Hotel-Reservation.com sold $208,000 at sedo

[chillking]

Hotel-Reservation.com sold at sedo for $208,000 the most expensive hyphenated domain name purchases of all time .

 

[cleverlyslick]

congrats to the seller! sick life.

 

[PRED]

incredible sale

 

[hugegrowth]

Hooray for the hyphen! Two word key phrases like this can sell well with the hyphen, although this was a really good example.

 

[DomainsInc]

If I could just get a sale like that I'd be soo happy.

 

[Credit]

Unbelievable

 

[hugegrowth]

If I could just get a sale like that I'd be soo happy.

The way domain sales are going lately we all might get a sale like that! lol

 

[mark]

makes my hotel domain sound better every day; congrats to both parties

 

[David G]

sounds bogus. don't see how a hyphentated name could sell for that much.

 

[Dorkside]

Unbelievable

My thoughts exactly. I have a hard time believing this one. If it's true, a big congratulations to the seller.

 

[thevirtual]

I need a sale like this.

 

[Onward]

My thoughts exactly. I have a hard time believing this one. If it's true, a big congratulations to the seller.

Yeah...I can see saying "200k - not quite enough as I hand regged it almost 2 full years ago...I need 208k or forget it"

 

[chillking]

I think domainers should start taking hyphenated domains serious i have recently sold a 3 word low quality credit card name with 2 hyphens in it for $1,000 and i regged it. Companies are just interested in the .com and also the keywords .

 

[Domain Jedi]

Them Germans love their hyphens.. Please note that I am half German!

 

[snicksnack]

I assume the buyer is HRS, they have bought many hotel related domains in the last few weeks.

 

[cleverlyslick]

hrs?

i assume the buyer is hrs, they have bought many hotel related domains in the last few weeks.

 

[snicksnack]

hrs.de

 

[chrisb72]

Congrats and best gards!

 

[dodo1]

Yes. The domain was bought by HRS (Hotel Reservation Service) from Germany. Hyphenated domains are more common in Germany than in the US, because hyphens make two-word domains more readable. I still think that it's a high price, but it is in no way unrealistic.

The domain was brokered by Sedo, which also sold other domains to HRS lately. For example: WellnessHotels.com (€41,650) and Hotel-Reservierung.de ($34,510; "hotel reservation" in German).

By the way, Hotel-Reservation.com was indirectly owned by Sedo, because the former owner, DomCollect, belongs to Sedo as far as I know. DomCollect is one of Germany's largest domain owners with a portfolio of more than 100,000 domains.

 

[Vjizzle]

How many of you here (after reading this article) tried to find some DN's with a hyphen in it to reg or went into your inventory to see if you could sell any?