Russia, America, Cowboys and Vodka: Money thrown down the toilet
Is the domain Cold War over yet? Back in November 2009 the domain name Russia.com was sold to a mystery buyer for the whopping amount of $1.5 million dollars. The web site is still parked, at GoDaddy no less, making the legendary Bob Parsons proud that he can command the Ruski traffic. Three years earlier, [...]
Copyright © 2010 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Cowboys.com – The tumbleweeds are still rolling …
It was a great “domainer co-op” – a handful of uber-domainers chipped in and each bought a stake in the domain Cowboys.com. That glorious time in domain history occurred as the Dallas Cowboys withdrew their bid of $275,000 thinking it was … $275 and zero cents. Opportunity lost with no touchdown. So, for the grand [...]
Copyright © 2010 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Cowboys and Indians: The sad story of Peter Pinocchio
Looks like yesterday’s post about Cowboys.com hit a sensitive nerve with some; the truth is that there is so much finely sliced bologna surrounding such big sales stories that we decided to dig further into the Wild West of domaining. Enter, CowboysAndIndians.com The domain was auctioned at Namejet on August 20th of this year, selling [...]
Copyright © 2010 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Two years later, the Cowboys.com gang is still inside the Alamo
It was a beautiful day in October 2007 when a group of domain mavericks (I thought I’d never use this word outside of the Sarah Palin context) each bought a stake in the domain name Cowboys.com for a total of $370 grand. But where is the cowboy posse now? The domain is currently parked. Parked [...]
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