hello, according to wikipedia.org, the most expensive public sale of an Internet domain name to date, according to DNJournal, is porn.com which was sold in 2007 for $9.5 million cash. $9.5 million for domain name??
Fund.com is the most expensive cash sale. http://www.fka200.com/2008/03/13/aol-america-online-to-acquire-bebo-fundcom-10m-sale/
Actually someone should go update wiki then. Cause Sex.com is the highest. I think it was like 12 million, or was it 14 million? Hmm?
You know what I find interesting about some of these obvious one word domain names... they arent so obvious to search engines. e.g. I never thought about using something like a mail.com untill by mistake I typed it into my address bar while wanting to check my hotmail. But i see mail.com is third in google though. So It's all for the long run, 10 years something like pizza.com should be huge.
lol, what about youtube.com? that was 2 billionm for the website as well so part of that would have to be the domain.. id say a couple hundred million so../
If I could go back in time to 1998 when the internet started.. I'd register all of those domains. Then I'd be sleeping on $100 bill lined bed sheets and watch a 100" Plasma Screen TV
Most words that are popular can make serious money. I think as time goes on, these records will be broken quiet easily.
We're talking about an all cash deal here for a domain name. There's a difference for those posting above regarding sites like YouTube and such.