Boyle buys a domain name for $11,000 and Terry ends up selling the domain for him.
Characters in sitcoms sometimes mention domain names during episodes, and the studios usually register these ahead of the air date. That’s the case with a funny domain in episode 12 Brooklyn Nine-Nine this season. But it goes beyond just mentioning a domain name—one character pays $11,000 for the domain, and they end up selling it.
In the episode, Detective Charles Boyle turns Sergeant Terry Crews on to the healing powers of bone broth. The two decide to go into business together, and Boyle suggests they use the domain name WorkplaceBoneBuds.com. He apparently doesn’t recognize the sexual connotation.
Boyle ends up buying the domain name for $11,000. When the business fails, Crews manages to sell the domain name to someone else for $11,000. Boyle is surprised that someone else had a similar idea for a business. Crews informs him that the buyer plans to use the domain for a website that helps people in the same workplace hook up.
NBCUniversal registered WorkplaceBoneBuds.com in November 2019, but it doesn’t resolve.
David Michaels says
This domain mention gave me an amazing idea:
WorkplaceBuds.com
I just registered it!
Adam says
Why not workplacebone.com ?
David Michaels says
I have no intention of selling bone broth.
WorkplaceBuds.com works for an AR app that allows buds to communicate in real time when working from home.
And WorkplaceBuds.com also works for ear buds that don’t allow the sound out to disturb others at work.
And BoneBuds works for bone conducting headphones too.
Alan Built says
A rare SUNDAY publication by DNW!!! With all this stay at home stuff I think they forgot it is Sunday!!! I do that too.
Andrew Allemann says
Every day ends in ‘y’ and they all seem the same these days!