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May 29, 2009 1:22 PM PDT

Top 5 most expensive domain names

by Tom Merritt
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The expense of purchasing a domain name from someone has given rise to websites without vowels, like Flickr, weirdly named services like Twitter, and strange ad farms at otherwise perfectly reasonable Web addresses.

In this top 5 we count down the domain names that sold for the most money. These are the ones we know of, or suspect we have a good idea about. Some domain name sales happen in shadowy parlors filled with smoke and all observers are killed. Or at least it's something like that.

But the important point is that you can win a lame prize. This week it's a water bottle! It's actually a beverage bottle capable of holding many kinds of liquids, and even capable of holding some solids.

Most importantly it's yours if you watch the top 5 video and post a correct answer in the comments below. We'll pick a winner from one of the first ten people to answer correctly.

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by techdude54 May 29, 2009 2:18 PM PDT
beer.com was sold for $80,000 in 1999
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by Jorey14 May 29, 2009 2:22 PM PDT
the domain beer.com sold for $80,000
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by HipHop4Prez May 29, 2009 2:30 PM PDT
Beer.com was first sold for $80,000 in 1999 but then was flipped for a cool $7 million in 2004.
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by creecha123 May 29, 2009 2:35 PM PDT
7 million in 04 80 thousand in 99
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by thaskinny May 29, 2009 3:05 PM PDT
7000000 or 7 million was the last price
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by May 29, 2009 3:11 PM PDT
$7 million
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by Reece9182 May 29, 2009 3:32 PM PDT
An 80% stake in Beer.com was bought for $80,000 in 1998 (the original owner retaining 20%). Ninety days later, Beer.com was resold for $7,000,000. Here's a pdf which details the whole thing: http://lowpromedia.com/ireg/ireg-globes.pdf
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by tricolorro May 29, 2009 3:42 PM PDT
Beer.com was sold for a cool $7,000,000
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by feidbo May 29, 2009 3:53 PM PDT
First it was purchased for 80,000 then it was bought again for 7,000,000<br />Well I thinks its funny that right now beer.com looks more like a soft-core Porn site then anything beer related. :P
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by cstrf9 May 29, 2009 4:18 PM PDT
Beer.com sold for $7,000,000,
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by mayursb May 29, 2009 4:23 PM PDT
Beer.com sold for $7 million to Interbrew
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by tipoo_ May 29, 2009 4:27 PM PDT
^^ every comment is about beer.com...
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by acedtect May 29, 2009 4:40 PM PDT
7 Million is what we were looking for. It was a complete sale, not a stake. but since I didn't make that 100% clear, we'll count the two 80K folks and pick from the top 12 posters..... Good luck everyone.
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by Blubberkinesis May 29, 2009 5:22 PM PDT
Beer.com sold for 7 million dollars
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by Azitone May 29, 2009 5:39 PM PDT
It was first bought for $80,000, then sold and bought again for $7 million.
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by Azitone May 29, 2009 5:41 PM PDT
lol everyones talking about the giveaway
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by jscincolumbiaca May 29, 2009 6:12 PM PDT
80 K then in 04 7 million
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by Quilvio123 May 29, 2009 7:21 PM PDT
An 80% stake in Beer.com was bought for $80,000 in 1998 (the original owner retaining 20%). Ninety days later, Beer.com was resold for $7,000,000. Here's a pdf which details the whole thing: http://lowpromedia.com/ireg/ireg-globes.pdf
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by lilshortyan11o9 May 30, 2009 1:45 AM PDT
$80,000 for the first time then $7,000,000 for the second time it got sold
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by Wizboy777 May 30, 2009 11:44 PM PDT
Beer.com sold for 7 million dollars as a complete sale.
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