Two Seattle Men Looking To Get High on Domains

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USA Today posted a story today about two Seattle men looking to cash in on Marijuana and domains.

From the article:

The longtime friends started buying pot-related URLs about a year and a half ago, as Washington state residents considered legalizing recreational marijuana. They now own more than 200 pot-related domain names.

With medical marijuana legal in 20 states, and recreational marijuana legal in Washington and Colorado, Brooks and Dixon said they see a financial opportunity in purchasing domain names that could be used by marijuana businesses.

“There are going to be websites, and this is what we call virtual real estate,” said Dixon, who owns ULO Media with Brooks.

The friends, who call themselves “domainers,” buy the domain names for as low as $8.99 and are aiming to sell each for a minimum of $10,000.

Read the full story here which shows some of the other domains these guys registered.

Comments

  3. Steve Suhre says

    The names are lame, but they did get it into the national news. I have a few names I’ve been Bogarting for a while, might be time to sell… Marijuana for beginners…Marijuana friendly colleges…could be time to sell…

  4. BrianWick says

    as a guy born (and grown) in colorado, their list of extra really super premium domains makes mine worthless – darn it:
    CheapPot.com
    DiscountPot.com
    WholesalePot.com
    FreshPot.com

  5. Alan says

    From the article:
    They’ve bought ChineseMedicalMarijuana.com, UruguayMarijuana.org and JamaicaMarijuana.com, which they hope fetches a million dollars…………….

    A million dollars huh?

  6. Lance Zeidman says

    Actually Steve it might be time to hold not sell.

    Ive a few myself with a mini-site on http://www.Weed.me but the problem I have found is unless you have a spot on meaningful domain- there are just too many variations of the word that people can play around with (combinations) and still find dot coms without having to go too long e.g. something + weed, bud, 420, pot, etc. to invest…and thats just the short names. Again, unless was spot-on imo.