Saturday had a couple 6 figure closes with 907.com and PutLocker.com both going over the $100K mark.
970.com closed at $136,000 at GoDaddy auctions. Registered since 1999 it looks like the name forwarded to a casino website.
PutLocker.com closed at $102,499 at NameJet. The domain name dropped and was caught by NameJet.
According to Wikipedia
Putlocker originated in the United Kingdom under the URL putlocker.com. In early January 2012, the website received about 800,000 visitors a day, but after the popular website Megaupload was shut down due to copyright infringement, Putlocker began receiving approximately 1.6 million visitors a day.[5] The website’s operations officer, Adrian Petroff, found Megaupload’s closure worrying, stating “who needs SOPA when a studio exec can make a wish/hit list and sites ‘voluntarily’ shut down?”[6]
In March 2012, Putlocker was identified by Alfred Perry, vice president for worldwide content protection at Paramount Pictures, as one of the “top 5 rogue cyberlocker services”.[7] The website’s URL was changed to putlocker.bz, an address which was seized by the Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit of the UK in June 2014, and was subsequently changed to putlocker.is, a domain located in Iceland.[8] In India, Putlocker and its clones have been blocked since the website first gained prominence in 2011, this followed from a court injunction in a case filed by Reliance BIG Pictures, ordering the blocking of file sharing websites which hosted copyrighted content.[9]
In 2014, “Putlocker” was reported as being one of the top trending search queries on Google Search in Canada for that year.[10]
A couple other nice names expired and GoDaddy reaped the rewards with Metascapes.com closing at $19,750 and BuenosDias.com closing at $12,250. 7370.com also expired and closed at $11,501.
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