Branson.com卖了$160萬

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Branson.com domain sells for $1.6M
St. Louis Business Journal - June 6, 2006


In the third highest-priced domain sale of the year, Larry Milton bought the domain name Branson.com for $1.6 million in cash.

For publicly reported domain name sales, Branson.com drew the third-highest price paid for a domain in 2006, the 21st most expensive of all time and the highest price ever paid for a city site, according to a release.


The site is meant to give tourists information on Branson, Mo., a city located more than 250 miles southwest of St. Louis that attracts more than 7 million visitors annually, the release said.

Branson.com has not changed hands since its initial registration in 1995.

Larry and his wife Lianne Milton, bought the domain name from the original registrar, Groman Enterprise, based in Hollister, Mo.

Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed, but Larry Milton told the St. Louis Business Journal that part of the $1.6 million cash deal went to pay off an option from a third party.

According to a release, Larry and Lianne Milton of Branson bought the site in February 2006.

New owner Larry Milton said in a statement, "With a destination site like Branson.com, we thought it only fair and right that it be a Web site that represented Branson and a source of information about our city. Our focus from the very beginning was to make this a community and tourist-driven site that would benefit everyone."