Screenshots from way back in time!!

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I thought it would be fun to go back in time and see what great domains looked like way back when. This is how Toys.com looked like in 1996. It sold in 2009 for $5,100,000. BAM!!!

Please join in if you would like and post some screenshots.

 

[Casey L]

yahoo back in 1996...even I could develop a site better looking than that!

 

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Wine.com in 1996. Sold in 2003 for $3,300,000.

 

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Google in 1998. Funny thing is that it doesn't look much different now.

 

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Autos.com looks to be redirecting to OnlineAuto.com in 1997. Autos.com sold in 1999 for $2,200,000.

 

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Since we are going back to 1996 let's put it in perspective. Kobe was just drafted out of high school. Tupac was on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine. Jennifer Aniston was hot as hell and we were all talking on a Motorola flip phone. LOL

 

[Namezie]

Haha, this is a cool thread. Maybe I should get some popcorn?

 

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[wayne wooldridge]

NamePros March 25 2003

 

[Furquan]

NamePros March 25 2003

Now it's much better & bigger.

Thanks for sharing it.

 

[pinkdragon]

Remember this one? Sold for 3,250,000 USD in 1999.

 

[D Haynes]

GOod lord jeniffer aniston was a smoke show back then and like all the websites she looks even better now.

 

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Business.com screenshot from 1996. In 1999 domain investor Marc Ostrofsky sold the domain Business.com for $7.5 million to eCompanies, which was listed in the Guinness book of world records for what was at the time the most expensive domain name ever sold, Ostrofsky owned a stake in Business.com which was sold in 2008 for $345 million. He coined the phrase "Domain names and web sites are the real estate of the Internet" when he bought Business.com for $150,000 in the mid 1990s, which had been the most money ever paid for a domain name at the time.

 

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Internet.com in 1996. Sold for $18,000,000 in 2009.

Internet.com today.

 

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LasVegas.com in 1998. Sold in 2015 for $90,000,000. @James Iles did a great write up on the details of the sale. Link below

https://www.namepros.com/blog/breaking-65million-domain-sale-revealed.891196/

 

[Tamer]

y2k, new tlds, wow, hurry up!

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