seo.com purchased for $5M

I've got to agree with that but it is a great (and extremely expensive) publicity stunt . I wonder what's the anticipated RIO ?

 

Pretty nice purchase.

I'm sure noone would spend $5M on a domain like that, unless they knew what they were doing, or have some sort of plan to flip it and whatnot.

So yeah.. whoever purchased it will probably make much more.

 

i would have used the 5 million differently id use 4 mill on myself and the 1 mill to invest in different things on the internet but still have money left from that 1 mill

 

Only if you don't take it as an investment.

 

Myspace may sell for about 9.2 billion (25% of Yahoo).

 

I found this list of the biggest selling domains this year - seo.com would now move into #2:

1. Porn.com $9,500,000
2. Tandberg.com $1,500,000
3. Scores.com $1,180,000
4. Topix.com $1,000,000
5. SheMale.com $520,000
6. Iran.com $400,000
7. Greeting.com $350,000
8. RealEstate.net $300,000
9. BDSM.com $295,000
10. Buckhead.com $250,000
(DNJournal.com)

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Im sure they will make a lot more money with that domain. And so SEO.com is the best domain for a seo biz

 

Content is king. 5 million is a lot.

Down the road dot coms will drop. New things are coming. But if they have the best of both worlds - content and a great name - it's not half bad for now.

It's not really a large amount in big business - as stated above with the MySpace qoute.

 

Haha.

Take a look at how ironic this is.

www.seo.com is Pagerank 0!

 

yeah thats right. but they buy it for the domain name. it soon will be establish

 

Vodka.com sold for $3 million
Russian Standard has acquired the domain vodka.com for $3 million from an undisclosed seller.


VIP.com Domain Sells for $1.4 Million
British betting site operator Leisure & Gaming plc has paid $1.4 million to acquire the domain name vip.com.

 

wow 5M, can someone value my domain?? http://www.networktemple.com/

 

5. SheMale.com $520,000

Score.

 

5M is not worth it! if they are good in seo they can come up in the search result and if not the first be the second!if they're not doesn't matter if they have seo.com or not ,after some time they'll fail!

 

i think is just vanity, famous people drive expensive cars and they make the news, now by starting this new company they already have a value of 5m just for the domain, they going to sound trust worthy to others just for the domain

 

I think that it is a straight forward business decision. If they invest $5,000,000 in the domain, and with that investment they believe that they can make an extra $1,000,000 a year (via generated leads), then that would be a 20% return on investment. If they have the right people and right technology and marketing, then I think that this goal is very achievable and therefore a very astute business investment.

Rich

 

In my opinion (for me) I would have spent it on a domain with the keyword SEO and then 1 million or so on optimizing the site for top ranking for SEO.

However, for branding.. it's an excellent domain.. they have the potential to earn it all back and more.. (if they have money left to invest in it )

 

I do think its worth it...they know what they are doing get the firm running hire some people from google yahoo msn for better pay at your firm and you know all the secrets you need to know about running this business and 5 millions dollars is a nice chunk of change

 

huh, thats really not a good investment.
that will take them years to make it again...

 

sounds like a fair price.
I mean you could probably buy a better quality domain for $5M, but this is a whole industry which is actually growing fast