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alex
14th December 2006, 11:12 PM
Russian vodka maker buys Vodka.com domain for $3 mln (http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2006-12-14T235126Z_01_N14393671_RTRIDST_0_OUKIN-UK-INTERNET-VODKA.XML)

The billionaire Russian entrepreneur behind Russia's biggest vodka maker has paid $3 million (1.53 million pounds) to acquire the vodka.com domain, part of a bid to expand into the U.S. market, a broker said on Thursday.

Sedo.com, the Web domain brokering unit that is part of Germany's United Internet AG, said it had acted as the sales agent in the deal.

Conglomerate Russian Standard Co., controlled by Roustam Tariko, paid $3 million to an undisclosed seller in a deal completed December 4, according to a Sedo.com spokesman. A New York-based spokeswoman for Russian Standard confirmed the $3 million price tag.

Vodka.com Sold for $3 Million (http://kesmodel.wordpress.com/2006/12/14/vodkacom-sold-for-3-million/)

Nett Corp., run by veteran domain-name investor Roy Edward Messer, has sold vodka.com for $3 million to vodka maker Russian Standard Vodka, which began its foray into the U.S. market last year. The deal was brokered by Sedo.com, the juggernaut in the domain-name aftermarket business. It’s a huge sale for Messer, of Tallahassee, Fla., a carpet seller who began speculating on domains in the 1990s.

Russian Standard Paid Over $1 Million for Vodka Domains (http://www.kommersant.com/p-9740/Domain_vodka/)

Owner of Russian Standard Holding, Roustam Tariko, has bought www.vodka.ru and www.vodka.com domains, Vedomosti reported.

As to www.vodka.ru, the seller was Art. Lebedev Studio. The site was registered in 1997, Lebedev told Vedomosti.

Drewbert
14th December 2006, 11:41 PM
Now I have to try to remember how much Roy paid for it.

Pretty sure he made a profit :)

mulligan
15th December 2006, 12:39 AM
I believe the legendary JC has the 'real thing'