Social.com – How I saved the owner’s $2.6 million property
It’s good to hear when people become successful overnight; that’s the type of satisfaction that can be shared.
Financial success through domaining is yet another way to display one’s entrepreneurial achievements and the recent sale of Social.com for $2.6 million is one such case.
Five years ago, Social.com was stolen from its owner and was offered for sale on Sedo. As I’ve done on numerous other occasions, the notification of its legitimate owner and of the selling platforms were both shared on DNForum.com
Although the original thread is gone, you can read some interesting reactions or lack thereof about my report of the domain’s listing at Sedo, back then.
While things have changed a lot in how Sedo communicates nowadays, it’s an interesting window into the past.
Congratulations to the seller of Social.com and I’m glad they weren’t tricked out of their property back in 2006. It’s important to note how much DNForum has contributed to preserving the state of alert over stolen domains as well.
June 23rd, 2011 at 5:50 pm
Cool story Theo.
June 23rd, 2011 at 6:35 pm
Acro, it’s a good thing to have a fellow professional like you in our industry. Let’s look out for each other! Thank you and all the best.
Alexander
June 23rd, 2011 at 10:39 pm
Theo, you make us all proud!! And more, glad to have you around bro
June 23rd, 2011 at 11:15 pm
That’s funny…I was just looking at the historical whois today and saw someone other than Scott as the owner for one record. I was confused as to why.
June 24th, 2011 at 12:37 am
…Saved Scott $2.6m, indeed…!
The interesting thing is that – in 2006 – you were saving Scott, say, $25k-$35k, because that was about the market value of Social.com in 2006 (prior, of course, to the Facebook & Twitter phenomenons!)….I understand he couldn’t sell Social.com in those days for the asking price of 50k!!
Goes to show, doesn’t it?….In this game, anything is possible, with any domain name…
Good work, Acro, for the work you did back then…
June 24th, 2011 at 2:26 am
The domaining industry has greatly benefited because people like yourself are involved. Keep up the good work.
June 24th, 2011 at 9:13 pm
Thank you all for your great feedback – in this industry we need to look after each other.