journalist who trailed the case, put in writing the book Sex.com, which was published in 2007.

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