The interest in numeric domains has been waning the last few years. 147.com sold at Sedo on Saturday for $56,555. This is the lowest reported price for a NNN.com since 2014.
509.com was sold for $295,000 in 2018 by the Booth Brothers, it was sold back in February for a loss, bringing in $106,000.
I think the numeric market has been teetering on the edge for a while, and now this.
Apparently the Chinese are rushing for exits.
147 is the maximum break in a frame of snooker (technically, it’s 155 if your opponent fouls on the black and you clear the table) but it’s a number that’s synonymous with the game. It’s growing massively in China and elsewhere in Asia -it was huge in the 1980s in the UK and Commonwealth countries and still has a significant presence- so in truth, whoever bought it has picked up a bit of a bargain as a platform for a snooker portal.