Domain broker Sedo has sold Announce.com for $90,000.
Sedo isn’t content with its 20,000 odd domain name sales this year and keeps racking up notable sales. Sedo just sold Announce.com for $90,000. The domain has a rich history of web sites dating back to 1997 in Archive.org. The seller of the domain was using it as a search engine submission service.
But $90,000 is small potatoes to Sedo. In fact, this sale doesn’t even rank in its top 10 publicly “announced” sales of the year. Sedo’s biggest public splash of 2006 was the Vodka.com sale for $3M. Other big sales this year include Gays.com, Bike.com, and Blue.com for $500,000 each, Hotels.eu for 257,000 EUR, Malta.com for $250,000, and WiFi.com for $225,000.
With just over a week left in 2006 you can expect Sedo to close out some other big sales. Auctions for CommercialProperty.com, Discoteca.com, Huh.com, and Dummy.com have all received $10,000 or higher bids. However, only Discoteca.com has met its reserve.
Don Murray says
Nice price for that name.
I think the story of next year will be the .mobi names.
I still believe the .mobi will be the best investment for the short and long term.
Don
Derek says
Previous owner is a friend of mine. I told him on a couple of occasions that announce.com was just begging to be turned into a press-release site, either paid or free with ads.
Will be interesting to see what the new owner does with it.
Editor says
I think the price is good. Congrats to your friend.