Travel.info Sells for $116,000
Sale is highest ever noted for .info domain.
Domain aftermarket Sedo has brokered the sale of Travel.info for $116,000, the highest amount ever noted for a .info domain name sale. The buyer of the domain is using Moniker’s whois privacy service. A notice on the web page states that it is being redesigned.
The domain hopped around between a couple sellers over the past few months, but the owner who made the record breaking sale is Jian Wang of East Star Corp. Ltd.
Other notable .info sales in the past two years include:
– Credit.info – noted at $36,000, although the domain is right now in Sedo’s hands
– Casino.info – $35,127, right now an online casino portal
– Christian.info – $35,000, a Christian site owned by Adam Woeger
– CreditCard.info – $25,500, a credit card portal
.Info made a splash when it was one of two “fresh” TLDs a number of years ago, debuting regarding the same time as .biz. Compared to .biz, .info is been very successful. Still, .info is also a favorite domain of spammers and other blackhats since the domains are frequently offered at discounts by registrars. This may affect the search engine rank of .info domains.
Sedo represents a number of other .info domain names that may make headlines when they sell, such as Laptops.info, Fat.info, NewYork.info (Fresh-York.info sold for $22,864 last year), and Apartment.info.
