Answers.travel Domain Name Sold for $3.3 million

[rajs1ngh]

Completely rubbish IMO.

[BidNo]

I call BS!

[Fearless]

Sounds like the pizza.com story only this time sedo isn't involved. In this case I don't think it will help in selling the name for real.

[rajs1ngh]

Just a trick to boost up this dead tld.

[netfleet]

I own 1 .travel, purchased it as a SEO experiment. It earns a few hundred dollars a year, and does well in the search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN). On the flip side, Google doesn't seem to be able to award the TLD PageRank at the moment. Other than that the engines seem to treat it like a .com. Reg fees are about $90 per year via Moniker.

It's a fact (little known but a fact nonetheless IMHO) that the actual extension can aid in SEO if that extension is an exact match for part of the search phrase.

Two identical sites, identical content, age, incoming links etc.

One is called australia.com, one is called australia.travel

The latter would do better for a search "travel to australia" for example.

.Asia and .TV also profit from this part of Google's algo..

However that is off-topic I guess. I can't believe that sale took place either....

[Eraser]

Just a trick to boost up this dead tld.

Agree. Name is good but NOT worth for $3.3 million. IMO, fake sale.

[BidNo]

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[therunner]

ok, get this; I could say to any media I sold Iam.stupid for $$$$$$$$$$$$, pay them to issue the news, bring the attention to my site and get big chunk from the stupid registrant who owns the stupid extension

by the way, it's strange sedo didn't get involved in this sale

[SuperDomains.com]

I can not believe that this deal is true. Dot travel should not garner that much money. Maybe travel.com or travel.net could see this type of sale, but not .travel. Dot com is here to rule for years to come.

[imneazmh]

I think answers.travel was not that much. If it were asia.travel or europe.travel, then it would have been fine.

[taktikz]

This story sounds like an expensive tabloid PR.

I agree. It's a nice way of getting attention and publicity.

[000]

Answers.travel Domain Name Sold for $3.3 million
The Domain Name Answers.travel Was Acquired by Travel411 ... According to sources within the company, the deal closed in the 3rd quarter of 2008.

Whois.travel on 31-jan-2009 shows the registrant, admin contact, billing contact and technical contact for answers.travel to be registrar Encirca. A random lookup of other .travel names shows Encirca as admin/billing/technical but unique identifying data (not Encirca) as registrant. Maybe Travel411 (which has public whois) arranged a whois privacy deal for answers.travel while announcing the 3.3m deal to the world. Yeah, that makes sense.

Website travel411.com has no obvious link to or mention of their blockbuster Q3-2008 acquisition.

If anyone registers at answers.travel please let us know if Canadian felons can visit Mexico, thanks!

[ARMG]

Is it april fools day already?

[SIKHboy]

if someone would have asked to buy the domain, I would hesitate even paying the reg fee for answers.travel.


Lucky Seller

Poor Stupid Buyer

[Banned: democrat]

Arent you guys always saying that a domain is whatever the end user is willing to pay? or something along those lines. I dont believe the sale but hey you never know!

[mediawizard]

This is complete BS.

I'd like to see the paperwork, even then would have a tough time believing this.

[Focus]

Focus says Bullsh*t..a steamy pile of dung.

[tekz999]

Yes, let's all go to the bank and order few bags full of dimes and throw at him for being crazy.

[kukgle]

Absolutely advertising news for me.

[PRED]

Arent you guys always saying that a domain is whatever the end user is willing to pay? or something along those lines. I dont believe the sale but hey you never know!

lol

yeah, we do know. its absolute garbage

read this:
http://www.dnforum.com/f489/complete...ad-347347.html

domainfest sales results.

free.travel $3k
city.travel $2.5k

this extension is a pile of dung. years on the regfees are skyhigh and it has no aftersales and the search engines hate it

the above 2 domains are far in excess of the domain 'sold'

now, who do we report those suckers to for falsifying sales data?