Twenty years ago, an Internet entrepreneur named Lon Brolliar, registered several domains to be used as generic email accounts.
The ISP he worked for at the time, Phase IV, wanted to provide its users with personalized emails.
Brolliar, along with colleagues Mark van Dyke and Andy Dorman, registered a few domains such as bulldogs.com, huskies.com, wildcats.com and cougars.com.
When Phase IV was sold in 1999, the company that bought the ISP wasn’t interested in these domains, so they moved their domains and their personalized email service to a new company, forming FanMail.com LLC.
One of these domains, Army.com, receives plenty of traffic and Brolliar says that the US Army inquired about buying it in 2001. Another offer – in the 7 figure range – arrived as well from a company.
Brolliar says they receive inquiries to sell Army.com almost daily, but FanMail is not in the business of selling domains.
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7 figure is enough for FanMail to sell army.com