Typo domain sells for $240k
Wednesday, April 5th, 2006
Mortage.com, a typo of Mortgage.com, has sold for $242,400.
The sale of Mortage.com tops this week’s sales chart at DNJournal. Although the typo is of a generic word, the buyer might still find legal challenges to ownership of the domain. Mortgage.com is the official web site of one of the world’s biggest mortgage companies, ABN AMRO.
Other domain sales of note: FreePicks.com expired and was auctioned by SnapNames for $91,250. Other expired domain auctions at SnapNames included BigBang.com for $30,050, LagunaBeachRealEstate.com (that’s a mouthful!) for $27,350, and AmericanXpress.com for $21,980. The last domain has a big price tag for a domain that would surely lose a UDRP challenge.
.co.uk continues to bring in some great sales. This week History.co.uk sold for £12,500 at Sedo. Another international domain, Traffic.ca, snagged 15,000 CAD. Financing.ca went for $12,000 USD at Pool, which is only fitting since Pool is based in Canada. But the Canadian party didn’t stop there…Pool sold a slew of .ca expiring domains including balance.ca, PlaneTickets.ca, HV.ca, Airplanes.ca, UD.ca, and on and on…
I found the sale of BaseballCap.com for $5,500 at Afternic interesting. That domain has been on the featured showcase at Afternic for a long time. It appears that someone finally decided it was the right domain for them.
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