They sold for quite a bit more than $1M, in fact. I would argue that the actual sales are realistic (in the sense that they reflect the actual price that peopl

They sold for quite a bit more than $1M, in fact. I would argue that the actual sales are realistic (in the sense that they reflect the actual price that people are willing to pay for them, i.e. their actual value), and it's merely your expectations that are unrealistic. You are significantly underestimating how valuable a good one-word keyword is in a single globally unified namespace used by billions of people daily. For companies worth many billions of dollars (most of the below), a few million on a killer domain name is nothing. Here are some notable expensive domain name sales: Uber.com 2% of the company's equity in 2010 (!!) Sex.com $13M Hotels.com $11M Tesla.com $11M Porn.com $9.5M Fb.com $8.5M https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_domain_names https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_domain_...