domains MariaSharapova.com expires and closes over $22K at GoDaddy auctions

[equity78]

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Former world No. 1 tennis player Maria Sharapova had her domain name expire and it closed at GoDaddy for a whopping $22,250. 3 weeks ago Maria announced she is expecting her first child, so she has much bigger things on her mind than a domain name. She has 14,630,209 Facebook likes, 4.3M Instagram Followers. Ahrefs shows strong link profile. Domain Rating 60 Backlinks 66,478 95% … [Read more...]

 

[MadAboutDomains]

Where is the love button to quick reply? ??

A like and a thanks = love, if that helps

As far as dumb purchases go this one is well up there.

Yeah, if I had participated in that auction it'd certainly be one of those sinking feeling kind've endings to the auction where I realised my mistake

 

[MadAboutDomains]

Maybe they can wrangle a day out at a tennis court with Maria Sharapova in return for the domain's safe return .

It would be worth 20k I suspect.

 

[MadAboutDomains]

Hypothetically, if the domain is used by a fan club or used as a blog, with no advertising and no profit, could it still be used?

At this point I honestly think the answer is a no.

 

[sellbourne]

I have the other popular tennis player .com name