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For $355k in 2006. WirelessPhones.com just sold for $70k. — WirelessPhone.com sold

A good deal or a reality check of the domain market?

Afternic just brokered the sale of WirelessPhones.com for $70,000.

The name rang a bell, so I started searching around. As it turns out, I wrote regarding an auction for WirelessPhone.com (singular) back in 2006. The domain sold for $355,000 to a domain investor back then.

So let’s be honest, here. WirelessPhones.com is a better domain than the singular version. And it just sold for 1/5th of what the singular version sold for in 2006.

Is this a) a symbol of the excesses of the domain market ahead of the crash or b) changing nomenclature around mobile phones or c) just a freak occurrence (either the previous sale or this one).

You tell me.

The buyer is a direct marketing firm out of Charlotte, North Carolina.

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