The Most Expensive Domain Names

SAN FRANCISCO - Gary Kremen has parted ways with Sex.com after officially selling it on Jan. 12 to Boston-based Escom LLC.

While $14 million has been circulated as the selling price, several sources confirmed that amount to be incorrect. Andrew Miller, a partner in Domain Name Acquisition Group – the Boston based Internet real estate developer and prospector that initially optioned the domain from Kremen and ultimately helped put together the deal with Escom – termed previous reports “99 percent inaccurate.”

Neither Escom representatives nor Kremen would reveal the exact number, but the sale involved a combination of cash and equity.

A source close to the negotiations suggested that a more accurate price may be found in the lawsuit filed in September 2005 by a Philadelphia-based company attempting the purchase Sex.com from Domain Name Acquisition Group. The lawsuit listed the agreed-upon sale price as $11.4 million, which is nothing to sneeze at.

“This is one of the most significant deals in Internet history,” says Hal Bringman, a spokesman for Escom.

Before that Business.com which was resold in 1999 for $7.5 million, according to Guinness World Records, appears to have been surpassed as the most expensive domain name, and not by theRecordBreakingDomain.com which was attempting to become the most expensive domain name in a media-move by selling for $12,000,001.

The list of Most expensive domain names (in Euros):

	.com domains	Est. price
	sex.com	11.000.000
	business.com	6.000.000
	asseenontv.com	4.000.000
	altavista.com	2.640.000
	Wine.com	2.400.000
	creditcards.com	2.200.000
	auto.com	1.800.000
	vip.com	1.120.000

Based on reports from:

AZonline and SpeedNames

The World's Most Expensive MP3 Player - US$20,000

German audio and storage company TrekStor, has received an order from Russian-Canadian billionaire and owner of the Midland Formula 1 team, Alex Shnaider, to develop the world's most expensive MP3 player. This luxurious piece of jewelry, valued at approx. US$20,000, is cast in 750 gold and adorned with numerous diamonds and a valuable chain. The idea to develop the world's most expensive MP3 player came to Shnaider while negotiating a sponsorship deal with TrekStor CEO, Daniel Szmigiel. Shnaider was so fascinated by the i.Beat organix – a handy, 40g player with full-bodied sound and winner of eleven accolades – that he placed a special order for the unique, custom-made device on the spot.

Alex Shnaider, 3rd from the left (in dark formal suit)

To transform the i.Beat organix into a truly one-off accessory, Shnaider com-missioned manufacturer TrekStor to create a particularly magnificent and valuable piece of jewelry. He specified that the casing of the organix be cast in 750 gold (18 karat) and adorned with 63 diamonds (one-karat). The player was also to be embellished with a small chain that includes aquamarine gems. Jewelers Wenthe in Mannheim put over 100 hours of painstaking handiwork into the exquisite gadget. "We feel very honored that our atelier was entrusted with this challenging task," says Dieter Wüst, proprietor of Atelier Wenthe. "We invested a great deal of time and effort and are now very proud of our unique artifact."

original story published at: GizMag

World's Most Expensive Camera

This is most expensive camera in the world. In this day and age, camera makers are vying for the rank of the best by rendering superlative features that are constantly out doing each other day after day. But here is a camera discovered from a dusty attic that is making news. Called "Daguerreotype," it is a wooden sliding box camera produced by the Paris company Susse Freres in 1839.

Discovered as part of an inheritance in Germany, the antique piece will allow photography enthusiasts rewrite history. Westlicht, a private photo gallery and auction house in Vienna, plans to auction off this piece of history on May 26. Believed to be the world's oldest commercially manufactured camera, Westlicht said the Vienna camera has never been restored.

Up to now, experts said that apart from some documents there was no proof that the so-called "Daguerreotype," a wooden sliding box camera produced by the Paris company Susse Freres in 1839, really existed. Discovered as part of an inheritance in Germany, the antique piece will allow photography enthusiasts rewrite history.

The camera belongs to a US-based scholar and was inherited from his father, a technical photography professor at Munich University. The starting bid is $132,000, but the final price for the 168-year-old gadget is expected to be way past a million euros ($1,329,000). This makes it the most expensive camera in the world.

Invented by French chemist Lois Daguerre, a daguerreotype is an early type of photograph. It produces a direct image on a polished silver surface that bears a coating of silver halide particles, deposited by iodine bromide or chlorine vapours. As there was no negative original like in modern photography, no copies of pictures could be made.

Technical Specifications
- 1 gazillion Megapixels
- 1 Tripod
- 1 Black curtain
- 1 Free top hat with every camera sold (probably)
- 1 Lens cap
- No Zoom
- No Autofocus
- No Red-eye
- No Image stabilization
- No Noise reduction
- No GPS EXIF information
- No Battery
- No Carrying Case

Original Story at: www.notelay.com

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Most Expensive Car

The Most Expensive Car in the World : Bugatti Veyron 16.4

The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 is currently the fastest, most powerful, and most expensive street-legal full production car in the world, with a proven top speed of 407.5 km/h (253 mph), though several faster or more expensive vehicles have been produced on a limited basis. It reached full production in September 2005. The car is built by Volkswagen AG subsidiary Bugatti Automobiles SAS in its Molsheim (Alsace, France) factory and is sold under the Italian/French Bugatti marque. It is named after French racing driver Pierre Veyron, who won the 24 hours of Le Mans in 1939 while racing for the original Bugatti firm.
source: wikipedia

Specifications:

• Price Range: $1,200,000
• Body/seats: coupe/2
• Base engine: 8.0-liter quad-turbo dohc 64V W-16, 987 bhp
• Layout: M/awd
• Length (in.): 175.7
• Weight (lb): est 4160
• Mpg, city/hwy: est 10/12
• Side airbags: std
• ABS: std

This makes Bugatti Veyron 16.4, world's most expensive car .

Most Expensive Watches

worlds most expensive watches by Patek Philippe 1933

Watches are almost the only piece of jewelery men wears. There are many expensive men watches . But how far one can go to buy one? Now look at this piece of jewelery. In December 1999, one of the most complicated watches ever made became the most expensive watch ever sold when it was hammered down for $11 million at Sotheby's.

This exquisite piece of jewelery was made by Patek Philippe exclusively for New York financier Henry Graves Jr. It took three years to design and five year to produce.

The gold pocket watch, which featured 24 complications. (Complications are mechanical functions of the watch other than the hours, minutes and seconds.) When completed in 1933, the watch had a different horological function for each hour of the day and included a chart of the nighttime sky over Graves' home in New York.

The Graves watch had a presale estimate of $3 million to $5 million, and sold for $11,003,500 to an anonymous collector. With this fact, this watch makes into the worlds most expensive watches list.

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Piaget Limelight Polo Large Diamond Watch #GOA27018

When talking about expensive men watches , another proud entry from the modern world is Piaget Limelight Polo, large model. Case, dial and bracelet in 18k white gold set with baguette-cut diamonds (51.9 carats). Four hundred and ninety eight baguette-cut diamonds compose an exceptional adornment with this "Haute Joaillerie" Piaget polo watch.

Case, wristband and dial are set by hand by the master craftsman of Piaget's Geneva workshop, in the finest tradition of prestige jewelery. Each watch requires more than 600 hours of careful attention. Every diamond meticulously selected and skillfully cut to guarantee maximal brilliance.

And the Price is $894,000.00 only.

These are the most expensive men watches in the world.