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An
auction for Video.us ended at Pool.com
today at $18,500. This domain had been sold to a
company based in Belgium less than a year ago for
$75,000 in a private transaction - the largest .us
sale that has been publicly reported to date (we've
heard rumors that News.us sold |
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for low six figures but
that was never confirmed). At some point during the year
someone noticed that the email address on the Video.us
WhoIs record had begun bouncing. Around this time the
.us registry was also reportedly questioned about
whether or not the Belgian company met the Nexus
requirements for owning a .us domain. Since the contact
information with the domain was no longer valid, we are
told the registry could not reach the owner to verify
Nexus information and wound up canceling the
registration. Pool was successful in catching it when it
dropped and proceeded to auction it off to the highest
bidder. Losing the name was obviously a costly
mistake for the company that purchased it last year. |
Video.us
was sold in a Pool.com auction |
