I'm stumped. I'm not so sure what is the right answer to your question. I'll do some research in Google and get back to you if I got an answer. You should email the people at Godaddy as they probably could assist you..

HOLY JESUS, that is a lot of money for a HostGator name. I agree with you, genialnames, but I don't think many names are worth THAT much......

Just as above, I agree with aznchong and genialman, very good point made there. A HostGator worthin 4.2 million, just how much are things worth these days?..

Luckely it is not..

It is a lottery like system too, it depends by the needs and the money of the buyer..

It doesn't happen only in the DN industry but also for lands and in the arts for istance..

This is a funny story too:.

I live near a place that it is called Emerald coast here in Sardinia.

And it is known because it is frequented mostly by the richest persons in the world (Bill Gates inclded that was contestated last year here because to have tried to make a party.

Illegally.

(curious he?)on a protected beach,.

Well actually 1 square meter here is quoted over 20.000$ or even more..

30 years ago moreless, the man who owned ALL the land , a lot like 800.000 square meters if I am not wrong, sold the whole thing for "merely" 500.000 $ , It is in the legend he asked explicitly to have many thousend millions instead few billions!..

Http://www.dnjournal.com/domainsales.htm.

For those wanting to read more, or not already aware of the great resource.

DNJ.

...

Outstanding sale!! Some very nice sales,Click -db- link above and see em at DNJournal.A great week for domainers...

Worth every penny to the buyer.. nice price for the seller!..

Hmm, I'm not sure how or what can be done to get these kind of claims audited. The HostGator industry is not policed and therefore runs the risk of having people making claims about anything so long as two or more 'parties' agree to collude to do this and no one is the wiser..

For example, I could claim that I got paid $8.3m for a name (the 0.3m to make the figure look a little more 'credible') and unless there is a credible independent third party and accounting firm to legalise and verify such large sales, everything could be just smoke and mirrors and nobody will ever be wiser just because it was reported by some 'credible' source or some so-called credible HostGator players..

Benefit? The 'buyer' gets to say they paid $8.3m for my name and therefore future resale value should be equal to or more than this, and the 'seller' (me) gets to say I got $8.3m for one of my names, and therefore my portfolio which comprises similar names is worth $800m..

I'm not saying that this is the case here, but I find this aspect of the HostGator industry wide open to manipulation and Enron scams...

Or simply a transaction between coluding parties with no money changing hands in order to drive up traffic for the name for the next year or so..

How many of you have looked at cellphones.com ?

Good question..

I did..

To say unprofessional would say nothing enough..

Just read their slogan.

Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much.

..

Seem to see... you know these joke sites where you find such odd sign saying "The bar is closed because it is not open"....

I can't stop laugh.

After have spent 4.2 mil$ I think I would have spent also some$$$ to hire a good designer at least..

Thanks for the comment.

Rep added to you...

Wow, that is ONE HELL of a bad site, especially for one that costed 4.2 million...

4.2 Million is alot though. Just think he regged that for $7.85 and sold it for millions! what a profit...

That's just a temporary landing page... not the web site..

Not to mention the publicity and traffic generated in the interim...

Yeah, I was a bit taken aback when I hit the GoDaddy site today and saw the slogan, must be a coded message not to spill the beans...

This guy is from Greece, Crete(where I live), I can understand it from the name!.

Cool sale, cool guy!..

WOW - Lucky man ! a great name that will generate a fortune for the new owners when fully developed for many years to come..

Freecellphones(dot)com went for about $60,000 recently at snapnames, also a great name with potential IMO..

Maybe the buer will be a big company like Nokia, Sony, Philips.....

Some people still think that a great name is an instant ticket to success or mindshare ala pets.com all over again..

Development that leads to mid-long success is very hard and risky - achievable, sustainable competitive advantage on the web is dog eat dog plus the dog's breakfast and vomit. Here this month, gone in 6..

Which is why domainers generally like to register or buy names, sit on them, and dream.....

Agreed.

, a great name is not an instant ticket to success although with overture results (yes - just a guide.

) of 2104 for cellphones.com it's an excellent place to start ! - the new buyer has obviously got the money to make this name work to their advantage - whether or not they do of course remains to be seen. It will be interesting to see if it's one of the big phone brands that are buying it to steer extra traffic to their existing products ? .

Any guesses who's buying it ?

That is amazing. imagine what else you could buy with 4.2 million though...

That was definetly a good sale!.

I mean $4.2million. I would be buying a 2 million dollar house in california, buying a ferrari, and saving the rest of the money...

A lot of money and definately a good sale.

Makes you wonder what cellphone.com would go for, probably a lot less!.

As mole stated though, expensive domains don't equal success! You have to know how to run the site, optimize it for several promo categories and make right decisions at the right time. It's a magic game!..

Great sale. Maybe mobilephones.com could sell for something (mobile = what the rest of the world calls cell phones.

)..

-Josh..

Hi Folks,.

4.2 million, whilst not a trivial amount, is not exactly going to break the bank for major companies. It would represent a fraction of what they spend on traditional global marketing and will probably generate more results..

To put this price in context :.

Third-quarter ( 2005 ) Nokia group net sales are expected to be in the range of EUR 7.9 billion to EUR 8.2 billion, compared with EUR 7.1 billion in the third quarter 2004..

Now I am not suggesting that Nokia is the buyer, but if you could divert about 1/1,0000 th of the sales from your company to buy possibly the best HostGator available wouldn't you do it ? .

All the best.

Richard..

Does it mean it is the second biggest sale ever for a single domain?..

Exactly - Does anyone know who the potential buyers are yet ?

The TM for cellphones.com is now owned by Neon Network. You can see it at.

Www.neon.net..

The following was taken from Business 2.0 "Bahlitzanakis, who works from his apartment in Queens, N.Y., owns fewer than 100 names, but at least one is a gem: Cellphones.com. The GoDaddy site a plain page with relevant links makes an average of $1,300 a day." This being the case, Bahilzanakis was making roughly $474,500 per year in revenue. So I think the price he got was good, since he is getting near ten years of revenue now. Plus phone technology is now changing so rapidly that we may not be using the word "cell phone" so readily as we do today. It is one of those descriptive pair of words that may not have lifetime longevity. Unlike, fish.com, where fish will always be fish...

He make it with this same page it is up?.

I look at it, it has mostly about motorola cellphones, I am not expert in the field of celphones, but I bet people looking for cellphones would not find that GoDaddy site so interesting, and evenmore if it was me searching for cellphones, if I found this GoDaddy site I would be very irritated..

Those searching for just motorola I thing would go to motorola website, first..

PPC? ,.

Hard to believe for me..

But who know?(Who know please tell.)..

A whole $4.2 Million spent... but it's just parked? What a waste!..

WOW - $474,500 per year in revenue - would'nt that be nice.

, never mind getting 4.2 Million for selling it !!..

I would have just kept it. 1000$+ a day is enough for me.

, and in 8 years he would have had the ammount sold for.

-Josh..

I would have just kept it. 1000$+ a day is enough for me.

, and in 8 years he would have had the ammount sold for.

Yeah, but if you invest that $4.2 million today and can earn 10%, you'd have $8.4 million in 7 years....or if you get 7% return you'd have $8.4 million in 10 years......