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poker.org sold for 1 MILLION $
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Link for the lazy: http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/17/poker-org-sold-for-1-million-most-ever-for-org-domain/
Poker.ext holds records in at least a few extensions now. It'd have .de too with it's nearly $1 million sale a few years back if not for Credit.de recently. Amazing how a game has become a serious industry in and of itself to the point of commanding the highest prices in domains. The .com was rumored to be close to selling in the $20 millions a couple years back as well. .org for a million is about right for the price and hopefully now people start to take .org a little more seriously.
Poker.ext holds records in at least a few extensions now. It'd have .de too with it's nearly $1 million sale a few years back if not for Credit.de recently. Amazing how a game has become a serious industry in and of itself to the point of commanding the highest prices in domains. The .com was rumored to be close to selling in the $20 millions a couple years back as well. .org for a million is about right for the price and hopefully now people start to take .org a little more seriously.
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IMO they way over paid. The .org extension to me has always had a non-profit feel to it. Still congrats to the seller!!!
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Stupid purchase price though! Frankly, even .BIZ would be better for this term, but we'll see. Poker instruction plus paid links would be an idea but not a $1M idea, I don't think! Maybe, seriously, there is a new poker industry association coming. That would be a good .org use but, again, $1M??! I think that Engineer.org was a roughly $750K deal back in the early days for a similar purpose, on the other hand.
Right, real "stupid." You have any idea what the house "hold" is per hand, per hour, per table?
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I agree that they overpaid but these guys have a trio of .org domains that go together quite nicely: blackjack.org poker.org and rakeback.org. They are also master poker webmasters and affiliates and know what they are doing. I don't think they necessarily know what they are doing when it comes to domaining - they probably should have hid their identity here and played hardball - probably could have saved a few hundred k at least - but I have no doubt they will be on the first page for 'poker' in short order and make this look like a very wise investment in time.
Definitely a great sale - but also a great acquisition for those guys, in spite of the high price they paid.
Hopefully not, unless it is a word or term that is taken in literally every single extension and worth x,xxx,xxx+ in the .com. But they probably already take those seriously anyway, so...
Not that I disagree with you but this is going to be a portal, not a gambling site.
Definitely a great sale - but also a great acquisition for those guys, in spite of the high price they paid.
Hopefully not, unless it is a word or term that is taken in literally every single extension and worth x,xxx,xxx+ in the .com. But they probably already take those seriously anyway, so...
Not that I disagree with you but this is going to be a portal, not a gambling site.
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these sales happen when you have a seller that does not really want or need to sell. most of the time these kind of fantasy numbers go unreported. nice deal all around.
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