The Pirate Bay .com
More pirate booty ends up auctioned off: ThePirateBay.com, an associate domain of The Pirate Bay, closed at $35,150 dollars today at DropCatch. The winner was DropCatch user “jimlad.”
Following on the heels of PirateBay.org that sold for $50,000 dollars, the exact match .com of the live peer to peer platform arrives with a premium price.
What will the winner of ThePirateBay.com do with the domain?
The PirateBay.org winner is already seeking $1.99 million dollars to finance a movie called The Torrent Man. It’s quite possible that the same team decided to spend more cash into their investment.
While peer to peer repositories are not illegal, The Pirate Bay is notorious for sharing BitTorrents pointing to illegally acquired software and movies.
The new owner of a domain such as ThePirateBay.com might attempt to monetize its traffic with zero click ads or other types of ads, without actually perpetuating the activities of The Pirate Bay.
