The Slots.com auction came and went on April 28. According to the Gambling Portal Webmasters Association terms of the auction were emailed to participants on Monday April 26 and the auction apparently took place on Wednesday April 28. So far no news has been reported about the auction results and the final sale price remains a mystery at least to the general public.
Did Slots.com sell for more than $1 million – the price tag of Poker.org that turned heads simply because many didn’t believe a .org domain name, no matter how strong the keyword, could sell for such a high price?
Assuming Slots.com did sell on Wednesday, it could be loads of success for the owner of the domain. Christina Hall has remained quiet on the Slots.com blog where posts have been intermittent at best for the last several months. Her last post on March 31 announced that the domain was up for sale and so too was an industry. In her last post, she wrote:
“Slots.com is one the the Internet’s finest domains for the gambling industry, and it will be on the auction block this April. Land based and online operators are battling heads, and wallets, for the prize of owning the URL, with the auction coming hot on the heels of the sale of Poker.org for $1 million”
For many anxiously awaiting the results, the question is: will details on the price be kept under wraps, like many of the big ticket sales that go unreported? It’s obviously too early to say, but forum members on the GPWA’s website are asking the same question.
“Anyone know what slots.com went for?” The question was asked yesterday and remains unanswered. Not even guesses or theories about the auction.
And while the forum responses stay quiet, gambling news sites too have been quiet the past few days, with the last articles from one or two weeks ago reporting about the upcoming auction. Not a single gambling news site has written about the auction result.
The past few months have seen gambling domains perform extremely well with Poker.org selling for $1 million,
so keep an eye out for news of the Slots.com sale – because if a deal did go down, public or not, there’s one sure bet: it sold for more than Flying.com which owns the top sale in 2010 for $1,100,000.
And eventually gambling news sites and domain blogs will be abuzz with comments and analysis…
