Who bought Russia.com?

    An unknown buyer paid $ 1.5 million for the Russia.com domain , despite the fact that the audience of this site is only 8,000 people per month. This unusual event was noticed yesterday by Yakov Sadchikov, president of the Quintura search company. According to him, the deal took place at Sedo.com auction. Indeed, in Google’s cache you can still find a copy of the main page of the online auction, where Russia.com is on the list of recent deals.

    The Russia.com domain was registered in 1995 by NewMedia Holdings and was managed by the consulting firm Paley Media. The company is engaged in the management of domain names of different countries, including Algeria.com, Scotland.com, Nepal.com, Ukraine.com and others.

    According to experts, $ 1.5 million is a rather low price for this kind of domain. For example, this year the domain Korea.com was sold for $ 5 million. Some commentators sarcastically add that even beer.com and vodka.com went more expensive: for $ 7 million and $ 3 million, respectively (although this was before the crisis).

    As for the largest dominant deals this year, we can also name Candy.com ($ 3 million), Toys.com ($ 5.1 million), Fly.com ($ 1.8 million) and Ad.com ($ 1.4 million).

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