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Marc Benioff: Former Domainer?

February 6, 2008

An interesting article on Domain Wire points out that the recent sale of bills.com may be related to Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff. The article points out that Benioff apparently owned the domain starting somewhere in 2002.

The July 2002 whois record shows the owner as Marc Benioff with nameservers of salesforce.com. The whois record changed in 2003 and archive.org showed a “for sale” page. In January 2004 the domain again shows ownership by Benioff and the Salesforce.com nameservers. 2006-2007 records show a private registration that include Benioff’s name and archive.org shows that the domain is forwarded to Salesforce.com. In November 2007 the domain’s whois record temporarily switched to a different address before being bought by CashView.

CashView paid a combination of stock and cash for the domain, and the total purchase price was “nothing like the $500,000 or $1,000,000″ that many four letter domains sell for, according to Lacerte.

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Written by Adam Killam · Filed Under Salesforce.com News 

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2 Responses to “Marc Benioff: Former Domainer?”

  1. Mark Mangano on February 6th, 2008 11:16 am

    Hey Adam -

    Here’s a bunch of other domains Salesforce owned (back in ’05 anyway):
    http://www.salesforcewatch.com/2005/05/domain_squatter.html

  2. Adam Killam on February 6th, 2008 5:41 pm

    Thanks Mark – nice post!

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