15 Most Expensive Domain Names of All Time


#15 Gambling.com

Sold for: $2.5 Million

Year: 2005

At number 15, it’s the famous as well as tarnished domain name in human history- Gambling. Yes, this domain name was sold for a whopping $2.5 Million in the year 2005. Although Gambling.com expected more on traffic as well as selling price, the U.S. government decision to ban online gambling, forced corporations to withdraw from the auction.

#14 AltaVista.com

Sold for: $3.3 Million

Year: 1998

One of the oldest bids, the selling of AltaVista.com is at the number 14th slot. Owned by Yahoo!, AltaVista was once known to be the most successful search engine across the internet. But later with up rise of Google, AltaVista slowly started to decline and in 2011, Yahoo announced that the search engine is officially shutdown.

#13 iCloud.com

Sold for: $4.5 Million

Year: 2011

iCloud.com is domain name that is right now under the control of Apple. The domain was previously owned by Sweden-based "hybrid cloud computing" provider Xcerion and Apple in April 2011, bought the domain name for $4.5 million.