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Skiresorts.com Sells for $850k

By Adam ⋅ February 21, 2008 ⋅ Email this post Email this post ⋅ Print this post Print this post ⋅ Post a comment

It’s not often that my day job (in the domain name world) and my favourite pastime (shredding mad pow, of course) intersect. Recently, however, they kind of did (on a subject matter basis, anyway) when skiresorts.com sold for $850,000 at a domain name auction. As anyone in the industry can tell you, domain name auctions are a big business.

No word on the buyer, but just the price alone is impressive. I assume some sort of ski resort directory will be built upon/further developed (a small directory exists on the name right now).

Somehow, I don’t think ”’snowboardresorts.com”’ would sell for the same price.

Discussion

  1. Domain names are going crazy at the moment. Must be an exciting industry to be in right now.

    $850k seems a lot for skiresorts.com, but then again cruises.co.uk went for around $1m a couple of weeks ago - which was big news here.

    Posted by Adam | February 22, 2008, 8:56 am

  2. Domain names is always exciting, the industry changes so much that there’s never a dull moment. :) Heard about cruises.co.uk as well. Crazy stuff!

    Thanks for the comment,

    –Other Adam

    Posted by Adam | February 22, 2008, 1:04 pm

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