Proudly owning a website title will usually price between $10 and $20 per yr, however that is only a drop within the ocean by way of a attainable price ticket, new knowledge has revealed.

High website hosting (opens in new tab) firm Hostinger (opens in new tab) launched a examine wanting into the highest seven costliest domains in historical past, with the most costly area costing $30 million in 2019.

Voice.com was purchased by a group of technologists, artists and curators from enterprise analytics and software program firm MicroStrategy, with Hostinger’s knowledge suggesting the transaction wasn’t nice worth for cash primarily based on the location’s month-to-month visitors figures (88.8k per 30 days).

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The highest seven web sites price a mixed quantity of $109 million and embody the domains: 360.com, NFTs.com, Intercourse.com, Fund.com, Lodges.com and Tesla.com.

The area title 360.com was owned by Chinese language web safety firm 360 Safety Know-how, however was purchased by Vodafone for $17 million again in 2015. 

SimilarWeb knowledge reveals its visitors does considerably higher than the most costly area with 23.9 million month-to-month guests, making it the 154th largest web site in China.

What’s extra, the area title Intercourse.com was bought in November 2010 from Escom to Clover Holdings after it gained an public sale. 

At the moment, the area title receives extra visitors than the remainder of the highest 5 websites mixed, with 64 million guests every month, and it’s at present on sale, with minimal bids of $20 million to this point.

“It’s fascinating to see how a lot cash has exchanged palms for particular domains – the price of the seven names within the listing provides as much as greater than $100 million,” stated a spokesperson from Hostinger.

“For multi-billion-dollar corporations, the outlay is comparatively small, particularly if it secures your presence on the net, strengthens your model and offers a very good stream of visitors to your web site. Nonetheless as this examine reveals, spending hundreds of thousands of {dollars} on the area title doesn’t assure hundreds of thousands of web site guests.” 

So far as Tesla.com goes, CEO Elon Musk beforehand talked about that it took him ten years to purchase the area from Silicon Valley engineer Stuart Grossman for round $11 million.

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