Spending a lot of money on a domain

[Cedric]

Who here has spent the most money on buying a domain? Some are often listed for thousands of dollars, while a traditional domain only costs $10. Was there some time that you absolutely need to have a specific domain that was being sold for lots of money? If so, which and for how much?

 

[Arantor]

The domain where my email is (and my first website, when it finally got big enough to have its own domain!), is a .org which I bought originally in 2001 for $217 then. Not because it was particularly expensive but mostly because I thought at the time I needed to go with someone 'special' for .org, and found Network Solutions. Of course the following year I moved it and renewed it for $10 or so...

There was also the time I'd bought a .org, someone came to me to tell me the .com was 'available for the low price of $300' when in reality it had just expired and I could pick it up for $10, so that was a win.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

I paid about $200 for a domain once. I never used it and let it expire. 🤷‍♂️

I probably could had made a little bit more than I paid for it but I've never been good at the domain name flipping business.

Now I just get available domain names.