A group of fishermen from Stromboli, a small island off the coast of Sicily are proclaiming they were cheated out of their heritage.
Stromboli.com was sold yesterday at DomainFest for the ungodly low sum of $2,250.
The fishermen, descendants of Greek settlers from the ancient times when Sicily and Southern Italy was collectively known as “Magna Grecia” have filed a complaint to the Italian minister of culture, Jiacomo Bellacosta.
“Madonna mia, so stupido! I say bid, bid and some Yank take our land on internetto, what is this?”, said a gesturing, visibly upset Mario Sporino – a native of Stromboli.
“I say my friend we put some euro from fish sale and buy Stromboli dotta com eh, and they look at me and shake head!”, he added, gesturing still.
Geodomains are important elements of domaining. As the Castello Brothers know all too well, premium online properties developed into portals of real information can generate large profits and sustain the domaining business beyond simple parking and PPC.
“I don know what to do now, Stromboli is where I born, my pappa born and everyone, so we love Stromboli and want Stromboli dotta com and we take it. Viva Italia!”, said Mario Sporino raising his fist in the air.
The island of Stromboli features an active volcano on its small, rounded area. It seems that now a new war is about to erupt between the US and Italy over the rights to possess Stromboli.com
In a related story, the people from the small village of Spaghetti are equally incensed over the lack of development of Spaghetti dotta com.
“Mama mia! How are da people onna-line gonna know who-a we are?” cried out one villager in righteous indignation, waving his hands in the air, and then waving them around some more.
Barefoot – too funny 😀 I think Ravioli.com was also for sale at DomainFest but didn’t sell.
Kidding aside, $2,250 for an island that includes its own volcano is a really good price.
“internetto” “dotta com”
LMAO!!
🙂
Agreed. A really good deal for the buyer.
Dean – Mario Sporino is a common folk, he no speak the tech talk, capice? He no take no stronzo from Yank, Madonna mia!
Which leads to the question: Is the .it version available?
Fabriccio,
me no a lika da .info, me lika da dotta com.
I was laughing my ass of when I read this blog post.
It reminded me of the viral video that was going around of Jesse Slaughter.
The part where her father is yelling in the background of the Youtube video: I am going to “bactrack” all you punks harassing my daughter on the internet.
Too Funny!
Perchboy – Alas, no. Surprisingly, it’s owned by a Dutchman. I was told Italy does not permit ‘commoners’ to own official geo-names or names of monuments in .it so this is odd.
Also, check out this video of Maria Grazia Cucinotta – a native of Stromboli. She looks very upset over the sale of Stromboli.com