I haven’t seen any news about this so figured I would bring some attention to it.
On October 5th 2010 Michael Berkens of TheDomains.com published information about an upcoming Moniker auction which Restaurants.com was part of. Berkens posted this in relation to the domain name, “Reserve price I’m told is north of $6 Million making this seem like a no-brainier great deal if you have the cash.”
On May 4th 2011 Andrew Allemann of DomainNameWire.com published information that Monte Cahn was suing Oversee.net for over $13,000,000. In that article it states Cahn was not paid commission for the sale of Restaurants.com.
1 + 1 = Restaurants.com sold for at least $6,000,000.
Unfortunately when the sales information for Restaurants.com does come out, we won’t see it on DNJournal.com’s top sales list. This sale was a domain name and website. As Berkens pointed out the website generates $80,000 – $90,000 revenue per month, receives roughly 250,000 visitors each month and is ranked #1 in Yahoo and Bing and #2 in Google for the keyword ”restaurants”.
Regardless of the final price this is a beautiful sale for both buyer and seller.
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Within the past couple of weeks Moniker reported the sale of Slots.com for an estimated $5,500,000. I say estimated because legal and escrow fees were not calculated into the sales price. One thing that was unclear to the public is who the buyer was. This morning Bodog brand released a 
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Earlier today Sedo.com reported the sale of domain name Pilot.com for $300,000. Whois history shows the seller under privacy and the buyer as DBS, LLC which may also be known as Hearst Entertainment & Syndication. Before looking up the buyer my initial reaction for domain use would be, as pictured to the left, an airline pilot. Now knowing the buyer, it could also be used for a TV pilot. A television pilot, also known as a pilot episode and series premiere, is the first episode of a television series. At the time of its inception, the pilot is meant to be the “testing ground” to see if a series will be possible and successful and therefore a test episode of an intended television series. It also appears based on the Whois records that DBS, LLC only owns 7 domain names making this a strong possibility of being an end-user sale.
