08|07|2009 8:16 pm EDT
Clothes.com $4.9 Million Price Revealed in SEC Filings
TechCrunch and DNW.com both covered this story today. Turns out that Zappos.com paid $4.9 million to acquire Clothes.com from IdeaLab in 2008. The new revealed domain price puts Clothes.com at the second largest sale of 2008 behind the sale of Fund.com according to DNJournal’s sale chart for 2008.
Big sales like this seldom get reported when private companies are involved and public companies often are able to disguise exact sales numbers in financials. It’s a real treat to see something like this come to light.
Is it just me or has Tech Crunch covering a lot of domain sales lately? Kudos guys. I guess when you have a slew of category-killers changing hands like Candy.com, Office.com, Server.com, Toys.com and now Clothes.com it’s just hard to pass up.
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9 Comments
Brian
August 7, 2009 @ 11:15 pm EDT
Guess TechCrunch missed Auction.com in their coverage of the slew of category killers this year…
But good to see them picking these sales up
Adam Strong
August 7, 2009 @ 11:50 pm EDT
You can see a trend in TC copy-catting on stories from DNW and it doesn’t look like Andrew covered the 1.7 million auction.com sale. http://www.domainnamenews.com/domain-sales/auctioncom-sold-17-million/4450
Almost forgot we also saw Me.com (apple), Hobbies.com, Advertise.com and Ad.com change hands in the last year too. More greats!
What about MO.com ?!
Stephen Douglas
August 8, 2009 @ 5:20 am EDT
Atom, first of all, MO is my nickname, so I better gather the cash to get this one… lol
I can’t wait for techno-clothing to be standard fare (by 2012), and my SolarClothes.com domain is appraised by DomainConsultant.com at a nice six figure amount. Yes?
Great article, Atom.
jokes
August 8, 2009 @ 5:33 am EDT
Domains like this are gold
Lig tv izle
August 8, 2009 @ 10:34 am EDT
Domains as property? My gut is the benefits would outweigh the drawbacks. Legal precedents and so on…
Andrew
August 8, 2009 @ 11:34 am EDT
@ Adam – I wouldn’t call it “copycatting”. ;)
Ron
August 8, 2009 @ 12:33 pm EDT
Strong sales. The monopolization of good domains by large companies continues and companies are paying top dollar to get them under their umbrella.
I think this is just a start to a massive buy up of all of the good domains. I also predict we will see a sky rocketing price hike for regional domains and .tel domains over the next year.
Tony Smith
August 9, 2009 @ 5:58 am EDT
If you want to know more about Clothes.com, then visit http://www.aafter.com and type in the domain name. This private search engine returns a very wide collection of information about the domain name.
Tony Smith
setiawanpj
August 9, 2009 @ 8:51 am EDT
wooow great price ilike it