domain names for sale on ebay

www.WhatIsMyIp.com has been sold for $386000 (starting price $3,500)on ebay!

My bet is that domain names sales are going to be more & more trendy this year. Not for the domain name itself (branding purpose) such as www.bestdeal.com, etc ... but for SEO again.

Google in particular penalises new sites. No way nowaday to get a consistant good ranking soon in competitive areas. "SandBox" filter seems to be the ultimate weapon to prevent flash spam sites to take over the SERP in a few days or weeks.

But what about if you buy a good old site, which has been around for years ... you have found the work around to escape the SandBox Filter.

This is why people can invest these kind of money in domain names: the guaranty of escaping google filters is worth a few pennies, quite esay actually to evaluate if you take the average 6 months you save in traffic by escaping the sandbox).