Domain name investor pays top dollar for a .tips domain name.
A .tips domain names has sold for $8,200 at GoDaddy.
HorseRacing.tips was purchased by London-based Domain Invest Ltd. [Apparently I looked up the whois record of HorseRacingTips.com, not HorseRacing.tips. The latter is under whois privacy. Sorry about that.] Domain Invest Ltd appears to own a lot of gambling related domain names.
This is the highest price I’ve seen so far for a GoDaddy auction to resolve multiple orders for the same domain name. It’s not the highest known price for a domain under a new TLD yet, however. Some companies have paid to get domain names on day one of Donuts’ “Early Access Program”. That costs at least $10,000.
.Tips has has just over 10,000 registered domain names so far.
Some other recent new TLD sales on GoDaddy include Pizza.today for $4,005, Stockmarket.Tips for $2,075, Headline.today for $1,886, Palestine.today for $1,525, Nano.technology for $1,425 and Istanbul.today for $1,325.
Mike says
Hmm, strange but only “Domain Invest Ltd” (UK Company) I can find was dissolved in 2008 and director was an Austrian domain lawyer.Puzzling but maybe is a Domain Invest Ltd from another Country with a mailing address in London .
Andrew Allemann says
There was a Domain Invest in Luxembourg as well.
Andrew Allemann says
I just updated the story – I looked up the wrong whois record.
JZ says
i am surprised the amount of people willing to pay eap fees. personally i think they shouldn’t of even been allowed.
Ryan says
In UK, AU, HK horse racing is huge, if this is someone in the industry they paid peanuts for this name.
EAP fees are there probably to discourage warehousing, and allow the end user to get their specific domain, all the while lining donuts pockets even further.
Snoopy says
[Apparently I looked up the whois record of HorseRacingTips.com, not HorseRacing.tips.
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Oops, that is domain gravity for you, where people are pulled to what they are used to. Lots of other will be doing the same thing if this is ever used. Personally I can barely even type a new tld without adding .com but maybe that is just me.
Domo Sapiens says
Andrew, Classic Freudian slip!
and not sure if it should be reported as a registration rather than a sale?
While some bloggers are reporting with Big headlines these meek:
500 USD, 1000USD , 2000 USD etc etc (new gTLD sales)
another Multimillion dollar Dot Com sale goes way under-reported :
Youxi.com for $2,430,000 USD….
John says
I remember someone paid $500 000 for flowers.mobi
Eleni says
available domain for sale (taxcredits.tips & taxcredit.tip)
1000$ (if someone interested, please contact at [email protected])
Tim says
I hold Investment.Tips & Investing.Tips – paid EAP 1,200
Pankaj says
I own GoogleSearch.Tips and GoogleSearch.Guide Domains. If interested, Please access the site and fill the form. Thanks