{"id":611832,"date":"2023-02-25T08:48:56","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T14:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/25\/the-most-expensive-domain-name-in-history-isnt-doing-too-well-with-site-traffic\/"},"modified":"2023-02-25T08:48:56","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T14:48:56","slug":"the-most-expensive-domain-name-in-history-isnt-doing-too-well-with-site-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/25\/the-most-expensive-domain-name-in-history-isnt-doing-too-well-with-site-traffic\/","title":{"rendered":"The most expensive domain name in history isn&#8217;t doing too well with site traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<article aria-label=\"article\" data-id=\"UncgZJtout7VsV9YMwoXMo\">\n<header>\n<nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumbs\">\n<ol>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\" aria-label=\"Return to Home\">Home<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\" aria-label=\"Return to News\">News<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/computing\" aria-label=\"Return to Computing\">Computing<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/nav>\n<\/header>\n<section>\n<div itemprop=\"image\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n<div>\n<picture><source type=\"image\/webp\" alt=\"domain for sale words on red keyboard button\" onerror=\"if(this.src &#038;&#038; this.src.indexOf('missing-image.svg') !== -1){return true;};this.parentNode.replaceChild(window.missingImage(),this)\"   data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/3ep4rkfN8ztEtiqospRGGh.jpg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/3ep4rkfN8ztEtiqospRGGh.jpg\"><source type=\"image\/jpeg\" alt=\"domain for sale words on red keyboard button\" onerror=\"if(this.src &#038;&#038; this.src.indexOf('missing-image.svg') !== -1){return true;};this.parentNode.replaceChild(window.missingImage(),this)\"   data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/3ep4rkfN8ztEtiqospRGGh.jpg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/3ep4rkfN8ztEtiqospRGGh.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/3ep4rkfN8ztEtiqospRGGh-320-80.jpg\" alt=\"domain for sale words on red keyboard button\" onerror=\"if(this.src &#038;&#038; this.src.indexOf('missing-image.svg') !== -1){return true;};this.parentNode.replaceChild(window.missingImage(),this)\"   data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/3ep4rkfN8ztEtiqospRGGh.jpg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/3ep4rkfN8ztEtiqospRGGh.jpg\"><\/picture>\n<\/div>\n<p><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/3ep4rkfN8ztEtiqospRGGh.jpg\"><br \/>\n<meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"600\"><br \/>\n<meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"338\"><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\">\n<span itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Shutterstock\/Kunst Bilder)<\/span><br \/>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>Owning a domain name will typically cost between $10 and $20 per year, but this is just a drop in the ocean in terms of a possible price tag, new data has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Top <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/web-hosting\/best-web-hosting-service-websites\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">web hosting<\/a><span> (opens in new tab)<\/span> company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostg.xyz\/aff_c?offer_id=61&#038;aff_id=1631&#038;aff_click_id=trdpro-us-5640662008816261000\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.hostg.xyz\/aff_c?offer_id=61&#038;aff_id=1631&#038;aff_click_id=hawk-custom-tracking\" data-hl-processed=\"hawklinks\" data-placeholder-url=\"https:\/\/www.hostg.xyz\/aff_c?offer_id=61&#038;aff_id=1631&#038;aff_click_id=hawk-custom-tracking\" rel=\"sponsored noopener\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\">Hostinger<\/a><span> (opens in new tab)<\/span> released a study looking into the top seven most expensive domain names in history, with the most expensive domain costing $30 million in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Voice.com was bought by a team of technologists, artists and curators from enterprise analytics and software company MicroStrategy, with Hostinger\u2019s data suggesting the transaction wasn\u2019t great value for money based on the site\u2019s monthly traffic figures (88.8k per month).<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"top-dollar-domains-xa0\">Top dollar domains\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>The top seven websites cost a combined amount of $109 million and include the domain names: 360.com, NFTs.com, Sex.com, Fund.com, Hotels.com and Tesla.com.<\/p>\n<p>The domain name 360.com was owned by Chinese internet security company 360 Security Technology, but was bought by Vodafone for $17 million back in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SimilarWeb data shows its traffic does significantly better than the most expensive domain with 23.9 million monthly visitors, making it the 154th biggest website in China.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more, the domain name Sex.com was sold in November 2010 from Escom to Clover Holdings after it won an auction.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the domain name receives more traffic than the rest of the top five sites combined, with 64 million visitors each month, and it\u2019s currently on sale, with minimum bids of $20 million so far.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s fascinating to see how much money has exchanged hands for specific domain names \u2013 the cost of the seven names in the list adds up to more than $100 million,\u201d said a spokesperson from Hostinger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor multi-billion-dollar companies, the outlay is relatively small, especially if it secures your presence on the web, strengthens your brand and provides a good stream of traffic to your site. However as this study shows, spending millions of dollars on the domain name doesn\u2019t guarantee millions of website visitors.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As far as Tesla.com goes, CEO Elon Musk previously mentioned that it took him ten years to buy the domain from Silicon Valley engineer Stuart Grossman for around $11 million.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We have a list of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\/best-domain-registrars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">best domain registrar<\/a><span> (opens in new tab)<\/span> services out there<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div data-hydrate=\"true\" data-reactroot id=\"slice-container-newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent\">\n<section>\n<p>Sign up to theTechRadar Pro newsletter to get all the top news, opinion, features and guidance your business needs to succeed!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div data-reactroot id=\"slice-container-authorBio\">\n<p>Abigail is a B2B Editor that specializes in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/web-hosting\/best-web-hosting-service-websites\">web hosting<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\/the-best-website-builder\">website builder<\/a> news, features and reviews at TechRadar Pro. 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Abigail is also extremely keen on commissioning contributed content from experts in the web hosting and website builder field.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\/the-most-expensive-domain-name-in-history-isnt-doing-too-well-with-site-traffic\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Arden Drews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home News Computing (Image credit: Shutterstock\/Kunst Bilder) Owning a domain name will typically cost between $10 and $20 per year, but this is just a drop in the ocean in terms of a possible price tag, new data has revealed.Top web hosting (opens in new tab) company Hostinger (opens in new tab) released a study<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":611833,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36303,505,46],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-611832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-domain","8":"category-expensive","9":"category-technology"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}