Low x,xxx to a million dollar sucessful web hosting business?

I was looking through domain sale history in the past and I found some interesting domain sales because the end users have developed the domains into multimillion dollar businesses.

I am a bit “hosting” keyword orientated and therefore was looking at the “hosting” keyword domain sales in the past. I found out that the domain which was sold at Afternic in 2007 became a successful web hosting business. It was the domain JustHost.com, which has now become recognised web hosting provider. JustHost.com domain was reportedly sold for $1,300 at Afternic in December, 2007. I think it would NOW be regarded as a multimillion dollar business because of its status as an established web hosting provider. When I checked its Alexa ranking , it was around 2,700 and they have grown quite a bit within just over 2 years if the domain sale report was right. The business head office is based in the UK and it also has headquarters in US and an office in Australia.

Most expensive .biz domains and domain name sales

I was looking at .biz domain sales in the past and there were some good domain sales.

I am surprised to see there are xx,xxx range domain sales for .biz extension.

Recently in November, 2009, there were a few one letter .biz domain sales in the range of xx,xxx.

I gather the following .biz domains were sold at fairly high prices in xx,xxx range.

e.biz sold for over $66,000

d.biz sold for over $26,000

m.biz sold for nearly $16,000

Mortgages.biz was sold for $15,000

Meningitis.biz sold for $15,000 (one of the surprising domain sales )

Car.biz sold for over $14,000

sport.biz sold for nearly $14,000

w.biz sold for $13,500

ImmobilienMakler.biz sold for over $13,000

Hermes.biz sold for $12,600

Cards.biz sold for nearly $12,000

foods.biz sold for over $11,000

loan.biz sold for over $11,000

Find.biz sold for nearly $11,000

u.biz sold for over $10,000

a.biz sold for over $10,000

x.biz sold for over $10,000

b.biz sold for over $10,000

moving.biz sold for nearly $10,000

OMG, OMG.com got Yahoo’d

So how come nobody has trademarked OMG yet? Yahoo will probably try. Active in the domain sector (propping up a cheap domain selling but expensive to renew Yahoo Small Business franchise) the search engine/email utility/all purpose map platform and more company has been buying and selling space the past few months.

But can they develop worth a darn? Yahoo is  the buyer of OMG.com, which sold last week for $80,000, according to Domain Name Wire.

A well-known gossip site moniker, OMG.com shows those picture of starlets on red carpets in Hollywood and talks breathlessly about people you never knew existed. And now it belongs to …Yahoo.

Of course, Yahoo has a history with domain names too big for the ‘Hoo britches. Yahoo sold off contests.com in June for $380,000 after sitting on it for many years. Could Yahoo be the big domains player sleeper after all?

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Burfurcated Internet China

Those looking to do business in domaining in China can scratch their heads. Amid reports that the idn.mobi agreement and press conference  just took place in China and accomplished that idn.mobi registrations will be going live in a few weeks, the unknown horizons of Chinese business frontiers loom. Billions of Chinese consumers are lurking?

Domain and internet global commerce is welcome,  but at the same time, the Chinese government requires internet filters and standard ‘policing’ webware to govern its citizen’s Internet habits and World Wide Web use. Who will the Chinese domain name customers be? Who will be the end user market for Chinese domain name development?