There is bunch of news coming out of sites like Mashable and TechCrunch about the sale of the domain name Facemash.com.
The domain name is currently up for auction at Flippa.
There has been one bid received for $10,000, which is still below the reserve price.
The domain had previously sold on SnapNames in 2009, as one reader noted in the comments. According to DomainTools Sales History, Facemash.com sold for only $799 on December 12, 2009.
Here’s what the seller has to say about the domain name once owned by Marck Zuckerberg:
I have for sale today the domain name FaceMash.com, Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg’s FIRST known website he set-up at Harvard!
This is a piece of Internet history – history of a website that perhaps is second only to Google in Global influence!
This website was prominently referenced in the first scene of the recently released move “The Social Network”. Traffic has syrocketed since to over 1000 hits a day past 2 days. but is approx. 600/mo on a normalized basis.
Not only that, the site is currently leased (no contract) on a month to month basis to an upstart Social Network for $100/mo and they are open to discussing Equity ownership in Feb 2011.
Several inquiries and offers have been received – I thought it would be best to list it for auction.
If you haven’t seen “The Social Network” yet, you should check it out especially if you are part of the domain industry.
In theaters now, the movie takes viewers through the early beginnings of Facebook.
In one scene, Sean Parker who co-founded Napster and was played by Justin Timberlake in the film, advises Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin during their first dinner meeting to drop the word “the” in the company’s name and web address: TheFacebook.com.
In late August 2005, Aboutface Corporation sold the domain name Facebook.com to Facebook for a reported $200,000.
That might not seem like much given Facebook’s estimated valuation is in the billions, but back in 2005 who would’ve thought the company would be so big?
PokerCompany.com, one of the leading groups for online gaming marketing, has soft launched Poker.org.
After months of development, Poker.org finally makes a public appearance, albeit with a soft launch in order to sort out any turbulence on the path to a real launch.
All members of sister site Rakeback.org have been transferred automatically to Poker.org. Have no fear – all deals on Poker.org are matched or even topped. As a member of a bigger and more ambitious site, we promise you even better promotions and offers in the near future.
As a member of the Poker Club – which is what we call the Poker.org community – you have access to your own player account where you can create poker teams, add friends, post blogs, view your posted hands and much more.
The domain name poker.org was sold by National A-1 for $1 million in February 2010.
According to Ron Jackson of DN Journal, the $1MM price tag is currently the highest price ever reported for a .orgdomain. In a story that appeared on DN Journal shortly after the transaction, Markus Sonermo – the CEO of PokerCompany.com – revealed he also paid the second highest price ever for a .org domain with BlackJack.org, which he purchased in 2007 for $298,000.
Behind every domain name, there’s a story – and if you’re anything like me, during the Holiday season it’s always interesting to see what companies and people are doing with their domain names.
In the case of Halloween.com, its owner Christian Riley has an amazing domain name story that spans almost 20 years.
Christian Riley, not only owns Halloween.com, he owns a slew of category-killing domain names that he has developed into web sites. His passion for domain names started years ago back in the early nineties – some of which he has sold, some of which he has kept, and some of which he has developed.
Christian shows off his domain names and markets them on several of his properties. Visit Halloween.com, and at the top of the site you’ll see links to SantaClaus.com, PhoneBook.com, Hurricane.com and ThanksGiving.info.
On PhoneBook.com, Christian receives on average 100,000 visitors per month according to Compete. Scroll the bottom of the web site, and the footer links to other sites in Christian’s network including: whitepages.biz, scholarships.net, christmas.biz, easter.biz, diving.com, and jacksonville.biz.
What’s Christian Riley’s story?
What better way to learn about Christian, than to read his blog – at none other than ChristianRiley.com. The guy has some experience in the domain industry. In a post dating back to 2002, Christian writes about domain names he registered in 1993 and 1994. The list is long.
law.com (didn’t register, it but was Director of Operations, 1993)
games.com (July 15, 1994) – Hasbro/Parker Brothers wanted this. AOL has it as of 2009.
casino.com (July 14, 1994)
court.com (August 4, 1994)
gamble.com (July 14 1994)
hotel.com (August 4, 1994) – HotelSupplies.com Inc bought this
Halloween.com (August 30, 1994)
SantaClaus.com (August 1994)
EasterBunny.com (December 1995)
phonebook.com (July 14, 1994) – We began with web directories here, Miami.com, and at coral.net for clients and business in Florida and the Caribbean. Lots of realtors and destinations.
palmbeach.com (May 24, 1994)
rights.com (August 30, 1994)
dive.com (July 30, 1994)
Havana.com (Sept 1, 1994)
Coral.net (Sept 8, 1994)
Sequitur.com (June 1994) – The opposite of non sequitur. Ended up letting it go. Silly me. 😉 (We considered Sequitur for the corporate name, but ended up with Coral Technologies after a few people in the State of Florida government didn’t get what it me and thought it might be obscene. Just ended up using it as the follow-up name for The Rising Sun BBS (Ft. Lauderdale 1982-1993) which was running TBBS and we switched to private software, then FirstClass.
diving.com (July 29, 1994)
talk.com (June 1994) – HotWired need
sale.com (June 1994) – J.Lee bought it.
racing.com (July 30, 1994) –
national.com (April 1994)
cruise.com (May 1994)
cruising.com (July 30, 1994)
movie.com (June 1994) – Well, you can see who owns it now.
miami.com (April 12, 1994) – Miami Herald needed it.
Boca.com (June 21, 1994)
Pompano.com (June 1994)
FtLauderdale.com (May 1994)
ebank.com (1994) – a Bank
reservations.com (June 1994)
reservation.com (June 1994)
dolphins.com (August 10, 1994)
shark.com (July 30, 1994)
holiday.com (June 1994)
keylargo.com (June 1994)
honeymoon.com (July 30, 1994)
boating.com (July 29, 1994)
flying.com (July 30, 1994)
keywest.com (July 29, 1994)
flores.com (Aug 29, 1994)
oceans.com (Aug 30, 1994)
marina.com (June 1994)
bahamas.com (Sept 9, 1994)
medical.com (July 14, 1994)
read.com (June 1994)
mart.com (June 1994)
realtor.com (June 1994) – At the time I didn’t know it was a trademark, just thought it was generic like “realestate.” Younger and more naive. They were friendly about it all though!
islands.com (July 30, 1994)
zodiac.com (July 1994)
SonsOfLiberty.com (April 30, 1998)
Daughters-Of-Liberty.com (July 18, 2001)
Liberty-Tree.com (July 7, 2001)
What’s most impressive about the domain names and web sites that Christian has kept and developed, is that he operates everything on his own. According to the About page on Halloween.com, he writes: “Halloween.com is really just one person, no big companies here!”
Twitter’s popular “trending topics” indicates what newsworthy topics are grabbing people’s attention on Twitter. The trending topics that cover a broad range of categories at any given time, can also be an inspiration to domain investors looking for available domain names to hand-register or purchase on the cheap.
In 2009, the top Twitter trends included #iranelection, Michael Jackson, Harry Potter, American Idol, Super Bowl, Google Wave, among other popular topics.
Hashtags
Hashtags have also become widely used on Twitter. People on Twitter use hashtags – words prefixed with a hash symbol # – which allow others to search on a topic using a hashtag, such as #SEO. People also string together several words, such as #FollowFriday.
In 2009, a number of hashtags were tweeted so regularly, they took Twitter’s Top 10 most popular hashtags:
All of the 2009 Top 10 hash tags listed above are registered domain names, including 3drunkwords.com, which was purchased in May 2009 after the hashtag became popular among Twitter users, who tweeted three drunk words they would say if they were drunk.
The trend for #3drunkwords is dead in 2010.
Tags like these that are shortlived are apparently called “micromemes” – which is available for hand-registration. They pop up on Twitter’s radar for a few days, then quickly die off as the trend evaporates.
The Twitter Trending Topic Domain tools compares twitter trending topics with domain names, which gives users the opportunity to quickly see what’s available. You don’t have to copy and paste a list of names to do a bulk check or visit Twitter’s web site to find the latest trends, DomainSuperstar’s tool does the work, quickly and easily.
For example, if you visit Twitter right now, some of the trending topics include #momsalwaystoldme and #Afterinut. Both names are available for hand registration, but you should do your research before spending money on some of the trending topics, especially the micromemes as they are called.
However, if you happen to stumble upon the next #FollowFriday or #MusicMonday, it could be worth something. Since recently going online, FollowFriday.com now averages over 10,000 unique visitors per month.
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