Fly.com Sold for $1,760,000

**chillking** · 01-30-2009, 01:35 PM

Fly.com Sold for
$1,760,000 deal brokered by sedo

I think this was worth more very brandable for a airline company i think its worth 5 mill pluss

**Dorkside** · 01-30-2009, 02:58 PM

Travelzoo (Nasdaq: TZOO - News), a global Internet media company, today announced that it has purchased the Internet domain name fly.com for $1,760,000 in cash. Travelzoo intends to use this domain name for a new information Web site to be launched in February.

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/090130/ny64932.html

Nice sale.

**Yusio** · 01-30-2009, 04:56 PM

Saw fly on sedo a few months back on auction. I thought they wanted more than 1.8mil though?

**EG.domains** · 01-30-2009, 05:46 PM

Nice sale. IMO

**Acro** · 01-30-2009, 06:25 PM

Blah blah price of LLL .com's falling blah blah the economy is bad blah blah

**cleverlyslick** · 01-30-2009, 06:35 PM

Originally Posted by Acro

Blah blah price of LLL .com's falling blah blah the economy is bad blah blah

recession?what is a recession?

awesome sale.

keeps the pr**k wet

**Meridian66** · 01-30-2009, 07:37 PM

Originally Posted by Acro

Blah blah price of LLL .com's falling blah blah the economy is bad blah blah

Quality should always sell well, and possibly even better in a recession. My thoughts are that a major recession impacts the much broader class of lower-value names and emerging TLDs because there just isn't as much discretionary money around and people fear taking risks.

But this also is an opportunity to stock up cheaply for a later upturn.

**cleverlyslick** · 01-30-2009, 07:42 PM

Quality should always sell well, and possibly even better in a recession. My thoughts are that a major recession impacts the much broader class of lower-value names and emerging TLDs because there just isn't as much discretionary money around and people fear taking risks.

But this also is an opportunity to stock up cheaply for a later upturn.

agreed alot of people make $$$ when the market is bad.

**NetworkMsia** · 01-30-2009, 08:03 PM

nice 7 figure sale of 2009 =D

**wussadotcom** · 01-30-2009, 09:23 PM

Nice sale!

**newvista** · 01-31-2009, 03:14 AM

Worth at least $3 million IMO.

**BAT** · 01-31-2009, 04:07 AM

Yes nice sale no indeed .

**Stian** · 01-31-2009, 05:37 AM

It's worth more than $1,7mill IMO. I'm sure BA, AA, Continental, Lufthansa, KLM or any other major airline company would pay more. Great buy though.

**DTalk** · 01-31-2009, 07:00 AM

Originally Posted by pcproffenno

It's worth more than $1,7mill IMO. I'm sure BA, AA, Continental, Lufthansa, KLM or any other major airline company would pay more. Great buy though.

But, they didn't...

I'd be surprised if the owner hadn't offered it to all the world's major airlines - plus, maybe, corporate jet marketers, like Citation & Boeing - plus, maybe the larger travel operations, too. It seems the obvious thing to do.

I reckon getting $1.8m is a good effort.

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**Stian** · 01-31-2009, 07:08 AM

Originally Posted by DTalk

But, they didn't...

I'd be surprised if the owner hadn't offered it to all the world's major airlines - plus, maybe, corporate jet marketers, like Citation & Boeing - plus, maybe the larger travel operations, too. It seems the obvious thing to do.

I reckon getting $1.8m is a good effort.

.

I'm not saying it's not a remarkable domain name sale, but I'm only saying that it's logical it went that high and that he could probably even get much more. Maybe not today or tomorrow, but in time. Excellent sale never the less.

**ezimedia** · 02-01-2009, 04:08 PM

HI

They will get a great return for it in years to come... not including the income it makes until then... nice sale.

Tom

**Yum** · 02-01-2009, 09:19 PM

Nice sale imo.

**mclovin** · 02-01-2009, 09:29 PM

It wasn't an ordinary LLL

I would've definitely bought it if I had $1.8 million lying around...

**TheAnt** · 02-02-2009, 01:12 AM

If one had a domain that appeared to relate well to say 10 companies with deep pockets, what would one say?

I would guess that to let the potential buyer know there are others in the list, perhaps there is a reserve, and maybe a length of time. Perhaps the best thing would be a tight bidding war. If a reserve is not perhaps pass that on as well, staying in touch with those interested and notify it will be auctioned?

Then failing a minimum there, delevol it yerself?

Originally Posted by DTalk

But, they didn't...

I'd be surprised if the owner hadn't offered it to all the world's major airlines - plus, maybe, corporate jet marketers, like Citation & Boeing - plus, maybe the larger travel operations, too. It seems the obvious thing to do.

I reckon getting $1.8m is a good effort.

.

**hecto** · 02-02-2009, 01:49 AM

It went for peanuts in my opinion, considering how big the airline industry is I would have thought that it would have gone for a lot more.

I really think that some companies in various industries have not understood the power of nice domains such as fly.com