What kind of domain name is a premium domain name?
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The so-called boutique in the domain name world is an extremely short domain name, and the general understanding of extremely short domain names by domain farmers is "single spelling", "double spelling", "double characters", "three characters", "three numbers", etc. However, in the eyes of domain name investors, the real extremely short domain name is the single character, but now such single-character domain names rarely exist, and it is almost impossible to register them. In addition, a large part of the domain name registries have reservations for some single-character domain names, such as the com domain name, which only opens registration for 3 single-letter domain names. Today, Soushi.com will introduce several boutique domain names to you.
.COM boutique domain name series:
Single-letter com boutique domain names rarely have transaction information, and currently only the three single-character domain names of Q.com, X.com and Z.com can be queried for their holders or ownership.
First, let's take a look at the background history of the X.com domain name:
In 1993, Weinstein & DePaolis registered X.com;
In the 1990s, it was displayed as the homepage of Robert Walker's personal website;
In 1999, Elon Musk, the current CEO of Tesla, acquired the domain name and created the online financial platform X.com;
In 2000, X.com and PayPal merged. At first, the merged company still maintained the name X.com until it was renamed PayPal in June 2001;
In 2002, eBay acquired PayPal for $1.5 billion, and since then, X.com has not been used again.
If PayPal decides to sell X.com, I believe there will be many companies trying their best to fight for this domain name: such as Google's X moon landing plan (x.company); of course, it is not ruled out that PayPal may consider cooperating with Elon Musk again and participate in the latter's space X plan (spacex.com).
How much do you know about the premium domain name Q.com?
Q.com is currently used to jump to the CenturyLink website. In 2010, CenturyLink (total assets of $47 billion) exchanged the premium short domain name Q.com from Qwest Communications for a $12 billion equity stake. And obviously, Q.com did not disappoint: Alexa's global traffic ranking is about 40,000, and the ranking in the United States is around 7,000. I believe that CenturyLink has basically no intention of selling this premium domain name.
Z.com - The first publicly reported single-letter com premium domain name
Z.com was registered in 1997. Before 2014, it was held by Nissan, a well-known Japanese automobile manufacturer, and was mainly used to promote its Z series sports cars. In 2014, Z.com was purchased by the Japanese Internet giant GMO Group for 800 million yen (about $6,784,000 in US dollars at the exchange rate of that year), which was also the first publicly reported single-letter com transaction. Z.com is now used by the terminal as an international foreign exchange trading platform, serving more than 450,000 users and occupying an astonishing 20% share in the international foreign exchange market. It can be said that Z.com is the only fully developed single-letter com domain name.
What are more high-priced boutique com domain names?
1. Sex.com has maintained the record of "the world's most expensive domain name" for 5 years at a price of 13 million US dollars (about 89.29 million RMB).
2. Porn.com was sold at a sky-high price of 9.5 million US dollars (about 65.24 million RMB) in 2007!
3. Qihoo purchased 360.com for 17 million US dollars in 2015 and became the "world's most expensive domain name".
4. After Wang Sicong spent 60 million to buy wanda.com, he spent a high price to buy the "limited" domain name bbbb.com, and used both domain names to jump to his Weibo homepage.
5. In 2011, Weibo spent 8 million to acquire the domain name Weibo.com.
6. In 2014, Xiaomi acquired the domain name Mi.com for 3.6 million US dollars (about 24.72 million RMB).
7. JD.com spent 30 million yuan for JD.com.
8. There are a large number of high-quality domain names on the domain name mall, such as tb.com, yb.com, fzb.com, jl.com, qd.com, etc.
The com domain name is known as the overlord of the current domain name industry because of its special status. Whether it is the domain name selected when building a website or the domain name selected by investors, the com domain name is their first choice. However, due to the new domestic regulations on domain names, real-name authentication is required for website construction and domain name use, which undoubtedly affects a large number of people.
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