Domain Registration Related News
CD.com: One of the Last Great Domain Names Up
for Sale
August 2004
The name, valued at over $1 million, is expected
to generate intense interest from: retailers and
manufacturers of compact discs; general market
and music ecommerce merchants; financial
institutions; the recording industry, and the
bourgeoning legal music downloading services.
In a world where domain names that accurately
describe the content of a site fetch millions of
dollars, "old school" names like CD are becoming
scarcer, and highly demanded. Names like
CreditCards.com (sold this July for $2.75
million), Men.com (sold December 2003 for
$1.3M), Loans.com (sold to Bank of America for
$3M), and Business.com for $7.5M have all
fetched well into the seven-figure range. CD.com
scores high on intuitive, mnemonic recognition
and earns additional favor in domain valuations
by delivering customers in only two letters.
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