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.
After reading the article and looking at the list of domains, I have to wonder what they are smoking.
Brad
That was good Brad.
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…
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
From the article:
They’ve bought ChineseMedicalMarijuana.com, UruguayMarijuana.org and JamaicaMarijuana.com, which they hope fetches a million dollars…………….
A million dollars huh?
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.
…I am glad they got a national spotlight on the “picks and shovels” ancillary business of the industry. Also provided an opportunity for other domainers of the niche to show their wares through the comments section of the newspapers…
eg., http://www.ihemp.tv/hemp-marijuana-cannabis-domain-names-for-sale/
MarijuanaGuy is laughing all the way to the bank!!
bulls –
great name for a publication / blog – pretty much just sums it up 🙂
They really have HIGH expectations…
WINDYCITYMEDICALMARIJUANACLINIC.COM is so GREAT !!! ^-)