Sedo.com is reporting the domain name PaydayLoans.info has sold for $24,000 USD. This would make PaydayLoans.info the highest .info sale for 2010 at this point. The next highest .info sale reported so far for 2010 was Love.info which sold for $12,000 USD at DomainFest on 2/17/2010.

For 2009, according to DnJournal.com, Dubai.info was the highest reported .info sale for 2009 with a sales price of $35,000. The second largest .info sale in 2009 was SEO.info which sold for $21,930 USD.

The whois info has yet to change on the PaydayLoans.info domain name and still currently shows a well known domain name investor as the owner. Larry Fischer of the blog DirectNavigation.com . I sent an email to Larry to confirm the sale and Larry confirmed it. I will keep an eye on whois to see who the new owner is, but I would expect it to be a payday loan store.

Although the .info TLD makes sense for an information type site, the TLD has not had much love when it comes to higher dollar sales like .com, .net and .org! Payday Loans is a pretty popular money maker and the competition is pretty stiff for the matching keyword with 5.5 million results on Google. Larry, the past owner of the domain name is well educated on domains and even though asked what many may think is a "higher price", this time the buyer thought it was fair enough and saw the value in the all important keyword they were looking for in the domain name, which resulted in the sale.

A couple other sales recently on Sedo.com

MusicVideos.com topped the Sedo sales chart for the week at $250,000 USD!

DogsBite.com was sold by MostWantedDomains.com via Michael Berkins of TheDomains.com for $11,000 USD at Sedo.

GiftCardMessages.com $12,000 USD which is also pictured above. This may have been a Website/Domain sale, as the domain ranks number 1 on Google for Gift Card Messages already and a site is up.

Glitch.com for $19,000 also pictured above was first reported sold around Jan 19, 2010

BGM.com $12,501 sold at Sedo as well.

Symbolics.com was registered today, 25 years ago! Symbolics.com is now owned by domain name investor Aron Meystedt where he runs a personal blog on the Symbolics.com domain name. The blog has a main focus on domain names and investments with domain names.

Verisign, the registry for .com and .net domain names is throwing a year long party to celebrate the 25 years of Dot-Com and is kicking things off with a site at  25YearsOf.com

Well, even Verisign seems to have a bit of a problem after 25 years!

Once the site is fixed, it will display history of domain names, which will be pretty cool to see, but in the mean time, they are showing that even after 25 years, web sites still have problems from time to time. (Update: The site appears to load now)

Here is a list of the top 10 oldest .com domain names:

Out of the top 100 "oldest" .com domain names, NYNexst.com was registered on 11/30/1987 and comes in at number 100. Since the time of the original top 100, all 100 have held there original creation dates.

Convergent.com (#54) is the "longest" domain of the top 100 .com domain names ever created with 10 letters (excluding the TLD). 40% of the top 100 are registered with Network Solutions at time of posting. 7 of the 100 domain names are 2 Letter domain name. 34 are 3 letter domain names. 7 are 4 letter domain names.

Bell-ATL.com was the first hyphenated dot-com domain name, created on 08/05/1986. Data-io.com was the second on 11/18/1986 and rounds out the only two hyphenated domains in the top 100. December 11, 1986 saw the most .com domain names registered in one day out of the top 100, with 12 domains registered that day.