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Title: whatismyip.com
Post by: hismajesty on February 18, 2005, 06:37 PM
...is up for sale. (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=5752474282)


Current bid is at $37,100.00.
Title: Re: whatismyip.com
Post by: quasi-modo on February 18, 2005, 06:52 PM
holy crap, that is a ton of money. I fail to see how this is going to pay for it's self.
Title: Re: whatismyip.com
Post by: hismajesty on February 18, 2005, 06:59 PM
If you read the auction description, so far the site has made $0. Though, I agree, with that many hits they could make a lot off of advertising.
Title: Re: whatismyip.com
Post by: Blaze on February 18, 2005, 07:18 PM
When IPChicken.com goes on eBay it will be a big thing, but not this.
Title: Re: whatismyip.com
Post by: hismajesty on February 18, 2005, 07:24 PM
I personally find $37,000 for a domain name to be a pretty big thing.
Title: Re: whatismyip.com
Post by: Blaze on February 18, 2005, 07:49 PM
How much was america.com going for a while ago? and what about get-a-life.com?

Selling domains isn't a big deal..
Title: Re: whatismyip.com
Post by: hismajesty on February 18, 2005, 07:52 PM
I don't know, I don't pay attention to the domain market.

I used whatismyip a lot more than ipchicken, and I didn't even know what ipchicken was until maybe a year or more after I found whatismyip.
Title: Re: whatismyip.com
Post by: Blaze on February 18, 2005, 07:57 PM
Well, I guess its more of a deal to you then it is to me. I'm interested into seeing what it turns out being, a big advertisement, or will it stay the same(ish)...
Title: Re: whatismyip.com
Post by: effect on February 19, 2005, 03:04 PM
There is a pretty huge markey dedicated to domain reselling these days, I saw a story on cnn about a guy/girl who tried to sell www.tsunamirelief.com or something very similiar to that just after the tidal wave in south eastern Asia for around $50,000 USD. Keep your eye out for marketing pitches and subsequently register the according the domain ;) , you might find yourself making alot of money.
Title: Re: whatismyip.com
Post by: quasi-modo on February 22, 2005, 06:05 PM
yeah, but I heard that there was some sort of scandal with that domain. Like someone bought it and sold it cheap to a person they thought was going to use it for a charitable website and he sold it on ebay for a ton of money or something.

ps: the domain is up to about 110,000 now.
Title: Re: whatismyip.com
Post by: Fr0z3N on February 23, 2005, 08:56 PM
Sold!  Winning bid:    US $386,100.00 
Title: Re: whatismyip.com
Post by: tA-Kane on February 23, 2005, 09:00 PM
What's sad is you know the company is probably going to have to use spam/popups to get it all back. What a waste of money.
Title: Re: whatismyip.com
Post by: CrAz3D on February 23, 2005, 09:04 PM
FREAKIN!

I need to make a domain that is INSANELY trendy & then sell it!
Title: Re: whatismyip.com
Post by: sray390 on February 23, 2005, 09:48 PM
ok its like this gethis.com
that trendy?
Title: Re: whatismyip.com
Post by: Newby on February 23, 2005, 11:53 PM
Quote from: tA-Kane on February 23, 2005, 09:00 PM
What's sad is you know the company is probably going to have to use spam/popups to get it all back. What a waste of money.
Yeah.

I'll never go to that site again. :)