Despite his uber-domainer status, domain investor, Frank Schilling, maintains a low profile and an even lower demeanor among the domain community.
The soft-spoken Frankie rarely reveals his best domains, among the thousands in his Domain Name Sales portfolio.
But one domain recently stood out due to its affiliation to a large art sale – or should we say, monolithic art sale.
An anonymous art investor paid $119,900,000 – or one hundred thousand short of $120 million dollars – for “The Scream“, a 1895 painting by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch. This is the most money ever paid for a single piece of artwork.
Guess who owns TheScream.com and if you don’t say “Frank Schilling” then we’ll scream it for you: It’s Frank!
So Frank Schilling is ‘sitting’ on a pile of cash, should the new, anonymous owner of “The Scream” wished to splurge a few millions extra for the dot com! 😀
I own PicassoPaintings.com. Does that principle apply to me too?
Tony – No. Unless you owned Guernica.com
Just a thought…maybe a silly one…is there any loophole for the anonymous buyer to legally frustrate FS in a case like this?
Adrian – In what respect? Place offers? Frank requires a phone number. Why waste time on pranks?