Domain servers.com sold at auction for $ 300,000

In Monday, December 2, 2013, became aware of the sale of the domain Servers.com in bankruptcy and sale of property of the previous owner. Domain was auctioned and sold at a price of $ 300,000. The auction itself was held in Dallas (USA), but the winner of the auction has become an international company XBT Holding, which combines several large companies, one way or another connected with the hosting. Of all the companies of the holding in Russia is more or less known WEBZILLA, on its facilities are located many Russian FOREX-brokers and game projects, as well as cloud service 4Sync.

Direct buyer acted Luxembourg company ROOT SA, it also provides web hosting, domain registration and the like.

According to the CFO of the holding Rajesh Kumar Mishra (Rajesh Kumar Mishra), «beautiful» domain should become the basis for a unified hosting platform for small and medium businesses. That is, most likely, the company will raise a known address hosting “supermarket” where you can easily purchase an option in a few clicks.

In this regard, the question arises: whether so relevant today classic dedicated or VPS-hosting to pay for a domain that kind of money? Especially against the background of clouds, where two or three instances will often be enough to cover all the needs of a small business-related.