Une grande vente aux enchères de noms de domaine se tiendra à New York mercredi prochain. Une bonne centaine de domaines sera mise en vente, dont reggae.com, détenu depuis 1995 par Ras John.

Le prix de départ a été fixé à 100 000 dollars, selon une estimation du potentiel commercial du nom. La somme peut paraître élevée, elle est toutefois bien loin du prix de certains domaines convoités qui pourraient se vendre plusieurs millions de dollars.

Source: ReggaeFrance.com

Bankrate, Inc. announced on June 24 they will acquire CreditCards.com and NetQuote for a combined $350 million. This is a monster deal (and not a domain sale for you blokes who think every company sold with a .com is a domain sale).

According to compete these 2 sites have over 2,000,000 unique visitors a month in the lucrative financial and insurance industries.

The breakdown was:

$205 million for NetQuote

$145 million for CreditCards.com

So – you still want to park your domains?

There is lots of money around if you build. Maybe not $350 million but surely a few if you do it right. This news is a month old – from June 24th – and I totally missed this being reported anywhere. Congrats!

Personally I think creditcards.com is worth a lot more than $145 million

Source: NewFoundNames