Popular internet site’s founder to auction off Cloud.com.
SYS-CON Events, promotor of this month’s Cloud Computing Expo in New York, has announced that the domain name Cloud.com will be auctioned off during the conference.
Cloud.com is owned by Meetup.com co-founder Scott Heiferman. I attempted to contact Heiferman but the phone number in whois is not a working number. The e-mail address for the contact is on the Heiferman.com domain name.
In a 2007 post on his personal web site, Heiferman wrote:
“I happen to believe in a Web OS [& I own cloud.com]. Funny how the social OS is now web OS.”
Cloud.com was registered in 2000. This domain name is another example of a domain that grew in value after the initial dot.com gold rush. Much like “blog”, “cloud” had limited use and value before the advent and popularization of cloud computing.
The domain name is currently a parked page. Compete.com estimates just over 1,000 monthly unique visitors.
No word on a reserve or starting price for the auction, but this domain is easily worth six figures. Or perhaps seven?
I am very curious to see what happens with this name. In my opinion, it is simply not worth that much because, outside of cloud computing, there is no other intuitive way to develop or monetize it. Then again, it may score highly from someone in that market.
“I attempted to contact Heiferman but the phone number in whois is not a working number.”
Andrew,
Too bad the domain is not regged at GoDaddy.
You could report the invalid WhoIs tel #
and wind up owning the domain ala FamilyAlbum.com. 🙂
Patrick, they don’t do that anymore…they just suspend it. But good thinking!
“Patrick, they don’t do that anymore…they just suspend it. But good thinking!”
LOL Andrew,
I meant to put a smiley face.
I wasn’t really serious. 🙂 (belated smiley face)
I know Patrick 🙂
David – the cloud computing market is massive, though. Think of it as the web hosting market, except right now mostly an enterprise class solution (but changing thanks to Amazon et al).
“I am very curious to see what happens with this name. In my opinion, it is simply not worth that much because, outside of cloud computing, there is no other intuitive way to develop or monetize it. Then again, it may score highly from someone in that market.”
Agree, have my doubts on it personally. I don’t really see an obvious development path that would justify 7 figures. Would have guessed around $100k.
” In my opinion, it is simply not worth that much because, outside of cloud computing, there is no other intuitive way to develop or monetize it.”
Considering that its being auctioned at a CLOUD COMPUTING EXPO, I don’t see that being an issue.
To those that don’t know much about technology, cloud computing is huge. Dell already owns CloudComputing.com, and unsuccesfully tried to TM the term. This is a great domain and it will be interesting to see how much it goes for.
I know this thread is old but what the heck, I wonder what i can fetch for cloudcomputing.co?