The Most Expensive Domain Names

The top 20 most expensive domain names sold.

Not surprisingly, most have to do with sex and gambling, the two biggest money-makers online.

Just because these were purchased for tons of money doesn’t mean that they get tons of traffic. Many of the sites don’t even rank on Quantcast or Comscore. Unless the plan is to buy and hold (which in most cases, it is), many of these purchases seem like huge wastes of money.

Cameras.com – $1,500,000

Russia.com – $1,500,000

Tandberg.com – $1,500,000

Ticket.com – $1,525,000

DataRecovery.com – $1,659,000

Auction.com – $1,700,000

Dating.com – $1,750,000

Fly.com – $1,760,000

Seniors.com – $1,800,000

Computer.com – $2,100,000

CreditCards.com – $2,750,000

Shopping.de – $2,858,945

Candy.com – $3,000,000

Vodka.com – $3,000,000

Clothes.com – $4,900,000

Toys.com – $5,100,000

Slots.com – $5,500,000

Diamond.com – $7,500,000

Porn.com – $9,500,000

Fund.com – $9,999,950

Sex.com – $13 million

Resource: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-20-most-expensive-domain-names-urls-2011-4#ixzz1NZhboUUK