Top 10 Most Expensive Domain Names Ever Sold

Have you ever thought of buying a .com domain name worth $10 (RS.500) and stopped your self thinking that is it worthy enough to pay that sum of money. If yes then you will be shock to now that there are plenty of people who have payed millions of dollar for purchasing a single domain name. I am going to share some of these domain names which people find worthy enough to invest million of dollars. I used ''invest'' word, yes it is investment to buy and resell a domain if the word/words of that name is highly searched on internet. Following domains are of single word which are searched more usually by the internet users.

1. Insure.com – Sold for $16 million in 2009.
2. Sex.com – Sold for $14 million in 2006.
3. Fund.com – Sold for $9.99 million in 2008.
4. Porn.com – Sold for $9.5 million in 2007.
5. Business.com – Sold for $7.5 million in 1999.
6. Diamond.com – Sold for $7.5 million in 2006.
7. Beer.com – Sold for $7 million in 2004.
8. Israel.com – Sold for $5.88 million in 2004.
9. Casino.com – Sold for $5.5 million in 2003.
10. Toys.com – Sold for $5.1 million in 2009.

These are only the the top ten most expensive domain but the list is endless. Recently I found a webmaster selling his WordPress theme site for $60,000 in an auction and got up to $30,000 bid in few days of his auction announcement. So the domain selling business can bring fortunes if you choose right word for it.