Domain servers.com sold at auction for $ 300,000

On Monday, December 2, 2013, it became aware of the sale of the Servers.com domain as part of the bankruptcy procedure and the sale of the property of the previous owner. The domain was auctioned and sold for $ 300,000. The auction itself was held in Dallas (USA), but the winner of the auction was the international company XBT Holding, which combines several large companies one way or another connected with hosting.


Of all the companies of the holding in Russia, WEBZILLA is more or less known ; many Russian FOREX brokers and game projects as well as 4Sync cloud service are located at its facilities.
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The direct buyer was the Luxembourg company ROOT SA, it also provides hosting services, domain registration and the like.

According to the financial director of the holding Rajesh Kumar Mishra (Rajesh Kumar Mishra), a “beautiful” domain should be the basis for a unified hosting platform for small and medium-sized businesses. That is, most likely, the company will raise a hosting “supermarket” at a well-known address, where it will be possible to easily acquire the desired option with a few clicks.

In this regard, the question is born: Is classic dedicated or VPS hosting so topical today to pay such money for a domain? Especially against the background of the growth of clouds, where a couple of instances will most often be enough to close all the related needs of a small company.