In a big 4 letter .com sale, the domain CUNY.com sold for $30,050 on NameJet.com today.
CUNY stands for among other things, the City University of New York, which holds 3 trademarks on the term
The City seems to have owned this domain and let it drop, as it was pointed to Cuny.edu according to the wayback machine most recently and CUNY.Edu is the official site for the University system and the .Edu site gets over 1,000,000 visitors a month according to Compete.com
CUNY.com gets some traffic according to Compete.com of around 7,000 visitors a month.
The winning bidder goes by the handle of: 8d3e6emd52; so we have to wait to see if this one gets paid for.
Why would a cash strapped city and school system, just let this domain drop instead of selling it, is anyone’s guess but the usual answer in such situations is “it’s the government”.
NameJet.com seems to be picking up, with a few other nice sales from this week.
Visittnt.com, which looks like it was a travel site, possibly the official travel site for Trinidad and Tobago, sold for $5,500.
This domain according to Compete.com had between 3K-5K visitors a month.
Another domain with traffic according to Compete.com, PcShopper.com sold for $3,800.
Here are a few other NameJet.com sales from the last couple of days
Businessradio.com $4,100
Dvdwarehouse.com $2,433
GreenPlace.com $2,100
Mathwiz.com $1,900
OilMoney $1,600
Proscuba.com $1,300
I saw this drop a couple of days ago and was really surprised. Took a couple of semesters there and help set up their network back in 1990, they had a good computer science department back then. Not sure what they were thinking, if they were at all.
CUNY is right across the street from NYC T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
Must have been a mistake. No one in their right mind drops a 4 letter .com domain
Ouch!
But the lawyer can get this one for them.
EM
Maybe depends on how the new owners use it.
Point it to educational sites or park it and they will make it easy for the lawyers.
Ouch…..I guess they got it in the cunny, so to speak.
The sense of purchase of some domains remained to me not clear…