49.com auction ends at sedo

[sevent]

Sold for $91,500. Last bid was placed automatically by sedo, so winner might have been prepared to go even higher:

http://www.sedo.com/auction/auction_history.php?language=us&auction_id=22366

 

[simon]

congrats on the sale

 

[Theo]

What's great is that numbers cannot be trademarked Therefore, solid investment.

 

[sevent]

congrats on the sale

Should clarify that one's not mine. My baby is 27.com

 

[kwok]

Another great numerical sale Congrats to both the seller and the winner

 

[DomainMagnate]

Not bad, congrats to the seller and buyer.
Indeed a very solid investment.

 

[lordbyroniv]

Speculation on the future VS. Reality

When will these numerics get the attention everybody predicts?

 

[sevent]

Speculation on the future VS. Reality

When will these numerics get the attention everybody predicts?

I would say that they are already getting it. In Asia they are already high profile, and several very popular English sites use numeric .com names. Also, people outside of the domain name industry are beginning to notice that these are not just ordinary names. This is what someone outside of the domainer community wrote:

What has me interested in this website, is the domain name. It's a two number/letter domain, which many of you probably know, isn't cheap. Unless you had a domain like this locked up for a long while, it isn't something you could easily get your hands on without some big bankroll.

So clearly, people understand that having a short numeric *means* something, and they will pay more attention than to content at a domain like first-wireless-payment.com.

 

[james2002]

Nice domain name.