Company gets proactive with domain sales.
Yesterday I wrote about Microsoft’s sale of Do.com. Last month Microsoft finally relented and sold HotList.com to startup TheHotList.com.
But it appears that Microsoft might also be proactively selling some of its domain names.
Abdu Tarabichi noticed that the software giant has listed over 100 domain names for sale on domain marketplace Sedo.
If you type any of the domains into your browser, they’ll forward you to a page on fpq.biz, which then has a link to Sedo.
It’s not clear to me how long these domains have been listed on Sedo, as some of them have over 100 listing views and multiple offers. Interestingly, some are typos of domain names Microsoft uses.
Although the money Microsoft can generate from these domains is nothing big to such a large corporation, it’s nice to see it open up its treasure trove to people who may want to use the domains for a business.
Michael says
Would be interesting to know why they are trying to sell those domains and the reason why they bought many of those domains because some are not making much sense for me
GenericGene says
I agree with Michael ?
Louise says
Answerville starts at $2000.00
https://sedo.com/search/details.php4?domain=answerville.com&tracked=&partnerid=&language=us
Nic says
They are all their junk names.
Jamie says
According to a whois screenshot history, it is likely that these domains have been listed since at least April 16, 2011. http://www.domaintools.com/research/screenshot-history/hdcd.com
Andrew Allemann says
Thanks Jamie