Eat your heart out domainers, CNN reports on license plate auctions in Abu Dhabi where 300 plates sold for $56 million. The current world record for the most expensive license plate is $6.8 million for plate #5. The price is 10x more expensive than the car it was put on. The owner, Talal Khouri, is now gunning for plate #1 which will be auctioned next month. He claims to be willing to pay $15-20 million. Sounds to me like the domain name auction companies need to do some heavy-duty marketing in the UAE.
Some serious money being turned over.
