Internet portal Yahoo is selling, until November 21, more than 500 domain names purchased over the years. A list with the undisputed king av.com is worth, according to Yahoo, more than a million dollars.
All those who wish to hand over names as exotic areas finalcountdown.com or bluetheory.com will be able to realize their digital dreams. The U.S. portal Yahoo, which owns these and other Internet addresses, has auctioned Thursday, November 14 for a week.
The list of urls and available at prices ranging from a few hundred dollars to over a million dollars has currently more than 500 entries. They correspond to the bottom drawer of old. “Com” that Yahoo acquired throughout his life, especially at the time of the bubble “dotcom” which have a talking web address could be synonymous jackpot. In the pre-Google era, do not have a domain name easy to remember “could mean the death of a site,” recalls, in fact, the Arstechnica website.
This is no longer the case today, and Yahoo realized that hold url as bibleworship.com or fanblog.com had become economically less interesting. Under the leadership of its CEO Marissa Meye r, the Internet portal seeks to refocus its activities around some (mobile etc.. information) lights poles and hopes to recover some money easily through the sale to address auction untapped.
“We believe that creative minds can find interesting things to do with these addresses,” said the group Tumblr, Kevin Kramer, the legal officer who is coordinating the Yahoo auction. For some addresses as sandwich.com, interest may seem obvious. This is also the domain that received the most bids (13) Friday, November 15, but did not reach the reserve price set at 50,000 dollars by Yahoo. The only domain for which a prospective buyer has already proposed a price above the minimum set under the Internet portal is postajob.com (“post a job) with reserve price of $ 500. There’s a safe bet that the person who offered 709 dollars for this account to address something that revolves around the search for employment.
av.com for audio-video or adult-video?
But for many other urls, potential buyers will have to rack your brains to know what to do. Starting with av.com this address, which may seem a priori esoteric, is the most expensive of all those auctioned: to buy, you must spend at least a million dollars. It is still further: the best deal culminates, for now, at $ 91 000. Difficult to understand why Yahoo requires much money for these two innocent letters. Originally av.com possible to redirect the user to Altavista, the king of search engines in the 90s. But Google has made short work of this unfortunate competitor and reference Altavista probably not worth a million dollars today.
To understand the advantage that Yahoo hopes to take this domain name, you must probably look more towards the potential significance of initials. AV may indeed appoint several technological niches and entertainment more or less carriers such as Audio-Video, anti-virus or adult-video. All these references are indeed worth more than a handful of dollars.
These winter sales made in Yahoo also allows realizing that the gate was very early interested in websites in Arabic. It provides, in effect, in which batoota.com sale, after the site “web archive” (which lists hundreds of millions of copies of sites that no longer exists) in 2004 corresponded to a search engine in Arabic surprisingly close to the design of Google.
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Yahoo auctions off its outdated domain names
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