Some people is dying to survive, some people have to work 18 hours a day to support their family, some people just might lucky for buying a lottery and some people just need a few clicks in order to make sure their share is in the good pips.

But there is a group of “amazing” people that will not do all that kind of such things. All they need is a brilliant step to buy a domain name. Those people are:

1. Sex.com
Price: $12 million.
Originally registered by Gary Kremen, a Silicon Valley software salesman, in 1994. Sold in a private sale for a mixture of cash and stock to Boston-based Escom LLC in January 2005.

2. Porn.com
Price: $9.5 million.
MXN Limited bought its way into the porn industry in May. Brokered by Moniker.com, the deal stands as the largest all-cash URL transaction ever.

3. Business.com
Price: $7.5 million.
Sold to ECompanies Venture Group, headed by former Disney executive Jake Weinbaum, in 1999. Yet even the highly prized name couldn’t protect the business from the dot-com bust; the site is now a parking lot for other URLs.

4. Diamond.com
Price: $7.5 million.
Odimo sold this jewel of a site–along with its jewelry inventory–to Ice.com, an online retailer, in May 2006. Ice.com paid cash for the site and an extra $2 million for Odimo’s bling.

5. Beer.com
Price: $7 million.
Originally owned by Bill Fisher, a Web site developer who also owned Budweiser.com and Guinness.com. Sold to Belgium-based Interbrew, the world’s second-largest brewer by volume, the site now features racy content aimed at a male audience.

Source: Forbes.

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