Hmm.. Apparently the following three domains were purchased in late 2008 by a well known domain investor at auction for the following amounts: Date.me for $70,000, Marry.me for $12,000 and Meet.me for $5,890.

The economic depressions and all of the financial crisis to the side, somebody who drops close to $90k on three .me domains must be pretty confident with such an “investment” and clearly know what he is doing… Right. You would think?

I must be missing something here because to me none of the prices paid for the domains above make too much sense. I mean, marry.me for $12k??! Date.me for $70k??! Wow.. WOW!! The only one that I can see an actual standalone business behind is Meet.me. That’s it! The other two aren’t category killers or too special.

In my opinion, the prices paid for the domains were premium’s even over the end-user price that any one of these could ever fetch. I get it that they are catchy, brandable and unique but come on… $70k for Date.me ?! It’s hard to justify that price even for some of the best .ME domains and this one isn’t even one of the top 10.

I am not too crazy about all kinds of clever and made-up domain hack’s and sound good types of web 2.0 domains to begin with… Ok ok… Some of them do have their place and can be useful without a doubt but once again, dropping a huge sum on a domain such as Date.me makes no sense to me whatsoever.

I am puzzled. Really… But what probably happened in this case was; the investor got a little too excited / attached to these domains. He developed strong feelings for them. It happens sometimes where you overpay by a lot, but what can I say… Won’t be the first or last to do so in the domain biz. Live and learn.

So what do you make of all of this? I was shocked to learn about this when I found out only a few days ago. Lets hear it… Your turn