The domain name Guns.com has sold for a whopping $800,000 (U.S. Dollars). The sale of the premium, one-word domain name about guns was brokered by Moniker, according to DNJournal’s year-to-date sales reports.

The enormous selling price makes Guns.com the fourth-highest sale of a domain name to occur in 2010. The others are (in descending order): Flying.com, which took in $1.1million; Poker.org, which landed $1 million even; and Credit.fr (.FR is France’s ccTLD), which sold for $851,875 (all prices listed in U.S. Dollars).

The domain has a pagerank of 3 as of the most recent Google pagerank updates, and has been parked for at least a year and possibly much longer. This author has paid several visits to the domain during the year or so leading up to the sale, and has never seen the domain in any state that would qualify as developed or undergoing development. In other words, the domain itself with no website, commercial or otherwise, sold for nearly a million dollars.

This is significant news for premium domain name specialist Fat Lester of FatLester.com (and also this blog). The reason is that Fat Lester’s domain portfolio contains roughly a dozen or so domain names directly related to guns, ammunition sales, hunting and self defense.

The sale of the most generic, one-word, industry and product-specific term helps establish a market value for related and comparable domains, while establishing something of a price ceiling for other premium domains related in some way to the topic of guns and other weapons.

Comparable Domain Sales:

Other related domains that have sold in the past such as PaintballGun.com, which sold for $15,000 (USD) in the summer of 2007. The same domain (PaintballGun.com) went for $21,830 in 2004.

Puska.hu (.HU is the ccTLD for Hungary) also sold for more than $15,000. “Puska” is the Hungarian word for “gun”.

In a somewhat gun-related domain sale AR.com (as in “assault rifle”, and/or “Armalite” – the arms manufacturer company after which the “AR-15“, a very popular semi-automatic rifle, is named) sold for $225,000 in 2008.

In 2005, BBGuns.com took in a cool $40,000 before the exponential explosion of premium domain resale prices that occurred during the late 90′s. Outlaws.com commanded $33,000 that same year.

Fat Lester’s Domains Related to Guns, Ammo, Hunting and Self Defense:

• BiggestGuns.com - A premium two-word domain name and website about big guns.
• BuyAmmoOnline.com - A premium, keyword-rich domain name about ammunition sales with tremendous commercial potential.
• DeerAssassin.com - A Premium, extremely brandable domain name about deer hunting.
• TaxFreeAmmo.com - A keyword-rich domain name about tax free ammo, a frequently searched term.
• TaxFreeAmmunition.com - A keyword-rich domain name about tax free ammunition, a frequently searched term.
• BoarHunting.us - A keyword-rich domain name about boar hunting in the United States. A boar is a wild hog, for anyone wondering.
• DeerHunting.in - A keyword-rich domain with a generically applicable ccTLD about deer hunting.
• DuckHunting.in - A keyword-rich .in domain about duck hunting – America’s most popular waterfowl.
• DeerSausage.net - A keyword-rich .net domain name about deer sausage (also available in .info extension).
• Used-Shotguns.com - A keyword-rich domain name about used shotguns.
• Quail.ws - A single-word, keyword domain about quail, a popular game-bird, as well as quail hunting.
• UsedGuns.ws - A keyword-rich .ws (Web Site) domain name about used guns with above-average commercial potential.
• WildBoarHunting.us - A keyword-rich domain about wild boar hunting in the US.
• UltimateCharters.net (and .us) - Keyword-rich, brandable domain names about the ultimate in hunting and fishing charters.
• ShotgunAmmo.net - A keyword domain name about shotgun ammo with tremendous commercial potential.
• StunGun.ws - A two-word, keyword domain about Stun Guns (also known as “tasers”), and are used by law enforcement as well as self-defense.
• ShotgunShells.us - Keyword domain about shotgun shells with excellent commercial potential.
• Shotgun-Shells.com - Same as the above only a .com and with a dash in between the keywords.
• ShotgunShells.biz - Same as the above two domains, only in the .biz TLD and without a dash separating the keywords.
• AmmoStore.biz - Commercially viable .biz keyword domain about a store that sells ammo (an ammo store).

To submit an offer on one or more of the above-listed domain names, please call the phone number located on Fat Lester’s “Buy Domain Names” page.

For the record, Fat Lester had nothing to do with the transaction of Guns.com. He was neither the buyer, nor the seller (unfortunately). This article constitutes a third-party news write-up announcing the details of the transaction.