SS.com Sale And The “Story In The Works” Behind It – $1.25 Million Sale
Posted on | March 17, 2008 | 7 Comments
Came back home this morning but woke up early to see how things were going online. Saw reports of SS.com selling for $1,250,000 and thought “Great sale… super uber rare domain to own!” Tired as hell I went back to sleep.
After I woke up, I started my “rituals” of checking out blogs and I ran into an interesting post titled “The Dark Face of Nazism: SS.com.” I had no clue what I was about to read except that it had to do with the recent SS.com. Well… it seems there’s more to just SS.com being bought for a large amount of money. Seems like it has been bought by a “bad buyer.” I hold nothing against anyone and everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but it was just a damn crazy read to see who bought this domain. Didn’t even cross my mind!
Although two-letter domains are an extreme rarity, one would feel that the double-consonant “SS.com” would be a carefully-guarded commodity, never to be placed in the hands of a buyer with Nazi or supremacist affiliations. And yet, it appears that the unfortunate happened. As seen at this press release by Australia-based J.C. Geaney, the domain SS.com has been apparently bought for the price of $1.25 million dollars.
Acro has done a great job at writing a post about this: “Dark Face of Nazism: SS.com.” Not even going to bother and compete, so I encourage you all to check it out.
For even more reading, check out the DNForum SS.com Thread. You can see that people thought the same thing–great sale–but then the story started unfolding…
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March 17th, 2008 @ 8:44 pm
Thanks for the backlink, Sammy.
Does enough money buy people’s consciences? We shall see.
March 18th, 2008 @ 12:27 am
I hate to say it, but in the world we are living in… yes. Sad world we live in.
March 18th, 2008 @ 3:21 pm
this is a moral dilemma indeed
its kind of the same thing as letting a real estate developer buy a desirable chunk of land that serves as excellent public space with a park, etc that the community cherishes with the intentions of building a mall in its place
homeowner associations sometimes have success blocking such attempts. perhaps someone should form a homeowners association of domaining (greens on that domain)
March 18th, 2008 @ 4:16 pm
This would be more like a realestate developer selling land to knowing full well the developers were going to turn it into a theme park for racists.
March 20th, 2008 @ 9:27 am
This is just too sad.
Since I don’t know the financial situation of the seller, I’m not going to pass judgment on him. I know $1.25m would really help me & my family. I also believe in freedom of speech but this is just not how I would have hoped this would go.
I’m starting to see a real future in preemptive domain registration. I myself recently picked up a .com domain off a drop after I saw a political party register the .org for use in partisan attacks.
I can’t help thinking that if the seller knew what ss.com would be used for he could have contacted a well funded tolerance organization or wealthy philanthropist to ensure this kind of thing didn’t happen.
Regardless of your political views, I think this illustrates an obligation we as domainers have to double check what purposes our domains could possibly be used for.
My heart is heavy today.
March 20th, 2008 @ 12:31 pm
Germ, I absolutely also agree…
I wonder if the domain was given a chance to be sold to someone else who had the money to throw away (we know a bunch of them exist) and would probably offer a bit more…
With recent reports I’ve been reading, this sale might be a fluke. Just a publicity stunt for the seller and his domains. Hopefully this is the case. I’m watching things closely and waiting to see what goes on for an update on the situation. I can say from what I’ve been seeing I think this is a BS sale also…
Will keep you guys upated if anything comes up!
July 27th, 2009 @ 6:14 pm
Hard to imagine that a domain could go for such a high price but glad to see that it was first available for sale and that it did indeed sell for such a large amount. Kudos on the blog post.