Flippa.com just announced on Twitter that the domain name Mega.co is at auction on its site and can be yours for the Buy It Now price (BIN) of just $1,000,000.
The reserve price seems to be set at $500,000, if you are willing to chance the domain going to auction.
This of course comes on the heals of the huge launch over the weekend of Kim DotCom Mega storage service which claimed got 1,000,000 sign ups in the first 24 hours, which brings the cost of this domain down to just $1 per registered user in the first 24 hours.
Since the official site of the storage service is mega.co.nz, you could expect a ton of traffic to Mega.co.
As for the domain name it appears from DomainTools.com, it was caught by NameJet.com in a registry release auction in 2010, and sold privately to the current owner in late 2012.
In fact the owners of Mega.co claim to have gotten over 30,000 visitors within th efrist 48 hours of the launch of Kim DotCom’s Mega site.
Here is what the seller has to say about the domain Mega.co:
“””We are selling the Mega.co domain name to fund The Omega (Ω) Project and the WWW.TF.
On Mega.co, Kim Dotcom’s associate Mathias Ortmann of Mega.co.nz said to us:
I think that mega.co is not such a bad idea at all, maybe not as the primary domain, but surely to catch type-in traffic that omits .nz
After 48 hours of being redirected to join.ome.ga, Mega.co has attracted close to 30,000 visitors.
Mega.co is simply the best alternative to the dot-com.
About .CO:
It is administered by .CO Internet S.A.S., a strategic venture formed between Arcelandia S.A. and Neustar, Inc.
Some examples of .co use include Twitter (t.co), AngelList (Angel.co), ENTER (Enter.co), 500 Startups (500.co), Aspen Group (Aspen.co), Google Inc. (g.co) and Amazon (cloud.co). Some companies such as American Express (amex.co) and Starbucks (sbux.co) are using .co for URL shortening in social media.
« Today there are over 1.4 million .CO domain names registered by people in over 200 countries worldwide. The .CO namespace has grown more than 24% from 2011 to 2012 – and renewals remain consistently strong. Our .COmmunity is only getting bigger and better, with tons of startups, small businesses, innovators and entrepreneurs choosing to build the future on .CO every day. » — CEO of .CO
More information at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.CO
http://www.go.co/about/
Did you know?
Remember Flicker.com? We do:
Mega.co: A window of opportunities? The answer is yes!
- Brand quality ✓
- Brand awareness
- Fast and easy access ✓
- User friendly ✓
- Innovation ✓
- Safety ✓
- Visibility ✓
- Traffic ✓
Are you a 500 company, an advertising company, a lobby with a grief or a file hosting service with a terrible domain name? Mega.co is for you!””
sounds like a bargain to me… NOT.
mis-type in traffic. Worth $500,000-$1mm? I wouldnt respond to such BS normally, but at least you gave Flippa some press and hey mega.co did too. Of course mistype traffic only lasts for so long by in large-pump and dump.
MegaBS…that what it is ..
Very Desparate times – What an insult to whatever credibility (if any) Flippa or whoever has.
Michael, I can’t believe this was worth a post…
Shaun
Well considering the Mega offering is the biggest Internet news of the week by far and got 1M users in the 1st 24 hours and Flippa tweeted this listing out I would say its newsworthy and would guess it will be a top 5 most read post of January for us already picked up by Google news
If that got 30k visitors, think what the .com must’ve got…
Phantom SEO (non-human) ‘Typeins’ is old technology – only for the utterly gullable and uniformed
what a BS… sure it got type-ins after creating the Hype!
how Flippa can accept this kind of BS is a sign of times. in any mania people let go their rules and happily enter in the runaway money train.
” Did you know?
Overstock.com Acquires O.co Domain Name for $350,000 ”
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Did you know?
Overstock Abandons O.co
“Confused? So were customers. Mr. Johnson (online retailer’s Overstock president)said customers responded well to the O.co advertising, but after watching the spots, “a good portion” of those who sought out the website went to O.com, ”
http://adage.com/article/news/o-overstock-backs-o-change/230983/
Did you know?
http://www.megaspotted.com? There you can share uploads on mega.co.nz and download files other people shared 🙂