Just noticed a sale come across Sedo ticker and it certain can qualify as the strangest domain sale of the year.
The domain name 143iloveyou.TV just sold for $1,750
Maybe stranger is that the domain name 143ILOVEYOU.COM has been registered since 2003 (goes to a Godaddy placeholder)
If you rush right now I can tell you that as of time of publication the gems 142ILOVEYOU.tv AND 144ILOVEYOU.tv are still available (as are the matching .com’s)
Of course if appears that 143= I love you.
ALL my .TV are very much better than this!
Very esoteric. 520 means I love you in Chinese, but to substitute 143 for the number of letters in these 3 words sounds like a teenage thing.
Looks like 143.tv is just a WhyPark page – so not sure why they didn’t make an offer on that.
360.tv sold for about $1500 in Dec 2010, so surely 143.tv would have been a similar price?
it’s a hip hop song… not that i’d pay 1750 for the dot Tv.
‘I’ ‘Love’ ‘You’ is also called 143 by many peoples but mostly teens…….:-)
ahh the good old pager days – thats when 143 was “big”
I must have missed those days.
gmail.tv was a strange buy as well at $1,827 but that one appears to have been purchased by Google. DNStination, Inc. is commonly used by large companies to remain private and is provided by MarkMonitor, a registrar that Google uses often.
“it’s a hip hop song… not that i’d pay 1750 for the dot Tv.”
…or a chip hop song
youtube.com/watch?v=oWeAUIgP4Z4
143 I Love You by Bobby Brackins – ft. Ray J Official Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-BX6kgVXG8
Almost any domain ending in .TV carries value. Soon, .TV will overtake .com in value.
I am not down with the kids apparently, as i questioned this sale aswell.
@Together.tv as you can tell by my name and site i love .tv, but saying things like “soon .TV will overtake .com in value” is just madness, .tv has it’s place and a lot of people have done very well off it, but cheerleading like that is just crazy.
“Soon, .TV will overtake .com in value.”
not all .TV, but just a few names related to 3D, movies, games, etc.
Together.TV wrote:
> Soon, .TV will overtake .com in value.
This is a nice dream, but .com, being the first premier domain extension that pretty much everyone on the Internet recognizes, will always rule over all others. You don’t remember who came in 2nd (or 3rd or 4th or 5th for that matter) in a race. Other extensions may get good prices on occasion, but .COM will always be the extension of choice, just based on its perceived value and dominance.
“Almost any domain ending in .TV carries value. Soon, .TV will overtake .com in value.”
Smoking that stuff is illegal in most of the U.S.
I remember 5 yrs ago when people would insert .INFO in place of .TV.
And, for the past year, they have been inserting .CO.
Next year, it will be somethng else.
Maybe, .XXX, .ECO, .MIKE.
“Smoking that stuff is illegal in most of the U.S.”
yes, .TV will NEVER overtake .com in value, but, in my opinion, some good .TV domains might have a value comparable with some of the best .com
Yep, an amateur radio code, and a song by Musiq Soulchild…
ref:
http://www.abbreviations.com/b1.aspx?KEY=150885
http://www.lyrics.net/lyric/T%20%204310133
great part of LLL and LLLL domains (often sold at higher prices) do sound much stranger than this one!
I am reminded of the how much money on crazy tangents I lost when I first started reserving domains 13 years ago