Reported by DNJournal:
You may not have heard of Barcelona, Spain based domain name investor/developer Amado Martin Benitez before, but don’t be surprised if you start seeing the 33-year-old entrepreneur’s name everywhere in the near future. In 2012 Benitez managed to acquire one of the world’s best Spanish language domain names – Viajes.com (“Travel” in Spanish) for €400,000. After more than two years of painstaking development work, Benitez’s company has launched a new site on the premier domain that he is confident will make him a power in the huge travel markets serving Spain and Latin America.
Benitez said acquiring Viajes.com involved some of the hardest negotiating he has ever been involved with because the seller, legendary South American domain investor Chris Chena, is a guy who is fully aware of what great Spanish keyword domains are worth. Benitez recalled, “Chris had just sold Juegos.com toSpill Games for $10 million. I was trying to negotiate the price of Viajes.com with him for at least a year and a half… but then the global economic crisis hit and we were able to work things out – plus, I’ve always been a saver and I had some cash to spend!,” Benitez laughed.