I know coupons.com sold for over 2 million, so both parties are probably happy with this sale. It's one of the top .info sales ever and the person who bought it, might have plans to develop it. Tough sector to compete in.
Well he def must have plans to develop or else it really doesn't make much sense to pay that much
for the domain. It will take him decades to probably recoup his/her investment back just from parking.
While I doubt that the domain get much type in traffic. But it is a good sale and gives hope to some
.info collectors. I have lost plenty of money registering damn good keyword infos and people are not even
willing to pay $10 for them.
It is very tough Niche to compete in but the new owner must have some solid plans for the site and make the
money back. A few months ago PaydayLoans.info was sold for $24,000 and I think the site is still under development.
So this is the second pretty good sale I have seen and I will check back in a month or 2 to see what these sites are offering.
Good Luck to the buyer and thumbs up to the seller.
Coupons.info was bought by Andrew Hazen. He set up an SEO company called Prime Visability in 1998 and sold it to PV Media in 2008. He's written a book called Search Engine Optimisation - Plain & Simple.
If you look on either site, you can see an interview Andrew Hazen did on Fox News.
From an SEO angle, Germany.info, Austria.info, Vienna.info, and Slovenia.info rank on the first page of Google for highly competed for keywords so it can be done.