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What's the most expensive domain you ever bought?

Madza on September 17, 2021

Domain market is a competitive one. The prices for a single domain can vary from couple of bucks to seven or eight figures.

Just curious what was the most expensive domain you ever bought, what was it for and did it payed-off?

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Ben Halpern

dev.to was ~$300... Most expensive domain I've ever bought (personally that is... forem.com was more expensive.)

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Madza • Edited

Thanks for sharing, although I thought it was way, way more πŸ˜‰
I guess it's not about what you pay for it, but what you make out of it πŸ’―βœ¨

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Hugo Montenegro

$110 for namy.ai (my current startup)

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Madza

Thanks for the share πŸ˜‰ also good luck with the startup πŸš€πŸ’―

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Hugo Montenegro

Thanks! If you have any feedback for it I'd be happy to get it :P

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Madza

I think that anything AI related holds a great future potential and I'm sure you are using smart and well thought-out algorithm to generate the results πŸ˜‰
Plus I like the unique design you have developed for the site πŸ‘

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DB

The owner of a German Whisky community I'm active in bought whisky.com for 3M Euros.

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Madza

Something tells me that could be right in that ballpark πŸ˜‰

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Wildan Mubarok

I own domcloud.io and domcloud.id which cost about 50$ and 15$ respectively. Most expensive I ever bought for a project.

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Madza

Thanks for the insight πŸ™β€

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MV

create-react-app.com (my blog), it was about 10€ πŸ€“

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Madza

For a moment I though it was this one for CRA docs πŸ˜€πŸ˜€

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MV

πŸ˜‚πŸ™ƒ

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Ben Sinclair

Domain prices are scams. Resale of domain names doubly so.
I think the most I've personally paid for one is about Β£22/year for a .scot name,

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Madza

Thanks for the share! πŸ™β€

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Roneo.org

25€. I search new domains with the 'beast mode' on namecheap, set up to display domains cheaper than 30€.
I don't like the business around domain names

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Madza

NameCheap is awesome, I got mine from them as well πŸ’―β€

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rinas

it was for a recently bought one - til.dev

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Madza

Thanks for the share! Best of luck with the project πŸ˜‰