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10 Most Expensive Domain Name
# 4. Business.com

4th most expensive domain name is business.com. Business as the name suggests can really deals into serious businesses. This one word could have used for any number of businesses. The deal was between Mr. Marc Ostrofsky from Houston and Mr.Jake Winebaum.

Marc Ostrofsky has bought business.com domain in 1997. He is a Houston based entrepreneur. He has his own company Venture capital which deals with many telecommunications, internet based and publishing companies. According to him Domain names and web sites are real estates of the internet.

He is a Domain Name Investor. He has founded many technology trade shows along with 5 high tech telecommunication magazines. He is professional speaker on entrepreneurship on the internet. Even today he is the owner of many websites and domain names.

In 1999 Jake Winebaum of eCompanies from California purchased this domain for the price $7.5 Million. He wants to use this domain for business to business portal in this domain. Santa Monica-based eCompanies has been established in 1999.

Sky Dayton and Jake Winebaum have created eCompanies to launch internet start ups which will grow into franchises. The company will provide service start up like strategy, people, finance, technology, marketing and business development.

In the management Winebaum will become acting chief executive and Ostrofsky will become an adviser to the company.

Today

Business.com is a directory which is specialized in everything related to business. It is a search engine for business professionals. Initially it was free but in 2002 they started giving paid results which has made them more popular as now they have genuine visitors.

Company gives guidance to the small business communities. Any businessman who has doubts about his business can ask any query on this portal and he will get answer from the expert within 24 hours. It gives tips on how to run business efficiently. It gives information about the new technology you can use for your business like internet marketing, website development, latest communication equipment etc.

Today their directory is having 400,000 listings of 26 major industry category and 25,000 dub-categories. Many people claim that this domain is the most expensive domain. name.