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Old 12-29-2009, 12:29 PM  
ScottAtGTBill
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Microsoft bought my H1N1 Domain

So this is actually pretty funny, awhile back in April I read a post of GFY where someone had mentioned that they were going to buy up a bunch of H1N1 domains. I thought this was a great idea and purchased H1N1symptoms.com and a few others.

Come October, I ended up selling it for about $2,500 to an anonymous buyer on Sedo. Then I stumbled across this little article today:
http://www.dotweekly.com/2009/10/18/...-by-microsoft/

Apparently Microsoft is doing some out of the box marketing for Bing by buying up domains they feel are relevant news topics. The domain only received around 200 hits a month of type in traffic, so I was more than happy to part with it for that price.
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