Amazon Get’s Clothes.com In Zappos Deal: Domain Was Bought For $4.9 Million in 2008

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TechCruch.com is reporting that Amazon.com,  as part of its acquisition of Zappos.com,  is getting the domain Clothes.com thrown in.

Amazon agreed to buy Zappos.com for $847 Million in cash and stock a couple of weeks ago.

According to TechCrunch, the domain name, clothes.com was purchased by Zappos.com, from IdealLab.com for $4.9 Million in 2008.

The article points out had that domain sale been reported, it would have been the second largest domain sale of 2008, behind Fund.com for $10 Million.

This is more proof that a lot of huge domain transactions fly under the radar.

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

Comments

  1. owen frager says

    Yes like the 7,000 domains Marksman recently admitted to acquiring for clients like Microsoft when they did the Office.com deal. None of those are on Ron’s radar.

  2. owen frager says

    btw, Zappos ownes 173 domains, mostly with the word Zappos as part of the string like:
    Sisterslovezappos.com
    Runningzappos.com
    Zapposcoupons.com

    But they do have some others:
    Avarielle.com
    Bricksshoes.com
    Gigafootwear.com
    Gigashoes.com and Giga-Shoes.com
    Bouquetsfootwear.com