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BEST ANSWER  chosen by asker   |  spoon  |  December 27, 2008 06:09 PM
*note - this is the price of the domain name alone and does not include any business model behind it... some of these were just part of a bigger sale that included a business with an existing revenue stream which made the total sale much higher.

1. Sex.com, $12.5 million
2. Porn.com, $9.5 million
3. Diamond.com, $7.5 million
4. Business.com, $7.5 million
5. Casino.com, $5.5 million
6. Asseenontv.com, $5 million
7. Korea.com, $5 million
8. Wine.com, $3.3 million
9. Creditcheck.com, $3 million
10. Vodka.com, $3 million

Now as for the who sold them part... that information is not easily available due to privacy issues which many major companies can include in the sale contract.

Looking at this list it is pretty clear that each and every one of these was purchase for simple marketing reasons. If you sell vodka what better domain name to have than vodka.com (same for wine and diamonds), if you are a porn site what would be better than porn.com or sex.com? In the end all of these were purchased because they were simple for people to remember and likely the key word used in the search for the product offered on the site.
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easyeboy  |  December 27, 2008 06:12 PM
Good answer! Who purchased these and when were they purchased?
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