Great generic .com.au domain sales in the past 15 years?

[James]

Doing some random research today, I stumbled accross the domain name and website:

sold.com.au (a great generic name back in 2001) the name was sold to Yahoo with the site for 30 million.

Now my question is does any one have any other examples of generic .com.au domains selling for big dollars in the past?

Even better is how they then closed the site down in 2003, and told people to move to eBay - http://au.docs.yahoo.com/sold/annoucements.html

 

[snoopy]

Doing some random research today, I stumbled accross the domain name and website:

sold.com.au (a great generic name back in 2001) the name was sold to Yahoo with the site for 30 million.

Now my question is does any one have any other examples of generic .com.au domains selling for big dollars in the past?

Even better is how they then closed the site down in 2003, and told people to move to eBay - http://au.docs.yahoo.com/sold/annoucements.html

C'mon James, that has nothing do with a domain sale. It is a bit like selling it a house and calling it "The sale of a door + rest of house". It is a website sale.

 

[aus11]

"The sale of a door + rest of house"

A door? Seriously Snoopy?

I've always thought of a website and it's domain as a house and land. And this sounds like it was a good house and a great block of land. Give it some credit.

 

[DavidL]

I think the biggest domain only sale was $1.6m last year

 

[snoopy]

A door? Seriously Snoopy?

I've always thought of a website and it's domain as a house and land. And this sounds like it was a good house and a great block of land. Give it some credit.

For the $30 million sale of it sold.com.au it is more like the house and the door.

Yes it was a nice door, no that wasn't the main reason for paying $30 million. It is pretty obvious that it wasn't a factor because Yahoo renamed it soon as they bought it and changed it to a Yahoo address (au.sold.yahoo.com). It was about trying to strengthen Yahoo's own miserable auction offering by merging it in, I think that was the motivation.

 

[Drop.com.au]

I think the biggest domain only sale was $1.6m last year

Any details?

 

[snoopy]

Any details?

NDA, so was the $5million sale last week.

 

[Drop.com.au]

NDA, so was the $5million sale last week.

 

[DavidL]

NDA, so was the $5million sale last week.

Yeah couldn't be possible - after all .au's are worth 1% of .com's and no .com is worth $160m LOL

 

[Bacon Farmer]

CreditCards.com went close http://domainnamewire.com/2007/11/02/creditcardscom-ups-ipo-to-185m/

 

[James]

CreditCards.com went close http://domainnamewire.com/2007/11/02/creditcardscom-ups-ipo-to-185m/

mainly looking for .com.au sales =)

 

[Cooper Mills DomainLawyer]

I have been involved in at least half a dozen $000,000 .au domain only transactions over the last 18 months, unfortunately confidentiality obligations prevent disclosure

 

[Shane]

CreditCards.com went close http://domainnamewire.com/2007/11/02/creditcardscom-ups-ipo-to-185m/

Slightly off topic, but those guys use australia.creditcards.com for their Aussie site. It will be interesting to see how they rank with that name.

PS. I'm one of their Aussie contributors.

 

[James]

Slightly off topic, but those guys use australia.creditcards.com for their Aussie site. It will be interesting to see how they rank with that name.

PS. I'm one of their Aussie contributors.

they do ok nothing fantastic seems to have many ranks on page 2 for terms like:

best credit card
best credit cards
credit cards australia
best credit card deals
credit cards for bad credit
credit cards for bad credit

Regards.

 

[Bacon Farmer]

PS. I'm one of their Aussie contributors.

Yeah I saw that! Nice work!

I think you're probably under charging ;-)

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