The domain name aftermarket – or, if you prefer, speculation/ransom market – eclipsed the $100 million milestone for the first time last year, according to Zetetic, a research company. Here’s a look at some of the numbers:
— A total of $111 million and change was spent on 17,974 names;
— The average price was $5,582, up 13 percent over the previous year’s $4,954;
— That rate of increase surpassed the previous year’s jump of 10 percent;
— And five names went for more than $1 million, four more than in 2005.
Which leads us to our quiz portion of this post.
The five million-dollar-plus names in alphabetical order were: branson.com, cameras.com, diamond.com, sex.com and vodka.com.
The amounts paid from least to most were: $1.5 million, $1.6 million, $3 million, $7.5 million and $12 million.
Now match ’em up.
I’ll leave the answers in the comments section below.
There has already been a million-plus sale this year, as tanberg.com fetched $1.5 million.
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