£.com - 2 million US dollars ?!

[WhoNet]

Pound sign = mucho dollares?

This is shaping up to be a great rags to riches story. Published today in DomainesInfo.fr is a piece on the upcoming auction of £.com, one of a rare breed of single character .COM domains that were registered years ago.

Richard Haigh, the domain's lucky owner, claims to have registered it 9 years ago for the equivalent of 25 euros. And the asking price for the upcoming auction on the name is? A cool million, pounds that is (close to 2 million US dollars).

£.com is actually an IDN, that is a domain name using non-ascii characters. As such, it can only be accessed through latest generation, post 2006, browsers. It seems there's also a €.com domain, which is currently unused. The £.com auction may give its owner a few ideas though…

http://www.stephane-vangelder.com/archives/106-Pound-sign-mucho-dollares.html


More [£.com] news -
[More about [ £.com For Sale ]] -
http://idnclub.com/showthread.php?p=25478#post25478

[£20 web domain name to go for £1million] -
http://www.namepros.com/idn-discussion/486158-20-web-domain-name-go-1million.html?highlight=%A3.com

[£.com Sold on Sedo Today] -
http://www.namepros.com/domain-name...-today.html?highlight=%A3.com+Sold+Sedo+Today

 

[Hurley4540]

Lucky owner

 

[-REECE-]

Would be a nice ROI compared to what it fetched in '04: http://www.namepros.com/domain-name-discussion/61120-com-sold-on-sedo-today.html?highlight=%A3.com

Not worth anything near $2M in my opinion but I wish the owner all the best on a successful sale.

 

[wot]

Be very surprised if it gets any where near that figure - hope it does- I own £Sterling.com

IM-HO.com

 

[chillaxin]

once again true value is in the one who pays for it.

 

[symboldomain]

I will let you all know when I can comment further on the sale, ok?

Cheers,