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The 20 Most Expensive Web Addresses

by Lee Bains on December 9, 2008 at 04:18 PM



It used to be that you could pretty much get any address on the Web for free (or a small administration fee), but those days are long over. Now, if a company wants the perfect Web address for a new site, they may well have to shell out quite a bit of money. While most domain names (aka Web addresses) are still relatively inexpensive, there are a few that are well out of the average surfer's reach, says Dr. Mark J. Perry, professor of economics and finance at the University of Michigan - Flint.

On his blog, Dr. Perry -- going off a report by Patent Kinetics -- lists the 20 most costly domain name purchases of the past decade, all of them going for well over a million dollars. Topping the list, Sex.com went for $14 million in 2006, beating out the second costliest (and the most expensive of this year) Fund.com by nearly $4 million.

After that latter Web site, 2008's priciest purchases were Pizza.com ($2,605,000), DataRecovery.com ($1,659,000) and Invest.com ($1,015,000). In light of the recession, it is telling that the latter two sites did not make the all-time top twenty list, while the former crept in at number 20. [From: Patent Kinetics via MJPerry.Blogspot.com]

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