Blue.com was just a start…

The Blue.com sale I noted yesterday was only a modest part of a busy week for domain name sales.

DNJournal is reporting a slew of big domain sales, counting a hypenated .info domain name for €19,000! Fresh-York.info takes the cake as the highest hyphenated .info sale ever noted. It will certainly be attractive to search engines and is one of the reasons I’m a big believer in high quality .info and .biz domains for investment purposes. I was able to create a simple web site for Nutritionist.info and within a few weeks be ranked #1 at MSN for the term “Nutritionist”. Perhaps the more interesting thing regarding this sale is that the domain capitalizes on the fact that search engines still can’t parse keywords. If your domain is NewYork.com you will have a harder time showing up for the term “Fresh York” than the term “NewYork” without a space.

I recently sold a .info domain for 5-figures. It was a great one word domain that has gained search engine traction and right now generates significant revenue (the purchase was for the domain and web site).

A Canadian domain, Savings.ca, sold for $36,050 at Pool. Broadband.org added faith to the .org domain name following selling for $27,500 at Sedo. And check out this high .co.uk domain – Hollywood.co.uk – which snagged £10,000 at SnapNames. Hollywood in the United Kingdom? Go figure.

Although overshadowed by Fresh-York.info, Physician.info was a great sale for $10,500 at Sedo. Backgammon.info went for $3,257 at Moniker. Backgammon is becoming a more popular online destination for gambling. Perhaps the deal of the week was Podcasts.net, which sold for only $2,600 at Sedo.

Can you feel the excitement in the domain name industry?