I Bought Hotels.com for $11 million
 

David Roche is president of Hotels.com which is part of the Expedia group.

Mr Roche started working in hotels as a jazz musician and after a decade of nomadic entrepreneurialism he came across Hotels.com and since then it has mushroomed to become an online booker of 150,000 hotels in 34 languages.

Speaking to Today business presenter Simon Jack, the entrepreneur explained how the company took control of the market using the internet.

In 2001 the company purchased the name Hotels.com for around $11m and at the time this was thought to be "a crazy sum of money".

"Now we look back we look back and think, what a bargain," he added.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today...00/9765923.stm

Nice, why i did't have some top domains reged back in the dya, why :)

i have one registered before google

I bought two domains back in the old days of faxing reg agreements back and forth to interNIC. Sold them both for $20k - just wish I had bought more.

ya why at didnt overbid him at 11.1m , damn :1orglaugh


lets see if the 150$ spent last night make us richer :upsidedow
soloGFS.com
sologf.com
WEHAVESEX.COM
PENISPILLSEXPOSED.COM
FINANCESEXPOSED.COM
JIZZBANG.COM
PUSSYARMY.COM
CASHBANG.COM
LILTEASE.COM
WESUCKCOCK.COM
SINHARD.COM
TEAMPLAYA.COM
COMESEXY.COM
WESEXY.COM

I see what you did there :)

Nice :thumbsup

I am useless when it comes to domain names :Oh crap

Goodluck :thumbsup

And to come full circle, I have ISeeWhatYouDidThere.com. :)

That's the thing - great domains are almost always bargains for the businesses that use them. Hell, Bank of America spent millions on Loans.com just to redirect it to Bank of America.

I can imagine :)

wesuckcock.com might be the next hotels.com.

^ Or next redirect to Bank of America.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

I pay them 10$, so i dont expect too much, but

WeHaveSex.com have a good potential for Dating LP/WL for us

Sologfs will be add to our Dagfs.com paysites

penispills & finance Exposed will be good LP like our http://freecamsexposed.com and http://exposedwebcams.com
The rest are just short domains that we may us for co-brand or various project.. will see...

The high priced domain over 100k or over 1m are not for everybody and you have to make sure that you gonna exploite them well

We bough good domains for few K like http://slutroulette.com http://gratiscams.com or http://camgratuite.com and they really worth it..

Sure if we could teleport 5-10-15 years ago and buy good cheap short domains, will be all happy !

Cant wait to see what you guys do with penispillsexposed

Will FinanceExposed.com be adult related? Or did you mean fiancee?

Like you I misread it as fiancee at first, because "finances exposed", like "penis pills exposed", makes absolutely no sense. WTF are you going to expose about penis pills? That they don't really work? It's nonsense.

Dont worry about us guys, will manage something to do..

Penis pills exposed will be very easy for us to brand... and even it they dont works like you say, peoples are buying and buying ..everyday and they will continue to buy.. so we will exposed are awesome they are :)

About the finance one, this is different, mainstream, its not for now,, could be just a blog with ads... or a LP that explain or to get a loan or credit rate etc etc

They are 10$ domains, we can afford thousands of them, no worry

You could have ask what we gonna do with Wesexy.com and sinhard.com ... this i will had more problems to answer to the questions other than say MAYBE futur LP/WL/Blog/Tube will see...

We have ideas and good marketing team, so just adding domains to our portofolio is good for us.

that freecamsexposed is an awesome setup ...

You making a website about the French Army?

Yes thanks, basically it has doubled up the sign up ratio compare to send directly to myfreecams...

We have a funny one for dating

http://easydatingexposed.com/

Also http://freedatingexposed.com

And we did one with our Streamate WL http://exposedwebcams.com

all on Crakrevenue !!


Dont spoil this info :1orglaugh

Hehe just tough was a fun/short name ( pussyarmy.com ) , will see in the futur !


Anyone else has good domains names story, bought Cheap sold High or anything related ?

More like Canadian army...

i just cant say.

...indeed.

Ka-ching! Why are people on other forums such humorless #$%*'s? I should have focused on the adult web just so that I could hang out with some of you guys.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Never used hotels.com.


+1 for Agoda.com and I'm sure that domain wasn't near 11 mil ;)