.gov Hosting on ebay

7 Comments

• 1

  I hear Matt Cutts is bidding. Purely to save him the hassle of removing it from the index in a few weeks time.

  

  mad4

  10th November 2006 @ 17:18

• 2

  How can they sell this? What exactly are you buying?

  From the ebay post:

  “The main domain has over 3 million links going into it over 80,000 of these links are from OTHER .gov sites with almost 1/4 million links also coming from .edu sites.”

  So for $9,914.84 isn’t that a steal? Something fishy going on here.

  

  maherphil
  http://helpwebmasters.com

  10th November 2006 @ 17:25

• 3

  My favorite part from the Q&A:

  Q: Hi, how would upload of files happen?
  A: Upload of files will happen by transferring to me. I will then upload the files.”

  and you will never see them again

  

  skore
  http://www.10e20.com

  10th November 2006 @ 17:33

• 4

  hehe gatta love those .gov’s

  

  NickyTime

  10th November 2006 @ 20:30

• 5

  If this guy (parasitic ?) is for real, what would keep him from just doing the auction again in a week’s time? Since the hosting space has no limit but “common sense”, this guy should be doing this daily & at $1k/page, not $10k/site. I’m sure plenty of cash advance & mortgage newbs would jump at it.

  

  abhilash
  http://www.abhilash.us

  13th November 2006 @ 21:07

• 6

  So who else has spotted the site already? Once they put the content online it’ll be even easier to spot where it is (isn’t that the idea). This guy pulled off a neat trick, but it’s nothing new (there are more interesting deals available) … I just hope he hasn’t stepped on the wrong people’s toes by putting it on ebay and attracting this much attention.

  

  JohnMoo

  14th November 2006 @ 09:05

• 7

  We are looking into the matter.

  Thank you.

  .gov Registrar
  877-734-4688
  registrar@dotgov.gov

  

  .Gov Registrar
  http://www.dotgov.gov

  27th November 2006 @ 16:45

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