The sale of sex.com for $13 million on 17 November 2010 has been officially acknowledged as the “most expensive internet address domain name” by the Guinness World Record, Sedo announced.
Sedo has recently released its 2009 Domain Market Study and statistics from the last quarter of the year. Sedo, the leading online domain marketplace and monetization provider, today announced the release of their 2009 Market Study, which includes never before released fourth quarter trends. The company saw strong growth in full-year sales in domains bought and sold on their global marketplace in 2009, versus 2008. Sedo represented 64 percent of the top 100 public sales in the domain industry, with the next closest competitor coming in at 8 percent. This growth was also fueled by impressive quarter over quarter results, with a 5 percent increase in domain sales in Q4 of 2009. In addition, Sedo accounted for 11 of the top 20 biggest sales industry-wide, compared to only 5 of the top 20 sales in 2008. This included a surge in geographical and descriptive domains, including the sale of Fly.com for $1.6 million, Russia.com for $1.5 million, Call.com for $1.1 million, and Brazil.com for $500,000.
Today Sedo announced the release of its latest global Market Study, highlighting key domain trends from 2009 and, for the first time, announcing…
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Feb/09/10 Sedo Announces 2009 Domain Market Study with Q4 Highlights


