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 Jacob Sadchikov, president of the search company Quintura. According to him, the transaction took place at Sedo.com auction. Indeed, in the Google cache, you can still find a copy of the main website of the online auction, where Russia.com is on the list of recent deals.

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

According to experts, $ 1.5 million is a fairly low price for a domain of this kind. For example, this year the Korea.com domain was sold for $ 5 million. Some commentators sarcastically add that even beer.com and vodka.com are more expensive: for $ 7 million and $ 3 million, respectively (although this was before the crisis).
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As for the largest domain-wide deals of the current year, we can also call Candy.com ($ 3 million), Toys.com ($ 5.1 million), Fly.com ($ 1.8 million) and Ad.com ($ 1.4 million).