Mega Upload founder buys short (and expensive) domain name.
Last month I wrote about how k.im had received a $20,000 bid at Sedo, and suggested that Mega Upload founder Kim Dotcom might be the buyer.
I was right.
The Sedo auction closed for $20,000 and Kim Dotcom is now the owner listed in whois. The domain is registered at Instra, which is one of his key partners for the new Mega.
With a name like Kim Dotcom, you’d think he’d be a .com only kind of guy. He does, in fact, own Kim.com. But with his adversarial relationship with the United States, he’s been shying away from .com domains lately. (The .com registry is located in Virginia.)
.im is the country code top level domain for Isle of Man.
AbdulBasit Makrani says
That’s somehow good news for .IM owners including me 😉
Hopefully things will get changed for .IM domains.
Andrew Allemann says
@AbdulBasit – I don’t think it means much for .im. This was a unique domain hack.
AbdulBasit Makrani says
Quite right. That’s why I used the word “hopefully” 😉
Kassey says
He’s quite a character, and has brightened the otherwise quiet life here in NZ. He bought me.ga but quickly switched to mega.co.nz when the former was shut down.
Rob says
no matter how much people try to explain things like this to me, i just don’t get it.
my name is robert, so…
robert.com => oh yes, but near impossible to get. (but he’s already got kim.com so why bother with anything else?)
RobertTheDomainer.com => long but at least it’s descriptive and memorable.
robe.rt => WTF is that?
and $20k for that name? money to burn.
freddy says
Nice, I like it!
Good for my one letter domains!