Domain Name Forum

**gprime** · 08-10-2005, 08:43 PM

Of course they'll all renew before then, but I was bored, so I searched the whois records of some large ones. Thought I'd share them with you:

Google:
Expires on..............: 2011-Sep-14.

Yahoo:
Expires on..............: 2012-Jan-19.

IMDB:
Expires on..............: 2011-Jan-04.

Ebay:
Expires on..............: 2010-Aug-03.

Amazon:
Expires on..............: 2013-Oct-31.

MySpace:
Expires on..............: 2013-Feb-23.

**admin_old** · 08-10-2005, 09:01 PM

Wouldn't that be something. If they dropped them and someone else picked them up for under 100.00. First of all that would be stupid business because those sites are 1,000,000,000 times the price of what there drop price would be set at, and second, these companies have been around for so long. Nice research though. I won't get my hopes up.

Jason F.

**gprime** · 08-10-2005, 09:05 PM

Yup. Never figured they'd be dropped, but I was curious.

**admin_old** · 08-10-2005, 09:23 PM

Yeah I would be too. I would be excited if I saw that, but then I would think to myself, "This is too good to be true", and I would move on.

Jason F.

**Offtopic** · 08-10-2005, 09:40 PM

Haha that would be hilarous. You could be rich if you watched that on that date and they forgot to renew it by accident(not even a chance but fun to dream

) and you watched it like a nerd

and went a bought it and they contacted you and paid you like billions for it back hehe. Now thats a dream

.

**imported_cpvr** · 08-11-2005, 04:28 AM

lol, I doubt anyone would be able to catch google on that :P

**Quicksilver** · 08-11-2005, 04:57 AM

I would say ebay is the big money.

**imported_sparky** · 08-11-2005, 05:36 AM

Right... im off to reserve google.com

**admin_old** · 08-11-2005, 05:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Quicksilver

I would say ebay is the big money.

EBay is definitely big money. They have a load of money waiting for them at the end of the tunnel if they ever decide to sell. They are strong, and getting stronger.

Jason F.

**imported_sparky** · 08-11-2005, 05:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JJ

EBay is definitely big money. They have a load of money waiting for them at the end of the tunnel if they ever decide to sell. They are strong, and getting stronger.

Jason F.

And of course they own Paypal too - thats got to be worth a nice amount too!

**Quicksilver** · 08-11-2005, 06:10 AM

Oh yeah, I forgot that ebay owns paypal.

**imported_sparky** · 08-11-2005, 06:13 AM

Thats got to be worth a nice amount together - especially how they go hand in hand too - Each site boosts the other.

**admin_old** · 08-11-2005, 06:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sparxx

And of course they own Paypal too - thats got to be worth a nice amount too!

Yep... Paypal is worth big money, so add that to EBay's bankroll and what do you have? Kind of lopsided don't ya think?

Jason F.

**imported_sparky** · 08-11-2005, 06:19 AM

They have a huge loop there too - the more people that use ebay - the more use paypal, if you use paypal for ebay you will likely use it for other things too - thus bumping up use on both sites.

**Quicksilver** · 08-11-2005, 06:23 AM

I wonder if them getting sued dropped the popularity for it down abit, but it sure doesnt seem like it seeing as I barely see anyone requesting payments through another service.