For £42,500, showing .net isn’t dead — Sudoku.net sells

This sale shows the .net market isn’t dead.

If there’s one big top level domain that was hurt by the launch of fresh top level domain names, it’s .net. .Net has typically been a “darn, I couldn’t get the .com” domain extension. Now people can choose from a bunch of other options.

So the sale of Sudoku.net at Sedo for £42,500 (which just came across the firm’s RSS feed) is notable. It’s the equivalent of regarding $53,000 at today’s exchange rate.

NameBio’s all-time list of .net sales over this amount totals 63 names. But no .net domains have publicly sold for this much in the past 12 months.

It’s a big sale for a .net domain, and it shows a bit of life for the extension.

The buyer appears to be a firm called Edito. Although the domain was once forwarded to a Sudoku site, it doesn’t appear to have been for many years and a backlink check shows no links.