In an eye-catching press release today, Travelzoo announced that they have purchased the premium domain name, Fly.com, for $1,800,000.

Travelzoo stated in the release that they intend to use Fly.com as a new information website.

Company Senior VP, Brian Clark, said the domain will act as a compliment to the Travelzoo brand offering travelers and advertisers with innovative approaches to finding the best values in travel.

While flights in the U.S. have been plagued by faltering sales and frustrating delays, travel is still a popular escape from the pressures of life. Safe to say that the travel industry will re-emerge as the USA (and the world) eventually crawl out of the current economic slowdown.

Considering that most all markets are presently depressed with fire sales being the norm, acquiring Fly.com makes good sense for a company looking forward … and not behind. As I always say, “Once a domain is gone, it’s gone.” Which is great news when you’re the new owner of a premium web address like Fly.com.

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B2B.net just sold at Afternic.com for $15,000. B2B is a common abbreviation for Business-to-Business which is a term used to refer to commerce between manufacturers and wholesalers, or wholesalers and retailers. Both sides of a B2B transaction are always a business.

As a side note, B2BConsulting.com sold in 2007 for a modest $3388 (and appears to be used as a GoDaddy parking page currently).

A short, descriptive web address like B2B.net qualifies as a premium domain and could function well in the business community as a logical, easily recognized portal for business-to-business services. In an earlier sale concluded December 2007, BusinessAdvertising.net had been purchased for $3,429 (at SnapNames.com), and it looks to have been fully developed with content related directly to the key phrase: “business advertising”.

For those interested in business domain names, also see: Business.US – The Sky is the Limit published on this site.

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