Reglikedomain industry desk

Co.LTD sells for $115,000

Donuts sells two-letter domain name for six figures.

Fresh top level domain name firm Donuts has sold the domain name co.LTD for $115,000, the firm revealed today.

.LTD is a corporate identifier top level domain name and is short for “limited”. There are regarding 25,000 .ltd domain names in the zone.

The buyer is listed in whois as Hangzhou E-Business Institute and uses the email address [email protected]. Eb.ac.cn does not resolve, and neither does ac.cn. Still, if you Google ac.cn, you’ll find a number of working subdomains under ac.cn, all of which seem to be connected to science and education groups.

It’s possible the buyer is the owner of LTD.com. The registrant name, city and province match for both whois records. LTD.com sold for $184,000 on NameJet last year.

Donuts’ six-figure domain name sale comes on the heels of Rightside’s two six-figure sales in the .live domain name: sex.live for $160,000 and porn.live for $120,000.

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