Candy.com sold for 3 million dollars

Candy.com was sold for 3 million dollars and Rick Schwartz sold the domain to a US candy maker. According to the news, Rick Schwartz will also receive an ongoing percentage of sales. Rick said the candy company is not Hershey’s and it is a candy company which will do a candy show in Chicago soon.
 
Candy.com domain sale is massive deal for a one word domain like this. The domain went that much possibly due to being a category killer.

“Candy” keyword searched over 800,000 times per month and I am sure there are a lot of type in visitors to the domain.
 
Any way, it demonstrated that good domains are still striving in this time of difficult economy.