A seventh largest domain deal since the beginning of 2014 was made in the beginning of the week. A sale of BTC.com domain was conducted through the mediation of brokerage firm Domain Guardians. The deal amounted to one million dollars.
BTC is almost an official abbreviation for bitcoin, it is the most popular “digital currency” as of today. It was bought by GAWMiners, a company that specializes in sales of computers that are especially configured for “mining” – crypto currency generation. As for the seller, the last administrator of the domain registered in Whois database is Brain Trust Company from Osaka (Japan).
According to analysts, such as expensive purchase indicates that despite a number of recent scandals with the bankruptcy of online stock exchanges, that dealt with bitcoin, popularity and investment attractiveness of crypto currencies remains very high, and on the domain market as well.
Marina Nikerova, senior deputy director at Technical Center of Internet, believes that domain price on a secondary market is directly proportional to its relevance. “A buyer is usually someone who wants to open a new project and expects to attract users to a beautiful and sonorous name or a domain broker who plans to sell it for a bigger price later on. Anyway, a price this high for a domain suggests that crypto currency Bitcoin is still very popular and the owners of a future resource on this domain are willing to invest a lot of money in its promotion”, said she.
