Among the domains announced to have sold at Domainfest was QR.com – a two letter dot com of extreme appeal to the industry of QR codes that has infiltrated our lives, all while bar codes are dying a fast technological death.
QR.com was listed as sold at $325,000 – a seriously awesome price – thus accounting for almost 50% of the total domain sales on auction at Domainfest in Santa Monica.
Following its listing as “sold”, a former owner of the domain from the Netherlands exclaimed his monosyllabic frustration on DNForum, on a thread that led to the sale of QR.com in 2004:
“f%ck!”
The comment was subsequently erased by the moderators and the thread has been closed. However, the plot thickens.
Apparently, QR.com was not sold at the Domainfest auction, as the high bidder believed all along that he was bidding on the domain name 12.com
The two lots were adjacent, with QR.com at lot 300 and 12.com at lot 310. We’ll have to wait until we hear the official results from the Domainfest organizers.
Please tell me how someone thought they were bidding on another domain.What was it like, oh wow I thought I was bidding on 12.com and I won QR.Com.The story does not hold water.
Kevin – “My dog ate my domain” sounds less convincing.
Nice find! forget going back in time and hand regging domains, I’d like to go back in time to DNForum and see what other deals there were! Probably LLL.com’s for under 1k.
this f’er is backing out of the deal , hahahaha.
This is the problem with auctions. You can buy every single domain and then go fffffffffffff you and walk away.
I know what these auctions will turn into and basically then they are dead anyways.