bwhhisc
6th June 2009, 11:59 PM
Москва.com (Moscow.com in Russian Cyrillic) first changed hands during the 2nd week of April 2007. When the current Korean owner parted with it for USD 16,000. It was reported here via DNJ. Sixteen months later on 1st August 2008, it would be changing hands again, but this time the ticket price would be USD $216,000.
Disclaimer: I am neither buyer not seller, my involvement in this deal was simply as broker. But I would like to thank both parties for allowing this to be disclosed.
So what makes a domain worth $216,000?
You can Google Moscow yourself, but here’s a few things you might not know:
-Moscow is the most expensive city in the world for the past 3 years
-10 million Moscovites call it home
-Москва will be a government reserved domain in the new Russian ccTLD, and it will almost certainly live out it’s days as
being a non-commercial government controlled, information only site.
Oh and just in case any Doubting Thomas’s were thinking Russian surfers search in English “Moscow” instead of “Москва”; check out the monthly stats from Wordstat:
Moscow 195,082
Москва 14,942,950
http://www.idndemystified.com/
Disclaimer: I am neither buyer not seller, my involvement in this deal was simply as broker. But I would like to thank both parties for allowing this to be disclosed.
So what makes a domain worth $216,000?
You can Google Moscow yourself, but here’s a few things you might not know:
-Moscow is the most expensive city in the world for the past 3 years
-10 million Moscovites call it home
-Москва will be a government reserved domain in the new Russian ccTLD, and it will almost certainly live out it’s days as
being a non-commercial government controlled, information only site.
Oh and just in case any Doubting Thomas’s were thinking Russian surfers search in English “Moscow” instead of “Москва”; check out the monthly stats from Wordstat:
Moscow 195,082
Москва 14,942,950
http://www.idndemystified.com/