Sven Echternach, business development manager of Megaupload, acquired Prince.com from MediaOptions for a reported $235,000
The sale of Prince.com made a big splash in September of 2010, when it was announced that Andew Rosener of MediaOptions brokered the domain for $235,000.
Sven Echternach, the director of business development for the Megaupload company bought the domain on behalf of the corporation.
Sven’s name was virtually unknown until it was announced that he was arrested, along with Megaupload CEO Kim Dotcom and several others.
In his youth, Sven Echternach was considered to be a “hacker” and a “phreaker”. He also owns the domain Sven.com
In October 2010, the WHOIS data on the domain Prince.com was revealed, according to top WHOIS tool DomainTools.
The WHOIS for Prince.com went “dark” soon after, and emerged again in May 2011 under the ownership of Hong Kong based Megamedia Ltd. – one of the several companies formed by Kim Dotcom to spread his digital empire around the world.
Other domains owned by Megamedia Ltd. that can be considered assets that should be liquidated in the future to pay off more than $500 million dollars in alleged loss by the movie and music industry, include the following:
Megapay.com
Megamovie.com
Megasale.com
Megacash.com
Megadisk.com
Mumu.com
Megastuff.com
Megarace.com
Megabits.com
Megabot.com
Megadesign.com
Megaworld.com – FBI controlled
Megapix.com
Megabox.com
Megalive.com
Megavideo.com – FBI controlled
In all, Megamedia controlled at least 214 domain names, of which 213 used the prefix “Mega” and only one was different: Prince.com.
The brokering of the sale puts MediaOptions in the limelight as they might hold valuable information that could assist the FBI with their investigation against Kim Dotcom and his digital empire.
Prince.com has a story to it the name was allegedly stolen from Andrew Prince around the beginning of April 2010
//The original owner of the domain Andrew Prince is claming that the domain was stolen and sold without his permission and he did not not get any of the purchase price.//
Mr Prince tried a UDRP for recovery but failed the story is here: http://www.thedomains.com/2010/10/05/another-domain-theft-udrp-on-prince-com-filed-with-owner-alleging-the-domain-was-stolen/
What a mess that whole Prince.com this is/was…!
Snapnames/Oversee (Halvarez), RegisterFly, now MegaUpload……what a bunch of shady scam sh-ts this industry seemingly regularly turns up, every time a lid gets lifted.
Voltaire – The dirty deeds of domaining don’t die 😀