Sales of domains Fly.com, Russia.com, America.com and Brazil.com were among the top ten highest valued URLs in 2009 as travel and geography-related sites showed a rise in popularity with buyers.
Data from domain marketplace specialist Sedo shows that the well publicised purchase of Fly.com by Travelzoo just weeks ahead of the metasearch engine’s launch in February 2009 was the biggest transaction of the year at £1.2 million (almost $1.8 million at today’s prices).
Read the full story at: http://www.tnooz.com/2010/02/05/news/four-travel-related-domain-name-sales-fetched-4-5-million-in-2009/
