Travelzoo purchased the domain name fly.com for $1,760,000 in cash today via Sedo domain brokers. According to Travelzoo, the company intends to use Fly.com for a new information Web site to be launched in February.
We are delighted to acquire fly.com for our new offering, said Brian Clark, senior vice president and general manager, search products, Travelzoo. The name is a perfect match for Travelzoos renowned approach: simple, fun, and world class. Where others see doom and gloom we see opportunities to serve travelers and advertisers with innovative approaches to finding the best values in travel.
In an economy which has hit the travel industry fairly hard, I’m wondering if Travelzoo ended up getting fly.com at a very good price, and whether it would have went for more one year ago. Other newsworthy domain name purchases in the past have been Business.com, which was initially sold for $8 million and when Teknosurf bought the Advertising.com doman and then rebranded the company.
all i have to say is one thing.
I wish i owned fly.com!
that’s a great investment.
talk about Roi!
I don’t even want to do the math.
$8 >>>> $1,800,000
I would guess it’s around 200 thousand percent!
thanks for the post!
DBK
WOW, wish I’d become a domainer 5 years back, still credit to all those that took the risk. I am sure there are opportunities out there, I’ve just got to find them.
Congrats to Sedo.com as well for brokering another big sale like that.
And it’s a bargain for the buyer!
Any good articles on the linking value of social websites? Any chance Google will ignore those sites from rankings?
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