Travel.info Sells for $116,000
Friday, July 20th, 2007
Sale is highest ever reported for .info domain.
Domain aftermarket Sedo has brokered the sale of Travel.info for $116,000, the highest amount ever reported for a .info domain name sale. The buyer of the domain is using Moniker ’s whois privacy service. A notice on the web page states that it is being redesigned.
The domain hopped around between a couple sellers over the past few months, but the owner who made the record breaking sale is Jian Wang of East Star Corp. Ltd.
Other notable .info sales in the past two years include:
- Credit.info - reported at $36,000, although the domain is currently in Sedo’s hands
- Casino.info - $35,127, currently an online casino portal
- Christian.info - $35,000, a Christian site owned by Adam Woeger
- CreditCard.info - $25,500, a credit card portal
.Info made a splash when it was one of two “new” TLDs several years ago, debuting about the same time as .biz. Compared to .biz, .info is been very successful. However, .info is also a favorite domain of spammers and other blackhats because the domains are frequently offered at discounts by registrars. This may affect the search engine rank of .info domains.
Sedo represents a number of other .info domain names that may make headlines when they sell, such as Laptops.info, Fat.info, NewYork.info (New-York.info sold for $22,864 last year), and Apartment.info.
That’s a pretty bizarre turn of events. Not long ago, the record holder was houston.info and the scuttlebutt was that this was a fluke. Certainly the site’s design didn’t earn it the record.
Just this morning I read that “dot com is king” and .net isn’t worth the trouble, as well as Cassandra-like warnings of an impending bust.
My decision to buy a few info domains was based on reading about New York’s MTA.info. It is reportedly a well-known “brand” in NY.
(If I read that here, Andrew, that wasn’t meant as ‘damnation by faint praise’.)
In so far as search engines, you can drive yourself mad trying to get a handle on them.
A couple of sites I launched in early June hold the 20ish and 30ish results slots for their search terms in Google. They don’t appear at all in Yahoo! or MSN results, at least in the 9 or so pages I checked.
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