Israel.com NOT sold for over 5 million!

[IDNer]

Israel.com NOT sold for over 5 million!

Haaretz.com's reports of the sale of israel.com for a whopping $5.88 million, was apparently erroneous. When I reported on this, I argued that the sale was evidence of the continued health of the secondary market. Especially in the light of the failed sale of america.com, which received a highest bid of $1.7 million. As good as that number was, it was still below the domain's reserve price.

The israel.com debacle, with a message being posted below Haaretz.com's report as a comment, supposedly from the VP of EURO RSCG (but is there any way to verify that), saying the domain is in fact still for sale, also shows how hard it is to really know how much domains are sold for.

There's clearly a great deal of interest around "country" domains at the moment. No doubt we'll be hearing about israel.com and america.com again soon.

http://www.stephane-vangelder.com