Christian.com sells for $600,000, buyer to create Christian social network.
Yesterday I wrote about Boris Kreiman, who bought the domain name Call.com for $1.1 million. He said he wasn’t done buying, and here’s proof: he just plunked down $600,000 for Christian.com.
Kreiman told Domain Name Wire that he’s going to use the domain name for a Christian social network and Christian encyclopedia.
The domain transfer is currently going through at Sedo. However, the domain was scheduled to be auctioned at next Month’s T.R.A.F.F.I.C. domain conference in New York by Rick Latona Auctions. Given that the seller of Christian.com probably had a contract with Latona’s company, it’s likely that both Sedo and Rick Latona Auctions had a hand in the sale.
Kreiman said he has also made two other notable purchases recently, but the information about those purchases will be kept confidential.
he bought laws.com too.
Yes, no one seems to know how much that one sold for.
It was in fact a co-brokered deal between Rick Latona Auctions and Sedo.
Rick, thanks for confirming and congrats!
No problem. Good reporting. You scooped the story before we could put out the press release.
I am surprised that Dr. Kevin Ham did not purchase this name. He likes Christian-related domain names. It would have been a great complement to God.com.
@ Ramiro – when the domain was listed for auction, the first person who came to mind was Ham. Perhaps he was planning to bid at auction…but got beaten to it.
As the Internet moves into a new phase or
“architecture”, folks who are paying large
sums for names may be in for a surprise.
That is especially the case with generic
names that consumers may not consider a
“brand”.
People with massive collections of parked
domains may also be in for a surprise. The
new DNS is two layers deep at the customer
site. With all of the processing horsepower
in set-top-boxes and game servers, it is
somewhat easy to detect a “parked name”.
The new wave of vISPs may prefer to send
people to THEIR parked offering. Parked is
parked, as some see it.
The two examples above do not even consider
the rumored increased awareness of a
massive number of new TLDs. With a super
agile DNS running in the CPE media servers
a blind entry like Christian may result in
the vISP’s offering.
Because of bandwidth, caching, nano-payments
and other factors such as artificial
scarcity of IP addresses and domain names,
the new “architecture” is inevitable. People
may have to budget to pay for what is called
“shelf space” on the new platform. Gold-plated
names may result in gold-plated pricing.
That’s gonna turn into a huge site…
He can flip it for millions after building the user base…
Smart dude.
This guy is on a roll. Nice domain.
The word Christian is SUPREME in all respects. Having such a domain will be very profitable for the owner! Just remember it all started in the garden of eden and then came the world’s lord and savior Jesus Christ!
Jim, now that’s a techie speak! It’s a different ball game when it comes to life, and of course, real business.
It seems to me that maybe you don’t get it, yet. Remember, “for whom the bell tolls, hears it the loudest.”