Example.com appears to have been listed for sale at the Sedo marketplace.
Its “owner” is located in the UK and has been a Sedo member since 2007.
The domain has received 3 offers via the Sedo contact form thus far, but don’t expect a transaction to consummate soon.
As every savvy domainer knows, the domain Example.com – along with its .net and .org counterparts – is a domain name reserved by the IANA, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority.
RFC2606 was issued in 1999 to address the status of those “test” domains.
Somehow, a glitch or an oversight at Sedo allowed Example.com to be listed for sale in their database.
We placed the latest offer and we’ll be waiting to hear back from the seller 😀