Subj : The most expensive domain name in history isn't doing too well wi
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Date : Sat Feb 25 2023 11:15:04

The most expensive domain name in history isn't doing too well with site 
traffic

Date:
Sat, 25 Feb 2023 11:03:00 +0000

Description:
Tesla.com and sex.com are among the top seven most costly domains of all time.

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Owning a domain name will typically cost between $10 and $20 per year, but 
this is just a drop in the ocean in terms of a possible price tag, new data 
has revealed. 

Top web hosting company Hostinger released a study looking into the top seven 
most expensive domain names in history, with the most expensive domain 
costing $30 million in 2019. 

Voice.com was bought by a team of technologists, artists and curators from 
enterprise analytics and software company MicroStrategy, with Hostingers data 
suggesting the transaction wasnt great value for money based on the sites 
monthly traffic figures (88.8k per month). Top dollar domains 

The top seven websites cost a combined amount of $109 million and include the 
domain names: 360.com, NFTs.com, Sex.com, Fund.com, Hotels.com and Tesla.com. 

The domain name 360.com was owned by Chinese internet security company 360 
Security Technology, but was bought by Vodafone for $17 million back in 2015. 

SimilarWeb data shows its traffic does significantly better than the most 
expensive domain with 23.9 million monthly visitors, making it the 154th 
biggest website in China. Read more 

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Whats more, the domain name Sex.com was sold in November 2010 from Escom to 
Clover Holdings after it won an auction. 

Currently, the domain name receives more traffic than the rest of the top 
five sites combined, with 64 million visitors each month, and its currently 
on sale, with minimum bids of $20 million so far. 

Its fascinating to see how much money has exchanged hands for specific domain 
names  the cost of the seven names in the list adds up to more than $100 
million, said a spokesperson from Hostinger. 

For multi-billion-dollar companies, the outlay is relatively small, 
especially if it secures your presence on the web, strengthens your brand and 
provides a good stream of traffic to your site. However as this study shows, 
spending millions of dollars on the domain name doesnt guarantee millions of 
website visitors. 

As far as Tesla.com goes, CEO Elon Musk previously mentioned that it took him 
ten years to buy the domain from Silicon Valley engineer Stuart Grossman for 
around $11 million. We have a list of the best domain registrar services out 
there



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https://www.techradar.com/news/the-most-expensive-domain-name-in-history-isnt-
doing-too-well-with-site-traffic


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