Poker.org Sold for a Record $1 Million

The sale of poker.org for $1M has been keeping the domain channels busy since news broke last week.  This sale marks the highest .ORG secondary market sale to date.  The million dollar sale is quite a jump from the next highest .org sales reported by Sedo --  engineering.org sold for $198,000, followed by sexe.org for $151,400 and date.org for $151,000.  The community is abuzz declaring this sale as a “Game Changer” for the .ORG extension in the secondary market.  Case in point, MHB noted, “Selling for more than 5 times than the previous highest sale, coupled with breaking the seven figure mark, the sale is going to effect the value of bang on, category killer .org.”

What’s more is that according to Sedo’s Domain Market Study, .ORG saw tremendous growth in the average sale price in Q4 2009 and even surpassed the average sale price of .NET.  Sedo put it best when they remarked that this sale “solidifies the value of the .ORG extension.”